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EG- Yes, but if you live with someone with a genuine neurological denial problem, it can be easiest to humour them, especially if they get angry when challenged. I suspect the partner may even start questioning her own reality. This sort of thing can be very strange.
 
Well, remember that the partner is probably asleep through most of this. But for cases like the guy in the Vietnamese village it would be obvious if people just watched him for a day or two.
 
I call shenanigans.

There are cases of insomnia brought on by severe bain injury - these patients are unable to fall asleep, even though they are extremely sleepy.

I believe it is also a side effect of some severe types of epilepsy and Parkinson's.

Patients in this situation become basket cases within a few days, and some have elected to take their own lives.

I sincerely doubt that this individual's claim is true as written.
 
RenaissanceBiker said:
The longest I've ever gone is about 42 hours. After about 20 hours, things get weird.
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Lightweight! :)

I can go a couple days without THAT much effort, but oh yes, things eventually get weird. I see things, hear voices, and have these blasts of energy go through me (like the "head bob" you'd get in a boring class, times one thousand) that make me feel like I've been tasered.

It is CRIMINAL if people have to work those kinds of shifts in hospitals.
 
Oh and, it's all absolutely awful.

Some people take recreational drugs to hallucinate, and they enjoy it, and more power to them.
But I really doubt there are many people who stay up as long as they can (absent recreational drugs) purely for recreational purposes.
 
ChristineR said:
However I think even normally sleeping people have some awareness of their environment. Ever dreamt that the telephone was ringing?
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When I fall asleep on the couch, I dream about whatever is on TV. Last night I was dreaming about trying to buy a car, and woke up to a car dealer infomercial.
 
Modified said:
When I fall asleep on the couch, I dream about whatever is on TV. Last night I was dreaming about trying to buy a car, and woke up to a car dealer infomercial.
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Those can be kind of fun, especially given what's on TV at the hour I'm so tired and plastered I will fall asleep on the couch.

I'll never forget the time I was a member of the A-Team :)
 
Stereolab said:
Lightweight! :)

I can go a couple days without THAT much effort, but oh yes, things eventually get weird. I see things, hear voices, and have these blasts of energy go through me (like the "head bob" you'd get in a boring class, times one thousand) that make me feel like I've been tasered.

It is CRIMINAL if people have to work those kinds of shifts in hospitals.
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Yet we do and we operate on people...scary huh?
 
My personal record was five days and a bit, one week in college. It started accidentally, and then became a dare. I started seeing floating colors on the fifth day, and having weird audio lapses. It ended when I passed out, and I only slept for six hours before I got up and was fine. I also got these twitches of energy, like the head bobs, only all the way up my arm too.

I average four and a half hours a night. I know it's not horribly healthy, but it's natural for me.
 
~enigma~ said:
Yet we do and we operate on people...scary huh?
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CRIMINAL...and perhaps not you, but rather those who make you do it.

No one should EVER EVER be held accountable for a "mistake" he or she made with no sleep.

People need to sleep. Period. Want to expect "more"? You're killing people.
 
Stereolab said:
CRIMINAL...and perhaps not you, but rather those who make you do it.

No one should EVER EVER be held accountable for a "mistake" he or she made with no sleep.

People need to sleep. Period. Want to expect "more"? You're killing people.
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Common to have residents on 24 hour shifts.
 
According to this article the record for time without sleep is still 11 days. However, there is no longer a Guiness record for this due to the risk involved, so the old record will stay the official one.
 
I do however wish sleep was unnecessary. Looks like we still need it though.
 
I just finished a 24-hour video race that started at 12 AM Saturday morning and ran until 12 PM. Actual awake time was more than 24 hours, most likely about 30 hours in my case. I was functional through the whole time because it was something I enjoyed, though there were a few times when I was dragging. A good stiff belt of sugar-laced iced tea jolted me back into the saddle.

If it was something dull, I probably wouldn't have held up as well. After turning in the tape with our entry, I went to bed and then popped awake about seven hours later. It was more like a case of mild jet-lag. Took a few days before I dropped back into a normal schedule, but nothing drastic.

The main thing I came away with is the knowledge that I'm no longer thirty. Enjoy abusing yourself while you're young. You can still do it when you're older -- you just won't enjoy it nearly as much.

Beanbag
 
Some of the soldiers who fought in the more desperate episodes of the great
wars of the last century would likely be unimpressed by the 11 days sleep-
deprivation "record" spent "drinking tea, playing pool and keeping a diary".
 
Fatal familial insomnia is an inherited prion disease that runs in families:

http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/122/1/5

http://jnnp.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/68/6/774

As for the current 11-day stunt:

He set out to keep a full video record of the entire 11 days as proof he stayed awake.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6689999.stm

This proves nothing. Because it is easy to visually feign sleep or wakefulness, EEG is the only sure way to prove somebody is awake or asleep.
 
I stay awake for 36 to 48 hours quite a bit lately. At around 30 hours I feel the effects of sleep deprevation a little. I have had some strange experiences between 30 and 48 hours. My doctor has ordered me to get into a proper sleep schedule. This was 3 weeks ago and it is proving to be quite a challenge.
11 days seems increadible even to me . 33 years impossible the brain just can't function without sleep.
 
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