[dbenhur]

> Over the last 8 weeks leading up to defense we still worked our normal FT employment and completed revision and defending our individual dissertations while averaging 5-7 hours of sleep a week.

Cool story bro, but utter bullshit. People who do that die, they don't have the mental capacity to defend a dissertation. Eight weeks at 1 hr/night is not something humans can do.

[Powerofmene]

You are correct as I meant to say we averaged 5-7 hours the last week. And yes you can live on very little sleep when you have a sleeping disorder and take Adderall XR, Adderall and Provigil for said disorder. On average I sleep no more than 3-4 hrs a night; however every month to 6 weeks I will sleep 14-16 hrs straight but have to come off meds for a few days in order to allow sleep issues to prevail. I have had bizarre sleeping patterns since I was a kid and have been taking meds since I was 16.