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> One way this is put to the test is by letting people relax in a comfortable reclining chair in a quiet, dark room during daylight working hours. Many people f
by greggman 14y ago
> One way this is put to the test is by letting people relax in a comfortable reclining chair in a quiet, dark room during daylight working hours. Many people fall asleep in this condition, signaling that they are sleep-deprived, even if they have no regular habit of taking a nap in the daytime.
That is not a valid way to test that people are sleep deprived. Most people will fall asleep with plenty of sleep. Put them in a warm room with little noise and nothing to keep their attention and they'll fall right asleep no matter how much sleep they've previously had.
- philip1209 14y agoIndeed - isn't this essentially a nap?
- jamesaguilar 14y agoI know someone who is an extreme example of this. My wife will go to bed at 11 on a Friday night, wake up around 8, go out to the living room, then fall right back to sleep. I thought it might be that I was snoring but she claims she is sleeping through the whole night. On top of that, she's not a particularly long sleeper in the week (7.5 or so hours). I don't get it to be honest. In any case, just want to reaffirm that the test proposed in the top comment is way off target.