No Sleep For A Week- Dangerous?

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Yopaz

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Aris Khandr said:
Hal10k said:
Fie to all of the negative posters! Sleep is a completely optional part of life! Not only have I not slept in two months, I'm completely alert! In fact, I'm even more alert than everyone I know! I've started to see colors that they don't even know to exist!
I am so reminded of this scene.


But yeah, staying up that long is really not advisable.
Just because of that I will put watching that show on my to do list. Thank you sir, that made my day.

Staying up for a week is not recommended. Even a 5 day week is pretty stupid. I've done 60 hours or so without getting sleepy nor unfocused. I am not sure why, it was like normal insomnia except that I didn't feel sleepy. I went to bed without feeling sleepy because I knew I had to sleep.
 

mrscott137

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Very dangerous. Expect hallucinations after 48 hours, passing out after 36 hours, and if you are kept awake after passing out, death follows soon after.
 

Akalistos

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Griffstar said:
A simple enough question, is staying awake for 1 week straight dangerous? I made a bet with a couple of my friends about it.

No I won't be driving or doing anything that I shouldn't be, also I'm not doing drugs.
Yes it is, depending of what type of friend you have because unless you become a total Insomniac (which did happen but it so rare you'll have more chance of being attack by a shark during a fighting tournament on a Jumbo jet), you will fail. Once you fail and if they are like me, you would wake up with drawing made from almost unwashable Chinese ink.
 

phelan511

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Done it before, not out of choice. Was deployed to Baghdad and had to pull guard shifts and patrols for a week straight. Nicotine, Stacker 2, and Monster (thanks to a church group that send PALLETS of the stuff to us) kept me going the whole time. Swear to God by day 4 I was hallucinating.
 

A-D.

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The actual "Record" is 2 Weeks with little to no sleep, which caused Death in a Minor due to his Mother forcing him to stay awake, bound to a chair throughout the entire night.

Yes Parents can be screwed in the Head too.

That being said, i once managed 2 1/2 Days, or 60 Hours straight without Sleep, simply keeping going by Willpower alone, and the lazyness to actually go to bed. By that Point i wasnt as sleepy as one might think, you literally get to a state where you are so tired that you arent anymore, its like you overshot the "im sleepy so i better go to bed"-phase.

Of course there are side-effects, not sure which apply, given that not everyone would actually get the same ones, i.e. one might be hallucinating after day 2 while another guy only gets there after day 5, to use that as example.

I actually went to bed after the 60 Hours because, while not actually sleepy in the normal sense, my behaviour started to frighten me. Im by no means a very nice Person to begin with, which apparently only gets worse the longer im awake. So yeah, you may learn something about yourself on the way there, which potentially you wouldnt like to know.

Quick Edit: Oh and you may as well factor in a increase in Hunger and Thirst. Which means you will eat and drink more because your Body is requiring the Energy Intake to keep going. Which is essentially what Sleep is for, its a "Battery Saver", i.e. if you dont save energy, you have to keep adding.
 

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Griffstar said:
A simple enough question, is staying awake for 1 week straight dangerous? I made a bet with a couple of my friends about it.

No I won't be driving or doing anything that I shouldn't be, also I'm not doing drugs.
its not possible. you can stay awake for at most 4 days without chemical help.

and if you try you will be fucked ;-)
 

Smokej

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unless you are using chems,you will mostly fall into phases of microsleep after about 3 days, one of the first things i learned while in the army was getting sleep everywhere and anytime...

that being said your cognitive function can function pretty well with only 1-2 days without sleep, everybody who was on university has experienced that firsthand ;) after 3+ days you're walking dead...
 

zuro64

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Genarally, they say you get brain damage after 5 days and death around 10 days. But as all biological matters it all individual!
 

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ApeShapeDeity said:
There have been a number of studies on this (I'll let you find 'em yourself). In short, yes. It's dangerous. After about 24 hrs of no sleep you're comparably affected to drinking roughly 10 standard drinks (off the top of my head). It doesn't improve.
That is true, I Barely slept at all literally last night and I can barely walk or even think straight.
 

ToxicOranges

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You will die.

I hate to be negative, but you die. Please dont do it. Please.

Unless you really WANT to die.
 

Subeer

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I feel terrible after just one day without sleep. So a whole week would probably kill me. Of course I would probably just pass out long before that happened. I have a very hard time trying to stay awake.
 

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Judgement101 said:
Griffstar said:
A simple enough question, is staying awake for 1 week straight dangerous? I made a bet with a couple of my friends about it.

No I won't be driving or doing anything that I shouldn't be, also I'm not doing drugs.
I think it is after like 3 days you have a chance of dying from sleep deprevation.
I think it's that by 3 days without sleep you are already dead. Could be wrong though.
 

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Kakashi on crack said:
btw I keep seeing longest without sleep who survived, but does anyone remember FFI (fatal familial insomnia), specifically Michael Corke?

I'd post the documentary but youtube has seemed to have removed all traces of it, and I can't find it anywhere...


EDIT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJzZcFoT-1A BWAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!
Jesus fucking Christ, that is TERRIBLE!

Seriously, if the OP is not scared after seeing this video, than maybe he is indeed of the required intelligence level to accept such a bet.

ReCaptcha: encembe *two Chinese letters*

Really?! REALLLY?!
 

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Griffstar said:
A simple enough question, is staying awake for 1 week straight dangerous? I made a bet with a couple of my friends about it.

No I won't be driving or doing anything that I shouldn't be, also I'm not doing drugs.
Yes, in fact it is dangerous in both the long and short term. Don't do it!
 

iseko

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Nah. You can do 6 nights without sleep. I think 8 nights is the limit. After that it starts getting dangerous. Well depends on the person offcourse. But still its not a good idea. There won't be any permanent damage but you will feel like shit for 2 weeks or so. You're gonna screw with your biological clock.
 

Shadowfaze

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Extremely dangerous. After night 1, your tired. After night 2, your exhausted. Night 3, your delirious, after that you get violently ill, more delirious, and you cause yourself permanent damage.