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You may think you’re leading the high-flying life by working hard by day, partying harder by night, and sleeping little, and then repeating this high-flying cycle the next day. But by sleeping little, what you’re ultimately doing is signing on the dotted line of an agreement that’s trapping you in a host of problems for life. Some problems are little, others are as big as death — but each of them is as menacing as the other in its own way. Here are 8 ways in which sleeping poorly affects your everyday life and causes unhappiness.
1. If you’re someone who drives to and from work every day, poor sleep can put yourself and others on the road at great risk. You — or anyone else — is very likely to snooze on the road and unfortunately cause a traffic accident.
2. If you’re someone who works at a place with heavy machinery or at a high risk zone, bad sleep is likely to create more accidents on the job. Sleep deprivation was a factor in the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in 1986, among many others.
3. When you don’t sleep enough in the night, the hormone ghrelin is found in higher levels in the blood. It’s this hormone that triggers hunger in our body. So with little sleep, you’re likely to feel hungry all day and eat your way to obesity.
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4. By not sleeping enough in the night, you pay a price in the form of your ability to recollect and consolidate memories. It also negatively influences your alertness, reasoning, concentration, and problem solving, hampering your daily life significantly.
5. A lack of sleep will propel you into a state where you more easily turn emotional on viewing negative or disturbing images than the typical person, showed a study from 2007. So you’re more likely to tear up or get pissed off than you’d like every day.
6. If it seems like you’re always catching a cold, it may have something to do with poor sleep. A 2009 study showed that someone who sleeps less than 7 hours every day is three times more likely to catch a cold than someone who sleeps 8 hours or more.
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7. If you and your partner haven’t been able to do much between the sheets, you’ll need do the other thing that’s important between the sheets, sleep. People who don’t sleep enough experience a decreased sex drive and lower libidos. No one would want that.
8. Over time, lack of sleep and sleep disorders join the list of symptoms for depression. Insomnia leads to depression, which in turns leads to insomnia — it’s a vicious cycle. In an american poll in 2005, it was seen that people who were diagnosed with depression were likely to sleep for less than 6 hours every day.
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