short sleeper

plural short sleepers · alternative short-sleeper

1. A person who consistently requires substantially less sleep every day than the customary amount for most people of the same age and developmental level.

   The demonstration that the short sleeper phenotype can be reverted in these lines by transposon jumping indicates that a single gene is likely to be involved.

   2004, Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Sleep: Circuits and Functions, →ISBN, page 158

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   As previously mentioned, short sleep has been linked to reduced life expectancy. This relationship probably has its source mainly in short total sleep time patterns resulting from medical and/or other sleep pathologies and not in short sleep itself, as represented by the short sleeper.

   2005, Stephen H. Sheldon, Richard Ferber, Meir H. Kryger, Principles and Practice of Pediatric Sleep Medicine, →ISBN, page 147

   Both are fairly normal in the sense that the short sleeper is not a 'shortened' sleeper who used to sleep for longer and then decided to restrict him- or herself, nor does the longer sleeper have a sleep disorder.

   2006, Jim Horne, Sleepfaring: A Journey Through the Science of Sleep, →ISBN, page 174