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A brief period of sleep, usually of a few seconds, that may result from sleep deprivation or various medical conditions..
During a microsleep, your brain becomes blind to the outside world for a brief moment—and not just the visual domain, but in all channels of perception.
It followed RAIB's conclusion that the driver of tram 2551 had lost attention for a period of several seconds before the accident, possibly due to going into a microsleep.
Use microsleep when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Microsleep means A brief period of sleep, usually of a few seconds, that may result from sleep deprivation or various medical conditions..
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During a microsleep, your brain becomes blind to the outside world for a brief moment—and not just the visual domain, but in all channels of perception.
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