3 Fans + 24 + 86 Hours = $10,000 and A Guinness World Record

[Midniqht]

I wonder what was going through their minds? After 72 hours of sleep deprivation, people start having auditory and sometimes visual hallucinations - that could be awesome while watching TV

As someone who has stayed up that long before, I can tell you that the visual hallucinations are a given, and they are not awesome, it's very hard to focus and usually you feel very scared.

I stayed up for 4 days and didn't see anything (that I know of), but I was definitely hearing stuff that I wouldn't have otherwise... such as thinking my roommate was talking to me when he wasn't even in the apartment.

 

[Blind Sight]

I wonder what was going through their minds? After 72 hours of sleep deprivation, people start having auditory and sometimes visual hallucinations - that could be awesome while watching TV

As someone who has stayed up that long before, I can tell you that the visual hallucinations are a given, and they are not awesome, it's very hard to focus and usually you feel very scared.

I stayed up for 4 days and didn't see anything (that I know of), but I was definitely hearing stuff that I wouldn't have otherwise... such as thinking my roommate was talking to me when he wasn't even in the apartment.

I went out for a smoke and thought a rotting dog was trying to attack me...I'm pretty sure it was a shadow of a car driving by, but I lay on the ground, unable to move, for about twenty minutes.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Wasn't that show only supposed to be 24 single hour episodes? How can they do 84 hours of that? Re-runs? Jeez, that would probably annoy me more than the actual doing nothing for 84 hours thing.

 

[mattttherman3]

DAMNIT! I wish I could have been there

 

[AndyRock]

I definitely could not do that, I spend at least half a day asleep (on average) and couldn't make do with much less

 

[samsonguy920]

I watched the entire series of Jericho in one sitting(It helped that at the time I was unemployed with just my computer and Hulu to entertain me). About 15 hours worth but I felt like I could take on more. And that show is about as intense.
24 is a cool show but I get tuckered halfway through one season as it is a lot of energy with little to show for it. I am about willing to bet that in every season nothing really effective gets done until 3/4's through. Like a Tom Clancy novel.
Still, I would have done the gauntlet. 86 hours? Child's play...

 

[insectoid]

Just gotta learn how to sleep with your eyes open. Bam, profit.