What do you know about Sleep deprivation?

Question:

OK so my brain is in a bit of a pickle after a few days of intensive troubble shooting and very little sleep. I have been through this many times but it always intrigues me just how screwey your brain gets on day three of little or no sleep. So I ask, what do you know about the way I am feeling right now? What causes the sensation, why is it hard to give into sleep when you become 'over tired' and what have you done to keep yourself going (and from going mad) bessides the usual coffee and obvious sleep????????

Answers:
That's a lot of questions there. I did a little scouting around and found out, among other things, that when you are sleep-deprived, your temporal lobe turns over some of your functions to the pre-frontal lobe. However, that means that the pre-frontal lobe has to give up doing some of it's normal functions and it has no where to shunt those functions to. That might explain the feeling. In effect, part of your brain is sleeping, in spite of you, and part of it isn't doing its job! Aside from certain medications, there doesn't appear to be any way to combat these effects. The only "quick fix" is sleep. I don't intend to sound preachy about it, I've done my share of working non-stop without sleep. I'm totally familiar with the feeling that the insulation on my internal wiring is stripped and I've got an electric current running through my entire body. That precedes the feeling that my blood has turned to liquid lead and is moving verrrry slowly through my veins. Speech becomes awkward and I have to look at some problems several times in order to trust my judgement. Sleep, my friend, is the only remedy. Sorry.

your stressed m8

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