<p>Informally, of course. (well sometimes it could be formal). But do you think that it could partially compensate for sleep deprivation during night?</p>
<p>I did in high school.</p>
<p>Not my fault that we never did anything during my 4th period class.</p>
<p>No it could not.</p>
<p>It couldn’t make up for lost sleep, sleep doesn’t work that way. Research REM cycles.</p>
<p>I stopped sleeping in class in high school. Now that the state won’t arrest my parents if I don’t show up, out of respect for the professor I stay home if I can’t stay awake. I suggest you do the same.</p>
<p>Or you can continue and entertain the other students who are awake. I have multiple professors who will stop a 300 person lecture in order to wake up a student in the most embarrassing way possible.</p>
<p>I also had an MFA student for creative writing workshop, who wasn’t very assertive, so she once asked the girl in the class who had a son to yell at another girl who fell asleep. The twenty year old girl actually responded, “Stop, Mom. I’m up!” before realizing where she was.</p>
<p>Those kind of jolts awake though usually tend to make a person more tired because they didn’t wake up naturally.</p>
<p>I had a history teacher in middle school who would slam textbooks onto the desks of people who were asleep.</p>
<p>In high school there was a psych teacher who would have people throw pens at the kid.
I also had a teacher for a very small informal class (where sleeping might actually be okay) who get a ruler and a squirt gun for these and similar situations.</p>
<p>Sleeping in class is stupid. Alot of teachers give a grade for participation, so it could hurt your grade if you sleep in class. And its rude.</p>