   Sleep deprivation
  Yeah, suicide and sleep have been the two main topics on our lovely lounge lately, haven''t they?Anyway, I know that since this is GDNet, many people have had sleep deprivation occur in their lives. As strange as it may sound, in June I plan on going on no sleep for as long as I can- no, I''m not trying an uberman.Anyway, what symptoms have you people had with simple "one-time" sleep deprivation runs? How long did you last? How was it? Yeah, I know, weird to experiment with this stuff, but it''s better than drugs, right?Anyway, I plan on doing this "run" in mid June- and no, I won''t be in school.- CD   Brought to you by Code_Dark
  I think the most I could ever go without sleep was a day and a half, 36 hours. After that, I am screwed in the head, completely. I can''t function at all, I may as well be asleep, but I still keep myself awake. ;  Once I kept awake for about two days straight, without really trying. I was pretty depressed at the time, and now I got sleeping pills, and they suck.But anyway, it wasn''t that bad. Late at night I got bored and walked up to (as you americans say,) ''the mall'', and the rest of the time I was playing my comp.   Look, one of the few who hasn''t   asked Salsa for an Avatar.Nor do I follow the trend of putting "I don''t follow trends" in your sig.Wait... ;  After several days of nearly no sleep I went a little over 48 hours without sleep. I was fine, I went to sleep, my parents woke me up a few hours later because I had to go somewhere, and it was like I was still dreaming but I was awake. I ranted and raved for a while about something going on in my dream and they let me go back to sleep, and then I woke up like 12 hours later fine. It was really weird, because I was conscious, but more like watching than participating in my actions, and I remebered mostly what I said after I woke up (which is odd because I have practically no memory).AFAICT, no lasting side effects. Neither fun nor not, so its not worth the trouble purposefully recreating IMO. It has happened a few times since then though.I''ve read that prolonged sleep deprevation can cause temporary insanity, so maybe thats what it was. I''ve also read extreme sleep deprevation can cause death, so I wouldn''t go for too long if I were. ;  Extrarius: I can relate to that well. Back a few years ago when I was in boot camp they pretty much starved us of enough sleep, plus back then I had a nicotine and caffeine withdrawal that did nothing less than cripple me. I remember that after the second or third day we had to scramble from whatever we were doing in the morning into formation and I didn''t know whether I was awake or dreaming. Apparently I had ran to formation with a towel wrapped around me but I don''t really recall that. That was probably the weirdest time in terms of not having total control over my mind. Luckily I surmounted that. ;  A couple weekends back, I stayed up about 45 hours. I went through periods of feelings totally exhausted for an hour or so to feeling perfectly fine. The hardest part was trying to keep myself entertained when everyone I know is asleep and I don''t feel like playing any more computer games.It''s not really all that exciting and I wouldn''t reccomend it.Dominic Dos Santos    I''d rather be rich than stupid.;  I hope you know where to buy red bull cheaply... ;  Thats the problem I have when I stay up, I get bored of games.. bored of programming.. and just totally bored. Then I sleep.I was up for 41 hours this week, playing games with somebody.   [edited by - curtmax_0 on February 14, 2004 11:18:55 AM];  There is this thing, called the "Sleep pool"You''re body needs a sertain ammount of sleep every sertain ammount of time. When you dont sleep for a long time, you''re body will not get enough sleep until you work that time off by sleeping. If you dont sleep for, say, 4 days and you decide to sleep for 12 hours - it wont work. You will wake up tired, your back will ache, and you will have a headache. You will still need to pay off all those days of no sleep by sleeping more then regular every night for a few nights. So, if you plan on not sleeping for a ling time, make sure that you make up for the absence of sleep by sleeping a little more then regular for some time.I have never stayed up for more then 3 days.Someone ocrrect me if I am wrong about the "sleep pool" thing, I was told about it by a friend over the phone. ;  I once had the flu, it kept me awake all night, so I stayed awake for about 36 hours. The next day, I was just starting a sport, so we had our first practice. Then, later that night, I was helping out at a booth at a fair. By the time I got home that night, I could hardly walk, and just passed out on the couch. 