Ted went without sleep for two nights in order to study for a final exam. Ted can expect to experience:

A) virtually no effect on his mental abilities and reaction time.

B) very brief episodes of sleep called microsleeps that occur during wakefulness.

C) REM sleep behavior disorder.

D) intense hypnagogic hallucinations.

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1 July, 18:21

Ted went without sleep for two nights in order to study for a final exam. Ted can expect to experience:

A) virtually no effect on his mental abilities and reaction time.

B) very brief episodes of sleep called microsleeps that occur during wakefulness.

C) REM sleep behavior disorder.

D) intense hypnagogic hallucinations.

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The correct answer is B. Very brief episodes of sleep called microsleeps that occur during wakefulness.

Explanation:

Sleep deprivation or long periods without sleeping can cause multiple effects this includes loss of concentration, effect on mental abilities, extreme fatigue, issues in your digestive and immune system and also, microsleeps which are short episodes of sleeps (from 1 to 30 seconds) that commonly occur if you are too tired or struggling to avoid sleeping and therefore are a common effect of no sleeping. According to this, it is expected Ted experiences microsleeps as these are one of the common effects of avoiding to sleep. Also other such as REM behavior disorder and intense hypnagogic hallucination occur as part of sleep and are not related to sleep deprivation.