| The consequences of poor sleep or lack of sleep can have severe daytime consequences: Automobile and job-related accidents, tiredness, irritability, loss of memory, and cataclysmic accidents, such as the Exxon Valdez or Chernobyl nuclear disasters, can be traced in some part to lack of sleep. Fragmented sleep can be as devastating as no sleep -- Dr. William C. Dement, Stanford University, Sleep Research Center. Two-thirds of American adults report a sleep-related problem--National Sleep Foundation Some people show great bravado about getting a job done on little sleep or brag having trouble sleeping, claiming their work proves they didn’t need the rest anyway. Yet the truth is that fatigue is dangerous. Researchers suspect one reason heart attacks occur more frequently in the morning is that a night of tossing and turning can lead to a significant surge of blood pressure the next morning. -- Time Magazine Sleep is important to our emotional and physical well being. People who get six or less hours of sleep a night have a 70 percent higher mortality rate.-- California Department of Health Americans have reduced their average nightly sleep time by more than 20 percent over the past century.-- National Commission of Sleep Disorders. In today’s fast-paced world we are sleep deprived. We’ve cut back on the hours we sleep to provide more time for work, family and leisure. When we build a "sleep debt" over time, we settle for a lower quality of sleep... and a lower quality of life | 
