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The ever increasing dangers of living in a sleep deprived society.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/sleepy-drivers-dose-unknowingly-17872351
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Destiny Gurner
12/5/2013 01:54:30 pm
Wow. It's amazing how sleep works! It really opens your eyes to the necessity for sleep. It also is amazing to see how the brain works when needing sleep and I find it facinating that a driver can drive for the entire length of a football field asleep and not even realize that they did so. It's scary to think of how common that is, which makes you realize how much more seriously we should be taking sleep.
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Blossom Onunekwu
12/5/2013 01:57:27 pm
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Edima Udom
12/5/2013 06:04:44 pm
I know I fall victim to micro sleep. Sometimes I fall asleep at red lights and i'm awakened by the honking of cars when the light turns green! I do not know how to get more sleep and all the work I need to get done!
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Myles Johnson
12/7/2013 09:28:00 pm
As ironic as it is, I find myself doing this at a time that I should be asleep. I think that school has conditioned me early on for what I'm to expect in the future-these things will probably only get harder anyway, so I don't think there's much harm being done. I can only get around 4 hours of sleep as it is without reluctantly waking up because I guess I've trained myself to do so over the past few years... I hope all of this doesn't catch up to me in the future. But then again, the individual needs for sleep might just be a little different from person to person.
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Julian Herbert
12/11/2013 11:10:04 am
I definitely micro-sleep during school daily, but to get everything I need done that's sometimes a sacrifice I have to make. I would rather not have to micro-sleep, but I'd rather do that than not get my work done. I need to find a balance so that I can get enough sleep and still get all my work done, but that us easier said than done.
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Erin Kobiella
12/11/2013 01:16:00 pm
I know I am sleep deprived, and it shows in class especially (sorry for that, Mr. Lackey!) I've fallen asleep at the wheel before waiting in the left turn lane, which was on my way home from South Cobb (my drive is 45 minutes). I don't know what I can do to get more sleep without letting my grades suffer.
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12/11/2013 01:38:38 pm
It's just crazy how common micro-sleep is. I probably have done it, without even knowing it. I remember one time, my mother and I were going to Kroger (which is about 2 min. from my house) and I could not remember which route I took when I drove us there. Till this day, all I remember is leaving the house, after studying for hours, getting in the car, and arriving in the parking lot of Kroger. I was so scared, I could not drive home. I know, especially during school, I become extremely sleep deprived trying to do all my school work and not going to sleep until it is all done (or my mom forces me to go to bed). In the end, my grades suffer and I can't really focus in class, sometimes. I just with there was a way to explain to other teachers (especially other A.P. and honors teachers) that students do get sleep deprived and sometimes it's hard to stay focus. That's why I always have to have tea in the morning or I am as dead as a Dodo in school. If there was a good way of knowing how to get more sleep without my grades suffering, I'd be doing it in a New York minute.
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Rahquel Cox
12/11/2013 04:05:46 pm
It is actually unsurprising how much micro-sleep is being used. Personally I feel with how active and 'on your feet' you have to be nowadays, a good night's rest is becoming more and more seldom as time goes by. The only way for me to finally relax and TRY to actually rest, is to be patient and wait for some kind of break. The breaks I rely on the most are winter break,fall break,spring break, and ect. Without those, I think there would be some serious damage to myself mentally and physically. Micro-sleeping can be a good thing, but it can also be a horrible thing to do ( depending on the situation ), For example, when my mom,dad,brother, and I were on our way from Florida ( we were just moving here that day ) my dad didn't get any sleep the day before. At the time I thought it was nothing because my dad was always breathing oddly, but now that I look back on it, he was sleeping( or micro-sleeping ). I remember him slowly easing onto the side of the lane when suddenly a loud noise on the tires made him jerk up. I was the only one awake at the time, and when I do ask him what happened, I never get a clear response.
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Allen Griffin
12/11/2013 04:55:45 pm
This story actually isn't as surprising as it should be to me because I've fallen asleep multiple times while driving. Luckily, I didn't cause harm to anyone or myself because i usually drive faster than every car around me. God forbid that if I ever died due micro-sleep, my ashes should be blown into the faces of my parents for making me go to Walmart at 2 A.M. for a single gallon of milk.
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tidas
12/11/2013 06:05:56 pm
clip is not found???
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aliyah hammond
12/11/2013 06:44:48 pm
To be honest I am not that surprised to see that that many people have suffered from micro-sleep just as many times I have considering we live in a Day in age where majority of people are always so busy with their lives they get a minimum of 3-4 hours of sleep and the micro-sleep is just like your sleep catching back up to you. Hopefully I'll be able to go through the process of me trying to change that so i wont have to suffer through it anymore it
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June millena
12/11/2013 08:50:46 pm
Thinking back to it now I can finally relate this to all of my "nonexistent" experiences after spending all nighters. At often times when I am behind on my work I tend to stay up all night but that causes me to loose focus during the day. I agree with Julian, I would rather get my work finished rather than get enough sleep. After seeing this video I have had a slight change in heart. I would love to get as much sleep as possible but for me I'm not sure where to start with that. I personally blame my study habits because as soon as I get home I go to my bed and sleep (to recover from the allnighter), but that in turn makes me wake up late at night and start on homework given that same day restarting the cycle.
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Courtney Brown
12/12/2013 05:00:28 pm
Wow, thats scary how i could be on the road with someone who is asleep at the wheel. But its not so suprising that people are falling asleep while driving. This isnt really a problem you can fix , because there could be many factors pertaining to the reason people are not recieving enough rest. As students we do not recieve enough sleep and we just go to school besides the ones who have a job, but if we are not getting enough sleep now then when we get older we especially are not going to eat. But i personally put my health above everything else so I would go to sleep, or take a quick nap or something to be energized for the day above everything else cause im not falling asleep on the wheel to risk others including MY life in danger.
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Sasha Orewa
12/12/2013 06:42:57 pm
As common as incidents of micro-sleep are, I don't think i have as many incidents of it as as majority of people do. This is probably because i generally get more than enough sleep each day. Our biological need for sleep is crucial to both our physical and mental well being. I find that certain tasks such as reading and comprehending a paragraph are much more difficult when I haven't slept for long enough.
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Myles Parker
12/12/2013 07:07:53 pm
As an ill experienced driver new to driving I find my attention on other drivers making odd distions infront of me such as swerving and cutting off others to get to their destination as early as 5:00 or 6:00 in the morning. I find that that the problem we face is not that we purposefully want to stay up late to doze off behind the wheel its more we have to.(such as the students staying up past 12:00am to do this project) adults on the other hand must get to work on time and waking up extremally early is the only way they can keep their job, attempting to get ahead of tragic. To be honest the only way to get around this is to live literally an inch away from your workplace so that you don't have to wake up early or drive a car. However with the already bustling city moving that close to your job is impossible.
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Rachel Holbrook
12/15/2013 02:42:28 am
It's not surprising to know that many people micro-sleep, especially while driving. I find myself on multiple occasions in fourth block, struggling to stay awake, even though I'm interested in the conversations or topic at hand. With accessibility we have in today's society to technology and even light, allowing us to stay away until ungodly hours of the night, it isn't a shock to know most Americans are sleep deprived. Just like in class, we discuss how people our age need hours more of sleep than we actually get. It's just incredible to physically experience the true necessity for sleep. It's important to remember the next time we drive while sleep deprived, just how much of a difference those 5 to 6 second micro-naps can make.
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Ciera Hutchins
12/15/2013 10:29:46 am
I truly have no idea if I have micro-slept before. There have been times when I was driving, that I cannot remember my environment after making a certain turn or have veered slightly out of my lane, but I have always contributed these events to distractions or misjudgment. I have previously never heard of micro-sleep and I am shocked to hear that falling asleep at the wheel causes a higher amount of accidents than texting while driving. I suppose that this is due to the fact that choosing to text and drive is more of a choice than falling asleep while driving. It is easier to campaign "Don't text and drive", than "Don't drive while tired". However, it is extremely important to inform others of the dangers of driving while tired, as you may be asleep and not even realize it, putting yourself and others in harms way.
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Hassan Hassen
12/15/2013 01:44:26 pm
Our society today has made individuals sleep deprived. If you live an hour away from home and work roughly 12 hours a day of course you will feel exhausted at the wheel. Imagine being a high school teacher having to listen to children telling you about their life, boring you to death. Then having to teach them the material that they need to know with them constantly talking rather than listening to you. In some cases you even see them sleep; knowing that you are tired, but can't go to sleep because your job is to teach them. At the end of the day you are definitely mentally worn out, if not also physically worn out. After this exhausting day you are expected to drive home safely with no lapse in your judgement and consciousness. While driving on the highway you are only limited to certain stimuli because the scenery is practically the same. Being expected to drive an hour, if not longer, safely with all these conditions playing a role is rather unconceivable. More sleep is the only cure. Will that ever happen? Probably not.
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Blossom Onunekwu
12/15/2013 03:15:56 pm
You see, videos like this encourage me to work hard now so that I won't have to work hard later in a laborious job that pays great money but costs me my beauty sleep. Sleep is for the weak? Pshaw! Sleep is for the healthy! Sure, you can go right ahead and drain your life away, but I'm getting my sleep while I can! Truly hope this micro-sleep madness doesn't strike when I actually start driving.
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Carlos Guzman
12/15/2013 05:20:24 pm
This video makes me think that maybe I should be asleep right now. Sleep deprivation is a very serious thing. It affects not only your mood but productively and can be deadly. One thing I have gotten from this video is that I should never drive while I am sleepy; it is better to pull over and take a short nap. Sleep is something that I need a lot of at my age however this is the time where I have gotten the least amount of it in my life.
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Jasminne Herrea
12/16/2013 10:19:46 am
I honestly did not know what micro sleep even existed until I saw this. Micro sleep happens to me daily and not just in school but everywhere. I knew that your eyes started to flutter, get tired and things like that but your brain falling asleep is crazy. The effects of not sleeping are very serious. Not only do you start to micro sleep but your attitude and awareness changes completely. If your body is capable of micro sleeping when doing something as simple as driving imagine the dangers people who work in factories face when they work with heavy machinery and things of the sort.
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9/2/2014 11:28:43 pm
I think the things you covered through the post are quiet impressive, good job and great efforts
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