for what reason you did this?
how long was it, days, weeks?
Is this in Guiness Book of Record - longest without sleep?
2006-07-09 03:19:53 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Beauty & Style ➔ Other - Beauty & Style
"Randy Gardner holds the Guinness world record for the longest period of time a human being has gone without sleep. In 1964, as a 17-year-old high school student, Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days) with the help of friends, TV reporters, and games of pinball. On his final day without sleep, Gardner presided over a press conference where he spoke without slurring or stumbling his words and in general appeared to be in excellent health. "I wanted to prove that bad things didn't happen if you went without sleep," said Gardner. "I thought, 'I can break that (Peter Tripp's 1959) record and I don't think it would be a negative experience.'" Sleep experts now believe that such sleep deprivation stunts are dangerous (Veasey et al., 2002).
It is often claimed that Gardner's experiment demonstrated that extreme sleep deprivation has little effect. This is primarily due to a report by researcher William Dement, who stated that on the tenth day of the experiment, Gardner had been, among other things, able to beat Dement at pinball. However, Lt. Cmdr. John J. Ross of the US Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, who monitored Gardner's condition at the request of his parents, reported serious cognitive and behavioral changes. These included moodiness, problems with concentration and short term memory, paranoia, and hallucinations. On the fourth day he had a delusion that he was a famous black football player, and that a street sign was a person. On the eleventh day, when he was asked to subtract seven repeatedly, starting with 100, he stopped at 65. When asked why he had stopped, he replied that he had forgotten what he was doing."
2006-07-09 03:54:22 · answer #1 · answered by InfoJunkie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've stayed up for about 4 days straight. As you can tell I am not a sleeper. i don't like to sleep. I know that it sounds crazy, but it's true. i stay on my computer, or i play my Xbox, eat, take a shower. but sleeping is not on my scedual, i don't get sleepy.
2006-07-09 03:24:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
about 24 hours
2006-07-09 03:31:27 · answer #3 · answered by hello 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I clicked 30 hours once.
The problem with sleep deprevation is that it can kill you.
Record is 264 hours
2006-07-09 04:40:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didnt sleep for 24 hours because of camping with friends. It is not listed in GBR, hahahaha...
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2006-07-09 05:03:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Can't do it...even in university I could never even pull an "all-nighter." Rest is more important to me than almost anything!
2006-07-09 03:30:51 · answer #6 · answered by kogirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50 hours during exams recently.. lots and lots of redbull lol
2006-07-09 04:10:31 · answer #7 · answered by Puja N 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2 days,it was a 4th grade slumberparty
2006-07-09 03:22:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
four days
2006-07-09 06:52:00 · answer #9 · answered by Heidi M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 day, not that much.
2006-07-09 03:23:40 · answer #10 · answered by lomatar1186 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋