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Yep, that is a well known 'hack' with that med.
You basically take it, sleep for 2 hours, and then you are as awake as you would be if you had a full night's sleep.
However, all it does is allow you to be awake like you slept, without the nervousness or jumpiness that happens with caffeine. It is nothing more than a neurological sleight of hand. All the effects of sleep deprivation, decreased executive function, a functional decrease in both short and long term recall, verbal fluency, drastically decreased mental processing speed, simple errors in judgement that one wouldn't normally make, small disturbances in balance and coordination, are all still present. You also can't safely do it more than once a week, and even then, even doing it once a week in middle age could be rather detrimental long term. If you do it on successive days, not only do the cognitive and functional deficits become additive, but your immune function will start to decrease. If one is stupid enough to do it for 3 successive days immune function, both internal and external surveillance, is impaired by approximately 33-50%. It has been theorized that if one did it for 5 successive days your immune function would be roughly equivalent to someone with an uncontrolled HIV infection. So, you can see, if one does it for several nights in a row they are literally risking a potential infection that could become fatal.
