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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
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Subject: Re: Sleeping
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Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 22:07:20 EST
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> In particular, I would say yes, that a person deprived of sleep does
> essentially ... "pass out".

    Yes. It takes about 100 hours without sleep for this to happen.
We are talking about different orders of magnitude here. You are talking
about long-term sleep deprivation; I'm talking about losing a couple
hours sleep ONE NIGHT to go out with someone you are interested in.
You are comparing apples and oranges.

> People tend to stay 
> awake if kept awake by situations that require them to remain alert;

   Agreed. My point was simply that people are free to choose what
"requires" them to remain alert.

--Greg