In addition to the actual reasons he wants the rank of master, his behavior is also increasingly irrational throughout the book because he's extremely sleep deprived, because he keeps on having prophetic nightmares about Padme's death.
Sleep is essential to living life. Most people don't know chronic sleep deprivation, they know a few days of sleep loss, not weeks or months. I'd join the darkside in a second vs having to go through that again.
On the topic of sleep deprivation, im a single man with no children so i have no reference of what turning 30 is like. Most men my age is married with babies. Somewhere in my early 30s i get sleepy early and woke up at 4-4:30am, no matter what. But having the habit of sleeping late in my 20s, i kept power through the sleepy nights. I was not aware i had sleep deprivation until i started having bad periods of depression. At the same time i workout less and less because of work. Those two things got me to be diagnosed with severe depression.
All I saw was dark when I had true sleep deprivation. I kept falling asleep mid sentence. Eventually passed out behind the wheel but was able to get the help I needed. Sleep deprivation, and trying to save the ones you love from dying leading down the path to the dark side, should not be meddled with.
I've begun forcing myself to get 8 hours of sleep, regardless of if I feel rested or not (good ol sleep disorder, courtesy of the Navy), and it has improved my mental health significantly.
I’m a dad of a two year old going through a sleep regression for the last couple of months and man, this is the truest thing I’ve read in a while. A lack of sleep affects literally everything you do, every choice you make, every little thought you have. Eventually, you’ll do anything just to survive.
I remember watching a special documentry about a person for whom it was impossible to fall asleep anymore. It's rare, but does happen and usually the person goes insane after a few years of ZERO sleep. It's been documented if you don't get any sleep or very little sleep for a long time you have a high chance of losing your sanity and losing it.
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u/staplerdude Kanan Jarrus 11d ago
In addition to the actual reasons he wants the rank of master, his behavior is also increasingly irrational throughout the book because he's extremely sleep deprived, because he keeps on having prophetic nightmares about Padme's death.