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What If You Stopped Sleeping?

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It’s the weekend, and time to catch-up on sleep. What if you refused to sleep-in late and decided to forgo sleep all together?


You may be more productive–at first. But what would stopping sleep do to your brain and your body?  Would you eventually hallucinate?

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