: A sudden or short period of sleep or better known as microsleep is closely linked to the daily performance of every human being, said an expert from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Research in Psychology and Human Wellbeing Prof Dr Rozmi Ismail.
According to Rozmi, the people who are at risk of experiencing microsleeps are bus, lorry and taxi drivers who are driving long-distance or people who work night shifts and do not sleep during the day. “We have to take care of our biological clock, which means humans cannot fight against his nature. Humans work during the day and sleep at night. If we try to fight this, our performance will quickly decline and our body will become tired.
She said drivers tend to experience microsleeps due to factors of being too tired or lack of rest, erratic sleep schedules as well as unstable health conditions. “You don’t fall asleep all of the sudden. You can’t drive consciously for a minute and then fall asleep. There is often enough time to realise that we are feeling sleepy,” he said.