Is getting 6 hours of sleep one night and 10 hours the next equivalent to sleeping 8 hours and 8 hours?

Question

Is getting 6 hours of sleep one night and 10 hours the next equivalent to sleeping 8 hours and 8 hours?

In: Biology

Answer 1

The short answer is no.

Sleep debt is a complicated subject, but generally you don’t want to make up the sleep debt all at once. If it’s just a single day of two hours of sleep debt, it should be fine, but if you sleep for 6 hours every night for a week, sleeping for 22 hours straight the next night doesn’t fix the issue.