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So the doctors tell me. Can't really see how one would die from lack of sleep. Wouldn't you just pass out? Maybe not, coz one of the doctors from the Psych department tried to sedate me on day 4. Unfortunately for him, I was convinced the needle was full of cyanide so I threw a chair at him and ran a way. Fortunately, as Gandalf Parker pointed out, after four days without sleep they didn't hold me responsible for my actions.
I hope I don't sound like I'm bragging about it... I'm not. It was not a pleasent experience and it took me the better part of two months to fully recover from it. But wanna know something really weird? One of the main side-effects of sleep deprivation, after you've had the 'big sleep' at the end? Insomnia. Go figure.

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Longest I've ever gone without sleep was three days when when I was 13, here's irony for you, I wasn't TRYING to stay awake for three days but everytime I even tried to sleep my body just kept kicking in the adreniline or something because it just wouldn't relax at all.

I of course Lied to my folks and told them I was sleeping so they wouldn't take me to the doctor but by the end of day three I was so tired I actually just sort of laid down in the middle of my living room and didn't wake up until my parents woke me the next afternoon and I was still exausted and when I went to bed again that night I slept til around noon the next day too.

The reason lack of sleep can kill you is because REM sleep is far more necessary then people seem to think (that's why people who were anestatized(SP?) are still so tired when they come too) because it is a time where your mind sort of dumps all the excess baggage of the day and "reboots" I guess you could say.
Because the lack of sleep starts to effect your brain it also starts to effect your body of course (as the two are intertwined) so when your brain starts going gahgah your body starts losing it's "direction" and eventually it just says enough and stops altogether resulting in death.

Or so I've heard I don't actually know if any of that is medically accurate or not but I'm sure one of the smart folks here has the info http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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If I am lucky I can get about six hours of sleep. Most of the time I wake up every hour and have to get up and whiz.

The longest I slept, non drug induced, was about 36 hours.

The longest I have slept, drug induced, was about 72 hours.

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Wow. Burly. I stayed up four days once, and you're right, it totally messes you up. I often find, even today, that I stay awake a couple days at a time to get things done sometimes.

I once went 9 days without eating, and only drinking water with a bit of salt...does that count?

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I find it hard to concept the idea that people can be awake for more than 24 hours. It is unnatural and surely a human being is incapable of thinking adequately after that time. I have never in my life even come close to being awake for anything more than 18 hours at most. I once had to work at 3.30 am (well technically I didn't HAVE to but when I had to do something by 3pm why waste time). I would go to bed at 10pm and wake at 3.30am, work till 8am then go back to sleep. This by the way will seriuosly throw off your rythmns and thats when I discovered what hallucianting feels like.

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Lol, I don't think anyone who stayed awake longer than 48 or so hours stated they were "thinking adequately"

After 4 days of being awake myself everytime i stood up i lost balance and crashed to the floor, not to mention all the bright fuzzy lights, disorientation, lack of coherrent speech and all the fun that came with it.

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Quick! Write a book, and make piles of money on "The Alarikf Diet" http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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sounds like me when I used to eat too much salt and contracted menieres disease http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...es/biggrin.gif.

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Heh. If people ever ask me bout losing weight (lost 60kg in 1.5years), I always swear by the Fork Diet. Goes by one simple rule: PUT DOWN THE FORK!
Yeah, but I'm not able for that sort of thing anymore. Used to stay up a 2-3 days in a row when I had loads to do, but I found sleeping just 4 hours a day made me able to do way more, since it kept my mind fresh.
But if you want a real challenge, try solitary confinement. Makes sleep deprivation seem like a cake walk. And yes, I did that too, again for the Psych department (hey, I was a student, they were offering money. What else could I do?). Now THAT screws you up nicely. Went five days without seeing or hearing anyone or anything, and when they let me out I went racing around the place hugging everybody I saw and crying for joy when they spoke to me. Everyone always says solitary can't be that bad, but trust me, it's worse.

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thats another thing I can't comprehend. People speak of making do with 4-5 hours of sleep every few days. If someone tries to wake me up after 6 hours I....well if I had less manners....would tell them to "<censored> off", or at least I might, if I used that sort of language, if it wasn't for the fact that I am half asleep. Someone can wake me up and if they don't keep an eye on me I will be asleep 5 seconds later, and have no memory of them even trying to wake me. Oh and a Clock is uselss. Maybe once a week otherwise I just ignore it, by which I mean it does not even register as a disturbance.