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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We've all experienced brief episodes where we've completely zoned out, losing attention and focus, or had our heads bob and our eyelids close for a moment (or two or three) ... until a sudden head ...

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 ...

All living beings, or at least ones with central nervous systems, need sleep — but not all creatures snooze the same way. Scientists at the Korea Polar Research Institute recently observed an extreme ...