Can We Catch Up on Sleep?

Sleep is not like the bank. You can't accumulate a debt and then hope to pay it off at a later point in time. Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent reason as we're smartwelland i make that point because what it means is that mother nature, throughout the course of evolution, has had to face the challenge of this thing called sleep deprivation. So she's never developed a safety net. And that's why when you under sleep, things just sort of imploed so quickly, both within the e brain and the body. The analogy would be, you'd never sit at the dinner table waiting to get hungry, so why would