Miracle Pill Persuasive Speech

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Brianna DiElmo Essay-1 Rowand If one day a so called “miracle pill” was invented to allow a human to function with only one hour of sleep per night but then never be able to dream again, choosing to take it or not would be a huge decision. There are many reasons to why a person would take the pill such as, substantial amounts of extra time to get things done, study, clean, go to school, and just time for yourself. But on the other hand loosing the ability to dream most likely will make people reconsider. Therefore there are many advantages and drawbacks of such pill. In my own opinion I would not take the pill just due to the fact that I would never be able to dream again, which is a huge thing for me. If one were to take the pill to allow them to survive on one hour of sleep a night it would result in many changes. The biggest of them all being never having the ability to dream again. Some of the many advantages a person could gain by taking the pill would be adding 7-8 or more hours a day to do whatever need be. Whether it be cleaning, studying, sports, or just time for yourself never being able to dream again, I believe, weighs out all of those heavily.…show more content…
“They have inspired countless people to slightly and drastically change the course of history. For example, Harriet Tubman dreamed of escape routes that helped her guide slaves to freedom (Brucker).” Also the dreams for survival theory, which allows us to reconsider and reprocess info during sleep, that is crucial for daily survival. Without dreams our mind wouldn’t have the precious time to relax and reprocess our day. Dreams represent concerns from our day and allow us to continue to process information that is unresolved. If we were unable to dream we wouldn’t be able to process and deeply think about all of the indecisions, ideas or desires that take place in our daily

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