Today my friend introduced a sleep theory called "Sleep Debt". What is funny is that it makes a lot of sense.
She made the observation that sleep is kind of like a bank. When you are awake you are constantly spending time and energy to the world, which acts as a deposit system. When you sleep you are revitalizing your body from the world, which acts as a withdrawal system.
However, when you do not set aside a certain amount of hours your body needs to rest... then that in itself is sleep debt. What happens when one falls into sleep debt? The individual starts to fall asleep in lectures, while studying, and even worst while eating... WHY does this happen? You see, the body is trying to catch up on the hours it missed by telling the mind that it needs more withdrawal from the hours put into sleeping. Our bodies keep count of the number of hours we operate in the real world. Therefore, make up the amount of sleep debt you all have. I still struggle with this because as college students it is very hard to set aside our studies to sleep. But, if you want to be effective and efficient you must sleep.
One more fact before I go on with my day is that it is proven that spicy stuff makes it difficult for you to sleep at night. Proven fact by the news. So if you ask yourself, "why am I such an insomniac?" Examine what you ate ya'll!