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In the United States, it's estimated that 30% of adults and 66% of adolescents are regularly sleep-deprived.
在美國，據估計，30％的成人，66％的青少年經常睡眠不足。
This isn't just a minor inconvenience.
這不僅是一個小小的麻煩。
Staying awake can cause serious bodily harm.
保持清醒會導致嚴重的人身傷害。
When we lose sleep, learning, memory, mood, and reaction time are affected.
當我們失眠時，學習、記憶、心情和反應時間都受到影響。
Sleeplessness may also cause inflammation, hallucinations, high blood pressure,
失眠也可引起炎癥、幻覺、高血壓，
and it's even been linked to diabetes and obesity.
它甚至被認為與糖尿病和肥胖癥有關。
In 2014, a devoted soccer fan died after staying awake for 48 hours to watch the World Cup.
2014年，一個忠實的足球迷在48小時不睡覺觀看世界杯后死亡。
While his untimely death was due to a stroke, studies show that
雖然他的英年早逝是由于中風，研究表明，
chronically sleeping fewer than six hours a night increases stroke risk
長期每晚睡眠少于六小時的人中風風險
by four and half times compared to those getting a consistent seven to eight hours of shuteye.
是那些每晚睡七至八小時的4.5倍。
For a handful of people on the planet who carry a rare inherited genetic mutation, sleeplessness is a daily reality.
對在這個星球上攜帶著一種罕見基因突變的人類來說，失眠是一種日?，F實。
This condition, known as Fatal Familial Insomnia,
這種情況被稱為致死性家族失眠癥，
places the body in a nightmarish state of wakefulness, forbidding it from entering the sanctuary of sleep.
身體在清醒的一個噩夢般的狀態，禁止它進入睡眠的避難所。
Within months or years, this progressively worsening condition leads to dementia and death.
在幾個月或幾年，這種逐步惡化的狀況導致癡呆和死亡。
How can sleep deprivation cause such immense suffering?
睡眠剝奪為何引起如此巨大的痛苦？
