Psychosis is a condition that affects the mind, often causing some loss of contact with reality. This may involve abnormal perceptions and thinking patterns. The main symptoms include hallucinations, delusions, as well as, paranoid and disorganized thoughts and disorganized speech. All of these symptoms can feel extremely real to whoever is experiencing them. The experience of psychosis varies greatly from person-to-person, and follows a continuum of severity. If the symptoms cause a great deal of distress it may be considered a disorder, but occasionally those who do not suffer from a psychotic disorder can experience some of these symptoms due to stress, sleep deprivation, or drug use. Sleep is very important to everyday functioning, though we do not know exactly why sleep in necessary to our day-to-day life, we know that disrupting various parts of the sleep cycle can impair our lives (Physio-psych notes). When we do not get enough sleep, or suffer from a chronic sleep-restricted state we become clumsy, sleepy during the day, along with cognitive impairments. Sleep deprivation can lead to people experiencing hallucinations, an example being seeing a cat run by when there is nothing there (Physio-psych notes). Sleep deprivation may also cause paranoid thoughts, like someone at work is trying to get you fired to obtain your position. Luckily, those who are experiencing impairments due to lack of sleep can relieve themselves of theses symptoms simply by catching up on their sleep and maintaining a healthy sleep schedule (Physio-psych notes). There are many more ways for people who do not have a psychotic disorder to experience symptoms of psychosis. One of these would be through substance use. Hallucinogenic drugs distort sensory perception, cause alterations in thinking, along with producing hallucinations. Many people who use these drugs have reported that they have "seen sounds or "heard colors" along with surfaces appearing to b