The rhythm of life of the modern person has high speed. But even in such conditions for completion of all affairs there is not always enough day. At such moments we begin to think that it is necessary to make not to sleep, for example, all night long.
Our organism works like clock-work, and the slightest failure can lead to problems with health physical and sincere. But, despite this, ways to deceive the internal mechanism exist. We present you several options as it is possible not to sleep long.
Whether harmfully not to sleep at night?
For a start it is important to talk about sleep debt consequences. Continuous wakefulness does not give to an organism, properly to have a rest, and presenilation of internals can turn out to be consequence, not to mention mental health problems. If to make calculations for day, approximately following picture will turn out:
- day without dream – there comes fatigue, and problems with memory and concentration of attention appear;
- 2-3 days without dream – in an organism begin to change a hormonal background, and communications between cells of a brain are broken. Also the speech, sight, coordination in space worsens, nausea can begin;
- 4-5 days without dream – begin destruction of cages which consequence destruction of the personality is. The person becomes irritable and begins to suffer from nonsense and hallucinations;
- 6-8 days without dream – the speech slow down, in extremities there is a shiver, and the person begins to suffer from memory loss;
- 11 days without dream – it was succeeded to set up such record only once. It happened in 1965 when 17-year-old R. Gardner asked a question how not to sleep several days. For the 11th day the young man reminded more the living dead who had no forces to move, speak, think and be engaged though some type of activity. Having ended the experiment, the young man overslept 14 hours, and then after two hours of wakefulness he needed 8 more hours of a dream again to enter a habitual rhythm of life.
If your purposes are not so global, and the question how not to sleep several days is extremely important, try several methods which have to help you to win against a dream for some time.
What to do not to sleep?
Considering specifics of work and a way of life in various cities, it is difficult to present how many various methods of fight against drowsiness were thought up by mankind. However the reasons for which it is necessary to remove a dream a little from the habitual schedule, as a rule, are identical. Let's sort the most relevant of them.
- How not to sleep at work. If for some reason you fall asleep on the feet during working process, try the following methods:
- organize a dispute with colleagues. Very few people know that the debate not only forces to be nervous, but also sharply increases pressure and promotes emission in blood of adrenaline and improves brain activity;
- pound two hands the person and massage fingers behind ears, on temples and in nose corners. It will improve inflow of blood and will encourage you;
- stock up with sunflower seeds. If your activity allows to click sunflower seeds, sitting at a desktop, then derivation is guaranteed to you against drowsiness. The main thing not to distract from the work.
- How not to sleep driving. It is extremely dangerous to sit down at the vehicle in somnolence. But if it is not possible to avoid a trip in any way, it is possible to resort to the following ways:
- take the fellow traveler. The conversation with it will distract you from a dream and in case you close eyes too for a long time, it will be able to pull out you from a sleepiness;
- electronic signaling devices. Thanks to modern technologies the special sensors reacting to falling asleep of the person were created. So, for example one of such devices is put on an ear and begins to peep if the person hung the head down;
- take food. A great way to distract are the same notorious sunflower seeds or nutlets.
The main thing that you should not do driving is in liters to drink coffee which in a large number on the contrary increases drowsiness. If you feel that you fall asleep on the feet, it is better to stop on the roadside and to doze at least 15 minutes.
The last question which should concerning it the choice of means not to sleep. And in this plan for the person who decided to declare war on drowsiness there is a huge choice:
- what to drink not to sleep? There is such thing as energy drinks if of course you are not afraid for the health. At physical fatigue it is possible to drink one of such drinks as Bern or Adrenaline Rush. One more means created by students: to mix Coca with coffee and "amber acid";
- what to eat not to sleep? Some types of food perfectly save from drowsiness. First of all hot spices – mustard, horse-radish and hot pepper belong to them. Food with such seasonings will not allow you to fall asleep. If sharp you have enough, try a zephyr, chocolate or peanut in burned sugar;
- vitamins not to sleep. Concrete vitamin means which will kill a dream at all in the nature does not exist. And vitamins definitely not for fight against a dream are created. But if it is very necessary, it is worth trying a D-ribose, a L-carnitine, vitamins C and B6 and also folic acid;
- tablets not to sleep. If for the sake of several hours saved at the night you are ready to ruin finally health, try some of stimulators: Doppelgerts, Eleuterakok or Fenotropil. But you remember that such medicines are not used without medical prescription.
It is possible to resort to this advice only as a last resort. Nothing is capable to affect the health as lack of a dream so. Do not experiment with endurance of an organism and then it will help you to cope with tasks before there comes night.
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