ABC News' Dan Childs experienced microsleeps while staying up for 50 hours. — -- If you're exhausted and in the need to zone out, you might actually be grabbing bits of down time called ...

A microsleep is when we fall asleep for the briefest of moments, so brief in fact, that we might not realise it has happened. Dr Lindsay Browning, neuroscientist, owner of leading sleep issues clinic ...

Microsleep refers to periods of sleep that last from a few to several seconds. People who experience these episodes may doze off without realizing it. Some may have an episode in the middle of ...

A train crashed into a buffer at London Bridge railway station due to a driver's microsleep caused by fatigue, the rail ...

Perhaps you are watching a movie and jerk yourself awake multiple times. Maybe you are driving at night and awaken when your car crosses a rumble strip. In both cases, you have experienced microsleep.

Microsleep is a brief, involuntary shutdown of brain activity, often lasting 15 to 30 seconds, caused by sleep deprivation. It can occur anytime, even while driving, posing serious risks. Common signs ...

Consider just how essential quality sleep is for cognitive and physiological functioning, and it’s no surprise that there’s an upper limit for how much deprivation we can handle. That precise amount ...

Seconds-long periods of sleep, known as “microsleep,” are common during mundane tasks like driving. While these unintended brain naps can be difficult to control, getting adequate sleep is the key to ...

Microsleep involves brief, intermittent moments of sleep throughout the day, sometimes without you noticing it. You can have episodes of microsleep when you're feeling drowsy and performing daily ...