College. The place of papers, parties and, most frequently, sleep deprivation. Whether you're up late doing homework, hanging out with friends or just busy doing a million things that you didn't have time to do during the day, chances are you stay up too late at least once in a while during college.
The more often you stay up late, the more sleepy you get, and the more you tend to notice the many types of sleep deprivation.
1. Yawning
First you start yawning, your body's way of telling you hey, we might wanna finish up whatever we're doing and head to bed pretty soon. You can still function, but don't your super comfy pillows and warm blanket sound super nice right now? Yeah, now you're distracted and you can't stop thinking about your bed. And then the other half of your brain is like "nah man, it's not even that late. We have to keep being productive."
2. Irritation
You're still functional, but wow you really don't want to be. Your brain is now conflicted. You have stuff to do and you want to be productive and get it done, but your bed, boy does your bed sound so good right now. You start by getting irritated at yourself for not getting your work done sooner. And then, you start getting irritated at, well, everything. Nothing is a good idea except for you plopping into your comfy bed and getting some well-deserved rest.
3. Giggle fit
On the flip side of type number two, nothing is irritating or bad in any way. In fact, everything is down right hilarious. Whether you're with your friends or by yourself watching videos on the Internet, it seems like you are never going to stop laughing. Hopefully nobody in earshot is sleeping because not only is it frequent, but it is loud. If you wake someone up you won't even be able to properly justify it because it'll probably be over something stupid like your friend asking you a question you were too tired to expect.
4. Too tired to care. About anything
This is always the worst if you are at work or in an 8 a.m. class or doing anything that actually requires any effort at all. At work and something falls on the ground you need to pick up? Ugh, why does the ground have to be so far away? In class and your teacher is making you stand up or do perform any activity other than zoning out? How dare they? The last thing you want to do is move, and if it was up to you whatever you dropped would stay on the ground all day long. If it was up to you, you would just stop doing whatever you were doing and sleep, because that's really all you care about. This stage often goes in hand with irritation, or sadness.
5. Sadness
There's something about late at night -- when you should be sleeping but aren't or can't or you're even just lacking energy at any time during the day -- that seems to want to send all of the bad thoughts you've ever had straight to your head. Remember that one thing someone said a year ago? Let's be sad about it. Remember that lost puppy sign you saw yesterday? Time to cry! What's even worse is when you're sad about seemingly nothing. It's like OK brain, if you shut up for just a few seconds I promise I'll finally go to bed.
These are just five of the main types of sleepy you can be. Some nights you can be one, some nights the other and sometimes you can cycle through a few of them all in the same night. No matter what type you are, there's no denying that there is no better feeling in the world than crashing on your comfy bed and curling up under your blankets. Hopefully my fellow sleep deprived zombies have sweet dreams coming to them soon.
