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Why Six Hours Of Sleep Is As Bad As None At All (www.fastcompany.com)

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

As someone who regularly doesn't sleep I am going to go ahead and say this is probably bullshit. Even pretending to sleep is better than not sleeping.

Upon reading the article I think the title is just misleading. What can be said is that regularly getting only 6 hours of sleep will cognitively impair you in similar amounts to not sleeping for a few days but is less noticable because you have time to get used to it. This does not account for the physical effects of not sleeping for a couple days. Calling it "just as bad" is a gross generalization.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the key interesting bit there was that your cognitive performance declines, but you're not actually aware of it happening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Currently imagining how fucking cool I would be if I could just sleep

[–] nous 3 points 9 hours ago

Upon reading the article I think the title is just misleading.

What titles are not these days?