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May 4, 2001

Strange But True!

  • A weekly column of incidental information, off-the-wall observations and other random facts about the world.
    • By BILL SONES AND RICH SONES, PH.D.
    Special to the Journal

    Q. At eight hours a night, most of us by age 60 have spent 20 years sleeping. So, what if we could cut this to an hour a night — in effect adding 18 years to our first 60?

    A. Bizarrely, there are people who do fine on little sleep, though they are rare, say Mark Rosenzweig et al. in “Biological Psychology.” Researcher William Dement told of a university prof who slept only 3-4 hours a night for more than 50 years, and lived to age 80.


     
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