if people can’t go 3 days without sleep, how can Navy SEAL trainees do an entire Hell Week of strenuous physical activity with only 4 hours of sleep?

Question

if people can’t go 3 days without sleep, how can Navy SEAL trainees do an entire Hell Week of strenuous physical activity with only 4 hours of sleep?

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Answer 1

People can definitely go longer than 3 days without sleep. Not sure how you think they can’t.

Then the biggest issue with staying awake is when you are talking about going multiple days without sleep is not moving for a few minutes. Hell Week has trainees constantly moving. Getting constantly wet. Instructors keeping people awake.

And even then Buds trainees are constantly falling asleep at the first opportunity they get in Hell Week. On their feet, sitting down eating, in port a johns.