Now that you’re woke, so to speak, to the dangers of a sleep-slogged brain, let’s see what science tells us we can do about it. After taking an in-flight nap, an Air India Express pilot overshot the landing runway and crashed a plane full of 166 people into a hillside, where it rolled and burst into flames.
If you spill your morning coffee or stub your toe on the furniture, consider yourself lucky. The effects of sleep inertia can be disastrous. Sleep inertia can also happen when waking from a daytime snooze that went long, well past the 20 minute power nap that might refresh you. Waking with a body packed full of a sleep aid causes disorientation and shaky sensory-motor performance that typically lasts about 30 minutes to an hour.īut if you’re sleep deprived (and who isn’t these days?), the grogginess can remain for two or more hours. During that sleep cycle your body is flooded with high levels of melatonin, the body’s sleep hormone. Didn’t I just go to bed?”Ĭalled sleep inertia, it happens when you suddenly snap out of REM sleep – a deeper stage of sleep where you dream and your body repairs itself.
Groggily you recognize your room and slowly roll out of bed thinking, “It can’t be morning. The alarm goes off and you shudder awake, unsure of where you are.
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