What is sleep deprivation? Sleep deprivation means you are doing without sleep for whatever reason. Sleep deprivation means you are doing without sleep for whatever reason. You do it yourself, you are pulling...
Sleep deprivation means you are doing without sleep for whatever reason. You do it yourself, you are pulling it all night or studying for an exam is sleep deprivation. If you have obstructive sleep apnea and you have been awaken throughout the night and your sleep is discontinuous, that's sleep deprivation.
Its strictest terms sleep deprivation means you don't have a lot of sleep. Total means you didn't get any. Your sleep pressure is such that you will fall asleep sooner or later. It's not possible to exist without sleep except in some pretty rare paralogic circumstances and that's devastating. Old experiments that probably would not be repeated today, animals were studied. They literally made it such that the animal had a every need met except for sleep. You eat, have other rats around, water, exercise or rest whatever they wanted but they hooked it up to their brain so they knew the were falling asleep and it would wake them up immediately. Many of the times these animals died fairly quickly without sleep. We are not sure why people sleep. Probably the most obvious answer if you don't sleep you die. If you don't sleep if you do without large amounts of sleep you don't function the next day that's the oldest answer and it doesn't explain a lot. But a total complete sleep deprivation you get no sleep whatsoever.
But sleep actually resulting in death would probably only happen in a laboratory setting. You will eventually instead find a position, find a place, find a way that sleep will happen.
