Studies about sleep have been going on for many years, but we are still a long ways off from knowing everything there is to know about sleep and how it affects the human body. The Ancient Greeks, one of the first to study sleep, believed that it was a gift to be granted, or refused by the god Morpheus. Like the Ancient Greeks much of our previous studies were mere speculation, with observation being the …
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…to see from all of this evidence that sleep is not only important for the human body, it is necessary. Without sleep we would not be able to function on a day to day basis, becoming less useful as time without sleep went on. Many questions about sleep have been answered in recent years, but more questions remain. It is clear that research on sleep and the human body will continue for years to come.