How Sleep Deprived Are You? | Brain Games

microsleeps extremely brief moments
where your brain has entered into an
unconscious state there your body’s way
of forcing you to rest and are nearly
impossible to resist these mini naps
result from changes in hormones like
adenosine and hypocretin which caused
your brain to essentially close up shop
to give you a sense of what micro sleep
feels like focus on this image in a
moment we’re going to flash a quick
frame of black and then the picture will
change slightly see if you can spot the
change ready here’s the first picture
again and the changed image did you
catch it this time did you notice the
additional boat
this game enix the tiny gaps in
awareness to experience from a 50
millisecond microsphere lee demonstrates
why micro sleep is so dangerous this was
a game but imagine if you were behind
the wheel and that boat you didn’t
notice was an oncoming car in fact the
number one cause of high severity
crashes on the road is fatigue a scary
thought since most Americans aren’t
getting nearly enough rest
research shows you should be getting at
least 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night but
40% of Americans get less than this and
it could be having a detrimental effect
on your life to find out if you’re
getting the right amount of sleep you
could visit your local sleep lab and get
tested or you could take this quick quiz
is there a good chance you’ll doze off
if you sit down and read a book how
likely would it be for you to snooze if
you were traveling in the passenger seat
of a car for more than an hour if you
were to lie down and close your eyes in
the middle of the afternoon would you
easily fall asleep if you answered yes
to at least two of these there’s a good
chance you’re sleep-deprived and need to
start catching up on more nighttime
disease