Now in development there are pills that allow to go a several days without sleep. The "24 hour lifestyle" pills work by putting you in the deeper stages of sleep faster. A person could stay up for 24 hours with only 2 hours of sleep. People can even go days with out sleep. They say in the next 10 to 20 years they will be able to pharmacologically turn off sleep. This will ultimately give people more time to work and they are thinking off giving the pill to army soldiers.
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