You might not realise when you’re too sleep-deprived to drive Jean-Bernard Nadeau / Alamy
How safe is it to drive when you havenât had much sleep? Just like drinking alcohol, it turns out weâre not always a good judge of how mentally affected we are.
In an experiment where people were only allowed to sleep for just five hours a night, for a month, people did not realise that they had become less vigilant.
âYouâre asking the sleepy brain to tell us how well it is doing,â says of Brigham and Womenâs Hospital in Boston.…
