Youth Talk

Statistics say that humans spend about a third of their lives sleeping. Unfortunately, for myself and most other students applying for university entrances, sleep doesn’t really seem like a priority considering that for every hour we sleep, someone-else is posing to us a stronger competition by staying awake.

Every other conversation with adults about this has led to frequent use of phrases like ‘sleep is important for metabolic health’ and sleeping for the right number of hours can reduce the risk of heart diseases and diabetes. Then there is the body restoration point.

However, what really interested me and brought me to reconsider my sleeping habits was that sleep helps in memory consolidation, which means, it allows the brain to engrave important memories and keep them for longer. This goes for both the facts and the figures you pick up on your way and the emotional memories you experience.

This could probably mean that I remember things about circular motion, probability and particle physics if I supplement my process of learning with sleep.

It seems like the right thing to do and probably we should all try giving it a go. Ironically, however, I have to prepare for a test and am planning another all-nighter instead!