Ducking inside the cramped cube, which offers a reasonable facsimile of the claustrophobia of insomnia, you're asked to contribute answers, in the form of text and drawings, to sleep-deprivation questions that are simultaneously projected onto the outside of the cube for all to see.
Which brings us to an underlying cause of these daymares and sinister thoughts -- sleep deprivation.
We also live in a competitive society, and so by lamenting our overwork and sleep deprivation -- even if that requires workweek inflation and claiming our worst nights are typical -- we show that we are dedicated to our jobs and our families.
It all adds up to a sport that combines strenuous physical demands with the mental challenges of running a Silicon Valley venture, plus a generous dollop of good old-fashioned sleep deprivation.
Moreover, a liberal such as this reformed ex-rationalist might also argue, albeit while in the throes of sleep deprivation and having suffered from multiple starvation-induced hallucinations, that gift-giving is a social good because it tends to redistribute income from the top to the bottom.
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She said it was possible that the change to inflammatory markers produced in sleep deprivation experiments were merely short-term reflections of the battle against sleepiness.
Excessive net-surfing and television are leaving 12-year-olds suffering the symptoms of chronic sleep deprivation, say experts.
Despite months of sleep deprivation and rationed diets, the 39 year-old skipper quips that the biggest challenge of the whole project was finding a financial backer in the first place.
"The more you know your teammates, the less likely you are to take comments made in the midst of sleep deprivation personally, " says Sara Ballantyne, 38, a professional mountain-bike racer who helped lead Team Vail to victory in last year's Eco-Challenge in Morocco.
Just like humans, airplane passengers of the four-legged variety must also contend with the risk of respiratory infections, dehydration and sleep deprivation.
Meanwhile the natural body clock was disturbed - some genes naturally wax and wane in activity through the day, but this effect was dulled by sleep deprivation.
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