Can sleep paralysis kill you

We who live in a "daytime awake, nighttime asleep" world often forget about the millions of people who are working while we are sleeping, and then sleep as we go to work. A very early or very late taxi ride from the airport, or a nurse coming into your hospital room at 3 A.M., reminds us that a large part of the world lives with a totally different sleep/wake schedule.

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Forcing the body to adjust to even a small difference in time zones is difficult, as anyone who has flown from coast to coast with its three-hour time difference realizes. Imagine having to force one’s body to stay awake six or seven hours beyond normal sleep time, or go to sleep that many hours earlier than usual.

Then consider how to endure this shift in waking and sleeping every six or seven days, as you move from work to days off, and then back to work again. Just thinking about it causes one to feel insomnia or sleepiness coming on.

The health consequences of shift work are well known—obesity, diabetes, depression, elevated blood pressure, chronic sleepiness, cancer, and alcoholism, among others.

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