You might not realise when you’re too sleep-deprived to drive Jean-Bernard Nadeau / Alamy
How safe is it to drive when you haven鈥檛 had much sleep? Just like drinking alcohol, it turns out we鈥檙e 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.
鈥淵ou鈥檙e asking the sleepy brain to tell us how well it is doing,鈥 says of Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital in Boston.…
