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As a general statement, the body needs sleep. You can only put up with 3-4 hours for ex-amount of days/weeks until you begin to shutdown, mentally.

When I'm not working, due to my Intensive computational tasks, I sleep at around 4am and awake at 9:00-9:30am. That very minute, I resume all sessions. It came to a point where I did In fact crash on the couch sometime after midnight and woke up 5 hours later, with my hands still on my laptop's keyboard.

Very true! I certainly usually need about 8 hours. Usually on weekends I get a proper nights sleep (with exception to the one just passed). I've noticed an inability to focus for long at all.

You're spot-on with this comment:

I've noticed an inability to focus for long at all.

On one occasion when I only had 3 hours sleep, I was struggling to function properly, mentally. Typos during coding, spelling errors during posts etc. I even had to take the day off work.

Omg - I can understand that! So, dream job = one where I get enough sleep! xD