So you know, I don't get much sleep. I was really good my intern year, where I went to bed religiously at around 9, sometimes 10, so that I could at least get 7 hours of sleep. Now, I'm lucky if I get 7 and it's more like 6 hours. Granted, I feel like I'm doing well, but it's always bad news when someone tells you that you can't really catch up on sleep. I mean, am I destined to be cognitively slower for the next 2 years and 8 months AND for however long it takes me to recover from being sleep deprived. I mean, really, who can "bank" 10 hours of sleep a night?
This is my favorite quote from the article:
"The scientists found that the "recovery" sleep did not fully reverse declines in performance on a test of reaction times and other psychomotor tasks, especially for subjects who had been forced to sleep only three or five hours a night."
What does that say when you sleep zero hours a night, like last night?
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