You could go nuts, then die.
2007-02-27 04:30:51
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answered by Anonymous
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I doubt you could stay awake that long - see below
Randy Gardner (record holder)
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Randy Gardner holds a Guinness world record for the longest period of time a human being has intentionally gone without sleep not using stimulants of any kind. In 1964, as a 17-year-old high school student in San Diego, California, Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days) with the help of friends, TV reporters, and shooting hoops. 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.[citation needed] 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 Paul Lowe winning the Rose Bowl, 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.
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2007-02-27 04:32:36
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answered by sage seeker 7
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You would start to Hallucinate. Researchers have already done experiments on people to see what happens. Because you body actually can survive without sleep. But for some reason if we don't or if we don't dream we start to hallucinate.
You can find lots of info on the web about it.
2007-02-27 04:35:30
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answered by tjinjapan 3
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You would die. But i doubt it would happen since you would be fast asleep after not sleeping for two whole days..
2007-02-27 04:32:42
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answered by DARIA. - JOINED MAY 2006 7
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i went a week one time on a speed run when I was young and my body just turned off where it was..an when i woke i found myself bent over a huge bookshelf speaker that i had been trying to move from the living room to the bedroom. your body would force you to go to sleep
2007-02-27 04:32:18
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answered by Anonymous
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just straight up no sleeping for a month without any water, food, coffee, enery drinks, and exercise? you would not make it. you yould be lying on the floor so weak.
your body shuts down and you just fall asleep.
2007-02-27 04:32:02
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answered by Brian N 1
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Well i would give you 3 days four max..before you start to go nutters.
(Being a mother...i can go 3 Max without sleep after that....I start to go a little loony.)
Try not sleeping for 2 days straight...just try it
2007-02-27 04:33:02
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answered by terri2003anne 3
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You would die within a week and a half without sleep. dont try it, you'll start hallucinating after a couple of days. not fun
2007-02-27 04:32:00
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answered by dorlimin 1
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She did not sound like a good female besides, i'd not take her to fulfill my mom! Getting wasted isn't female like, enable him have her. there is not any favor in getting mad over this slut!!!
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answered by ? 4
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You would look like a vampire, with dark circles.
2007-02-27 04:34:08
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answered by Jersey girl on Florida. 5
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you would die fom lack of water after about 12 days
2007-02-27 04:32:03
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answered by Anonymous
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