Reddit reviews Counting Sheep: The Science and Pleasures of Sleep and Dreams
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About 10 years ago, I read and enjoyed Counting Sheep by Paul Martin. It's pop science, but entertaining and well-written.
I don't remember much from the book except for this random digression (my paraphrasing):
>It's hard to study the effects of extreme sleep deprivation. As sleep deprivation worsens, increasingly extreme stimuli must be applied to keep a subject awake. Thus, in measuring adverse outcomes, there is confounding between the wakening stimuli and the lack of sleep. Scientists believe they can address this problem by putting rodents in treadmill cages in which the treadmill switches on-and-off. Slower on-off switching (i.e. on 5 minutes, off 5 minutes) allows for micro-sleeping, whereas faster on-off switching (i.e. on 1 minute, off 1 minute) results in complete sleep deprivation. Yet, since the intensity of the waking stimuli is similar in both cases, differences in outcomes between fast switchers and slow switchers equals the sleep deprivation impact.
The experiment struck me as very mean-spirited...