The effects of 3 sleepless days on a 14 year old..

[r2d2651]

MASS EDIT: I realized I had some numbers wrong so here is the new format; Total Hours Awake So Far: 34 Total Diet Sodas Consumed: 8 Day 1: I woke up at 3:00 PM and went 15 hours to... Day 2: ...7:00 AM and then my dad discovered I was up and put me to bed and I tried to stay awake but when you're lying in bed it is hard.. So I fell asleep for two hours and awoke at 10:00 AM (Still doing good mentally) Day 3: ... 19 hours later... At 5:00 AM I am still awake! I've been feeling really drowsy so I drunk some sodas... Now I am waiting for the sun to go down and come up again so I can start day 4... ====== UPDATES ====== Update #1: I'm a little drowsy right now but I have a lot of willpower (And Diet Mountain Dew) and I am positive I will go just fine for a while! Oh and Paraknight. Honestly, I am an adult size lol not just weight but height too. I almost match my dad. I am constantly told I am a "big guy" (This one time, someone I didn't know said to me. "Dude, you're like big. Like not fat but like you got alotta bulk. I don't mean fat. But like hulking..." okay enough bragging) Nevertheless, I am sure I am still growing and I'm not sure of the effects it will have on my growth but three or four days couldn't be that bad... Right? I honestly am hoping for hallucinations... Update #2: I got pretty tired but this was quickly remedied by diet mountain dew. I am in my room with the laptop and just incase I set my alarm to go off every 10 minutes so i dont fall asleep... Update #3: It seems that light bothers me more than it normally might, my eyes hurt a little and my peripheral vision is quite a bit worse than normal (5:28 AM)

[XeL]

Good luck :3

[Wednesday]

to what end, may I ask?

[Paraknight]

Doesn't sound to healthy. Couldn't not sleeping screw with bone growth or something if you're 14? Whenever I go a day or two without sleep I start getting massive headaches and extreme OCD phases. But I never do it willingly.

[Muggler]

Urm... good luck? Don't support you fully on this, but I would like to know the effects.

[Puffin]

I tried this when I was 15, like last April starting on my birthday... Went 30 hours and crashed. Good luck.

[r2d2651]

Heh heh, Thanks.

[Dannon Oneironaut]

Hello, I am 14 years old and I am really wondering what will happen to me if i go 3-4 days without sleep... chances are I will crash eventually... But I'm optimistic... Optimistic that you will stay awake forever? I bet you are sleeping right now. Honestly, I am an adult size lol not just weight but height too. I almost match my dad. I am constantly told I am a "big guy" (This one time, someone I didn't know said to me. "Dude, you're like big. Like not fat but like you got alotta bulk. I don't mean fat. But like hulking..." okay enough bragging) Although large in stature ("I almost match my dad") still young at heart. Dude, get some sleep. You will though, so go for it. You can't beat it. You cannot fight Morpheus and win.

[username695]

Does it help you lucid dream if you don't sleep? If so, I missed something...

[r2d2651]

Dannon, Wrong. I am still going strong... username695, No i am doing this for fun... (seriously)

[r2d2651]

(I can't edit my post anymore) ===== Updates ===== Update #4: I am REALLY paranoid. I think every little sound is my parents getting out of bed to discover I am awake sometimes I think I very very faintly hear the floor creaking but it's not. I saw my computer tower light out of the corner of my eye and I thought it blunk (IT DOESNT DO THAT!). And I saw this pamphlet on the floor it was white. And out of the corner of my eye for a second I thought it was a puddle of water reflecting the white ceiling... and the entire time I am typing this I am scared shitless that I think I hear someone getting out of bed to discover my awakeness... Just had another soda and that adds up to 9 sodas... My eyes hurt... Update #5: NOW hallucinations REALLY started kicking in! I made strange things out of shapes in the corner of my eye... First on our white wall it looked like someone was shining a laser pointer across it. When I look at it, nothing. I was spinning a black leather chair and I thought a few wrinkles were the remote. I thought two shoes messily placed on the shoe rack was a purple rubber duck.. By far. My favorite is the ceiling... I looked up at our ceiling (It's the bumpy kind that if you rub your hands on it white flakes fall down anyway) and it felt like it was slowly slowly descending toward me and moving left REAAALLYY... slow... I keep staring, then after a while my peripheral vision starts to fade into white... soon everything starts to melt into a milky white but I shake it off to prevent sleeping...

[username695]

Good luck man

[r2d2651]

Well, Damn. I had a good run... I went 37 hours... in the last 2 days. I slept for 2 hours in the last 2 days.... I consumed 9 diet sodas... But I just plain crashed... Hallucinations were fun...

[r2d2651]

So Overall. I got really paranoid. I saw things out of the corner of my eye. I thought the ceiling was moving. And I got REALLY tired... EDIT: Totally not worth it...

[XeL]

37 hours and hallucinations? Hmm. I've been awake for longer without any hallucinations.

[Paraknight]

37 hours and hallucinations? Hmm. I've been awake for longer without any hallucinations. Same. I can still relate to that though. During the weeks of my finals (where it was really no sleep and chugging red bulls during the exams) I would stay up overnight to study and often me and my friends would ask each other stuff over MSN. I would constantly see movement all around me and these shapes that look like hypnagogic hallucination (the kind you get when somebody clocks you in the face). Also I would clearly see the MSN message thing pop up but when I look at the screen away from my books they'd be gone.

[r2d2651]

Paraknight, yes. I was paranoid and I experienced what you had just described, anything not in the center of my vision pretty much. EDIT: And to XeL: I'm not sure if this makes a difference but I was alone in the living room and I was expecting hallucinations. Could this have an effect?

[Twisted]

I hope that you realize how bad it is for your body to go through such an experience and never forcefully stay awake for that long again.

[Ladon]

Please research what happens to your body when doing this... It's very unhealthy. I hope you never do this again purposely just to 'trip balls', it's not worth it... Even certain drugs are healthier than this.

[LucidFreedoM]

Just saw this post now and thought id post this, seeing as no one else seems to realize; be careful. Sleep deprevation is really dangerous. The guy who went 7 days without sleep basically went insane, literally, from not sleeping. Wife left him, he was never the same. Its actually more long term damage than anything. If you are sitting there in 20 years with voices in your head and the walls moving and every pattern shifting like your on drugs, but your totally sober, you might look back and realize that this moment was what did it. This can mess you up worse than anything else possibly can. Hallucinating would be awesome, but if you do get to that point, I fear you have probably done irreversable damage already. EDIT: what you experienced were NOT hallucinations..simply tricks in the dark you can only hallucinate from sleep deprevation when your rem cycles start happening while you are awake (around 5 straight days awake)..this happens when your body has been awake for so long it literally forces you to dream while you are awake, and reality will have a film of the dream world over it..THIS is what messes up your head permanently..if you get to this stage you WILL experience hallucinations, and will also alter your mind forever, irreversably..seriously. your body needs sleep to reorganize and refile the days activies into memories. if you dont sleep, you can never get rid of anything, and also never file anything into memory, essentially you overload your mind with information and then if you dont release it, your mind literally crashes. what people dont understand is that once pathways or bridges are built between certain parts of the brain, they are there forever. this is how mental insanity is like a giant hill which gets increasingly more steep as you go down..eventually you will fall off

[Hazel]

If you are sitting there in 20 years with voices in your head and the walls moving and every pattern shifting like your on drugs, but your totally sober, you might look back and realize that this moment was what did it. You'd have to go way longer than 3 days without sleeping for something like that to happen. Staying awake for 3 days as a one time experiment isn't going to have any long-term effects.

[Bizarre Jester]

Bad idea! Eventually you will just pass out, but what you are doing is unhealthy, especially at your age when you need the most sleep. What are you trying to accomplish?

[alxxxx]

Take mushrooms, stop with this nonsense.