Do You Have Trouble Sleeping?
Oct 19, 2026 · 1 hr 39 min · 31 segments
Millions of us move through our days without getting enough sleep. We know that sleep deprivation can affect our physical health and our mood. But sleep researcher…
Oct 19, 2026 · 1 hr 39 min · 31 segments
Millions of us move through our days without getting enough sleep. We know that sleep deprivation can affect our physical health and our mood. But sleep researcher…
Rachel ZoffnessGuest
Shankar VedantamHost
We all know that sleep matters, and we all know what happens when we miss a night of sleep.
At the University of Washington, sleep researcher Chris Barnes has studied what happens when the need for rest and the need to work collide.
He says the consequences of not getting enough sleep extend far beyond what most of us imagine.
So William Rockefeller was a train engineer in New York, and he had a route that started early in the morning from Poughkeepsie headed to New York City.
So the reason William Rockefeller ended up in the news one day was because of something that happened as he was making this train journey.
So as he was operating this train early in the morning, uh, he sped through a section of the track, uh, in which he could go 70 miles an hour.
Ended up going a little faster than that, closer to 80 miles an hour, and continued that speed as it came to a curve.
But he did not slow his train down to that speed fast enough to avoid a disaster.
So when investigators looked into the source of the problem, uh, tell me what they found.
Well, initially, um, the train conductor's statement was that he felt like, uh, he entered a state of being sort of dazed or mesmerized while he was operating the train.
We all know that sleep matters, and we all know what happens when we miss a night of sleep.
At the University of Washington, sleep researcher Chris Barnes has studied what happens when the need for rest and the need to work collide.
He says the consequences of not getting enough sleep extend far beyond what most of us imagine.
So William Rockefeller was a train engineer in New York, and he had a route that started early in the morning from Poughkeepsie headed to New York City.
So the reason William Rockefeller ended up in the news one day was because of something that happened as he was making this train journey.
So as he was operating this train early in the morning, uh, he sped through a section of the track, uh, in which he could go 70 miles an hour.
Ended up going a little faster than that, closer to 80 miles an hour, and continued that speed as it came to a curve.
But he did not slow his train down to that speed fast enough to avoid a disaster.
So when investigators looked into the source of the problem, uh, tell me what they found.
Well, initially, um, the train conductor's statement was that he felt like, uh, he entered a state of being sort of dazed or mesmerized while he was operating the train.
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