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Getting Enough Sleep? Dream on Is eight hours sleep enough to everyone? Have you ever heard of sleep debt? The following article warns us of the consequences of sleep deprivation and suggests ways to work off sleep debt. 八小时的睡眠是不是对每个人都充裕？你听说过“睡眠债”吗？下面这篇文章提醒我们睡眠不足的后果，建议我们如何偿还睡眠债。 I once had a patient who was so sleep-deprived that she loaded her dirty dishes into the clothes dryer instead of the dishwasher. She turned on the machine, smashing china and glasses. 我曾经有过一位病人，她由于睡眠严重不足，竟把脏碟子放进了干衣机，而不是放进洗碗机里面。她扭开干衣机的开关，哗啦啦，瓷器和玻璃器皿撞成了碎片。Another patient went to great lengths to obtain a 50-yard-line ticket to a crucial San Francisco 49ers play-off game, but was so sleepy that he dozed off in his seat in the first quarter and stayed asleep until the game was over. 还有一位病人费了九牛二虎之力才弄到一张五十码线门票，观看旧金山49淘金人协会举行的一场至为关键的加时赛，但他实在太疲倦了，头一段比赛就在座位上睡着了，一直睡到比赛结束才醒。On an everyday level, sleepy people make math errors, break things and become cross with their families, friends and co-workers. Less commonly, they make mistakes with tragic consequences. It is hard to prove how many fatal car accidents are caused by the drivers falling asleep, but my conviction is that the number is high. Laboratory experiments have confirmed that the sleep-deprived mind is prone to microsleeps － lapses of consciousness so brief that the subject may not even be aware of them. 几乎每天，打瞌睡的人会犯数学错误，打坏东西，或向家人、朋友和同事发火。瞌睡者因犯错而导致可悲后果的情况并不常见。很难证实，有多少起致命的车祸是由于驾驶员瞌睡引起的，但是，我相信，这个数目一定不小。实验室的试验已经证实，缺少睡眠的大脑很容易进入“短暂的昏睡”——阵发性的意识丧失，这种意识丧失的时间短得甚至连当事人都可能意识不到。In one experiment in our laboratory at Stanford University, a volunteer who had only been allowed four hours sleep the night before had his eyelids taped open (uncomfortable, but it doesnt hurt). He was asked to press a button every time an irregular strobe light flashed. For a few minutes he tapped the switch after each flash, on average every six seconds. Then a bright flash surged into his pupils － but he did nothing. 在斯坦福大学实验室进行的一项实验中，只让一名自愿者前一天晚上睡四个小时，然后把他的眼睑固定