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?
AsapScience explains what would happen if you tried to live without sleep.
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