DailyDirt: Sleep Is Important.
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Maybe you’ve met a few people who seem to be able to function completely normally on just 4 hours of sleep a night. Those people, sometimes called the ‘sleepless elite‘ who make up about 1-3% of the population, may have a genetic inclination towards not requiring as much sleep as the rest of us. Short sleepers can get away without 8 hours of sleep a night, but most people can’t. Here are just a few links on the importance of sleep.
- Can you train yourself to get by on less sleep than you usually get? Nope. It’s probably dangerous, too. Severe lack of sleep can lead to a range of health problems, and even if you were successful, you might shorten your lifespan doing so (thereby negating the benefits of being awake longer). [url]
- Don’t brag about working 30 hours straight — get some sleep! You don’t want your last words to be like Mita Diran’s last tweet. [url]
- Moritz Erhardt allegedly worked for 72 hours without sleep as a Bank of America intern, and reportedly died from overwork. Erhardt had epilepsy and technically died from that, but seizures can be triggered by a lack of sleep. [url]
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Filed Under: all nighters, death, famous last words, overworked, short sleepers, sleep, sleepless elite
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Comments on “DailyDirt: Sleep Is Important.”
I just read this thinking i have to be up in 4 hours.
72 hours of work, as an unpaid intern? Then they died!? Welcome to the new American workforce.
Personally, I can’t function correctly if I don’t get my mandatory 16 hours of sleep a day.
I got by in high school with only 5 3/4 hours sleep a night in senior year. That is becuase the teacher made us watch the McNeil Leherer newshour, which did not come on until 11PM.
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Didn’t you have a VCR or DVR?
I would have read more but guess i have no option but to go to bed now night.
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I admit I sleep less than I would like. The issue is we work too much and enjoy life too little. In my need to enjoy some entertainment (be it a movie, reading, playing games etc) I end up going to sleep late and being sleep deprived. Question is, how much would you actually work if you were growing your own food and tending to your home in the days when electricity was but a natural phenomena? I’d guess this would be fairly limited by sunlight. There are also tales that people would sleep in two stages (which is biologically natural) and wake up at dawn to talk, have sex or do other activities for 1-2 hours.
I do have faith we’ll evolve and will stop seeing cases like the persons that died from overworking.
‘Sleep’? What is this ‘sleep’ thing you speak of?
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