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?

In: Biology

Answer 1

I did 3 days once in combat and was seeing things that weren’t there. It’s possible to do but your health breaks down quickly. Even 2-4 hours of sleep fixes it. We would dig in and sleep as often as we could.