Why your brain needs sleep

Sleep is a miracle drug

If there was one super drug that promoted quality of life, happiness, learning, well-being, willpower, concentration and health without side effects, would you take it every day?

Of course, you would, and in fact, you do, every night while you sleep. We can survive several days without food and with very little water, but after a few sleepless nights, we are walking disasters. Complete sleep deprivation is so dangerous and damaging that the Guinness Book of Records ha