A favorite argument of those, who advocate for living “extra” life at the expense of sleep, is the reference to legends who slept 4 to 5 hours: Bonaparte Napoleon, Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Leonardo Da Vinchi and many others.
However, with deeper exploration of their life, especially through the prism of
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How many hours of sleep is appropriate and sufficient?
How much sleep is needed to ensure effective/fruitful consciousness and ability to work/study extra hours? Those who ever had to pull an all-nighter to get prepared for an exam or to meet a deadline would confirm on the irresistible inner demand to catch up with sleep shortly afterwards in any form, starting from a short snooze or catnap – wherever and whenever is possible/allowable, and ending up with 'watching' extended dreams on the following weekend. Although, the results of experiments (Roche Labs, 1966) showed, that much less of sleep time is needed to ‘repay the sleep debt’, compared to how much we had borrowed.
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