Thread: Sleep Deprivation Effects

chocolate with caffeine in you mean:p, i haven't seen caffeine chocolate in England.

I'm not starting this until like Thursday now( next week Thursday), because my friend wants to do it with me so we can try and keep each other up. She will last longer then me i think, its always the 24-48hr mark thats hardest for me, ill just have to have lots of showers.

I wouldn't be able to keep myself occupied during the night

In January this year I was having insomnia so bad I couldn't fall asleep til dawn, but because my mother didn't believe me she woke me up around 3-5 hours after I would finally fall asleep. It went on like this for a month, of me having those amount of hours per night, give or take a couple if I passed out on the couch.

It was really weird. I hallucinated by smell all the time - kept smelling cigarette smoke and food. I got paranoid and scared, I got bad mental images which wouldn't go away, I couldn't focus or anything and I felt really depressed. I started feeling an urge to stay awake as much as possible for god knows what reason, and towards the end of it I started thinking I could control my environment and developed a god complex or something stupid like that (this is really embarrassing to admit). I became convinced I was changing the colour of my eyes. After a few more days the reasoning went away, but luckily there was a part of me that reminded me how totally idiotic this was. Not that I listened to it.

After a month of this school started. I didn't sleep at all the night before. On the 24 hour mark it was like someone flicked a switch - it was as if I was watching my life behind a thick glass window. It was like I was driving in a car - I was controlling my body but I wasn't my body, if you know what I mean. I had to conciously think and plan like has been mentioned, and I was scared of everyone and felt utterly miserable. I was falling asleep in my brain but my body was still going. For some reason, outwardly I was normal but inside I was completely delusional.

I ended up passing out half an hour after I came home from school and not waking up til I had to get up the day after. My dad finally convinced my mum to see a specialist and now I'm quite sane, I assure you. It was hell recovering though, let me tell you. I got worse before I got better, mental wise, but once I was able to sleep again and had been for a couple of months and got back to my old schedule I was fine.

I wonder if you could control your hallucinations just like with dream control.

I seriously do not recommended this.

I did this once and almost lost my mind after the first 5-6 hours I passed out. I stayed up over 3 days, and after 40 hours it was just unpleasant. It wasn't while I was awake that was the problem, but 5 hours after I initially passed out I actually woke up - except I didn't know that I woke up. It was no different then a dream. The hallucinations hit me so vividly and I was on the verge of freaking out (wasn't a good dream I guess). Luckily I stepped on the cousin who was sleeping on the floor and his voice "brought me back to reality".

If you want to "trip" this is not the way of doing it.

Originally Posted by Bear

Hey guys,


Even though I didn't mention it, I felt very irritable after about 48 hours, and staying awake wasn't a pleasant experience. I'd recommend it if you want to see how far you can push yourself (the record for staying awake is like 11 days) but it's not something to do for fun.

how the hell is that possible? medically you cant stay awakefor that long and if you stay awake for 10 days you, well you die. because your brain shuts downa nd cant take that kind of abuse. ill take guess that that guy was hospitalized >_>
though your experiences seem pretty cool. something i rekon worth trying, if only once.

Originally Posted by Emlee.

medically you cant stay awakefor that long and if you stay awake for 10 days you, well you die. because your brain shuts downa nd cant take that kind of abuse.

A few guys have done 11 days. Randy Gardner is the classic example, he did it as part of a high school science experiment way back in 1964, and just recently another guy did it as well. Check out:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

I'm not sure if I agree with this guys theories, but people staying up for 11 days and their brains not shutting down is definitely possible. Probably not something you'd be able to do on your first try, and definitely not something I'd want to try at all.

Originally Posted by Bear

A few guys have done 11 days. Randy Gardner is the classic example, he did it as part of a high school science experiment way back in 1964, and just recently another guy did it as well. Check out:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

I'm not sure if I agree with this guys theories, but people staying up for 11 days and their brains not shutting down is definitely possible. Probably not something you'd be able to do on your first try, and definitely not something I'd want to try at all.

wow, thats quiet a record. 11 days dude thats like forever, hahah. sucks that he didnt quiet get the best record though.

Back a few years ago, when i made some pretty stupid decisions - I was once awake for 2 weeks on meth. after the first week or so i became a paranoid wreck. If people would move near me, I'd flinch. I also would occasionally hear random 'snippets of conversation' - very akin to hypnagogia. It wasn't a pleasent experience.

Ps. I have been off all "hard" drugs for about two years now. Thank god. It's just the psychedelics for me nowadays.

I'm gonna be feeling some of these effects soon - I've decided to do uberman again (sleeping 6x23 mins per day)
The first week or two is hell.

Sleep deprivation is really nasty stuff. For those considering this experiment - As interesting as sleep deprivation might sound, it really is torture. You're going to forget what made it so cool pretty quickly.

I just hope I adapt really quickly before I get hallucinations

Originally Posted by Placebo

I'm gonna be feeling some of these effects soon - I've decided to do uberman again (sleeping 6x23 mins per day)
The first week or two is hell.

Sleep deprivation is really nasty stuff. For those considering this experiment - As interesting as sleep deprivation might sound, it really is torture. You're going to forget what made it so cool pretty quickly.

I just hope I adapt really quickly before I get hallucinations

Good luck =)

I did 40 hours once not so long ago and it was all good until a day or two after when my sleeping patters flipped around and I found myself sleeping (not enough time to achieve a L.D.) in the canteen at work. I wouldn't be in a hurry to do it again.

I dream best when my sleeping pattern is not irregular. Which means in the summer, when I become nocturnal, my best dreams are when I'm fully asleep, and its noon. . But the first three weeks going back to school is hell, b/c then I cant be nocturnal, and I have to fall asleep at ten pm instead of three am.

Originally Posted by tiddlywink101

I wouldn't be able to keep myself occupied during the night

Haha, two words. Video games.

The Summer after Seventh Grade our Theatre arts class went on a field trip to New York. It was the longest I'd ever stayed up. But I had three other friends doing it with me.

It's all hazy but, I think we had dared everyone to stay up, and the last two will have Bonded the most. It was pretty silly but well worth it until the end.

We had stayed up for three and a half days. Stayed up through three nights. It's too long for me to want to describe the whole thing but here are a few things I learned.

1. Prank Calls are so much funnier the second night.
2. No one cares if you play hide and seek in the hotel until your friend runs into the room service trolly
3. Running from room service will help keep you up
4. The girls are mad when you wake them up so you can hide in their room.
5. Anne Oakley is the end of sleep deprivation.
6. One minute you're in the top row of seats, the next you're in the front row and you're class went behind the scenes to meet the cast. You probably failed to sleep walk with them.
7. It's very easy to get lost when you can't remember that the hotel is across the street from the theatre.
8. You're easily agitated after being sleep deprived.
9. The Plane ride home is shorter until your flight is delayed.

Originally Posted by Grexxis

Haha, two words. Video games.

Three words, Gears of War. Hahaha.

I've once not slept for 4 days, went to sleep after day 4, but didn't really have incredible results lol.

Gah...I ONCE stayed up all night until the next and felt like was going to drop dead...apparently you need to do it for at least 48 hours, not 24 to get ANY results or something like that...not for me...it didn't do anything too special.

I don't even try to stay up....

Right now it's 9:30am, and i haven't slept

Dreamviews, and now a bit of sketchfu, will keep me up eaaasssy.

I have found, since i have been sleeping about 10 hours for two days (on every second night), i have had extremely easy to recall dreams.
Same vividness quality, but very long, and uninterrupted dreams.

Originally Posted by wendylove

Well tomorrow the symptoms will be more dramatic and my grammar will become worser

Lol...
I don't think I have ever stayed up past 30 hours.
Never did an all nighter for school, but I have gotten only 3 hours sleep.
This stuff is crazy.

It sure is AlternateReality...it's not really fun to do either, at least for me...perhaps if with a group of friends having a wild time then yeah...but just for the hell of it? Nah..unless your one of those crazy lucid dreamers.

Sounds freaky... I wouldn't try that..

Originally Posted by Lucid Kokasion

The Summer after Seventh Grade our Theatre arts class went on a field trip to New York. It was the longest I'd ever stayed up. But I had three other friends doing it with me.

It's all hazy but, I think we had dared everyone to stay up, and the last two will have Bonded the most. It was pretty silly but well worth it until the end.

We had stayed up for three and a half days. Stayed up through three nights. It's too long for me to want to describe the whole thing but here are a few things I learned.

1. Prank Calls are so much funnier the second night.
2. No one cares if you play hide and seek in the hotel until your friend runs into the room service trolly
3. Running from room service will help keep you up
4. The girls are mad when you wake them up so you can hide in their room.
5. Anne Oakley is the end of sleep deprivation.
6. One minute you're in the top row of seats, the next you're in the front row and you're class went behind the scenes to meet the cast. You probably failed to sleep walk with them.
7. It's very easy to get lost when you can't remember that the hotel is across the street from the theatre.
8. You're easily agitated after being sleep deprived.
9. The Plane ride home is shorter until your flight is delayed.

OMG i wana do a prank call the 2nd day !!! xDDD and i kno who i would call XDDDD dunken donuts and some random ppl i once called wit my friend aaaand Dell xDD call dell xDDDD

Sleeping every second night Cloudwalker huh? That is one messed up shedule..i'm not surprised it gave you some interesting dreams due I assume to the REM rebound.