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

You can go that long without sleep, it’s just severely unhealthy. 

Hell Week is not intended as physical training. It has a lot of very stupid things in it if conditioning is the goal. It’s *supposed* to be intended as a mental torture test that most of the guys could in fact complete, but in practice has often gotten too physically difficult (and full of drugs).