When you sleep only four hours a night, your body feels those four hours, and even if you sleep a solid eight hours the next night, you are still four hours behind. Over time, the four hours multiplies, especially if you keep shortchanging yourself on sleep. It's just like owing a loan to the bank 9see "AN IOU For Sleep"); you may keep up the payments but still be $100 short, and that $100 accumulates interest. Like credit card debt, sleep debt can damage your life and must be addressed. Maybe you can sleep twelve hours on the weekend, and afterwards follow a healthy, debt-free sleep pattern.

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