Microsleep
"Microsleep" in a Sentence (3 examples)
Tom had a microsleep while driving and narrowly missed an oncoming semi-trailer.
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.
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