Sleep Deficit: The Performance Killer

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2. Interesting article...

...in that it seems to be defending the socio-business time schedule, that has only fueled an international drug war, incomprehensible social policy, and millions of human lives lost to meta-amphetamines, cocaine and diet pills.

Without, it seems, actually considering the benefits of "sleep deprivation".

In my past life as a long haul truckdriver, I had many opportunities, some planned and some not, to experience 'sleep deprivation'. Aside from the gradual lowering of ones' IQ and the increasing need to focus on the simplest of tasks, the need for sleep can be over-ridden by the need to survive.

There comes a time when it is a struggle to keep your mind moving enough that it can't focus on anything long enough to induce dream-like hallucinations. These, like more explicit hallucinations, can be fought off until you have a safe place to pull over and sleep.

And then as little as 20 minutes can give you enough 'ability' for anothet 200 miles...

An ideal 1000 mile day would be a 3-4 hour sleep and a couple of naps of an 90 min or so.


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