actually I'm not sure when the last time I slept was. Pretty sure it was Thursday night.

10/21/2007 11:22:40 AM

Drink some Nyquil

10/21/2007 11:24:00 AM

hah, right. why would I want to sleep? I just finished driving 300 miles.

10/21/2007 11:26:23 AM

... b/c that'd be too long.

10/21/2007 11:30:46 AM

dextromethorphan is the only reason why I'm sleeping right now

10/21/2007 11:32:15 AM

what is wrong with you dude

10/21/2007 11:33:01 AM

may i suggest saying goodbye to tww.

10/21/2007 11:34:42 AM

you could be depressed, I would recommend you get yourself a gun and shoot yourself immediately

10/21/2007 11:50:11 AM

funny, one of the signs of depression is excessive sleep. Maybe I'm manic, in which case I should get myself a gun and shoot YOU immediately.

10/21/2007 2:44:05 PM

^ or staying up worrying about things your depressed about.

ambien ftw

[Edited on October 21, 2007 at 2:45 PM. Reason : aa]

10/21/2007 2:45:06 PM

work out in the morning and then work out lightly at night.


depressions a bitch.

10/21/2007 2:47:13 PM

^^True... I guess depression plus self-mediacation could result in sleeplessness.

^I do

Why is everyone assuming it's depression?

[Edited on October 21, 2007 at 2:47 PM. Reason : ]

10/21/2007 2:47:20 PM

10/21/2007 2:47:58 PM

10/21/2007 2:48:03 PM

^ maybe that's why i dont sleep

10/21/2007 2:48:50 PM

ah, who cares, you can sleep when you're dead

10/21/2007 2:50:18 PM

retard <3

10/21/2007 2:50:54 PM

Have a nap, THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!

10/21/2007 2:54:53 PM

I read in an article (news, not journal) that scientists don't even know if (or why) sleep is necessary. they used to believe you'd die after 10 or so days without sleep, but a while back some guy stayed up 11 days just to prove it wrong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)

[Edited on October 21, 2007 at 2:58 PM. Reason : ]

10/21/2007 2:57:01 PM

ok, so he didn't die, but he went totally psychotic...

10/21/2007 3:32:59 PM

because that would be way too long [/hedberg]

doh its already up there

[Edited on October 21, 2007 at 3:41 PM. Reason : sdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf]

10/21/2007 3:41:02 PM

that was hardly "totally psychotic"

10/21/2007 3:41:26 PM

there are some other interesting sleeplessness cases, but in the gardner case he was having full on hallucinations at certain points. that's pretty serious

10/21/2007 4:14:08 PM

certainly.

* Day 2: Difficulty focusing eyes and signs of astereognosis (difficulty recognizing objects only by touch).
* Day 3: Moodiness, some signs of ataxia (inability to repeat simple tongue twisters).
* Day 4: Irritability and uncooperative attitude, memory lapses and difficulty concentrating. Gardner's first hallucination was that a street sign was a person, followed by a delusional episode in which he imagined that he was a famous black football player.
* Day 5: More hallucinations (e.g., seeing a path extending from the room in front of him down through a quiet forest). These were sometimes described as "hypnagogic reveries" since Gardner recognized, at least after a short while, that the visions were illusionary in nature.
* Day 6: Speech slowing and difficulty naming common objects.
* Day 7 and 8: Irritability, speech slurring and increased memory lapses.
* Day 9: Episodes of fragmented thinking; frequently beginning, but not finishing, his sentences.
* Day 10: Paranoia focused on a radio show host who Gardner felt was trying to make him appear foolish because he ws having difficulty remembering some details about his vigil.
* Day 11: Expressionless appearance, speech slurred and without intonation; had to be encouraged to talk to get him to respond at all. His attention span was very short and his mental abilities were diminished. In a serial sevens test, where the respondent starts with the number 100 and proceeds downward by subtracting seven each time, Gardner got back to 65 (only five subtractions) and then stopped. When asked why he had stopped he claimed that he couldn't remember what he was supposed to be doing.

But it's been a few days and I'm not hallucinating. A little bit of difficulty concentrating for sure. Some loss of coordination and whatnot, but I'm still perfectly functional. (Though admittedly making 1 or 2 typing errors per sentence )

10/21/2007 4:24:14 PM

11 days must be a stimulant free record, because otherwise it doesn't sound much out of the realms of a tweaker.

10/21/2007 4:36:37 PM

day 3 is right on the money.

10/21/2007 4:41:43 PM

my friend took 7 tylenol pm yesterday

10/21/2007 4:43:21 PM

^^^yes, that is without stimulants of any kind (including caffeine)

10/21/2007 4:57:59 PM

Quote :

"I just finished driving 300 miles."

you do know that doing that (no sleep) in some states is illegal

and is just as poor judgement as driving drunk, (sometimes even slower reaction times)

10/21/2007 6:37:54 PM

^^^ Totally should've just taken a bunch of benadryl instead.

10/21/2007 6:42:04 PM