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 Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:32 pm
yes if you are a rat, and i suspect that it COULD kill a human, but there are no known cases of it, WIKI says:
There are no documented cases of a healthy human dying from total sleep deprivation (excluding accidents), aside from those suffering from fatal familial insomnia. In carefully monitored experiments, several normal research subjects stayed awake for 10 days. While they all experienced cognitive deficits in memory, concentration, etc., none of them experienced serious medical, neurological, physiological or psychiatric problems .[10]. Total sleep deprivation in rats leads to death in around 28 days. Death occurs later[citation needed] if only REM sleep is eliminated. In humans, extended sleep deprivation causes "microsleep" sessions to develop. A person who has fatal familial insomnia may die after several months with no sleep at all; people without this condition may experience dementia or develop permanent personality changes within the first few weeks.
Source(s):
me and Wikipedia
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:20 pm
O.O
Time to start taking medicine to help me sleep. I do not want to take any chances at the moment
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:02 pm
I lasted 4 days without sleep, but eventually it got to the point where when I closed my eyes for 1-2 seconds, I would fall asleep right away, and that's no exaggeration. I started hearing things because of my lack of sleep, in the middle of the night I heard an ice cream truck and I heard pouring rain when it wasn't even raining lol I was sh*tting bricks!
My sleeping pattern was out of whack for the entire summer and now that school is coming up for me in one week, I got my sleeping pattern back in balance. I was pretty much nocturnal throughout this entire summer, no lie. I would stay up all night with a lot of energy and I would sleep in the day from like 7:00 am to 9:00pm and it's kind of hard to believe that somebody can actually stay asleep for that many hours. It wouldn't be a full sleep though, I would wake up within like 3 hours but then go right back to sleep.
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:06 pm
I go without sleep for about a week at a time and Ive already started school and Im doing track. It sucks when you hear things, I kept hearing my dead cat last night and she died over a year ago and we moved across the country
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Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:15 pm
Wasn't there that Korean guy that died from exhaustion after playing Starcraft for three days straight?
We need sleep. I don't think it would be ethical to knowingly push a person to the point that they go so long without sleep that they die, so we might not ever be able to know the answer for sure as to how long we can go without sleep.
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Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 4:45 am
I go no more than one day. After that, I sleep for as long as needed.
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 12:27 pm
Obscurus Wasn't there that Korean guy that died from exhaustion after playing Starcraft for three days straight? We need sleep. I don't think it would be ethical to knowingly push a person to the point that they go so long without sleep that they die, so we might not ever be able to know the answer for sure as to how long we can go without sleep. I once failed to sleep properly, or some periods at all, for two months straight. Worst period of my life - and I was in a horrible living situation as well. It makes you psychotic - I was suicidally depressed. I told the person driving me to work to drive me right to the hospital, where I committed myself, and received meds to help me sleep
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 12:30 pm
Jelubi I lasted 4 days without sleep, but eventually it got to the point where when I closed my eyes for 1-2 seconds, I would fall asleep right away, and that's no exaggeration. I started hearing things because of my lack of sleep, in the middle of the night I heard an ice cream truck and I heard pouring rain when it wasn't even raining lol I was sh*tting bricks!
My sleeping pattern was out of whack for the entire summer and now that school is coming up for me in one week, I got my sleeping pattern back in balance. I was pretty much nocturnal throughout this entire summer, no lie. I would stay up all night with a lot of energy and I would sleep in the day from like 7:00 am to 9:00pm and it's kind of hard to believe that somebody can actually stay asleep for that many hours. It wouldn't be a full sleep though, I would wake up within like 3 hours but then go right back to sleep. A good way to understand the role of sleep is to look at what would happen if we didn't sleep. Lack of sleep has serious effects on our brain's ability to function. If you've ever pulled an all-nighter, you'll be familiar with the following after-effects: grumpiness, grogginess, irritability and forgetfulness. After just one night without sleep, concentration becomes more difficult and attention span shortens considerably. With continued lack of sufficient sleep, the part of the brain that controls language, memory, planning and sense of time is severely affected, practically shutting down. In fact, 17 hours of sustained wakefulness leads to a decrease in performance equivalent to a blood alcohol level of 0.05% (two glasses of wine). This is the legal drink driving limit in the UK. Research also shows that sleep-deprived individuals often have difficulty in responding to rapidly changing situations and making rational judgements. In real life situations, the consequences are grave and lack of sleep is said to have been be a contributory factor to a number of international disasters such as Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and the Challenger shuttle explosion. Sleep deprivation not only has a major impact on cognitive functioning but also on emotional and physical health. Disorders such as sleep apnoea which result in excessive daytime sleepiness have been linked to stress and high blood pressure. Research has also suggested that sleep loss may increase the risk of obesity because chemicals and hormones that play a key role in controlling appetite and weight gain are released during sleep.
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Posted: Sun Aug 15, 2010 7:56 pm
The non-sleepers will end up fat?!?! NOOOO!!!!
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