Can we survive without sleeping?

[Justin_Case001 4,857]

On 12/26/2012 at 5:13 PM, GamerLuna7 said:

Also i see sleeping as a huge waste of time.

Oh, that's funny, because apparently basically the entire human race seems to disagree with you!

To answer your question, the human body can survive for approximately 11 days without sleep.  Of course, long before that time, most people will just drop, face-plant, pass out where they stand no matter how hard they try to stay awake.  However, there have been rare cases of someone developing some kind of super rare neurological condition that prevents sleep, and 11 days is about the maximum before the brain just goes kaput.

[Ittoni 536]

I've been 3 days without sleeping a bit and working at the same time, and it feels horrible because all the time you feel like fainting and you start to get cold as time passes.

There's been times where I've gone through some weird insomnia spells where you cannot sleep and can go through the entire night either without any sleep or fainting for a few minutes at random during the night, can last months and you do start to get crazy and your head feels like exploding. 

So i would guess that it must be horrible regardless if you die or not from it.

There's been stories of people actually dying from exhaustion and lack of sleep in my line of work... Just one day they fall to the ground and they were dead.

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

I wish. Sleep takes up so much valuable time. But people have died from sleep depravation, so sadly, no. We can't survive without sleep.

[DixonTheAdversary 1,631]

I can't survive without sleeping. I've never been able to stay up for 24 hours, and even if I could, I wouldn't be the nicest person to talk to then. Plus, I like to sleep, so I don't really mind it.

[Twilight Sparkle97 395]

No. I can't survive without sleeping. In fact, I can't sleep without taking special medicine to help me sleep. 

[Props Valroa 26,048]

No we can't. Not unless we somehow invent a way. 

[Evil Pink One 12,992]

Ive experienced sleeping with my eyes open.... Its inevitable.... The brain will shut down weather you like it or not.... And yhe body will get tired or over heat and what not and you die...... So yeah when you die you dont sleep anymore.....

[Evil Pink One 12,992]

.... I didn't say you die defines surviving though....

[Luna the Great of all the Russias 2,705]

To eliminate the need for sleep would be a great accomplishment. That is roughly gaining a third of our lives in time; time that can be spent being productive.

[Tom Gallagher 33,521]

Don’t know. I wouldn’t really want to try it. 

[Midnight Danny 9,023]

Sleeping is very important to our body. 

[Emerald Heart 24,591]

Definitely. We definitely need sleep.

Where the hell did you find that garbage information?

One time, I couldn't sleep for an entire week and I ended up having a seizure the next day. 

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4 minutes ago, Emerald Heart said:

Definitely. We definitely need sleep.

Where the hell did you find that garbage information?

One time, I couldn't sleep for an entire week and I ended up having a seizure the next day. 

That is...horrifying honestly.  I hope you never did that again, that is dangerous!

[Emerald Heart 24,591]

30 minutes ago, Califorum said:

That is...horrifying honestly.  I hope you never did that again, that is dangerous!

Yeah. I wasn't doing it on purpose, I just kept having nightmares.

Also, it was actually pretty confusing for me because I haven't had a seizure in a LOOOOOONG time (I have epilepsy.) 

I was more confused than horrified. 

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13 minutes ago, Emerald Heart said:

Yeah. I wasn't doing it on purpose, I just kept having nightmares.

Also, it was actually pretty confusing for me because I haven't had a seizure in a LOOOOOONG time (I have epilepsy.) 

I was more confused than horrified. 

That is still really bad and something you need to watch out for.

[Emerald Heart 24,591]

32 minutes ago, Califorum said:

That is still really bad and something you need to watch out for.

It's uncontrollable, bruh. There's no "watching out" for it. If it happens it happens.

I do take meds though, but still...

You can't "watch out" for seizures. They just happen.

[Emerald Heart 24,591]

15 minutes ago, You said:

> Didn't sleep for a week

> Had nightmares during that time

>

Sorry, should have clarified.

I would fall asleep briefly, have a nightmare, then wake up and not be able to go to sleep at all.

[Stardust 640]

Nu and people have experimented this before u start getting hallucinations and stuff not good

[Flying Pencil 3,023]

You need sleep to live, without rest. Stress hormones and blood pressure will increase which can cause heart attacks and strokes. I got the information from this post https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/08/AR2005100801405.html  

 

 

 

Edited November 30, 2020 by Flying Pencil
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