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40+ Hours awake? (how long have you stayed up at one time?)

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snubnose:

--- Quote --- Sleep deprivation can kill you, guys.
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Hu ? Really ?!?

Personally I dont get the idea of not sleeping. I love being wide awake, and for that you need good sleep.

peterh:
I would have assumed that, before sleep deprivation could actually kill you (directly, so not indirectly like, falling asleep while driving a car, which is frightening by itself), your body would basically just shut itself down.

I've also found that sometimes, when you REALLY think you've been awake for a given period, what really happens is your brain takes little "micronaps" every couple hours or so.
I remember that, when I was a teenager (after WWII, but before the Falkland war), my girlfriend gave me a book. Or rather, three books, each of them ruddy fat by themselves*. I started reading in Friday evening, and couldn't stop reading until I had finished them, by late Sunday afternoon. It FELT like I had been reading non-stop, but I *know* that, at some point, I reached a stage where I would doze off in my chair, only to wake up, say, half an hour later to continue reading.

I seem to remember that there is a sleeping schedule like that, which will actually sustain you for an extended period, getting by with something in between 2 and 3 hours sleep each 24 hours. It consisted of taking something like a 30 minute nap each 5 hours or so. The guy who tried this stopped it after a couple months, not because he was exhausted (he wasn't), but because it wrecked his social life (as well as his sex life, I imagine).
I'll see if I can find a link, and post it here.


*) Yes, you are right - it was "Lord of the Rings")

peterh:

--- Quote from: peterh on 22 Oct 2010, 03:18 ---I seem to remember that there is a sleeping schedule like that, which will actually sustain you for an extended period, getting by with something in between 2 and 3 hours sleep each 24 hours. It consisted of taking something like a 30 minute nap each 5 hours or so. The guy who tried this stopped it after a couple months, not because he was exhausted (he wasn't), but because it wrecked his social life (as well as his sex life, I imagine).
I'll see if I can find a link, and post it here.

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Okay, that was quick. It's called 'polyphasic sleep'. Here's a report of someone who tried it for more than five months.

jwhouk:
Talk was that Dale Earnhardt (Senior) tried that in the years right before he was killed @ Daytona. No word as to whether or not that might have been a contributing factor in his crash.

AsinineAxioms:
If it were not for school, I would try that. I think sleep is a gigantic waste of time; there's so much I could be doing in that time.

That said, I suffer from mild insomnia, so I don't get a normal amount of sleep as it is regardless. My record was 49 straight hours, after which my body physically could not function anymore; I collapsed and was unconscious for 2 hours. That was unbelievably terrifying when I woke up. As a result of that experience, I try to at least get four hours of sleep a night.

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