I’m So Sleepy….CRASH!!

The science of sleep was the topic of a 60 Minutes story a few Sunday nights back. When tested, person after person performed best on repetitive tasks if they had had a good night’s sleep, not if they studied more. This blows the idea of pulling an all-nighter because if they had just gotten eight hours of sleep they would have done better in any sort of exam or test.

One night of 4-5 hours of sleep kills the next day’s productivity. People are impaired and they think they can drink coffee and keep themselves moving. But there is no way around not having enough sleep, you can’t fool your body or mind. At nearly age 50, ugh, I notice this pretty regularly!

Virginia Tech wired more than 200 cars and found that people with lapses, or 2-3 second sleep sessions, can cause cars to go off the road.

Leslie Stahl ticked off many of the terrible tragedies like Three Mile Island and the Exxon Valdez oil spill happened at night, and all had ties involving bad judgement or slow reaction from people who hadn’t had enough sleep. Apparently it’s an epidemic…makes you just want to go home and take a nap.