Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia.As flagged by politics and sports analyst Nate Silver, a graph compiled byThe Economist that tracked Musk's tweets from 2014 until November 2024 illustrated in stark detail how frequently the billionaire posts and,since it's not (yet) possible to tweet while sleeping, how incredibly little sleep he gets.With tiny red dots, the graph not only charted the Tesla and SpaceX owner's prolific posting output by date, but also by time of day. As his tweeting has become more and more frequent in recent years, so too has his short window of "off" hours when he's presumably slumbering.Unsurprisingly, those gaps in tweet times also grew shorter and more erratic after he purchased Twitter in the fall of 2022, as the graph makes clear. That was also, as The Economist noted, when he began to delve seriously into politics, posting regularly and at time incoherently about free speech, immigration, and what he calls the "woke mind virus."While the average person tends to sleep approximately when the Sun is down, Musk's hours don't follow conventional patterns. The alleged insomniac appears, per the shrinking blank spaces in that Economist tweet chart, to mostly sleep between 3 and 10 am on that days that he actually stops tweeting and gets to sleep at all.Those chart gaps seem to jibe with previous remarks the billionaire has made about his sleep habits in years prior, when he was still something of a curiosity in the public imagination and not the trigger-happy government hatchet man he's become today.Speaking to the "Full Send" podcast back in 2022, for instance, Musk said he's generally asleep by 3 am and usually gets up around 9 or 9:30 in the morning. The next year, he admitted to CNBC that getting fewer than six hours took a toll on his mental state."Ive tried [to sleep] less, but... even though Im awake more hours, I get less done," the billionaire said in May 2023. "And the brain pain level is bad if I get less than six hours."In the years since that admission, it appears that Musk has retreated further and further into that lack of sleep that he admits is bad for him, which according to accounts given to biographer Walter Isaacsonwere caused by stress and would often lead to intense nausea and vomiting.Sleep depriviation is no joke. It's been employed as torture against prisoners and can lead to severe health problems including death; getting insufficient rest, like Musk, is known to cause a grim combination of brain fog, mood swings, unpredictable behavior, paranoia and even psychotic symptoms and that's without getting into Musk's drug allegations.What's worse, Musk seems to be forcing that unhealthy "all work and no rest" mentality onto his underling at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). He even reportedly moved sofa beds for his DOGE boys into the Office of Personnel Management the same thing he did when he took over Twitter back in 2022."DOGE is working 120 hours a week," the unelected official posted at the beginning of February. "Our bureaucratic opponents optimistically work 40 hours a week. That is why they are losing so fast."Unfortunately, we don't have an updated dot matrix graph like the one fromThe Economist for Musk's tweets since Trump took office again but it's clear that he entered this chaotic post-election period in a state of rage-fueled sleep deprivation, and now we're all suffering the consequences.More on Musk's mindset: Elon Musk's Guiding Principle Seems to Be Trying to Inflict as Much Cruelty as PossibleShare This Article