In a study with Air New Zealand travelers that Dr.
Rosekind points out that it’s not just an individual issue, we all suffer from this lack of awareness surrounding how tired we are. We can’t objectively measure how sleep deprived we areĪs tools for measuring sleep, our own senses are not to be trusted, especially while we’re sleep deprived. Rosekind goes on to say, "everything else you're trying to do is degraded, possibly even impaired." All because we don’t prioritize sleep. And it's not that you don't make decisions, but that half of them are bad. That's the other thing I point out is people think, ‘I can lose sleep and it maybe throws me off my game 1 or 2%.’ Most data show that communication goes down by 30%, and reaction time can be down 50 to 75%. You're going to see possibly huge degradation. If your sleep in any way has declined to the point where it's going to affect your waking performance, you're not going to see a little bit of decline. You may not think you’re performing that badly, but the science says otherwise. When we go without sleep, our body clocks all of that sleep debt (the total amount of sleep you’ve missed out on over the past two weeks, compared to your body’s sleep need.) As your sleep debt grows, your brain struggles to focus and perform your everyday tasks. We think of sleep deprivation as a problem that affects other people - not ourselves.We are “chronically and bizarrely undereducated about sleep.”.Rosekind shares his two theories on the issue: Rosekind says it’s because people don’t necessarily care about their sleep, they only care about how they feel and perform during the day - even though that’s directly connected to our sleep. Why do we put off something that we know will affect us in fundamental ways - from the regulation of our emotions to how well our immune system functions? Dr.
But the more we put off sleeping, the more detrimental it is to our health, our performance, and how we feel each day. Whether it’s sending one last email to try and close a deal or staying up to watch one more YouTube video, sleep continually gets pushed back. Rosekind puts it up there with food, air, and water - we constantly push it off to do something that seems more urgent.
Sleep is fundamental to our health, so why don’t we get more?įor as important as sleep is to our overall health - Dr. He joins us as the guest on today’s episode of The Rise Science Podcast. Rosekind says that if you’re thinking, “I don’t feel sleepy right now,” it’s because we as humans just aren’t that great at measuring how sleep deprived we are. He is currently the Chief Safety Innovation Officer at Zoox, which was recently acquired by Amazon, and also serves as a sleep science advisor for Rise Science.
After serving as the Director of Stanford University’s Sleep Center and then NASA’s Fatigue Countermeasure Program, he became a member of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and in 2014 was appointed by President Obama to run the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The sleep scientist has a noted career spanning every sector, from private to public to academic. Don’t take my word for it - take it from Dr. You may not realize it at this moment, but you are probably sleep deprived.
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