Is it possible to never sleep? - General

Think about it, we have to sleep at least 8 to 10 hours a day if we want to keep on doing anything productive instead of wishing for a bed. Deprivation of sleep can lead to various psychic/health effects and possibly death after a sleepless while. Do you think it is physically possible for a human brain to be reconfigured (in the future maybe) so that we don't need any sleep, for our mind to always feel well-rested, etc? Can all the functions of a sleep be performed while a brain is awake?

It's not entirely a brain thing; the rest of the body needs sleep as well.

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[QUOTE=Nikita;20795496]Think about it, we have to sleep at least 8 to 10 hours a day if we want to keep on doing anything productive instead of wishing for a bed. Deprivation of sleep can lead to various psychic/health effects and possibly death after a sleepless while. Do you think it is physically possible for a human brain to be reconfigured (in the future maybe) so that we don't need any sleep, for our mind to always feel well-rested, etc? Can all the functions of a sleep be performed while a brain is awake?[/QUOTE] Hey, FP, predict the future for me, thanks.

you will die if you stay up for a week

Sleep restores the body. Without sleep we break down, slowly and painfully.

Insomnia. Sleeping is like recharging the body, you can't keep your phone on forever.

I should research what happens during sleep. I'm sure there's a way to replicate sleep.

[QUOTE=kpax632;20795549]you will die if you stay up for a week[/QUOTE] 10 days actually, 7 days isn't particually good for you, however it is 9-10 days before it kills you (in the average health person).

I'm tired...

[QUOTE=Hoboharry;20795561]Insomnia. Sleeping is like recharging the body, you can't keep your phone on forever.[/QUOTE] I'm guessing with some of today's technology you can. Stick alot of little solar panels or some shit that's effective on the thing to keep it charged. Either it takes 5 months to die out or it keeps going.

How does it actually kill you? What actually triggers the death?

Ever read the Russian Sleep Experiment copypasta?

No. /thread [editline]02:08PM[/editline] [QUOTE=BlazeFresh;20795655]How does it actually kill you? What actually triggers the death?[/QUOTE] Jesus christ you can't possibly be serious. [editline]02:09PM[/editline] [QUOTE=vizard38;20795656]Ever read the Russian Sleep Experiment copypasta?[/QUOTE] Well put, but that was the gas that kept them up, wasn't it?

[QUOTE=vizard38;20795656]Ever read the Russian Sleep Experiment copypasta?[/QUOTE] yes because that story is medically possible

[url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=903363&highlight=russian+sleep+experiment[/url]

[QUOTE=Perfumly;20795694]yes because that story is medically possible[/QUOTE] Go back to class, Perfumely.

OP needs to read more books.

[QUOTE=ZakkShock;20795705]Go back to class, Perfumely.[/QUOTE] Well, you can make gas that makes people sleep, wouldn't the inverse of that gas make people awake? So it'd be called "Wake Gas." Lol.

Well it also made them go apeshit crazy. So 8 hours of sleep|ripping off hunks of your own flesh/pulling out own organs... I'd rather sleep :razz:

There is this one guy that stopped sleeping some day, and he has never slept since... I'll find a source to that, but anyways, you can't just stop sleeping.

[QUOTE=vizard38;20795716]Well, you can make gas that makes people sleep, wouldn't the inverse of that gas make people awake? So it'd be called "Wake Gas." Lol.[/QUOTE] Are you trolling

No, you will die. But you can maximise your awake time by using the da vinci sleep pattern. These days it fucks up your social life and job though.

[QUOTE=Perfumly;20795746]Are you trolling[/QUOTE] Rate me dumb, but what's trolling? I was only making a joke.

Here it is, a boy that couldn't sleep: [url]http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4828035[/url]

[QUOTE=ZakkShock;20795669] Jesus christ you can't possibly be serious. [/QUOTE] Well i just assumed your brain lacked the energy regained through sleep and just shut off.

[QUOTE=The golden;20795789]Intentionally starting arguments.[/QUOTE] Oh. No, I was only making a really crappy joke.

Sleep is when my penis is allowed to recover from my hand. Without sleep my penis could be in danger.

Oh, and here's a grown-up person, he can't sleep either: [url]http://www.whatsthelatest.net/for-the-records/thai-ngoc-man-sleep/[/url] Google his name for better sources.

[QUOTE=vizard38;20795695][url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=903363&highlight=russian+sleep+experiment[/url][/QUOTE] Holy shit. That's all I have to say.