There is no denying the importance of sleep. Everyone feels better after a good night of sleep, and lack of sleep can have profoundly negative effects on both the body and the brain. So what can be done to substitute for a lack of sleep? Put another way, how can you get less sleep and still perform at your peak?
We found a simple answer: There is no substitute for sleep.When asked to monitor a computer screen and press a button whenever a red dot appears—a pretty simple task—participants who are sleep deprived are much more likely to have lapses in attention. They don't notice a bright red dot and fail to respond within a half-second. These lapses in attention are due to aand are more common at points in the 24-hour circadian cycle when the body expects to be sleeping.
Research investigating the effect of sleep derivation on more complex types of thinking has shown somewhat mixed results. So my team and I sought to determine how keeping people awake for one night affected different types of thinking. We had participants perform various cognitive tasks in the evening before we randomly assigned them to either go home and sleep or stay awake all night in the laboratory. The participants who were permitted to sleep returned in the morning, and everyone completed the cognitive tasks again.
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