If you stay awake for one whole night, does this mean you need to compensate for exactly one night?
Let's say that you normally sleep for 8 hours a night.
Now, imagine that this person stays awake one full night without sleeping at all, and then goes to bed the next night.
Does this mean that (s)he will now need to sleep for 16 hours that night, or sleep longer than normal until the 8 hours are fully compensated?
I am a little confused about this, because I once heard of a guy who stayed awake for about 11 days and then slept for 16 hours (not sure about those numbers, but it was something like that), and seemed to have recovered after that.
So what's going on there?