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

No. You can’t bank sleep in advance, or “make up” past last sleep.

Think of sleeping as “emptying the garbage pail in your kitchen”. Sleeping clears out waste that’s constantly being generated.
– Emptying the garbage twice in one day doesn’t let you go twice as long after that before it overflows.
– letting it start overflowing, then emptying it twice in a row doesn’t help either