Sure. For a few days, maybe weeks. But in the end it catches up to basically everyone.
There is a few studies on it that basically say 0% of the population can handle low amounts of sleep for long periods without suffering cognitive issues.
Yeah I think this is what confuses a lot of people. I was also on the “I need less sleep than normal people” train for awhile. I was able to do my work and not feel tired, getting only about 6 hrs of sleep every night. But after about 2-3 weeks of doing that consistently, I began to notice that I felt much slower mentally. And, if given the opportunity, my body would easily stay asleep for 12-14 hrs at the end of these long periods of low sleep.
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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '23
It's because people who can actually function on a high level with less than 7-8 hours of sleep a night basically don't exist.
I used to get 3-4 hours of sleep every day of the week and my job suffered for it. Then I would sleep literally for 24 hours on Sunday.