What will happen if you determined not to sleep for as long as possible? Any damage to your health?

Answer 1

Major damage, oh yeah 72 hours without sleep damages your brain and capacity to think , act and say things that are rational. Sleep deprived people cause many accidents, either on the road, they're like drunk drivers or buzzed drivers and on the job.

Why would you , unless you're in a sleep lab want to deprive yourself of sleep for as long as possible?If you think you'll do better on exams you're wrong. You'll do worse because you won't be able to focus.

Sleep deprived people also have weight issues, they can gain weight faster and not take it off.

Being sleep deprived is NOT a badge of how hard you supposedly work, it's a badge of stupid you are and how you have no regard for your life and your health, mental and physical.

Answer 2

It is very damaging on a short-term basis. I'm not sure what long-term effects might be. Google 'sleep deprivation effects' and I'm sure you'll find plenty. But if hallucinations and paranoia are what you're after, then by all means stay awake a few days.

Answer 3

NewsTarget.com printable article
Originally published October 11 2005
New study links sleep deprivation to obesity and diabetes
by Mike Adams

In Norfolk Virginia, Dr. Robert Verona and his colleagues report that people who are obese are more often sleep deprived than people of normal weight.

* Obesity often travels with diabetes, and the predicted diabetes epidemic has lit a torch under research efforts to find novel ways of decreasing both.
* The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that by 2025 more than 300 million people will be diagnosed with diabetes worldwide.
* Diabetes has moved from the Rodney Dangerfield of diseases to center stage.
* Dr. Robert Verona and his colleagues in Norfolk, Virginia, report findings that people who are overweight get less sleep than people of normal weight.
* Body mass index (BMI) defined weight categories (normal, overweight, obese, or extremely obese) by calculating height and weight into a ratio.
* This study and others note that lack of sleep causes changes in the brain, leading to abnormal secretion of hormones which can result in several body disturbances that include excessive daytime sleepiness, mood changes such as depression or anxiety, altered hunger and eating patterns, and ultimately further sleep disturbances.
* As sleep has decreased in America, obesity has increased along with its travel partner, diabetes.
* That means increasing sleep time by just 20 to 30 minutes each night could assist in weight loss.
* People wake up tired and throughout the day experience increased irritability, lack of concentration, and possibly decreased work performance, even though they may have had enough hours of sleep.
* The discussion brings us to the ultimate question of "What is enough sleep?"
* In my harried life of clicking keyboards, hopping airplanes, and working faster and smarter, I've often thought of sleep as that thing you do when too exhausted to do anything else.
* We've all heard about the early bird; heaven forbid we should miss out on the worm.
* Sleeping is as vital to life as breathing.

Answer 4

after 3 days,u would start to hallucinate.after several weeks totally awake,u would die.except for a family in italy that haS A RARE GENETIC DISORDER THAT STRIKES IN THEIR 40'S-50'S,WHICH CAUSES THEM TO STOP SLEEPING AND DIE,EVENTUALLY MOST NORMAL PEOPLE WOULD SIMPLY FALL ASLEEP.NO LASTING DAMAGE,BUT U WOULD BE TIRED FOR A FEW DAYS,AND IRRITABLE.SOLDIERS OFTEN STAY AWAKE FOR UP TO 3 DAYS.SORRY IM NOT SHOUTING,I HIT THE CAPS LOCK BY MISTAKE AND I DONT HAVE TIME TO RE-TYPE!

Answer 5

Sleep deprivation is very dangerous to your PHYSICAL AND mental health. Check this website out.

Answer 6

well not if u make up for that sleep another time but u should be fine to be onest u would probably drop off to sleep anyway if you dont have anything to keep u awake like coffee or somthing like that

Answer 7

well if you were forced to stay awake then eventually you would die... but if you your self try to force it upon your own self then you should just fall out some where sooner or later... your body will just shut down on ya....