Mar 4, 2007

Sleep Fact Countdown: #20

Boy have I ever been slacking on our sleep fact countdown! Well, never fear citizens I am now finishing the countdown to bring you the sleep enlightenment you so desperately desire!

This sleep fact is quite the goody too!
British Ministry of Defence researchers have been able to reset soldiers' body clocks so they can go without sleep for up to 36 hrs. Tiny optical fibres embedded in special spectacles project a ring of bright white light (with a spectrum identical to a sunrise) around the edge of soldiers' retinas, fooling them into thinking they have just woken up. The system was first used on US pilots during the bombing of Kosovo

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