I never sleep for more than five hours, hardly ever.
Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.
If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do.
Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.
I've added up all the hours of zzz's I've missed in my lifetime, and it turns out I'm running on a rather substantial deficit.
I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.
Sleeping only six hours a night for a week in a row will make you feel on that eighth day as if you'd gotten no sleep at all. Seven and a half to eight hours remains the sweet spot.
Missing even one night of shuteye will impact your ability to concentrate the next day. And it only gets worse if you deprive yourself of sleep night after night.
Based on the science, you can make somewhat clear statements: The number of people who can survive on six hours of sleep without impairment is zero.
Sleep-deprived individuals also generate fewer and less accurate solutions to problems.
