Lack of Sleep Puts Your Emotions on Edge
Scientists have researched and discovered what you probably already knew, that being sleep deprived causes your emotions to jump into overdrive, particularly when it comes to bad emotions.
Well, that explains why everyone is so cranky during the morning drive to work.
The article also notes that humans are one of the few creatures that intentionally deprive themselves of sleep.
Do you shortchange your sleep? I know I do. I usually only get about 4 hours of sleep a night, maybe a little bit more on the weekends.
What do you do to keep yourself going with this lack of sleep? Caffeine is my answer, what’s yours?
Why do you make yourself sleep deprived? My answer? You’re looking at it. But this isn’t all. It seems like there are always things that need to be done and time is short.
What’s your sleep or lack of sleep story?
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I see so you say Digg and Sumbleupon are good ones to use? Another others you would recommend?
I wrote about it in this post: Traffic Building Via Social Networking
There’s no doubt that my emotions, and my stress level, get driven much closer to the edge when I’m tired … and I prefer to get a normal amount of sleep, between 7 and 8 hours if possible.
The problem we have in our home is that work & school obligations force us out of bed very early, around 5:15 am, while by nature I’m more of a night owl. My most productive time of day is often between 9:00 pm and midnight. At some point, the math doesn’t add up, I run out of hours, and I just get miserable.
Jacob, I agree with you completely about needing a certain amount of sleep; like you, I don’t do well on a short night’s sleep. However, I’m quite the opposite in the other regard — I much prefer to get up early and get to work early, because by late evening my brain has pretty much become a bowl of vanilla pudding.