/me tries to stay awake for 72 hours

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

/me tries to stay awake for 72 hours

Oh no. I never wanted people to actually try to stay up as long as possible when I made this thread. Go sleep! And try to sleep more than 20 hours


(staying up for extremely long periods can damage your health)

Just found this on the net..

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The current world record for the longest period without sleep is 11 days, set by Randy Gardner in 1965. Four days into the research, he began hallucinating. This was followed by a delusion where he thought he was a famous footballer. Surprisingly, Randy was actually functioning quite well at the end of his research and he could still beat the scientist at pinball.

edit: a bit more...

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On the fourth day he had a delusion that he was a famous black football player who won 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.

Hahahaha!!

Sleep strikes back:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm
http://facts.trendstoday.info/health-and-beauty/sleep-facts
http://www.peterpowers.com/World%20Record.html (look down at the page)

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- Scientists have not been able to explain a 1998 study showing a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock.

Hmmm... Maybe I should give this a go?

Quote from Electrik Kar :

Hmmm... Maybe I should give this a go?

Just tape flashlights to the back of your knees and you can stay up forevah!

my longest is about 15 hours.

i went to bed at 10 and for some reason didnt wake up until 3pm the next day

More than 24hrs here when I was in my 20s I was averaging 4 hrs sleep a night for most of one year while doing 12hr shifts at work illepall and one night I went to sleep a little early to catch up on some Zzz about 11PM instead of my normal 1-2am and didn't wake up until the wee hours of the morning the day after it was so out of character for me that work called my parents and they called my girlfriend. She came looking for me worried I'd had an acciedent knocked on the door but I never heard her I was so out of it

I've done other crazy things too longest drive was 36, hours only stopping for fuel and travelling some 3,400 odd km's - i just wanted to get home

Longest trip I've done to go get a Pizza to eat and then return home is 400km or 800km round trip (date with my girlfriend who is now my wife )

I've also done contract jobs where I've worked like 65 hrs in a 3 day weekend illepall 36hrs the first day, break of 6 hrs then 16hr work stint before another break of 4hrs then a final 13hr stint...

And quite a few others I want bore u with makes me feel tired thinking of those times lol

staying awake for a long time may be bad for you, but staying asleep for however long can do some damage too; to much of anything can be a bad thing eventually (and yes that goes for everything)

just imagine, being asleep for over however long without any food will deffinetly hurt your body, it will begin eating parts of your own body .. not really, but it will use your muscles, and if it goes beyond that you'll have serious health problems; plus, oversleeping has been proven to be bad for people, thats why they say for optimal health, one should sleep for 8 hours

Quote from XCNuse :

staying awake for a long time may be bad for you, but staying asleep for however long can do some damage too; to much of anything can be a bad thing eventually (and yes that goes for everything)

just imagine, being asleep for over however long without any food will deffinetly hurt your body, it will begin eating parts of your own body .. not really, but it will use your muscles, and if it goes beyond that you'll have serious health problems; plus, oversleeping has been proven to be bad for people, thats why they say for optimal health, one should sleep for 8 hours

That is reason why you need to be fat, you can sleep much longer than thin people

eat alot before you sleep and you will get fat; because your body wont burn all the fats when your asleep, so it will put them in you for storage.. then you get fatter

Quote from XCNuse :

eat alot before you sleep and you will get fat; because your body wont burn all the fats when your asleep, so it will put them in you for storage.. then you get fatter

Also eating lot of white bread is good, weight goes up very well, also instead of having breakfast take some chocolade and drink lemonade always, no milk, water or juice, lemonade and not any light things. Anything that is green is also bad

Quote from XCNuse :

oversleeping has been proven to be bad for people, thats why they say for optimal health, one should sleep for 8 hours

They do say that you build up a "sleep debt" when you get less than the optimum amount of sleep though, and for the average person in our modern society would have to oversleep a few hours every day (i.e. 10 -12 hours ) for about two weeks just to catch up. But once you have paid off your sleep debt the natural body clock will allow you to sleep about 8 hours - give or take an hour as each of us has a slightly different optimal sleep pattern...

Quote from JTbo :

Also eating lot of white bread is good, weight goes up very well, also instead of having breakfast take some chocolade and drink lemonade always, no milk, water or juice, lemonade and not any light things. Anything that is green is also bad

you sound like a specialist

Some of us have problem that body thinks day is not 24 hours long, but 26-28 hours long, that is not fun at all as either need to sleep that 10 hours or more or you are constantly tired, of course sleeping by 28 hour rhythm is one solution but how do you do that in modern world?

Quote from Glenn67 :

you sound like a specialist

110kg/1,87m

I have managed to turn quite bit of that to muscle in last year or so, rest pulse around 60 and blood pressure normal, just would need 10-15kg off then there would not be fat left anymore. Sports is good, but not for loosing weight I have found out

Easy get a job like Scawen where you can work the hours you want I have a job that allows me to do that these days also I highly recommend it I go to bed when I feel tired I get up when I wake up and I go to work and come home as I feel like

Quote from JTbo :

110kg/1,87m

I have managed to turn quite bit of that to muscle in last year or so, rest pulse around 60 and blood pressure normal, just would need 10-15kg off then there would not be fat left anymore. Sports is good, but not for loosing weight I have found out

Yeah muscle is heavier than fat :P

But good to hear that you are getting healthier It's something I have got to focus abit more on too... Used to be extremely fit in my younger days (did alot of running, cycling and swiming) had RHR below 50, but my body has been neglected abit over the last decade or two . Going in for knee surgury next week, but then aim to start getting back into low impact exercise again and get back abit of that fitness... Its well worth it as you feel so much better in mind and body...

Quote from Glenn67 :

Easy get a job like Scawen where you can work the hours you want I have a job that allows me to do that these days also I highly recommend it I go to bed when I feel tired I get up when I wake up and I go to work and come home as I feel like

That is actually under works, I just hang here too much, I should concentrate more to boring business stuff, but it is rather boring

Quote from Glenn67 :

They do say that you build up a "sleep debt"

can't say i've ever heard that; i have heard the opposite though; if your body doesn't get sleep, it wont make up for it.. once your deprived of sleep, it doesn't build up as to how far behind you are..

dont know if its true or not, that's just what i've been told

Quote from XCNuse :

can't say i've ever heard that; i have heard the opposite though; if your body doesn't get sleep, it wont make up for it.. once your deprived of sleep, it doesn't build up as to how far behind you are..

I would have an educated guess both are true - I could easily see that severe lack of sleep could cause irreversable damage (just as any abuse can), I guess what the study I read about was indicating is that it takes up to two weeks of over sleeping (or if you like sleeping until you get up without an alarm clock :P) until your body can return to its normal body rythms for sleep.

In my younger days I needed three alarm clocks to get me up in time for work One next to me, one in the draw next to me and another across the room illepall and even then I stuggled to get to work on time I haven't needed an alarm clock in years now...

@ Jtbo my wife doesn't think I under work that is unless you bring up the topic of house renovations lol then it is a different story

"Excessive sleeping may increase your risk of an early death by up to 15%, according to a new analysis of data collected on one million people by the American Cancer Society. The figures cast doubt on the reputed benefits of eight hours' sleep a night."
http://www.studentbmj.com/back_issues/0402/news/96a.html

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The figures cast doubt on the reputed benefits of eight hours' sleep a night.

Pffhh... 8 hours sleep per night is hardly excessive...

I know when i used to be up for more than a day, sometimes two days frequently, (i was badly behind on coursework and the night before it was due in seemed to be an all nighter all the time.) when i eventualy hit the sack i was out like a light for 12 or more hours. I could be up from 6am on a monday, not sleep monday night then go bed on tuesday at 6pm and not get up till 10am the next day. Then after leading a normal day, go to bed and sleep for my usual 8-9 hours.

Quote from VALE 46 :

"Excessive sleeping may increase your risk of an early death by up to 15%

Whats more disturbing to me is the studies that show the more food you eat the higher you are at the risk of getting cancer thats real bad news for most of the western world