No Sleep For A Week- Dangerous?

[KEGman321]

After a full seven days of not sleeping, the subconscious mind will slowly mix with your main consciousness. This will make your dreams become a reality and have a very high chance of causing permanent brain damage as well as mental and physical damage. Also, with the lack of sleep your mind will slowly deteriorate and as such you have a chance of dying.

Citation needed.

The world record's 11 days I believe, I think it's like putting your face in a basin of water, in that try as hard as you may you'll not manage to drown yourself willingly.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1690
This is where I read some of what I did about sleep deprivation. I do not remember where I found other information.

No mention of permanent brain damage nor death (beyond the obvious "I thought the car was a puppy" kind of death"

Which is the important point. I'm getting a "Yeah. I am on a drug. it's called Sleep Dep. It?s not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body."

Death is not always going to happen. There are permanent impairments though. It seems common sense to me. Without sleep, your body cannot heal itself like it does in sleep. Your brain will slowly deteriorate because it will always be active. I'll continue looking for where I found the info on the damage though. I found it somewhere before, maybe a book in the library.
But it's not a "Do not do this you will die!" thing. People do live through it. If you are willing, then it's your choice if you go for it or not.

 

[Capcom4ever]

It's not that bad, but some people have more of an aptitude for it. Also, don't do a lot of extreme endurance exercise or you may end up with a heart irregularity in the long term. And the hallucinations are actually kinda fun

 

[Griffstar]

If the bet is over like 10 bucks...then you sir are a complete and utter idiot.

a whole week without sleep is incredibly dangerous. I pulled 40ish hours max and I was completely exhausted by the end, felt like shit for the rest of the week.

But hey, if you want to win a measly bet at the expense of your fucking life, go for it.

My friends bet me $1000 dollars each, I would take these chances for 10 grand.

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.

You would be incredibly, dangerously exhausted. I don't think you can even make it that long without sleep before your body literally refuses to stop working. I'm not sure how you would stay awake that long, but it would definitely require fucking up your body some way. So yes, it would be dangerous.

I have powerful willpower.

Just one question Griffstar, Why would you ask this question, only to then ignore people when they tell you it's dangeruos?

You might pull it off, but I think it'll stop being funny long before you have finished.

But hey, on the upside, you might get a Darwin Award.

Because of mixed opinions and my own research, also Day 3 today.

 

[Thundero13]

DON'T DO IT!
It can kill you and if it doesn't then you'll be like a zombie for most of it and apparently people who have done this before have just sort of changed somehow, like they weren't the same person anymore, then again I only know that from hearing about it, if only there was a place of information in which to find out about it's effects...

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

Yes.
Just. Yes.

Dr. Fluttershy prescribes sleep. Have a lullaby to help.

 

[Kair]

I hear 10 days causes death, 5 or more causes insanity. That is without microsleep though, which I expect will be happening.

 

[Baneat]

After a full seven days of not sleeping, the subconscious mind will slowly mix with your main consciousness. This will make your dreams become a reality and have a very high chance of causing permanent brain damage as well as mental and physical damage. Also, with the lack of sleep your mind will slowly deteriorate and as such you have a chance of dying.

Citation needed.

The world record's 11 days I believe, I think it's like putting your face in a basin of water, in that try as hard as you may you'll not manage to drown yourself willingly.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1690
This is where I read some of what I did about sleep deprivation. I do not remember where I found other information.

No mention of permanent brain damage nor death (beyond the obvious "I thought the car was a puppy" kind of death"

Which is the important point. I'm getting a "Yeah. I am on a drug. it's called Sleep Dep. It?s not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body."

Death is not always going to happen. There are permanent impairments though. It seems common sense to me. Without sleep, your body cannot heal itself like it does in sleep. Your brain will slowly deteriorate because it will always be active. I'll continue looking for where I found the info on the damage though. I found it somewhere before, maybe a book in the library.
But it's not a "Do not do this you will die!" thing. People do live through it. If you are willing, then it's your choice if you go for it or not.

I really can't find anything remotely scientific concerning permanent brain damage or death caused by a single bout of sleeplessness. I can find things on increased arterial failure from hardeningand heart disease caused by a lack of sleep, but that's an effect over a long time of little sleep.

 

[Biodeamon]

no sleep or very little?

if very little i'm proof that it's harmless.




pfffft, ha ha ha! i couldn't keep a straight face when i said that.

 

[Ashcrexl]

i'm preeeeetty sure after 72 hours of no sleep, you can be medically classified as insane. like actually insane. so, dangerous, i guess? if you don't happen to have a strait-jacket on?

 

[Pimppeter2]

My friends bet me $1000 dollars each, I would take these chances for 10 grand.

According to your profile you're 14 years old

If you honestly think your friends will actually cash out on that, mental problems were clearly a pre-existing condition. This isn't safe, or smart.

Edit: Also, look for new friends.

 

[Chaos Inverse]

Without outside influence(drugs, electric shock) I give you 3 days before your body starts fighting against you. After that, you're endangering yourself. and eventually your brain will shut you down(make you pass out). If you fight it after that somehow, you're life is now on the line.

Edit: I tried this before, after 3 days I had mild hallucinations and "time skips"(fall asleep and wake up a couple minutes later as if nothing happened)

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

A whole week. You won't make it. The longest anyone has ever survived was about 10 days. You would be stupid to do it.

 

[Griffstar]

My friends bet me $1000 dollars each, I would take these chances for 10 grand.

According to your profile you're 14 years old

If you honestly think your friends will actually cash out on that, mental problems were clearly a pre-existing condition.

Edit: Also, look for new friends.

You've obviously never met my friends. We each have about $10,000-$20,000. I don't think they'll go crazy about 1 grand. Anyways, they know what will happen if they don't cough the money up.

 

[Pimppeter2]

My friends bet me $1000 dollars each, I would take these chances for 10 grand.

According to your profile you're 14 years old

If you honestly think your friends will actually cash out on that, mental problems were clearly a pre-existing condition.

Edit: Also, look for new friends.

You've obviously never met my friends. We each have about $10,000-$20,000. I don't think they'll go crazy about 1 grand. Anyways, they know what will happen if they don't cough the money up.

Okay then. Internet lying it is.

Hopefully you'll have enough money to pay for your hospital bills, kid.

 

[Sethzard]

Yes, you could die from it.

 

[Griffstar]

My friends bet me $1000 dollars each, I would take these chances for 10 grand.

According to your profile you're 14 years old

If you honestly think your friends will actually cash out on that, mental problems were clearly a pre-existing condition.

Edit: Also, look for new friends.

You've obviously never met my friends. We each have about $10,000-$20,000. I don't think they'll go crazy about 1 grand. Anyways, they know what will happen if they don't cough the money up.

Okay then. Internet lying it is.

Hopefully you'll have enough money to pay for your hospital bills, kid.

Assumptions are fun aren't they? Reported.

 

[Vonnis]

My friends bet me $1000 dollars each, I would take these chances for 10 grand.

According to your profile you're 14 years old

If you honestly think your friends will actually cash out on that, mental problems were clearly a pre-existing condition.

Edit: Also, look for new friends.

You've obviously never met my friends. We each have about $10,000-$20,000. I don't think they'll go crazy about 1 grand. Anyways, they know what will happen if they don't cough the money up.

And what exactly is your hallucinating, barely functioning ass going to do if they don't pay up? Knock yourself out though, results could be interesting.

 

[Pimppeter2]

My friends bet me $1000 dollars each, I would take these chances for 10 grand.

According to your profile you're 14 years old

If you honestly think your friends will actually cash out on that, mental problems were clearly a pre-existing condition.

Edit: Also, look for new friends.

You've obviously never met my friends. We each have about $10,000-$20,000. I don't think they'll go crazy about 1 grand. Anyways, they know what will happen if they don't cough the money up.

Okay then. Internet lying it is.

Hopefully you'll have enough money to pay for your hospital bills, kid.

Assumptions are fun aren't they? Reported.

Eh, worst comes to worst I'll get kicked from the site.

Best case I'll be part of the overwhelmingly negative responses to this and save a 14 year old's life from his asinine wager.

Just one question, if you clearly didn't plan to taken anyone's advice on this, why did you make a thread? And have these overwhelmingly negative responses even made you doublethink about this a little.

I've only taken intro-courses into psychology, but even I know that sleep deprivation is one of the worst things that can happen to a human body. Which is why its a common form of torture.

Call me a dick, which I am, but I'm hesitant to look at someone who'd whore themselves out for 10 grand (especially since you so clearly aren't in need of the money) as anything but someone to look at with a mixed sense of pity and disgust.


Edit: Also, if you're hardheaded enough to try this, get a trusted adult to watch over you. I mean, we've just passed winter. Get some summer sun. Its very cold in the morgue.

 

[putowtin]

As an insomniac (chronic) I can go months without sleep, it's not fun, it hurts and the walls seem to go all funny! Missing a night of sleep for a games marathon... GOOD, missing 47 night's sleep and watching everything in slow motion... BAD.

Most insomniacs sleep more than they claim, and they also have naps and micronaps (micronaps often they aren't even aware of)

I know, I had to go to a sleep clinic where they monitored my brain activity, they worked out that out of 24 hour I would get 35 minutes worth of micronaps. What happens is the brain shuts down non essential activity which is (as the Dr put it) allowing it to refresh its self in the absence of real sleep, you just don't know when it's happening and it really doesn't do what a good nights sleep will do.