• How long can the human body survive without sleep?
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I'm pretty curious! I just got back from a friends house where we made a fire and stayed up all night, that earlier morning I woke up at 10am on Sunday, It's now 9am Monday and I won't be going to sleep until roughly 1am Tuesday morning. So by the end of today, I would have been awake for roughly 38 hours. Which brought the question to mind, how long can a body go without sleep until it becomes fatal? Thanks! :D
You go (legally) insane after three days, so I'd imagine 5/6/7.
[url=http://iq.lycos.co.uk/qa/show/58324/How+long+can+the+human+body+survive+without+sleep%3F/][B]This place:[/B][/url] says someone have been awake 11 days straight. but in a carefully monitored experiment. [quote] The easy experimental answer to this question is 264 hours (about 11 days). In 1965, Randy Gardner, a 17-year-old high school student, set this apparent world-record for a science fair. Several other normal research subjects have remained awake for eight to 10 days in carefully monitored experiments. [/quote]
It doesn't become fatal, simply because you can't stay awake. There was a guy once who claimed he'd been awake for 10 years without sleep, so he was sent to a sleep lab to prove it... after about 7 days he fell asleep. I'm not sure how he thought he was going to bluff his way through it. I wonder if afterwards he was like "... UH WOW THAT IS AMAZING GUYS YOU CURED ME I AM SO GRATEFUL"
The chinese have tortured people by keeping them awake. After about 7 days you would die because of that.
9 Days so far. Yay mountain dew! ~twitch~
Was on a lanparty awhile ago, stayed up all night. Around 04:00 i was all groggy, couldn't do a thing :v:
Ask the crazy people in WoW.
When the human body goes 72 hours without sleep, you begin to hallucinate and see things, like shadow people, colorful patters, and spots. If you stay up longer than that, you can see tracers around moving objects.
[QUOTE=- Livewire -]I'm pretty curious! I just got back from a friends house where we made a fire and stayed up all night, that earlier morning I woke up at 10am on Sunday, It's now 9am Monday and I won't be going to sleep until roughly 1am Tuesday morning. So by the end of today, I would have been awake for roughly 38 hours. Which brought the question to mind, how long can a body go without sleep until it becomes fatal? Thanks! :D[/QUOTE] Probably a few hours.
[QUOTE=Rizzo II]...you can see tracers around moving objects.[/QUOTE] Awesome! It would be like being in bullettime.
[QUOTE=Rizzo II]When the human body goes 72 hours without sleep, you begin to hallucinate and see things, like shadow people, colorful patters, and spots. If you stay up longer than that, you can see tracers around moving objects.[/QUOTE] lol...wait...that already happens.... THEY TOLD ME IT WAS NORMAL *sob*.
[QUOTE=Rizzo II]When the human body goes 72 hours without sleep, you begin to hallucinate and see things, like shadow people, colorful patters, and spots. If you stay up longer than that, you can see tracers around moving objects.[/QUOTE] Oh Oh ! that is what I do when i need to get high before a party :excited:
I've stayed awake for over 50 hours straight before. Nothing happened then, so I'm assuming quite a bit longer.
I would guess that it depends on the person, some people may be able to go slightly longer periods of time with out sleep then others.
I stayed up for 3 years a couple weeks ago.
Eleven days is the confirmed record. Sleep is your body's recharge time. Without it, your immune system weakens substantially, your senses will be dulled because the neurotransmitters in your nerves run out, (this is why you're rather sensitive to things like light when you first wake up; your neurotransmitters are especially strong) and eventually your organs simply start shutting down one-by-one.
Well the world record is 266 hours. However it is not uncommon for people in the armed forces to stay awake for days at a time on patrol. One of my friends was a tank operator and said that they would have to stay awake for days and they would rub hot sauce in their eyes to stay awake.
Well just normaly die? Or be insane enought to do this. [IMG]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj99/Bazzlebee/Motion%20Pictures/fate3wr1du.gif[/IMG] ( Edward Norton played an insomniac in fight club )
[QUOTE=Arsinac]Well just normaly die? Or be insane enought to do this. [IMG]http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj99/Bazzlebee/Motion%20Pictures/fate3wr1du.gif[/IMG] ( Edward Norton played an insomniac in fight club )[/QUOTE] haha i love the way his mouth ripples
[QUOTE=Pr0vologne]Ask the crazy people in WoW.[/QUOTE] My record is just under 4 days. Went a bit weird, but hey i won the bet. Cream Eggs for me :)
My record is 4 days. Then again, i'm an insomniac. I stay up for for over 24 hours quite often :/
I work a 12 hour shift, so I'm conditioned to stay up for about 33 hours at a time.
[QUOTE=Rizzo II]When the human body goes 72 hours without sleep, you begin to hallucinate and see things, like shadow people, colorful patters, and spots. If you stay up longer than that, you can see tracers around moving objects.[/QUOTE] I am [b]SO[/b] doing it then :excited:
[QUOTE=robink93]Was on a lanparty awhile ago, stayed up all night. Around 04:00 i was all groggy, couldn't do a thing :v:[/QUOTE] did you stay up all night or till 4am?
If you mean just staying up, no special diet or anything like that, studies say about 4 days before you'll comatose
My record is 82 hours. I slept 18 hours after that.
[QUOTE=LEETSEPEAK]You go (legally) insane after three days, so I'd imagine 5/6/7.[/QUOTE] Rigth, so anyone that stays up 72 hours is legally insane straigth away....
[QUOTE=Crookbbz]Rigth, so anyone that stays up 72 hours is legally insane straigth away....[/QUOTE] I didn't get any hallucination after staying up 75~ hours. I just felt like shit.
They say for every hour of sleep you miss (out of the normal 8 hours for adults) you only need to sleep for half that to regain what you lost.
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