• ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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    8 hours ago

    As someone who regularly doesn’t sleep I am going to go ahead and say this is probably bullshit. Even pretending to sleep is better than not sleeping.

    Upon reading the article I think the title is just misleading. What can be said is that regularly getting only 6 hours of sleep will cognitively impair you in similar amounts to not sleeping for a few days but is less noticable because you have time to get used to it. This does not account for the physical effects of not sleeping for a couple days. Calling it “just as bad” is a gross generalization.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      48 minutes ago

      Yeah, the key interesting bit there was that your cognitive performance declines, but you’re not actually aware of it happening.

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      6 hours ago

      Upon reading the article I think the title is just misleading.

      What titles are not these days?