Despite not having any cool X-Men names as of yet, The Sleepless Elite tend to be on the thin side on account of having fast metabolisms, and while they might indulge in a morning coffee for the sake of ritual, they don’t require caffeine to kickstart their day or fix sleep hangovers. How do you know if you’re one of them? Well, did you invent Twitter? Not to worry - there are other signs. If we’d been worried about the 1% taking all the wealth, we should have been worried about the secret 2% of sleep deprivation wizards maxing life out to the fullest and ruling countries, running Fortune 500s, and inventing the next big tech craze in the process.
The Wall Street Journal‘s Melinda Beck dubbed this group of fatigue immune superhumans “The Sleepless Elite,” in part because many of its self-proclaimed members are highly successful people. Think of all you could get done! Or at least how much E! Entertainment you could watch. We might not have figured out immortality just yet (frozen heads be damned!), but if you can get by on 5 hours of sleep a night, that adds up to about 18 years of consciousness by the time you’re 80. But - hidden amongst the zombies of morning elevator rides and packed subways - is the mystical “Sleepless Elite” - an exclusive group of people who make up somewhere between 1% and 3% of the population and only require a few hours of shut-eye a night. Being sleep deprived is just a way of life, and we’ve got the eye creams to cover it up. Venti-sized Starbucks look more like Big Gulps in disguise these days than anything the average North American would have deemed a reasonable morning pick-me-up just a few decades ago. “ is probably a genetic disposition, but for the rest of society who don’t have those particular genes it’s actually very unhealthy to deprive yourself of sleep,” Associate Professor Young says.“We might not have figured out immortality just yet, but if you get by on 5 hours of sleep a night, that adds up to about 18 extra years of consciousness by the time you’re 80” Australasian Sleep Association President Alan Young says that for the vast majority of us, short sleep is not an ingredient for success. Some common traits have also been noted for reasons that are unclear, with short sleepers tending to be more optimistic, more energetic, better multi-taskers and more pain resilient.īut aspiring to become a short sleeper would be a fruitless pursuit. Studies out of the University of California have identified two types of gene mutations that promote natural short sleep.
Researchers are still trying to identify what makes somebody a natural short sleeper, but findings are suggesting it is genetic. It means they manage get the same amount of deep, restorative sleep in six hours or less as the rest of us would in eight hours. A true short sleeper wouldn't rely on coffee and would continue the same sleep habits regardless of the day of the week because they are naturally efficient when they hit the hay. Telltale signs that someone isn’t getting enough sleep include guzzling down caffeine or playing catch-up on weekends and holidays. “Many people claim they sleep less than six hours without consequences but when researchers look at them closely, they find the opposite.” But Professor Bruck says it’s highly likely the majority of these are not doing as well as they think they are. That leaves a quarter who didn’t complain of negative impacts due to short sleep. Many people claim they sleep less than six hours without consequences but when researchers look at them closely, they find the opposite. Of those, three-quarters admitted to having two or more sleeping difficulties or daytime symptoms. The Sleep Health Foundation’s 2016 survey found 12 per cent of Australian adults slept less than 5½ hours before work days. That’s because most people who claim to be short sleepers are in fact sleep deprived. The short answer is yes, according to Sleep Health Foundation chair Dorothy Bruck, but true natural short sleepers are a rare breed, estimated to make up only about one per cent of the population.
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