glad I stayed up to watch this video

The worst thing about being sleep deprived is that you go into a sort of "zombie mode" and you don't even realize that it's because of the lack of sleep. I don't remember almost anything from my first 2 years of highschool. I only "woke up" when a teacher asked me how many hours I slept and told me the adverse effects of insufficient sleep

I suffered from a lot of sleep deprivation in highschool. Thinking back, I was severely depressed most of the time, overweight, and apathetic toward my grades, health, relationships and so on... Since leaving I've been sleeping acceptable hours nearly every night. Lost 40lbs without trying, depression is sporadic, got an A average simply because my state of mind isn't weakened by sleep starvation. Pretty amazing.

stay up for 2 days straight and when I walked home the clouds were rainbow colors and the sidewalk was moving. so long story short sleep deprivation is the way for a free acid trip

There’s nothing like a full 12 hours of sleep, especially when you struggle with sleeping. It’s only happened to me a handful of times, but the feeling when you wake up refreshed as we were intended to be is simply amazing.

i am sleep deprived because of school

Yea I remember being in high school and how I'd leave the house before anyone was up. My bus came at 6:30 and most nights I was up until 1 getting homework done. It was a bad system and when I graduated I found that my sleep issues and depression stuck with me for almost a whole year into college. Now I get 8 or 9 hours most nights and I just feel so much better physically and mentally.

I've been getting 5-6 hours of sleep for years, and I feel like it's finally catching up to me, I feel exhausted all day nowadays.

I talk to myself when sleep deprived, anyone else?

For me, insomnia ha caused my anxiety to spike really bad, for a while I became obsessed / worried with the idea of having something worse e.g. a personality disorder, schizo, etc. Not that there is anything wrong with having any of that, but I knew I wasn’t prepared for that fear. But, you aren’t alone. If you’re worried that you have something worse, you probably don’t. Insomnia is a powerful thing, don’t lose hope. You will get through it, trust me. It took me months, it’s a process.

It’s been over 4 years since I’ve had a full night sleep, my anecdotal evidence shows a great decrease in mental capacity (went from an A college student to needing to take leave due to not keeping up. Depression and anxiety increased and emotionally I have become more detached. The sacrifice parents make, eh.

I literally procrastinate on sleeping. Why? Why do I procrastinate on the easiest thing ever? It isn't like I don't want to sleep. I just *don't.* What the heck? Have I seriously procrastinated on school stuff so much that it's making me procrastinate on literally everything? Oh my god.

Me at 3am:INTERESTING

I Start laughing at the most minor things and have the giggles when I don't sleep for 24 hrs.

When I get sleep deprived I've noticed two main symptoms in addition to the obvious ones (sluggishness, dulled thinking, etc): my eye starts twitching and I start feeling depressed.

I've been awake for 61 hours straight, worked a 12 hour shift yesterday and 12 today. I've been trying to type this message for ten minutes, insomnia sucks.

My depression, anxiety and mood swings went away drastically once I graduated highschool.

When I become sleep deprived, my left eye starts pointing inward and I start going cross-eyed. I have to blink repeatedly in order to re-center my vision sometimes.

so being sleep-deprived takes away my empathy, *perfect.*

"sleep deprivation is responsible for depression in teens" that explains a lot, been sleeping for 4 hours since grade 7.

I once actually used sleep deprivation as a way to make myself more relaxed around people, lol. I used to be a member of this school band at my university a couple years ago and I always hesitated to say anything to them because I often have this uneasy feeling that I could make a bad impression at absolutely any moment, so I stayed up all night just to put myself in that wonderful relaxed state that I sometimes get into when I am sleep-deprived, and it was super-easy for me to have relaxed conversations with the people in the school band the next day. xD

I've always been told that high schools start earlier so that they end earlier, allowing kids with after school jobs the ability to get to work sooner and retain more hours at businesses that close earlier (i.e. 5 PM, 6 PM). However, I think that schools should start later and let employed students go early (like early release). Then, count their job as credit for some type of class. Have them submit reports or papers on experiences at their jobs. Colleges do this with internships all the time. Why not high school?

This video was very interesting, as I have gone through periods of my life where I’ve gotten little to no sleep. Sleep deprivation, I have to agree, is one of the worst things that can happen to a student academically. I have witnessed a lot of my grades suffer because of my insomnia, and it’s hard to overcome that feeling of failure when there is little that can be done about it. I have noticed a lot of the physical symptoms in myself as well. When I go through periods of sleep deprivation, I do feel more pain, and aches throughout the day. Also, as an empath, I naturally feel other people’s emotions and can easily sense their moods just y walking into a room. When I’ve gotten little to no sleep, this sense is very dulled and almost intangible. I feel like a lot of young adults get little to no sleep because of educational reasons. My high school started at 8:15 AM and I found it hard to get a full night of sleep, get all of my school work done and throw in some family time too. If the start time of school was pushed back to 9 or 10, I think a lot of kids would do better in their courses.

Haven’t slept properly in 2 days and my body and personality have started to chance already. Crazy how fast this works

Well atleast I know why I’m depressed.

im starting to hallucinate...and its scaring me... but im insomniac

I kinda wanna go to sleep now ...

I’ve been struggling with getting enough sleep for years now. I’ve been praying on it, & some changes will be made. I’m 47 years old, & I average about 5 hours of sleep per night. I feel fine, good actually, but I can only imagine how I’d feel if I got 8 plus hours of sleep per night. I’m not naïve, I realize that this can & will catch Up to me. I love my life, & I’d like to be around to kick it with my children, & grandchildren for a long time. God Bless U all, & stay safe. 🙏🏿

When he talked about kids not getting enough sleep because school starts early made me laugh because my parents had a strict bedtime (8pm) rule in school nights (1st to 7th grade). But then I went to boarding school and I threw that idea out of the window 😅 I have no regrets but glad my parents cared for my need to rest😊

I completely agree, sleep deprivation is a bad thing academically. Being a college student, I have had sleep deprivation before and I tend to find myself almost falling asleep during class, not paying attention at times, or simply leaving class early. It is hard to get the necessary amount of sleep when students are up all night studying. I also agree that students are being set up for failure. We are expected to study and complete our homework, get 7-8 hours of sleep, and get up super early for class each morning.

Stayed awake *ONE* night. Felt like I was drunk as a skunk after passing “one too many drinks” 10 drinks ago.

I ended up having to switch my daughter to homeschooling because the sleep deprivation was doing a number on her migraines. Poor kid would have to be on the bus at 5:45 and wouldn't get home till close to 6 in the evening. We only have one family car my hubby uses for work and it's a rural middle of the country cow field in the back kind of school so we couldn't just walk there either. when I was a kid I maybe spent 20 minutes on the bus max not almost 2 hours, and school started at 8:20 not 7:45.

Horrific ,lack of sleep makes me sick as a dog ,so nauseous ,weak ,dizzy ,cold,shaking ,I am WAY too old for pulling all nighters ,NEVER again and yes pain is much worse when not sleeping

Keep up the good work. Sleep is one of the 5 basic needs and we are constantly depriving ourselves of it.

I am a domestic violence survivor and have PTSD and GAD. When I was first displaying symptoms aged 19, my PTSD induced insomnia turned to sleep deprivation and I began hallucinating, became paranoid and convinced my mom was trying to poison me when she was only making me soup, my anxiety was out of this world and eventually yea I had to be hospitalized because I went into full blown psychosis. I never harmed anyone or myself during this time but it was like I was living in another plane of existence and it was terrifying! I was given a shot of morphine and slept at the hospital. It took me 2 months to come back to myself which included my dad taking me to a quiet ranch style retreat in New Mexico so I could relax, recover and SLEEP. But this all began chiefly because of lack of sleep! Now that I'm older I understand how disasterous it is for me NOT to get adequate rest. So I do everything I can to relax my nervous system. I have nights of fitful sleep every so often but I know how to take better care of myself now. Sleep is absolutely paramount to my mental health.

Wow, it’s 3 in the morning but I’m watching this... I need to get my life together

Sleep deprivation can lead to many different health issues, including but not limited to diabetes, obesity, and emotional issues. Also as it was said in the video, sleep deprivation can cause more sensitivity to pain. By getting a sufficient amount of sleep, it can help decrease the amount of pain you feel. With these facts, a person can see just how important it is to get the amount of sleep that your body needs. Those that sleep more generally see a higher success rate within school and sports. By moving the start time of school to a later period in the day, more students will get the necessary amount of sleep they need causing grades to improve as well as test taking skills. Now the bad thing about our bodies requiring eight to nine hours of sleep a night is how hard it is to actually obtain that. There are numerous factors that come into play when dealing with sleep. For students, they have the stress of dealing with homework and studying for tests. For adults, there can be any stress from work, or even the home lives if they are married. All those situations can keep people awake and not allow them to get the correct amount of sleep. Overall the possibility of getting the right amount of sleep is extremely hard to achieve.

I feel that sleep deprivation is a major area of concern today’s society. Whether it be student’s staying up too late finishing their latest homework assignment, to new parents waking up every few hours to care for their new born child, sleep deprivation is very easily attainable. Sleep deprivation can be the cause for many more serious health issues if not caught and taken care of early on. These can include, but aren’t limited to, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, and depression. If you ask me these are all very common things occurring in our world today. So how much of these medical issues have sleep deprivation to blame? We know that sleep is incredibly important in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The quality of our sleep also effects our overall health. Not only can sleep effect our health, but think about how it can affect our relationships with those around us. I know from my own personal experience that when I’m overly tired I tend to be more easily upset or emotional over things that, had I not been tired, would not have had such a strong effect on me. I also know from the standpoint of a college student that not getting enough sleep can most definitely effect you academically. On days when I am tired I find that I can’t pay attention as easily in class and that my mind tends to wander more than it normally would had I had enough sleep the night before. I find it interesting how in the video he mentioned the argument about how we as a society are “setting teens up for failure”. We know that they require the roughly recommended nine hours of sleep, if not more, to adequately function, yet we still make them wake up super early to go to school every morning. That would require students to go to bed as early as nine at night in order to get those recommended hours of sleep before having to wake up and get ready for school. As a recent high school graduate I know how that can be nearly impossible some days when you factor in after school activities, such as sports, on top of homework and whatever else needs to be accomplished that day. So what can we do in order to help cure our sleep deprivation? I think for starters we definitely need to look into how much sleep we as an individual need in order to efficiently function. Then, once we learn that information, set up a sleep schedule that helps us attain those needed hours of sleep as easily as possible with our daily lives.

Someone in my hometown wrote a letter to the editor addressing the circadian clock shift in adolescence, and our school district actually took note and started the middle and high schools' day an hour and a half later :)

Your mind IS of your body. Why are they treated as separate? Your brain follows the same laws of physics that the rest of your body does.

I really enjoy your videos. I use lots of them, and the studies you include for debates in some college classes. Great job! Keep it up.

I walked for 7 days without sleep and very little food or drink,I experienced some amazing hallucinations.After the forth day the hallucinations became less frightening and more psychologically enlightening.I watched scenes from my life reenacted before me.I saw myself as a child actor on a stage,whereupon many phobias were explained to me through these reenactments.I wouldn't encourage anyone to do what i did but i don't regret a thing,it was an amazing and cathartic experience.

Lately I've been hallucinating at night, I've been seeing and hearing really creepy things. I think I get a good amount of sleep, I go to sleep past 12pm and my body wakes itself up around 4 sometimes but I just go back to sleep until I'm bothered to stand up.

my school starts at 8:50 and i still get 4 hours of sleep a night

If we were really interested in improving our education system we'd start school later, shorten the day for students, and have a shorter summer vacation. I really don't understand why we don't do this.

yup and its also sleep deprivation that is one of the biggest causes of surgical accidents and "leftovers" (like leaving a clamp inside the patient) so you can somewhat blame the hospital systems and even entire healthcare systems for forcing healthcare providers into extreme shifts which rob them of even their minimal sleep time.

While we are fixing school schedules lets fix the seasonal breaks. One week for spring, two or three weeks for winter, ten or more weeks for summer, and no weeks for fall? That would made sense if we were all still farmers, but not so much anymore. It would also make sense if the goal was to have students forget everything, including how to be students, every single summer. Three months on, one month off, repeat. Twelve weeks of vacation plus holidays for students, twelve weeks of vacation plus holidays for everyone!

Thank you very much for this Aaron, so much important information. Evidence shows that when school started at 7:30, about a third of kids got at least 8 hours of sleep a night. If school started close 9AM, then two thirds of adolescents got the much sleep. I truly believe that is true because in Saudi we have a month called Ramadan, during it school starts at 9 instead of 6:30AM and during it I noticed that I would usually walk up more excited to school, have a better mood, more positive about the day. But during college there is something called the collage triangle, which is you picking two out of the follow: enough sleep, good grades, or social life. And you can add work and athletic team to it. Most students would probably take time from sleep. I try to balance as much as I could. And when I do not sleep as much I do not do as well in my classes. Especially if it is a class that involves intense thinking which is basically all my classes. I have tried to sleep on a schedule or routine but I do not know why that does not work with me, every night is different. For an example, few days ago I slept at 11pm and the day after I slept at 3am, I did not take any supplements or drink anything involving caffeine. I wished I could sleep on a routine, perhaps then I will get to do a lot better in my classes.

Being a full time college student, working a minimum of fifteen hours a week, and having late night dance practices at least two times a week, I often feel like I can never get the amount of sleep I need to not be sleep deprived. I do notice that when I don't get enough sleep, I often get very emotional and become more stressed than I should be about school. I can also notice the affect of not getting enough sleep in my school work due to the fact that I know its not my best quality work and it honestly shows. When I write a paper or take a test when I am sleep deprived and look back over it when I am fully rested, I notice the small mistakes or spelling errors I make when I am in that state of mind. I never knew that being sleep deprived increased your sensation of pain, but it makes sense to me now. The morning after a late night practice I often feel like an elderly women trying to get out of bed with cracking bones and sore joints when I am only 20 years old. I also didn't know that being sleep deprived can lead to diabetes or obesity and I found that interesting. Its hard to get the amount of sleep I need when I am so busy all the time, but this video helped me realize just how important it is to get sleep since being sleep deprived can affect so many things.

Back in highschool and college it wasn't unusual for me to get less than 40 hours of sleep a week. However, my academic and athletic performance never really fluctuated, it was always quite good. With sporting events ending around 1 am, a full time night job and late night socializing, sleep was just something i always wanted more of but just never had the time for.

Haven't slept for 3 days straight I have so much energy

As soon as I watch the health triage video titled “Are You Getting Enough Sleep?” I was instantly eager to learn more. Coincidentally I suffered from sleep deprivation, so I was exceptionally curious to watch the video all about it. I knew there were side effects, but I did not necessarily know all of them. I did not know that sleep deprivation could lead to being more sensitive to pain. Not a lot of individuals like pain, so I would advise people to try and get more sleep. I am definitely going to try and start sleeping away my pain. I knew sleep played a big part of emotions, but I did not know it had anything to do with empathy, but I guess it makes sense.

I’m only here cause I’m so scared about sleep paralysis

I realised I was sleep deprived when I poured milk before cereal

I had sleep deprivation while I worked in the oil industry it really takes a toll in your body and soul

I was living in a hostel and I was woken up around 2 am then 4 am for about 6 months although I had a bit of time out. Eventually, my immune system shut down and I had 4 different infections. Strangely the staff running the Hostel didn't do anything effective to change anything. I am still wondering why this is as it has changed my life completely I will never be the same again or able to work. I remember one staff member said that when you have a newborn baby you go without sleep - (So I assume what he meant was suck it up) Looking back with hindsight I now realize that the residents were doing that deliberately rather than being able not to be able to empathize with my needs. Yeah if you are going without sleep don't chance it. Once you lose your sleep you lose your judgement. Let's just say there are some sick people in the world that will choose to have a vendetta against you even without a reason. Yeap the thing all the steps you take to avoid danger are processed while you are awake getting 8 hours is taken for granted.

Sleep Deprived while watching this thank you Army!

My wife fights sleep like a 5 year old. She will stay awake for days at a time mostly on the weekends, and won’t go to bed until I go to work. I often wake up to find her asleep while standing, hunched over and swaying. She has broken things by dropping them and has also dropped lit cigarettes. After about three days communication is all but impossible. Her sentences don’t make any sense. She gets belligerent if I bring this up. She denies falling asleep. If I can get her to lay down in bed then she is out like a light. I often find myself staying up to make sure she doesn’t injure herself or set the house on fire. What am I supposed to do?

I can think of a group of people that are chronically sleep deprived: Medical residents and medical students. Also they are close to the hospital... perfect research candidates (1:49)

Sometimes I have these nights where it's seemingly impossible for me to go to sleep, and I end up having slept only 2 or 3 hours.

I remember having to literally get up before sunrise to get ready and catch the 630am school bus. Bus ride was an hour so me and most the kids slept during the ride. I liked school but hated getting up early.

Can you talk about circadian rhythm, and whether WHEN you get your sleep matters? Also, if each person has different sleep needs, how do we know if we're getting enough? Also a comment...sleep deprivation is a major issue in Canada right now in relation to train engineers and conductors, being expected to be 'on call' and being unable to plan their sleep so that they will get enough to do their jobs safely, or being expected to work more hours than is safe.

I had a total of 4 hours interupted sleep the last two days. then last night only a 30 minutes doze. I have severe chronic pain that makes it difficult, anyways Yesterday I was talking to my friend on the home phone and my mind was clouded. I was dead serious and asked my son if he knew where the phone was so i could call my mom! I did'nt even realize it for a minute. I told her i needed to get off the phone and sleep immediately. that has happened before but i caught it much quicker. I ve had hallucinations before as well. i feel like im in some kind of danger zone to myself and others. lol. im going back to sleep now.

The problem is medication doesn't actually allow for REM, which to my knowledge is when the Human brain tends to process things more deeply... Or something like that. But the medical field ignores this and just keeps prescribing meds for sleep instead of trying to help. Just pointing out a major flaw...

This video really caught my eye being a college student. We are expected to do 2 hours of studying per credit hour and with me taking 16 credits that is more hours than there is in one day. It is impossible to get up to 8 hours of sleep a night and get good grades at the same time. Sleep deprivation, according to this video, makes a person more susceptible to pain. Personally, I can relate to this in the way that when I don't get enough sleep my joints and back ache. I feel like an 80 year old in a 20 year old person's body. Also, going along with body type, sleep deprivation is shown to cause obesity. This can apply to most college students their freshman year. We all know about the freshman 15 and that is probably from procrastination or bad time management, which causes them to stay up all night to get their homework done resulting in weight gain. Physicians cannot be sleep deprived though, because they are the ones that need to be saving lives. If they are sleep deprived it is more likely for them to make mistakes and possibly have somebody's life in their hands. There needs to be some sort of law put in place so physicians can only work a certain amount of hours at a time. Especially when physicians are on call, they may not be getting any sleep if they can never get away from the job. I think that every person, physicians included, need some type of alone time and just sleep for hours with no interruptions, but is that realistic? Is there a way that a person can never be sleep deprived with the busy schedules that we all have in this day in age?

The correlation between sensitivity to pain and the amount of sleep a person gets is definitely interesting. I've never really noticed a difference between the amount of pain I register when sleep-deprived versus when I have a good night's sleep. I'm also not so sure about the sleep-deprivation link to how well a student does in their classes. I've never really slept much or very well throughout my entire life that I'm capable of remembering, but I've also never really had much of a problem successfully working in school. My sister sleeps more than I did at her age, but she doesn't do better than I did in high school, though that could be a difference in our own pool of knowledge and need for sleep as well as how much effort we put into our respective work. I admit, I am curious to try out this theory by seeing how much worse or better I perform in classes based on the amount of sleep I get, but I also feel like it would be better not to take the chance that the experiment would result in my doing worse than normal. There's no denying that sleep is important to all living things, but I'm not so sure that all of the results of studies are entirely truthful for everyone considering nearly every study tends to have outliers, oddballs like me in this instance, that through a wrench into the neat, tidy expectations.

This is relevant on SO MANY LEVELS. Thank you!

Very interesting and informative video (deserved a like), however, it would be very helpful if you linked the studies in the description, I used some information for an essay.

2:19 Damn... Make me wonder how I made it though high school on 5-6 hours, college on 2-4, and now with work and grad school on 4-6.

@2:00"It's hard to do studies on kids, they have to go to school after all" Gee if only kids got like 2 months off each summer :p

I have had sleep deprivation at varying degrees for my entire life since an accident when I was 4. It takes me ages and ages to fall asleep and this year I'm getting multiple nights a week where I don't, I simply do not sleep at all. My brain is rotting and I have no desire to interact with any homo sapiens. I'm experiencing complete emptiness and am still required to go to work, where my performance is "needed" but what do I do? I'm not needed or important, I'm not living anymore and it's pretty clear why. I've been psychotic because of this, combined with multiple other mental issues I think that soon I will depart this plain

I think schools should start later in the morning, but they also should have habit management classes and train students to change their sleep habits, to an earlier wake up and bed time.

The whole "push school start times back to a more civilized hour" thing doesn't really address the problem. There are 24hrs in a day, regardless of when you start it. The real issue is pushing kids to be in sports & clubs, being stuck at school for 8+hrs a day, then sending them home with hours more homework to do. Something has to give, and it's usually sleep. I will say my high school started later than any school in the area, which I certainly didn't mind.

God bless not living in the USA.. My school is less than two minutes away from me and it starts at 8.20. The students living furthest away only have to travel 30 minutes by bike max. And we're still done, at the latest, by 16.00. It's about quality, not quantity of school and if you're not even half awake the first few classes, then why even have them in the first place..

It's even harder to get used to sleeping at normal timings. It has become a habit for me to sleep at midnight or in abnormal timings. If I were to sleep at my usual time, I would feel normal even if I slept for a shorter period of time. Compared to when I sleep in the afternoon for like 6 hours and waking up with headaches

My sleep isnt great, and when I do I have hallucinations... Last one was a guy knocking on my bedroom door asking if I wanted to go weatherspoons 🙄

Whenever I'm sleep deprived, I'm hyper

Despite this being well known the Ontario school boards started High school classes at 6:30 AM. They claim it's so they can use the same busses for the elementary school kids later, but if that was truly the case they could have started school an hour later instead of earlier. I think it's so the teachers can have more convenient working hours.

We talked about this a lot in high school, and the school district's response was: - Starting school later would limit time available for after-school athletics practices and competitions - School buses are limited, and thus need to be staggered by school start times. Parents need time to get their elementary-school age children ready for school in the mornings, so middle and high schools start earlier. My district owned its own school buses, and so a single bus would often be used for an elementary, a middle, and a high school bus route every morning and every afternoon.

its a excellent video totally agree with the point that schools do not need to start to early . Me as a kid always fall asleep in a school bus or even in school.

Dang it it’s 3 hours past my bed time last time I was sleep deprived I almost went insane I’m too lazy to turn the light back on

Lmao watching this on my graveyard shift

I remember as a kid, I’d wake up and hallucinate people in my room. But they were friendly but I cannot remember the stories. I remember getting these when I had the fever.

Sleep is such a huge thing because has a direct effect on your hormones - specifically your ability to produce cortisol which is a hormone that does things like manage your blood pressure. It also can affect your mental health in other ways such as causing hallucinations (both visual and auditory). When I hear people saying they don't need to sleep more than 5 hours it makes me cringe because I used to be like that and now my cortisol is super low and the rest of my health has suffered greatly. SLEEP IS IMPORTANT KIDS

Not to brag or something, I wake up at 4am everyday (I'm in college). My class starts 7:30 everyday. Why do I have to wake up so early? Freaking heavy traffic jam!

great video as always...it would be interesting to see a video about low sugar diets... are they really necesary?

My school moved one of my classes to 7 in the morning and students that took it at 7 had significantly lower grades than those that took it in the afternoon.

I at times cried when I did not get enough sleep.

I learned a lot from this video. Last year, I went through a time where I got about 3-4 hours of sleep every night. I noticed my body going through changes such as aching and pains. I also noticed my lack of caring about others, myself, and not caring how my academic performance was not good. From this video, I learned that being sleep deprived can have much more negative outcomes such as an increase of obesity, diabetes, and getting into car accidents. It is very important to get an adequate amount of sleep every night!

The funny thing is 32hour shifts are a common thing among medical interns. The same people making those studies.

A few nights ago I stayed up all night at my friends house. I went home and fell asleep for about 20 minutes. Woke up and thought I was still at my friends house

But everytime I try to go to sleep my leg twitch's or kicks and I just wake up, and don't got to sleep after, but then I'll fall to sleep and forget when I went to sleep and what I was doing before I went to sleep.

Me staying up until three a.m nightly and then waking up at 7:00: My grades: A+++++++++++

*Has anyone else found the stresses of Covid 19 has made you sleep worse?* To cure insomnia, eat a small clove of _garlic_ early in the morning before breakfast. *Sounds weird*, but works! _Hope this helps!_

Part of the problem with school starting later is the busing system, they start at staggered times to cut down on those costs (and given how we scrimp on education budgets I don't see that changing anytime soon). Also, I was in band in high school and we had 2 hour practices at least twice a week after school (sports teams practiced more often than we did, but we also had a class period for our activity and they didn't). Those days I'd get home around 5:30, something that was only possible because school ended at 2:25. What happens to those after school activities, be it academic, artistic, or sports related, if the end time gets pushed back? They'd either shift to before school or cut into a kid's after school time even more.

I feel myself falling into that “zombie” mode and it’s becasue I’m not sleeping enough. I haven’t had a good nights sleep in forever, the most I’ve recently gotten is 6 hours. I fall asleep during the day for 2-3 minutes at a time, like at school. But, when I get home and actually have the opportunity to sleep, I can’t. This. Sucks.

I worked for years as a nightshift nurse, and I can attest that the practice has huge negatives. Not only did I drive home past the point of exhaustion each morning, my colleagues and I often "caught" each other making medical mistakes due to sleepiness. Fortunately, we were there to cross check each other. Most do not stay "nocturnal" on their days off, so every week they are switching back and forth. Why do doctor's work 36 hour shifts, catching brief hours of sleep when they can? Have any studies been done on it? I know the lure of working your 36 hour work week in just 1-1/2 days and then having the rest of the week off has some appeal, but at what cost? Same for working three 12-hour shifts for nurses. Most of them love it, but what is the cost to their own health and that of their patients?

I'm watching this at 4:00 am. FUCK

Not being able to get deep sleep while coping with a viral lung infection has weird temporary effects on the body. Some children are early risers. Others prefer to be late risers. During the COVID-19 recommended rules teachers noticed that their students didn't mind wearing rhe recommended by World Health Organization mask. Is that because children at both school and in an emergency ward with both parents present at the time too can naturally can decipher body language better than some adults can while their eye sight is more near sighted as time goes on which is not always correctable through glasses while that teacher or triage nurse is looking at someone at the back of their classroom or their patient waiting room? Good thing we have triage nurses and teachers who are not corrupt.

When you sleep your cells like to rebuild rapidly during this period. So when it says that when you are sleep-deprived pain is worse, it makes sense. Your cells are also tired to they can’t protect themselves because the cell itself is also tired. Also with the school subject, there are data findings that the brain cannot fully function until after 10 A.M so not only are the students sleep-deprived, but their brains are not fully awake either. When you work a 12-hour shift driving back home is equal to driving a bit buzzed, so know wonder why there are so many car accidents!