A 20‐h recovery sleep after prolonged sleep restriction: some effects of competing in a world record‐setting cinemarathon

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Abstract

The recovery sleep of a 21‐year‐old normal woman was assessed after she had endured 11½ days of sleep restriction in a world record‐setting film‐viewing marathon. An exceptional sleep debt was observed as indicated by an instanteous sleep onset, a high sleep efficiency, and a total sleep duration of over 20 hours. Other striking features of this recovery sleep were very short latencies to stages 3 and 4 sleep, return of Stage 4 sleep after 14.5 h, REM and SWS sleep rebound, and a linear increase in REM sleep efficiency across 14 consecutive REM‐NREM episodes. Seven of nine home dreams reported after this recording contained competition themes, but none relating to the marathon films. Comparisons of the present results with those from subjects in previous record‐setting events suggest possible explanations for the extremely long recovery sleep. Results also suggest that analyses of multiple consecutive sleep cycles may provide novel ways of assessing hypotheses about regulation of the REM‐NREM cycle. Copyright © 1995, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved

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Nielsen, T. A., Dumont, M., & Montplaisir, J. (1995). A 20‐h recovery sleep after prolonged sleep restriction: some effects of competing in a world record‐setting cinemarathon. Journal of Sleep Research, 4(2), 78–85. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2869.1995.tb00155.x

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