Longest span of sleep dep!? *Star eyes*

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-23 12:19am

Raoul Duke, Jr. wrote:
verilon wrote:Not even SD.net? I stay up when I am done doing stuff and evryone just kinda...stops...posting here....not fun at all...esp when server's down and need sleep...and no music either.
New article in Dangerous Fun in the House of the Scorpion. That should keep you awake for awhile.

read thru it in five mins...

weemadando: I may be in for another day...the hours now is:

sleep: 5
awake: 56.5

If I don't get to sleep over at my friends' house tinight, I may very well crack tomorrow...I don't plan on sleeping...again...my last class ends 13.5 hours from now, taking my total to sleep:5; awake 70...grr...at LEAST....and then I'll be up till at least seven at night, so 75 hrs....

Sienthal · Post by **Sienthal** » 2002-10-23 12:41am

Three days here with the help of a cup of coffee and skyrocket (100mg of caffeine an ounce!). I sorta fell asleep. Standing. In the middle of a sidewalk. It was...Odd.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2002-10-23 01:50am

I pull 36-40 stretches at least once a month...

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2002-10-23 06:01am

i have gone 4 days with no sleep, just caffeine. got myself nicely fucked up though. after a while my body just told me "fuck you, sleep now" and i fell over and slept for 48 hours straight without waking up.

did you know that after the 3rd day you become completely nonfunctional due to hallucinations? i didn't till i encountered it, damn that's some trippy shit too.

EmperorMing · Post by **EmperorMing** » 2002-10-23 06:02am

Body has to shut down to process all the input, so I am told...

Natural hallucinations seem fun...

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2002-10-23 06:07am

what's funny is the body can run pretty much indefinately without sleep, though regeneration is SEVERELY affected by sleep deprivation. the brain will actually self destruct without REM sleep, it's well documented.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-10-23 07:31am

59 Hours Starting in Decemeber 97 in a Backpacking Trip through the Applican mountains, never got sleepy or dizzy or anything until hour 57, 58 is when we stoped and had camp up by 59

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2002-10-23 12:44pm

Hyperion wrote:what's funny is the body can run pretty much indefinately without sleep, though regeneration is SEVERELY affected by sleep deprivation. the brain will actually self destruct without REM sleep, it's well documented.

I've heard that after about seven days with no sleep whatsoever, a person can go insane.

And that no sleep for more than ten days is fatal. But I can't remember where I heard that (Newton's Apple, I think).

That is, of course, excluding those very rare cases where some have gone years without sleeping.

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-23 01:09pm

Midterm week was last week. I went all week with roughly two hours of sleep. Total.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-23 04:13pm

HAH!! I went likre this once also...woke up a Friday morning about 530 AM...went to school until 215 PM, ran some errands until about 530, got my date at 630, had dinner, watched a movie, went to a second movie (which we missed about the middle hour and a half of it), didn't go to bed until 5 AM Saturday. Woke up at 630 AM, took the ACT, did a Car Wash went straight to work, and was awake until 430 AM again....that wasn't too much fun, either...

But I got sleep last night at my friend Jesse's house!

Best damned sleep I've had in a long time! (othere than what I was missing....)

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2002-10-23 05:33pm

Chronic insomnia can be fatal. I once read of a man who was unable to sleep. Even the strongest drugs would only put him out for a few minutes. Eventually his body just shut down and died. Of course, he was nearly vegetative by that point. Always fun to think about when I'm lying in bed completely exhausted with my brain hurting and not quite fully alert but unable to quite fall asleep.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-10-23 05:57pm

Four hours in 48 hours. I eventually run out of things to do around the house, and just find it better ot fall asleep, so I don't wake up a 3 in the afternoon the next day. When I'm awake all night, I'm usually on the computer. I might try it this Friday. I'll get home at 11PM from some Halloween thingy, watch some TV, go downstaris and play on the computer, and drink a lot of Mountain Dew to keep me awake.

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-10-23 06:16pm

When you start with sleep dep related hallucinations you know it is time to sleep. But by that point you can't as the mind is totally screwed.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-23 06:41pm

I dunno if I'll sleep this Friday...have to wake up at 850, go to class at nine, go to class at 10, go to class at 1, go to a Halloween party across town prolly about 1030ish (more than likely no bed till 3am, if at all), be back at UNM by 10 (which means getting up by 9), then a BBQ at 11, ANOTHER Halloween party at 9...prolly no sleep there till late either...I'll have fun, tho, the second party is at *HIS* house....

EmperorChrostas the Cruel · Post by **EmperorChrostas the Cruel** » 2002-10-23 11:48pm

Six days, less than 1/2 hour of sleep per day. Constant physical activity, during war games. (14 days with no shower as well! YUCK!)

Sleep is a need, for your brain, like oxygen. More specificaly, REM, or dream sleep. No other form of sleep is needed, but as previously stated, regeneration suffers.

If you go long enough without sleep, you will dream while you are awake.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-23 11:52pm

Well that at least explains why I actually had a dream...

EmperorChrostas the Cruel · Post by **EmperorChrostas the Cruel** » 2002-10-24 12:39am

That also explains amphetamine psycosis.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2002-10-24 12:43am

verilon wrote:Well that at least explains why I actually had a dream...

How was it?

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-24 12:46am

Raxmei wrote:
verilon wrote:Well that at least explains why I actually had a dream...
How was it?

It was good, according to me...it *might* have involved a bed scene...but I dunno. I very rarely dream...even on 36-hour days...which I do quite frequently. But maybe that's A) cause I'm used to it, or B) because I sleep very heavily.

It was incredibly real...and I wish it were...

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-10-24 12:48am

verilon wrote:It was good, according to me...it *might* have involved a bed scene...but I dunno. I very rarely dream...even on 36-hour days...which I do quite frequently. But maybe that's A) cause I'm used to it, or B) because I sleep very heavily.

It was incredibly real...and I wish it were...

Try meditating before sleep, if you can. I always have especially vivid and easy to remember dreams after doing that.

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Longest span of sleep dep!? Star eyes