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Sleep Debt
There has been a lot of discussion about whether sleep debt is real or not. In the book _The
Head Trip_ by Jeff Warren he talks about a research study by Thomas Wehr found there is such a phenomena and it takes about three or four weeks to pay back. You cannot pay it all back over a few nights of binge sleeping. In fact he found "most of us carry around a huge, and potentially compromising sleep-debt without realizing". Most of his subjects stabilized in a pattern of sleeping eight hours a night after the debt was paid off (he studied 15 healthy volunteers). I usually sleep about 9 hours which is better than the 10+ hours I was sleeping before getting in tine with the ASV. It took his volunteers three to four weeks to pay it back.
The book is _The Head Trip_ Adventures on the Wheel of Consciousness. by Jeff Warren.
I am on page 68 of a 300+ book and so far it's all been about sleep and dreaming. Very interesting book.
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Permalink Reply by Ginny Edmundson on
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Sounds interesting! I have been having lots of dreams lately! All strange, too! :)
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Permalink Reply by ZolliStar on
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I've read in several places that it takes a while to heal if one has been seriously sleep deprived. And that's the right word: heal. Lack of sleep has serious health consequences. It's really important to get caught up if one is sleep deprived.
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