Sleeping Question?!
Question: If you don't get enough sleep one night, do you really make up for it another time you sleep?
Answers: If you don't get enough sleep one night, do you really make up for it another time you sleep?
Only if you slept longer than what you should have for that time.
Not getting enough sleep over a given time generates what is called "sleep debt." This debt is cumulative. If you need 6 hours of sleep per night, but only get 4 hours, you'll add 2 hours to your sleep debt. After a week of this, you'd have a total sleep debt of 14 hours!!! I don't know about you, but I'd have a hard time sleeping 20 hours in a single day.
Your brain is supposed to keep you from racking up such a debt by making you sleepy, but the coffee culture is constantly fighting this safety mechanism. Going too long without making a payment on your sleep debt is dangerous. The Sandman might come to collect when you're taking a test, sitting in an important meeting, or, worse yet, driving.
Go to bed, it's late.
Nope
You can't get back the amount of sleep that you lost. Instead, you can only sleep early to go back to normal the next day.