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The guy in Vietnam, who claims to have not slept for 33 years, is greatly exaggerating his ability to bypass sleep. According to everything I've read and heard, it's impossible to survive w/o sleep.
He may not remember falling asleep and waking up, but sleep has to happen.
I don't think there is because I know it's a form of torture for to stop people from falling asleep for days, and eventually you would just go mad.
I can fish for 3 days straight with no sleep, without feeling tired at all. Sometimes i do an all nighter because i just cant sleep and stay up the next day without getting tired.
I saw a documentary on a genetic degenerative disorder that blocks the ability of the brain to produce sleep-inducing chemicals, causing the patient not to be able to sleep but an hour every week or so... It's fatal eventually, because the body becomes so worn out, ect. I can't remember the name, but I'll try to see if I can find info on it.
Every few months I go through a period of 3 to 5 days where it's near impossible for me to sleep. I have to get all sorts of prescription meds to knock me out at all, but if completely sober throughout (cannabis included as sobriety haha), I won't even get tired for days.
you cant live without sleep, that article is either fake or embellished.
You probably feel more energetic with the shorter periods of sleep because you are waking up around the end of a cycle. If you wake up in the middle of a sleep cycle you will feel groggy. There are some products on the market that capitalize on this by waking you up when you are most restless (basically equates to lightest sleep). One of the products was recently featured in popsci. I'm sure if you want more information you can find it online.
That story about the Thai guy cant possibly be true, though we dont understand why yet the human mind is incapable of going without sleep. Even meth heads hit their limit after about a week and soon slip into psychosis and paranoia or realize its time for a nap.
Meth is not much of a stimulant compared to some of the safe things currently in development. Another article in popsci was about that, maybe I will find it...
I'd be interested in reading that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Purple Banana
I can go about 2 days without sleep then I need about 8-10 hours to regain energy. I don't purposely try to push myself to my limits, but I wont go to sleep unless I'm tired, instead I stay up and do things. Such as writing and producing music. I've written most of my material in the late hours of the night and early morning when most people are sleeping. I find many of these times I can be very productive, so it got me wondering about the possibility of not needing to sleep so I could continue to work on projects at night without getting fatigued. I completed my most recent song (see sig) overnight just the other day, and finished it to the point it's at now by about 7am.
P.S. The story of the thai guy is true... All of the stories posted on that site are true. Oddee - Quality Entertainment it's known for having the wierdest but truest things on their site, it's actually a pretty damn cool site... That one was under the page of people with extraordinary abilities, another interesting one on there is the blind boy who taught himself to see using a form of sonar and sensitivity so sound changes between spaces.
I reccomend checking it out, if you want a cool site to kill some time with.:thumbsup: