Is getting 6 hours of sleep one night and 10 hours the next equivalent to sleeping 8 hours and 8 hours?
In: Biology
No.
The best measures of sleep quality come from falling asleep at the same time and waking up at the same time every day, AND the time spent asleep should be 8 hours.
Most of us don’t succeed at this, but I’ve done 7.5 on the same alarms for a few months straight, and it feels marvelous.
But to answer your question again… No. You cannot “bank” sleep by oversleeping the night prior or “bounce back” by making up for lost sleep the next night. Your body wants you to fall asleep at the same time every night and to wake up at the same time every morning.
Yes, even weekends.
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