Sleep Deprivation stages
 

I have been up since Wednesday at noon (Approximately 86 hours) and I plan on staying up until 7 am tomorrow for a breathalyzer I have to take for probation, (that will be in 5 hours) and then take a bunch of sleeping pills and sleep for a day or so.

But my question is, are there any documented studies on the stages? Like x hours without sleep = this symptom, xx hours without sleep = this symptom, etc.

From my past experience, I usually begin to auditorily hallucinate at around 30 hours, when 42 comes around very minor visual hallucinations and when you hit around 56 you're mind state is just completely fucked and weird.

The longest I've stayed up previous to this is 77 hours, so this is my new record. Yet I'm not having any exceptional visual hallucinations. The main two things that are getting to me is whenever I heard a song on the radio that is turned at a lower volume, it ALWAYS think its the song Eulogy, by Tool. It's really starting to trip me the fuck out.

Second, I can't talk for shit. I've got like a speed-deprivation-induced-speech-impediment.

Anyway, any documented researches? What're your records?

Well, I was not able to follow my plan and I ended up working on my car all day and then fixing someone's laptop. I still have not slept, though I really do plan to tonight. Oddly enough, the first two days were way worse than how I feel now. (Currently at 105.5 hours)

Go to bed, Spector.

I am.

/Ending sleep fast at ~108 hours.

sleep deprivation leads me to the same feeling as being drunk

There aren't any studies that I know of. All I know is sleep deprivation is not only bad for your mind, but your body as well. Nothing good comes from it, that's why you feel tired when your body needs to reset, essentially.

Me too. Or high. Around here, the teens call it "Mid-night ignorance syndrome" because it usually happens at about mid-night or later. It can get real stupid, especially on facebook or myspace, lol

yeah, I stopped thinking it was cool staying up for 24+ hours in like 9th grade.

You really need to stop thinking up fucked up ways to try to get high and get a job...

I haven't smoked since last new years, and have had the same job for 4 years. you lose.

I have a job, and I wasn't trying to get high from staying up. (See your own picture)

However obvious it might seem that you're replying to the OP, it always helps if you reply to the OP, not to the closest post to hand...

Look at my post, for example - I've clearly clicked "Quick Reply" to your post, not D3V's, or Spector's.

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The most I've done before is ~75 hours: fifteen hour day, then I started working on an assignment, which I finished in one sixty hour sitting. I think I started hallucinating around the fifty hour mark - whenever I looked over to my curtains, or things hung up on the door, they looked like they were swaying and reaching out to me.

It's quite interesting looking back at my code, as I can clearly see different stages of sleep deprivation - a good portion of it is well-written code which I hammered out pretty quickly. When I get to the debugging and solving of problems, things start to turn weird - variable names that are obvious typos, really long, roundabout ways of doing things and magnificent hacks to get it working, rather than fixed.

It's strange, though. Whenever I do an all-nighter to get an assignment finished, my best work always happens between 3:00 and 4:30. What's even stranger is that, when I was doing the aforementioned assignment, it happened each night!

But yeah, generally my ability to type and think clearly go after about twenty-two hours of being awake, though I get odd bouts of genius. At least, they feel like genius a the time. :rolleyes:

As for documented studies, I can't think of any, but there are a few interesting blog entries from people around the Internet who have tried adopting the Dymaxion or Uberman sleeping patterns. Give them a Google. I think I first came across them on Lifehacker.

You didn't say Spector, and you replied to my post. That makes you the retard, retard.

I tend to agree with this notion; however, the delirious stage begins at this same time. Haha, so possibly it could be that you think you are having bouts of genius, when in reality it's just grasping onto level-headedness and drifting in between the two.

2 oclock to 4 is my genius time of the night ..... for one my dreams have different designs i get to seeand if im awake ill design stuff so complicated yet so simple that if i tried explaining there wouldnt be any ways too

Wouldn't surprise any of us considering all the other shit you've tried.

And D3vster, I always press the reply button to answer to posts. Never got used to the quick reply thing at the bottom.

apology accepted.

I figured we just let him do what he wants. The tower will be struck my lighting eventually, and at some point God will seperate their languages, too.

hmm, try to lay off the chode devster

stfu Swallows.