so we read this book called why we sleep
you know the things so many of us crave
but can never seem to get enough of the
book makes it clear that a lack of sleep
can affect everything from your mental
health cognitive abilities immune system
and basically every aspect of your life
but the irony is that we don't fully
understand why we or any animal for that
matter sleeps we just know that without
it
most species slowly deteriorate this is
one scenario that honestly happens to me
all the time and I'm sure happens to you
as well
you're getting ready for your day you
shower you polish your pearls you've got
your coffee and you do whatever else it
takes to get your brain and body moving
only to have the first person you
encounter say oh honey you look tired
which got us wondering about the idea of
beauty sleep like does sleep deprivation
play an intrinsic role in the way that
we look so we are gonna stay awake for
the next 36 hours and document and take
progress pictures of every stage here
are the rules of our experiment we'll
take photos every six hours we've set up
a dark corner in our house so we can
control the lighting as best as possible
no makeup or facial touch-ups though no
napping which is honestly gonna be
really hard for us and finally if we're
allowed to have our normal morning
coffee but after that absolutely zero
caffeine and at the end of the 36 hours
awake we are gonna see just how messed
up we look exactly where we go so we can
have the same photo each time no
expressions that we can match it evenly
a little fact about me the last time I
pulled an all-nighter the second night I
went to bed at Miss Tibet I was 18 years
old you're 18 years old woke up peed the
bed was so embarrassed that I took all
my sheets and I threw it into a backyard
somewhere I never told my parents in
there what type of sheets you know so
obviously the first 14 hours or so were
pretty standard we woke up at 8 a.m. and
then just had to go on living our normal
lives while taking pictures every 6
hours but for whatever reason because we
knew we had to be up all night we were
feeling a way more tired than normal so
how are you so tired like not in the
after
wait what time is it now they're so
tired I don't think I can do that did
you know that 386 billion square feet of
cardboard is made each year and that
seemed absurd to kill some time and keep
busy we took the dog for a walk and then
went to the office for some science you
know scientists actually don't really
know why we look so messed up when we
don't sleep but there are two specific
theories that evolutionary biologists
have and we are gonna explain them today
using tired 3d printed Craig it doesn't
stay oh no oh my god so this is tired
Craig boo he's ugly and this is not
tired Mitchell the first theory is that
since Craig is sleep-deprived he is more
prone to accidents oh I'm great lady and
tired Greg also has a weakened immune
system COFF COFF falls thankfully
Craig's face is perceived as less
attractive and less socially appealing
therefore I'm tired happy happy image
nodes to avoid Greg at all costs the
second theory is that tired Greg is
likely less optimistic and less good at
showing emotions which makes sense
because his face is frozen in this tired
state his busted face is signaling for
Mitch to stay away so that he can be
alone and not piss people off and get
some sleep until he looks better and is
finally able to talk to people again
these lights are helping Fasching but
now I just shut my eyes now it's good
sleep okay Mitch why did you read it
wait we just finished recording a
podcast we decided we needed something
to keep us busy
what was the podcast about oh podcast is
about sleep deprivation Oh what do you
know it was insane our brains are
completely shut off we did talk about
some cool other studies so if you want
to listen to the podcast I'll put a link
in the description I feel like I'm going
crazy because now that they were done
the podcast my brain slowly melting
we're not usually up this late another
six hours have passed so we came
to take some photos okay so it is
currently 4:15 a.m. actually don't feel
so so tired but what I am noticing is
that my cognitive ability is definitely
slowing down we wanted to acknowledge
the fact that my memories are not
actually being formed properly so I had
this beautiful brain here and the fact
is when you're sleep to vibe anytime
you're trying to learn or remember
something this is a lot harder to do
than I thought because I have learned
this but now I'm having a hard time
recalling it and saying it and there's a
lot of things happening at once that
don't usually have him in any SAP
science video so anytime you're trying
to learn something an area in your brain
called the hippocampus is really active
it's basically like taking in all the
information and processing it for you
but when they look at brain scans of
people who are sleep deprived the
hippocampus is basically off on top of
that the proteins that are actually
required to build connections between
neurons are no longer available when
you're overtired and so effectively it's
really hard to even make a memory
physically studies have actually found
that people who are sleep deprived
around 40% less efficient at remembering
things that's like the difference
between literally acing exam or failing
and miserably so if you're watching this
video and perhaps you're cramming for an
exam procrastinating I'm begging you
it's really worth it for you to go to
sleep because you really aren't making
any solid memories right now how do you
feel I'm so tired
it's just like kind of like fuzzy yeah I
made this mold in an art class and I
made it to make an art piece about how
my obsession with celebrity is the way
that I cope with me here
some things never changed should be
enough it's not animal then things got a
little weird discovered tick tock I
wanted to be Homo sapiens a Homo
neanderthalensis oh my god yeah good
thing and then it happened the Sun
sunrise I literally can't even properly
right now I am having second wind
oh yeah or third wind or fourth but I
don't know I'm awake I feel good I'm
happy to see the Sun hey there bed you
bring all like to us honor the world's
coming alive literally the second we
came out here those planes going over
there's alarms going off we're in the
city oh man what are we talking about
again so both Greg and I at this point
in the morning are actually kind of
feeling a little bit energized like I'm
still tired and cloudy but we really
have a second wind and it goes with some
interesting science one of the main
reasons that you get really tired is
because something in your brain builds
up called adenosine overtime and the
only way to really get rid of it is by
either drinking coffee because it blocks
the adenosine receptors in your brain or
by going to sleep
obviously we have not gone to sleep so
we have a lot of identity and building
up but the entering factor is your sleep
cycle and your circadian rhythm so as
the Sun comes up your body actually just
starts to produce hormones that are in
sync with the daylight which wakes your
body up so in this case even though our
adenosine levels are really high as the
sun's coming up our bodies are actually
waking up a bit and as a result we have
sort of like a little up moment but we
are probably going to crash really hard
later on as that cycle kind of phases
out in the afternoon for us okay okay
our morning hormones that were acting as
uppers began to wear off we had to take
another photo and then it was the home
stretch this is something you need to go
back to bed yeah this is really really
bad this is the worst I don't know that
I
really made it this far before without
like having some serious thing I had to
push for and then immediately crashing
after I haven't had any visual
hallucinations which is good no not at
all
I definitely have had just like major
elapsed install where that's like I'm
getting visual hallucinations that you
would get wow I can't even speak the
visual hallucination is that you oh my
god that you will just be like fuzzy
little line I don't think we'll reach
that oh my god the only thing that could
help us get through at this point was
mindless but active video games as well
as scrolling social media I can't help
but notice you're looking awfully cozy
over here I need to set up you're right
I shall ask for literally three good
really look so tired to me go look at
yourself in the mirror oh my god if I
saw me right now I would be like you're
sick Oh
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we finally took the last photos and then
went straight to there so we've had a
chance to rest now we have the photos
ready for us to see how bad we look it
kind of feels like the whole thing was
like a dream I honestly don't really
remember the act so we'll know at once
me but now I feel refreshed that's why
we look so snatched ready oh my god oh
no I look like I'm crying yeah you do
like your eyes are so much smaller and
you can see that your eyes are red I
think I'd literally look like I have
just been crying right just died I'm
actually more pale than the right one
which is rare for me I have a very red
face mm-hmm oh my god it is so sad like
my whole face is inflamed actually so I
look literally busted but also the one
on the left looks really mean you do
have a kind of an intense straight face
i 100% would stay away from the person
on the right rear I really would
I look absolutely pissed off in the
morning yeah you look sad I mean in my
forehead you can see I'm gonna like
wrinkling my eyes probably because I'm
like trying really hard to keep it yeah
they say they're supposed to from not
sleep get wrinkles and rise that's maybe
what they mean I didn't know what they
meant by that to be honest you don't
look at that like you're an attractive
person I think anyone would be able to
say that's a tired person and that's not
yes and I would way rather hang out with
the person on the left and on the left
you look hot and on the right I think
you look alright but I'm also just like
a little bit worried like a bit yeah a
good take away from all of this for you
is that yes if you want to look good for
your wedding for a date for one of those
photo shoots were you like hug a pumpkin
it's important to get a good night's
sleep and as some people might say you
do need to get your beauty sleep thank
you guys for watching we actually
haven't posted a video in about three
months or a show check made up of a
break and we've been thinking about
trying different formats of videos and
stuff so hopefully enjoyed this one and
we also just released a podcast about
sleep deprivation with a lot more
studies it was filmed wilt sleep
deprived so it's kind of messy but it's
very entertaining we'll put a link below
that you can click on or search for it
it's called sidenote thanks again for
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