Thread: sleep deprivation study

I'm going to do it for a science project. ^^

65-70 hours is the most I've done. I didn't really experience anything intense during those hours. I did after a while feel spaced, and just not really "there". The headaches, and overall feeling like crap made the experience completely not worth it.

By the way, when I went to sleep, something woke me up a few hours later... the room was pitch black, and I had a full blown hallucination, and was on the verge of freaking out (it was not a pleasant one).

Originally Posted by -Almost

I heard 72 Hours without sleep produces hallucinations like LSD. Im going to experiment with this sooner or later.

oh it does, believe me. I am also a smoker, so it might have some impact. But things start breathing and bending, shadows creep up from the corners of your eyes in all directions. Rain drop like rips in space fall in sight here and there (single rain drops, sort of a rarity). hallucinations are maximized in day time when its bright. transitioning between outside and inside, and bright, or dark places can also help. Also, it can get even intense sometimes and can go into deep hallucination dazes where you are just staring into nothing but moving DNA strands. dozing off can lead to sensations of falling for extended periods of time until you sink back into reality (amazing feeling by the way)

The lack of sleep may burn out all your serotonin, having the same effect as in dream where serotonin is blocked.

I *do* warn you that you will have insomnia and a hell of a deep, long sleep (more than a day in a row) to restablish the serotonin (and other chemical) levels. It may be risky in terms of doing bad for your health at the moment of deprivation, but otherwise there shouldn't be long-term risks. Doing this often, though, may make your body used to it, and lessen its effects (just like using drugs too much lessens their effects)

my new goal for the remaining summer is to stay up at least 52 hours or more. if i can convince my parents to let me stay at someones house for 2 nights in a row then i will be able to do this but yeah

7am(1) to 7am(2) = 24 hours + 24 hours (7am(2) to 7am(3)

so thats 48 hours in 2 days right? from the time i wake up at 7am the first day to the time i am still awake two days later at 7am. i will try to stay up at least another 14 hours to 9pm that night if i can make it, making it (48+14=62) which is damn near the breaking point of 72 hours.

i will try to make it that long but i dont know if i can. it seems scary and im unsure if it has any long term effects such as not being able to fall asleep at all (insomnia) but curiosity killed the cat. and im so damn curious that i need to know.

Originally Posted by anti_nation

i will try to make it that long but i dont know if i can. it seems scary and im unsure if it has any long term effects such as not being able to fall asleep at all (insomnia) but curiosity killed the cat. and im so damn curious that i need to know.

You should be fine.

By the way, the easiest way to stay up is at a LAN party.

Originally Posted by AlexLou

You should be fine.

By the way, the easiest way to stay up is at a LAN party.

whats a LAN party?

usually what ive been doing to stay up is a gaming party with a bunch of my friends and if that gets boring, we hold a competition to see who can stay awake the longest (first one asleep gets pranked) and i havent lost yet.

if theres a better way to stay awake then plz tell me lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN_party

You're doing the next best thing.

Originally Posted by AlexLou

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAN_party

You're doing the next best thing.

oh that would be fun and easy to stay awake.

Ah sleep deprivation. Did 73 hrs once. It wasn't that bad. If you keep busy you don't fall asleep, just don't run any marathons. The last 6-ish hours of the last day were pretty intense though... dancing shadows and whatnot. At one point I had a lucid daydream that I was playing basketball while I was taking notes at a lecture. It was pretty bizarre sensation, not gonna lie. Didn't last long though...

:3

This'll be the second time I've warned you people: DON"T ATTEMPT INTENTIONAL SLEEP DEPRIVATION. I warned from personal experience, now I'm warning from at least two cited cases, DON:T ATTEMPT SLEEP DEPRIVATION! Stupids.

PS: I have better documents of such cases, but they're all in analog books, nothing digital.

I really don't see how staying up for 52 hours is in any way dangerous. Lots of people occasionally stay up for two days. I've done it myself several times and I never had any side effects besides SP.

Yeah, if yopu can;t avoid it, but these people are actually trying to stay up for days on end! Don't. It's dangerous, and the effects are cumulative over longer periods of time. It shouldn;t be noticeable if you're staying up for days in a row two or three times a year, at most, to, say, finish a school project or complete a rental game before it's due, but it WILL lead to negative effects if it occurs more often, or even slightly beyond your ability to cope. It may even lead to long-term (multiple days, not necessarily recurring) insomnia, if you're like me, and at risk for severe insomnia. I feel it;s necessary to warn you all, just, don;t do wake-a-thons.

this is only like the 3rd time im going to be staying awake all night. i dont do this alot because my parents crack down on me hard at home if i come back tired so its not like i do this often. im not sure if i will even have the chance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_G...record_holder)

I've been thinking about giving this a try. I gotta go back to school in 2 weeks, so sometime before then I'm gonna stay up for at least 3 days. Longest I've gone is about 48 hours, but that was when I was real young. Stayed up 2 days staight playing Ocarina of time. Never got past the water temple.

Anybody know if this affects your recall?

336 hours (2 weeks) without substance aid.
Mass hallucination occurred at around 249 hrs and continued to increase in intensity.

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Hallucinations included:
Manifest ions of individual trains of thought as characters locked in different styles of dialog.
Electricity arching between objects.
Shadows in the shapes of people walking everywhere.
The sound of ten thousand people talking very loudly (like standing in a crowd)
making it very difficult to make out anything being said by actual people over the noise.
Images when blinking, became super vivid.
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Most of these went away after rest which took 3 days at over 10 hours of sleep a day to recover, however images when blinking remained.


~Ex

Wait a second. Who did this? This cat was hallucinating for like 3 days? Do you have any scientific evidence on this?. I've heard of hallucinations but nothing like this. were the blinking hallucinations permanent?

Originally Posted by stonedape

Wait a second. Who did this? This cat was hallucinating for like 3 days? Do you have any scientific evidence on this?. I've heard of hallucinations but nothing like this. were the blinking hallucinations permanent?

What sort of scientific evidence could I possibly offer?Furthermore I wasn't performing the experiment for anyone else's benefit.

After 2 weeks the mind is so tired it can almost not differentiate between what is real and what is not, and one really has to rely mostly on the ability to deduce what must be real because...well one just can't tell anymore.

The shadows started in the peripheral vision, HOWEVER the longer I was awake the more they began to enter my line of vision until finally they would just walk right past me...interesting however I could not track them with my vision which makes sense since they were not really there.


"Electricity" did appear to arch periodically between objects, I am not sure what that was, felt like a short circuit almost, and there was a definite sensation that came with it inside my head, a painful one.

as for the sounds, it was obviously my own thoughts but it wasn't possible for me to differentiate between the apparent sounds of my own thoughts and real sounds which I could hear so paying attention to real sounds became very difficult because it was like trying to make something out in a very large crowd. Eventually this difficulty lead to the end of the experiment because it was just too hard to maintain any type of function.


as for the images when I blink those have always been there but I became more aware of them and the resolution seems to have increased. I was not even aware that this was abnormal until about 8 years 3 years ago when I started asking others, I have found that they are mostly related to situational context and impart some useful insights to the moments in which they appear. I have some basic synesthetic experiences/abilities which occur with regularity but not with letters or numbers and generaly conclude that these waking photisms are among those.

any other questions?

~Ex

I'm not saying I don't beleive you or anything. From the post it sounded like someone other than you had done this and I was wondering if it was done at some kind of sleep research center. That just sounds like a fairly profound experience. What kind of things did you do to keep yourself awake?

I just kept my mind to task. it gets very very hard after 5 days.Really, intense focus and determination are the only things you can depend on. At a point (like I said) no trick would have been usable because I couldn't think straight enough to have used any of them. It's a lot like applying pain resistance training, you just have to be able to compartmentalize the exhaustion and continue .

Oh wow that was longer than the world record..ha..that's kinda cool.
Not provable, so I won't get on the books for it but it's still cool

I heard that after about 11-12 days most people would die.... 2 weeks!!!! I'd like to see if this is even physically possible.... Maybe the brain comes up with other ways to keep your body alive, but I think a guy died after 11 days.
Anyway, if that's true that's awesome.
The most I made was 3 days and it was kinda by accident lol
I stayed up all night, went to a party the next day for all night, came home sometime in the afternoon then went to sleep the next morning like 1-4am can't remember.
I got people talking as well, and this girl sitting on steps in a red dress was always in my peripheral vision. Other hallucinations but they were the recurring ones.

Originally Posted by tommo

I heard that after about 11-12 days most people would die.... 2 weeks!!!! I'd like to see if this is even physically possible.... Maybe the brain comes up with other ways to keep your body alive, but I think a guy died after 11 days.
Anyway, if that's true that's awesome.
The most I made was 3 days and it was kinda by accident lol
I stayed up all night, went to a party the next day for all night, came home sometime in the afternoon then went to sleep the next morning like 1-4am can't remember.
I got people talking as well, and this girl sitting on steps in a red dress was always in my peripheral vision. Other hallucinations but they were the recurring ones.

It's true, but I wouldn't try it again. As I said it didn't feel good, and it was nearly impossible to concentrate toward the end. I do not doubt that the physical effects were negative, however I recovered.