Sleep Depravation.... works for me :(

[[uber]]

i'm doing a sleep dep thing right now... ihave been up for three days straight. that is why my typing is so bad at time these las few days... i don't know why i'm no tsleeping i just am not going to bed...

any of yall ever gone a few days without sleep?

how long?

[RabBell]

When I used to work nightshift I would regurally be up for 26 hours straight. It's weird how untired I would feel but ended up sleeping cause I thought I should.

Although there was a guy who was up for 18 days straight...he went nuts :crazy:

Da Vinci only slept for 4 hours a night you know

[billystar]

3 days!!! man i need my sleep or i cant function, that would do me proper

i have nine hours a night or i go potty

[Voetsjoeba]

What's Depravation ? Anyway, don't stay up too long man, you'll start hallucinating.

[andr.in]

Although there was a guy who was up for 18 days straight...he went nuts :crazy: 18days? holy cow.. that's more than half a month :!:

[dru_nasty]

Hope you don't start up a club and start punching yourself....

[Krilnon]

I think the longest I've stayed up straight is around 48 hours. It was sorta fun. I kept most of my motor functions.

[Yeldarb]

I was reading an article about sleep, and apparently in tests, sleep deprived animals have actually died do to loss of sleep.


Interesting Fact: "Sleep" is your body's way of dumping the RAM, it clears out the unneeded information from your short term memory and stores the needed information on your hard drive -- err, in your long term memory. Enabling you to have enough RAM (short term memory space) to get through the next day's routine activities.

[blabj]

Hmm... you should try some of those sleep tablets, I stayed up for about 48 hours just because i couldnt sleep, and then my mum got me some and i slept for about 12 hours... It really does start to eat away at you :(

[idoik]

did you know if you stay awake for more then 10 days you well die.

[The_Vulcan]

I have been 4 days without sleep; at that point I wouldn't trust myself to wipe my own arse properly.

I go 2-3 days without sleep from time to time and my performance is defiantly affected.

If I sleep 3 hours a night after about a week I feel crap and crash for 17+ hours straight.

Personally I think that doing this is detrimental to ones health in that it can kind of cause chronic fatigue and can take a while to return to normal.
I am fine with 6-8 hours but after I have stuffed up my sleeping I need 12 or more for a while before I return to normal. Although exercise does help.

Also there have been studies that show that after 24 hours without sleep people perform as bad as someone with a .05 blood alcohol limit. In Australia it is illegal to drive a car with that level, so even if you don’t realize it your performance is affected and it is something I take into account when driving when I haven’t been sleeping.

Note:
If you are having trouble getting to sleep it is normally because you are thinking about to much crap to fall asleep.
If you close your eyes and stare at the back of your eyelids all you see is black. If you focus on this and just think about the black and nothing else (it takes effort) you will go to sleep in 10 min or so.
As I said this can take effort but it works……………………..

[Yeldarb]

Six years later, high school student Randy Gardner attempted to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest time awake -- 260 hours. And after 11 days without sleep he suffered no hallucinations or paranoia and no psychotic symptoms.:)

[The_Vulcan]

And after 11 days without sleep he suffered no hallucinations or paranoia and no psychotic symptoms.
Never had none of those, although I thought 11 days was death for a human, or was that for a dog ?

It's been posted here before but I dont remember :P

[Disco-Stu]

Most people will die or faint after about 10 days I believe. There are weird disorders that make you not have to sleep, but usually those people don't live past 30.

[Coppertop]

I couldn't stay awake more than 36 hours because i would fall asleep regardless. Unless I had a handy case of Red Bull. That would put and end to my need for sleep.

[Disco-Stu]

It's all about SoBe No Fear. 2000mg Taurine, 200mg Insitol, 100mg ginseng, 100mg guarana (the good stuff), 50 mg creatine, 20 mg arginine. FDA Caffiene warning label :D

[Coppertop]

warning label? you serious? I'm ordering some of that for my next coding binge :crazy:

I also here there's this Japanese drink that's not allowed for a reason something like that

[Disco-Stu]

Yea. Some of those japanese ones have so much caffeine it can cause an ulcer if you have only a couple.

[radioxromance]

disco stu, you changed your sig again! always a pleasure to see the change!
did I use the tag properly?
Anyway, last year I basically had this schedule:
sun: work 5PM-1AM, watch movies till 6AM...
mon: school 6AM-3PM, work 5PM-1AM, watch movies till 6...
tues: sleep till 2PM, repeat

this would last the entire week, basically stay up about 32 hrs or so and then sleep 12. Then, suddenly, I just started sleeping around midnight and getting up at 9AM... sometiems earlier... now that school is here, I'm really glad for it!

[andr.in]

Interesting Fact: "Sleep" is your body's way of dumping the RAM, it clears out the unneeded information from your short term memory and stores the needed information on your hard drive -- err, in your long term memory. Enabling you to have enough RAM (short term memory space) to get through the next day's routine activities.
lol can't I increase swap space size so I can have more RAM on my harddrive.... there's gotta be a way :P

[Coppertop]

haha, yeah - when I read that I was reminded of three things. the first was that if that is so I must have a relative RAM size of about, oh, 2kb and a harddrive in the 100gb range. Second is that it I'm more than overdue for an upgrade and three: http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2004-08-20 / http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2004-07-26

sigh. if only

[Disco-Stu]

Yeah radio, but not by choice! My other sig was 20k, and the limit was 15k, so it got hit by the sig crackdown. I just couldn't get that compression any lower (Believe me, I tried everything). I just put that one together in like 10 mins so I wouldn't have that annoying "violation sig" thing.

My schedule for the past two years (college)

6:45 am - Wake up
7:15 am - Be at class
12:00 pm -Class ends, go to lunch
1:00pm - Work
7:30pm - Work over, go home
8:00pm - Get home, grab beer and/or pipe
8:30pm - eat dinner (tony's frozen pizza or top ramen)
8:45pm - start playing games / surfing forums / designing
1:30am - Realize it's 1:30am, and I need to go to sleep
2:00am - Actually start getting ready for bed
2:15am - Fall asleep

I get 4 1/2 hours every weeknight, and then I hit Friday. I party or something, crash out around 3-4am, and wake up at 3-4pm the next day. Repeat. Sunday comes around, I wake up at 3-4pm, Start working on homework, and go to sleep at 2:00am when it's over. This is LITERAL. There is maybe once a month on a weeknight where I go to bed before 2:00.

I think I'll probobly die before I'm 40.

[Coppertop]

I think I'll probobly die before I'm 40.
I'm with you on that, but through not fault of my own (****ed genetics)

[Disco-Stu]

I'm going on the fact that all of my grandparents are alive at like, 85, and my great-grandparents all were alive until a year or two ago. 99,96, 93 and 89. What's funny is my great grandmother used to take two shots of vodka every MORNING. She was the one who lived to 99 too. The 89 and 93 pair both chainsmoked, and neither of them had air tanks or anything. Just the occasional sick smoker cough. Thank god for Icelandic/Scottish blood.

[McGiver]

I had to write an essay in the last year of school (normally you have ~7 months time for that), well lazy as I am, I started 4 days before the deadline.
On friday afternoon I started writing the introduction, and realized that the whole thing was probably a lot more work than I thought. So I kept writing till 3AM and set the alarm to 8 o'clock. I worked the whole day till something like 4AM on sunday, and set the alarm again to 8 o'clock. With the magic of coffee, I then worked till Monday 10AM, let my brother read through the whole thing for grammer Mistakes (there were at least 50 mistakes at the last page! Coffee may help your body not to fall asleep, but not your brain) while I was working at the cover design. At 11 AM I started correcting the mistakes, and printed the whole thing ~12 o'Clock.
Afterwards I drove to school and arrived at 12:45, and the deadline was 13:00.
School ended at 18:00, and went to bed at something like 9PM
btw.: I got 12 points for it which is better than most of the others.

[Ryall]

I was up for 4 days straight once.... it got really weird towards the end... you start seeing things and hearing stuff. The auditory hallucinations were crazy for me, I was hearing all kinds of stuff. It was a pretty cool experience - never done it since.

Peace

[Krilnon]

What was the essay on?

[The_Vulcan]

nteresting Fact: "Sleep" is your body's way of dumping the RAM, it clears out the unneeded information from your short term memory
WTF ?
Short term memory has an unknown capacity, it was once thought to be around 7 digits + or - 2.
It is now known that it this is a time scale factor, in that short term memory only lasts around 2 seconds.
The reason people could remember around 7 digits was because they could repeat them in 2 seconds. If you can't rehears the information in your phonological loop within 2 seconds you lose it.

So the idea that your shortterm memory gets dumped to LTM each night is stupid.

Perhaps working memory gets dumped each night, the memory involved in executive functioning, but not STM :D

[McGiver]

What was the essay on?
installing a PC which stores some data from our solar station of our school (like Power given by the solar cells, efficiency, celltemperature and stuff)
+
Physical theorie of Photovoltaik

[Coppertop]

I'm going on the fact that all of my grandparents are alive at like, 85, and my great-grandparents all were alive until a year or two ago. 99,96, 93 and 89. What's funny is my great grandmother used to take two shots of vodka every MORNING. She was the one who lived to 99 too. The 89 and 93 pair both chainsmoked, and neither of them had air tanks or anything. Just the occasional sick smoker cough. Thank god for Icelandic/Scottish blood.
my grandparents (all scots, I'm 100% scot!) all died around 79-80something, but they all died from things like heart problems, kidney failures, lung diseases, and the like. My dad has known heart issues, and my mum, while she doesn't have anything, both of her parents have minor problems with more or less everything.
Either that, or I'll crash my car. That's what I've placed my bets on.
---
I remember one time, I played rogue spear during the summer so much, that I was getting an average of 5 hours of sleep a night, and playing for the other 19 (almost) for about 1½ weeks. By the end of it, I could play rogue spear without having a single shot hit me, and end the game with anywhere from 89-100% accuracy in assault missions (I could walk around a corner and cap three guys with a pistol without even thinking) and 100% everytime in sniping missions. I was at the point where I could take a full room and whoop them all. But when I started to hear enfields, and mp5s going off around me, I stopped playing. I never had any visual halucinations, but the audio one were creepy as hell, especially when I suddenly realised I wasn't actually in the game. The worst part is: I've now lost my touch :(

[nuglobe]

I have been up for a week before. You see things that aren't there, and hear strange things. I had a friend who was addicted to speed, he stayed up for 49 days. He went crazy because of lack of sleep... the drug just made it more present.

[McGiver]

you definately can not stay up for 49 days.
maybe with short periods of sleep, but not without.

even a week ( == 7 days) is extrememly long.
when, where and why were you up for seven days?

[Krilnon]

I've always wanted to halucinate...:chinaman:

[Ryall]

I've always wanted to halucinate...:chinaman:

ingest some lysergic acid diethylamide... the most powerful drug known to man, ;)

Peace

[paradox244]

hmmmm LSD I thought Crack rock was the most powerful drug known to man, I mean what other drug causes a heart attack the first time you use it?

[Jeff Wheeler]

Wow, this is just like a really old threagh from back when I just joined the forums, I usually go to sleep around 11 and get up at 6:30 for school :(....

sleep dep is BAD!!!

go to sleep now!!!

[fester8542]

Wow, this is just like a really old threagh from back when I just joined the forums, I usually go to sleep around 11 and get up at 6:30 for school :(....

sleep dep is BAD!!!

go to sleep now!!!

Ya I hear ya dude.
I am an A-HOLE (more than usual) If I dont get my sleep. I have stayed up all night partying but crashed after the festivities were over.

[berkoWitZ]

What's funny is my great grandmother used to take two shots of vodka every MORNING. She was the one who lived to 99 too.

That´s not surprising, that sh*t kills all the bacteriums of ur stomach with one shot! :P

[McGiver]

people who live abstinent and follow health guidelines don't live longer, they just look older.

[Ringer]

We used to have contests, with witnesses on shifts to make sure we didn't fall asleep and everything. I don't have clinical insomnia, but I'm not known for good sleeping habits. And I'm heavily dependant on caffiene. I can drink six cans of coke and two cups of coffee in one day without making myself. A twelve-pack (coke, not booze) will disappear in a 24-hour period if I don't watch myself. I've had five today already and it's only six pm.

My record is 51 hours. My friend did 73. We both had the willpower to stay up longer but utterly lost consiousness afterwards. I slept for 25 hours immediately afterwards.

I didn't know sleep depivation could kill you. I can't imagine why. People die of exhaustion easily enough, but if you just watch TV, unmoving for 15 days, you should be fine. I've heard that watching television takes 80% the energy of sleeping (theoretically because you roll around in sleep), and it certainly exercises less mental capacity.