Persuasive Essay Why Do We Sleep

Derick Scantlin.

1-19-17

Why do we sleep?

Scientist simply don’t know why we need sleep for sure. Researchers say we need to sleep because our body needs to process everything that we learned in a day, and our brains need to rest so it can control everything that goes on in our memories. (Ghosh). During the day brain cells build connections with other parts of the brain. During sleep it seems that important connection are strengthen and unimportant ones are deleted from our minds. We tend to think of sleep as a time our body shut down but our brains don’t shut down they do most of its work while we are asleep. (National Sleep Foundation) According to the sleep foundation, if we don’t get enough sleep our brains won’t process things very

well and you could get sick a lot more than normal.
We spend 1/3 of our lives asleep. The younger you are the more sleep you need, the older you are the less sleep you need. The reason babies need more sleep than grownups is because their brains are not fully developed. And everything that a new born baby sees is brand new to then so they need longer to process everything that they learn in a day.
If you don’t get enough sleep you become very tired and you won’t be able pay good attention in your classes or if you’re driving you might fall asleep and you don’t want to fall asleep because you might get into an accident. The less you sleep you get the more moody you get and u start arguing with people more.

Works cited
Ghosh, Pallab. “Why do we sleep?”. BBC news. May 15, 2015. Jan 27, 2017. Website.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32606341

National Sleep Foundation. “How Much Sleep do We really Need”. Sleep Foundation.org. Jan 27, 2017. website
https://sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/how-much-sleep-do-we-really-need