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When you are sleep deprived, your eyes don’t work as well, and difficulties with vision are very common. The first changes are usually minor changes, such as, some blurring of vision when reading, or some errors in judging distance or depth. Though a significant number of people who undergo prolonged periods of not sleeping and have hallucinations, it usually takes a prolonged sleep loss-at least seventy-two-hours to bring these on. During sleep loss of shorter duration, visual errors, mistakes in vision, are much more common. These errors are easily corrected, but they do show that the visual system, one of the most important for information gathering, is not working well. It’s quite common to have some difficulty with fine motor skills. One of the more consistent findings of prolonged sleep loss is impairment of memory, especially memory of recent events. Somehow the system of committing information to memory, which is a very complicated process, does not work at all well when we have lost sleep. For this reason, it is more difficult to learn new information when you are sleep deprived.

In North American society, people are overworking, and it goes almost without saying that the more they work, the less sleep and the worse they feel and the more likely they are to be sleep deprived and sick. For example, a study published in 2003 that collected information about sleep and health from 71,000 nurses found that those sleeping fewer than five hours were 45 percent more likely to develop a cardiac disease when followed for ten years. The link between sleep and health was also obvious in the 2002 National Sleep Foundation “Sleep in America” poll. This poll of 1,010 adults aged eighteen and older found that the less people slept the more likely they were to feel poorly. People sleeping more than six hours on a weekday were more likely to feel optimistic and satisfied with life, while those getting fewer than six hours were more often tried, stressed, sad or angry.

You can’t achieve sleep by an act of will. The more you try to fall asleep, the more you will become anxious, physiological aroused, and afraid you are not going to fall asleep. Don’t think of sleep as something you can pursue and capture. Instead, entice sleep to come to you. Think of sleep as a gentle, overpowering force that can take you as a willing captive if you let go and allow it. Remember, your thoughts are important. If you find yourself thinking, “Why can’t I sleep?” or “I have got to fall asleep,” substitute thoughts like “Sleep will come when it is time” or “If I continue to relax, I’ll fall asleep before long.” If your body is ready for sleep and if you maintain calm and relaxed state for ten to twenty minutes, it is likely that sleep will overcome you and you will not be sleep deprived tomorrow.
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