Thanks for asking.
Check out -> https://www.sciencealert.com/the-brain-literally-starts-eating-itself-when-it-doesn-t-get-enough-sleep for better explanation.
Try thinking of it like the garbage being cleared out while you're asleep, versus someone coming into your house after several sleepless nights and indiscriminately tossing out your television, fridge, and family dog.
Like the cells elsewhere in your body, the neurons in your brain are being constantly refreshed by two different types of glial cell - support cells that are often called the glue of the nervous system.
The microglial cells are responsible for clearing out old and worn out cells via a process called phagocytosis - meaning "to devour" in Greek.
The astrocytes' job is to prune unnecessary synapses (connections) in the brain to refresh and reshape its wiring.
We've known that this process occurs when we sleep to clear away the neurological wear and tear of the day, but now it appears that the same thing happens when we start to lose sleep.
But rather than being a good thing, the brain goes overboard with the clearing, and starts to harm itself instead.
As to your question -->
So are those 3 hour people getting mentally destroyed quicker than the 8 hour people?
My Answer: - Yes, the astrocytes are more active in their case than those having 8 hours of sleep.
at what point do you think the reverse is true?
if an 8hr sleep person is better off than a 3hr person, would this not mean that someone who slept 20hrs be like so well off they live till 150 or something with a sharp mind? at the same time if they're sleeping 20hrs, even though they're living longer are they really "living" and is that extra sharpness and clarity worth the lack of activity and life they've actually experienced.
idk, personally i've never really partied much or done a lot of drugs or drank or hung out with vast groups of folks in an attempt to "protect" myself from damage or destructive behavior. but at this point i'm beginning to wonder, would it not have actually been better to have let it go and "lived" and if i die sooner or get older (in mind) quicker it's still actually more worth having sit around living more cautiously?!
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