Alcohol: Not A Friend To Sleep

27-Sep-11

Research suggests that alcohol is the most widely used sleep aid in the world, and yet we have ample evidence that alcohol is disruptive and problematic for sleep. Sure, a drink (or two) not long before bed may make you fall asleep more quickly, but as the night wears on, you’re likely to miss out on deep sleep, to wake more frequently throughout the night and to feel tired the next day. The results of two recent studies provide yet more confirmation of the obstacles that alcohol can pose for sleep.

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Awakening to Sleep

10-Mar-11

This would make sense if the consequences of sleep loss were more benign. But the penalties for what might be called catastrophic sleep loss are well known. Allan Rechtschaffen has done a famous series of experiments in which rats were wakened to death. Rats deprived of total sleep died in two and a half weeks, after their thermoregulatory systems collapsed. Rats deprived of REM sleep died in five weeks. (No one knows how soon a rat would die if, like the insomniac subgroup Mendelson described, it merely believed it had been deprived of sleep.)

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Rats die after two weeks of total sleep loss. They can survive without food for about the same amount of time.

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The Nod Office

19-Jul-09

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It

10-Dec-07

In honor of the Seattle floods, I present one of the nightmares from childhood:

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