Andrew Huberman· PhD
if you don't sleep the first night after learning you lose the chance to consolidate those memories so there sleep in that sense is an all in nothing think phenomenon if you don't snooze you lose in that regard and there are other examples of that downstairs in the body that is what happens when you go into a debt and then you try to pay it back with later credit and it fails you can't seem to do that with sleep so in that sense sleep is not like the bank in that direction you can't accumulate a debt and then let's say at the weekend after short sleeping during the week see if you can pay off that debt at some lat pointed time it doesn't work like that so for example if I deprive you Andrew hubman of sleep tonight let's say it's an 8 Hour opportunity and then tomorrow I give you all of the recovery sleep that you want and then on a second night third night fourth night do you sleep longer those subsequent nights yes you do but you only sleep back about 50% about four extra hours in fact if you look at the data it's usually less it's usually around two so only about 25% of the eight hours that you lost