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Offline B@tfinkV

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« on: July 01, 2006, 08:33:22 PM »
how long before you keel over and die if you deprive yourself of sleep, im curious.



Ive been awake since thursday at 10:40 hours GMT.


Friday was tough towards the end, but honestly, saturday has been easy as pie, and i dont feel much more tierd than after a normal day.

i wondering about pushing another 24 hours simply because ive got watermelon all to do for a while, and ive only ever made it to 55 or so hours before.

things are amazingly crystal clear right now. Imagine shakin off the groggy morning feeling and then not feeling it again for 2 days.  brain feel so in sync and smooth its unreal.

for the record i have not ingested any narcotics, or pills and i have had less than the legal ammount of beer to drive during the terrible england football rubish thing.

has anyone ever stayed awake for over 72 hours?

anyone kow any medical jargon to tell me what my body might be feeling?

apart from hunger that never stops, nothing feels all that bad, apart from this little red blob clouding my vision sometimes. and 'air pixels' screwing with my mind.

I was flying AH earlier, and everything was so simple and ordered, not like a quick morning sortie before the day starts when your mind is still waking up. gunna fly some more now.

i know the obvious question is WHY?

but, like, ya gotta stop asking those kinda questions dudes.

every now and then i feel a touch and am prone to lying down 'for a few seconds'. this will be inevitably how i fail.


always wondered though, if you stayed awake for long enough using ultimate jedi style control, would you turn into an old man in the space of a few months?  would you simply age faster or end up dying of sleep deprivation looking the same age?

hmmm


but why?
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Offline DREDIOCK

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« Reply #1 on: July 01, 2006, 09:14:38 PM »
Certainly a novel idea for a suicide atempt.

But there are literally thousands of other ways to do it.

Curious why you chose sleep deprevation?
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« Reply #2 on: July 01, 2006, 09:15:28 PM »
On the upside. You are giving yourself plenty of time for someone to try to talk you out of it.

Im not one of those people trying.
Im just saying LOL
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« Reply #3 on: July 01, 2006, 09:16:53 PM »
Hey, be sure to let us know if it works!

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« Reply #4 on: July 01, 2006, 09:19:03 PM »
I stayed awake for eight days straight once when I was a younger; dumber man. You can go a very,very long time without sleep before your body begins to shut down, I saw a guy on a documentary that had not had R.E.M. sleep in several years, he would only catnap a few minutes a week, he had some nuerological disorder & it did kill him eventually, he looked as though he had A.I.D.S. near the end. Pretty danged sad really.

 According to that program it's the R.E.M. sleep you have to have & if you are deprived of sleep entirely you can die in about a months time, they cited some tests the Nazis did, but I can't give any particulars.

 I'd take an over the counter sleep aid & just go to bed. It's not healthy to lose that much sleep.
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« Reply #5 on: July 01, 2006, 09:26:31 PM »
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Hey, be sure to let us know if it works!

:aok


whatever anyone does.
DONT try to talk him out of it

I wanna see if it works too.

Hey we can run a Death Pool!

I say......

2 Weeks :D
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« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2006, 09:30:29 PM »
Guy in a Korean internet cafe died after 84 straight hours playing Quake or some such.
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« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2006, 09:36:53 PM »
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whatever anyone does.
DONT try to talk him out of it

I wanna see if it works too.

Hey we can run a Death Pool!

I say......

2 Weeks :D


I'm kinda thinking he's already out...BUT

I say he makes it through Sunday!

Hehehe...
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Re: been awake for more than 50 hours.
« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2006, 09:40:29 PM »
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Originally posted by B@tfinkV
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anyone kow any medical jargon to tell me what my body might be feeling?


Ummm...."lunacy"? :)

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« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2006, 09:51:46 PM »
Sleep deprivation has a pretty beneficial effect on depression and anxiety.  Maybe thats why he sees things so 'clearly' right now.
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« Reply #10 on: July 01, 2006, 11:29:10 PM »
2 weeks? Pfft, amateurs. I used to drive 18 wheelers. Once I went from Dallas to San Francisco, to Buffalo, to Chicago, to Atlanta, to Orlando, to L.A., to Newark and back to Dallas without sleep. There may have been some assistance involved.
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« Reply #11 on: July 01, 2006, 11:30:20 PM »
My best is only 41h straight, I think it's when Falcon 3.0 was released, or one of those early indiana jones.
I know 3 days start to be hard to do without "micronaps", that's from my military experience.
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Offline B@tfinkV

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« Reply #12 on: July 01, 2006, 11:39:51 PM »
Culero!! :lol



still awake, and alive.

btw, im not contemplating suicide, norstaying awake out of my own control.

just doing it for a bit of a laugh really.

isnt R.E.M a crappy music group?




just out of interest, if i was planning on doing myself in through the unlikely means of sleep deprivation, how would you convince me not to?

The misses thinks im nuts, although she did comment on how i still have too much energy after 3 days.


just looked in the mirror, man, if i could post a pic of myself..... hold on....
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« Reply #13 on: July 02, 2006, 12:17:55 AM »
I've done 8 days and 7 nights of no sleep.  It was for an architecture project.  And because of that, I know hate Architects, especially those who teach.

After the 3rd night, I just didn't feel the need to sleep anymore.  Of course, I could tell I was only operating at 80% efficiency.  But 80% x 24 hours is equivalent to 19.2 hours of 100% work.  Compar that to 100% work at most 17 hours of work.

Anyway, it was the greatest sleep of my life on the 8th night.  I wasn't tired, but I went to bed anyway.  I woke up the next day after 8 or 9 hours and could run a 3 minute mile if I wanted to.
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« Reply #14 on: July 02, 2006, 12:28:34 AM »
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if i could post a pic of myself..... hold on....



HE FELL ASLEEP!
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