And it turns out, that both in humans and in animals - this has been actually very well documented - sleep-deprived animals and sleep-hungry people, turn out to be hungry for more than sleep.
What followed lights-out at the Sleep Disorders Center was, predictably enough, not sleep. (Imagine for a moment going to bed in a fuse box.) Every time I moved, I got tangled in a wire.
It won a wide following for offering practical and moral help to people who were coming off the land and out of the armed forces and trying to find work, food and a place to sleep in Japan's bombed-out cities.