The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Brain and Behavior
Biology 202
2001 Third Web Report
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The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Brain and Behavior
Sarah Ledoux
Sleep deprivation is a commonplace occurrence in modern culture. Every day there seems to be twice as much work and half as much time to complete it in. This results in either extended periods of wakefulness or a decrease in sleep over an extended period of time. While some people may like to believe that they can train their bodies to not require as much sleep as they once did this belief is false (1). Sleep is needed to regenerate certain parts of the body, especially the brain, so that it may continue to function optimally. After periods of extended wakefulness or reduced sleep neurons may begin to malfunction, visibly effecting a person's behavior. Some organs, such as muscles, are able to regenerate even when a person is not sleeping so long as they are resting. This could involve lying awake but relaxed within a quite environment. Even though cognitive functions might not seem necessary in this scenario the brain, especially the cerebral cortex, is not able to rest but rather remains semi-alert in a state of "quiet readiness" (2). Certain stages of sleep are needed for the regeneration of neurons within the cerebral cortex while other stages of sleep seem to be used for forming new memories and generating new synaptic connections. The effects of sleep deprivation on behavior have been tested with relation to the presence of activity in different sections of the cerebral cortex.The temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex is associated with the processing of language. During verbal learning tests on subjects who are fully rested functional magnetic resonance imaging scans show that this area of the brain is very active. However, in sleep deprived subjects there is no activity within this region (3), (4), (5). The effects of this inactivity can be observed by the slurred speech in subjects who have gone for prolonged periods with no sleep (6).
Even severely sleep deprived people are still able to perform to some degree on a verbal learning test. This implies that some other area of the brain must become active to compensate for the loss of temporal lobe functioning. In fact, activity can be seen in the parietal lobe that is not present during verbal learning tests using rested subjects (5). Greater activity within this region corresponded to better performance by subjects in research studies (7). Still, sleep deprived people do not perform as well on these tests as do fully rested subjects (3), (4). One possible reason for the poorer performance after missing sleep, aside from unregenerated neurons, could be the fact that since the parietal lobe is not usually used to performing tasks such as these it is not as adept at carrying them out. Therefore, when control switches from the temporal lobe to the parietal lobe some speed and accuracy is naturally lost. Interestingly, sleep deprived subjects have been shown to have better short-term memory abilities than their well-rested counterparts (6). Since memory is associated with this region of the cerebral cortex the fact that it is already active in sleep deprived people could make it easier for new synapses to be created, thus forming new short-term memories more easily.
While activity is seen within the parietal lobes of rested people as they think through math problems no corresponding activity is visible within the brains of sleep-deprived subjects. Also, no new area of the brain becomes active while the sleep deprived people work on math problems. Since sleep deprived people can still complete math problems, albeit with less speed and accuracy than a well-rested individual, this data implies that a region of the brain already in use is used for this task (1).
The frontal lobe is the most fascinating section of the brain with relation to sleep deprivation. Its functions are associated with speech as well as novel and creative thinking (5). Sleep deprived test subjects have difficulties thinking of imaginative words or ideas. Instead, they tend to choose repetitious words or clichéd phrases. Also, a sleep-deprived individual is less able to deliver a statement well. The subject may show signs of slurred speech, stuttering, speaking in a monotone voice, or speaking at a slower pace than usual (6). Subjects in research studies also have a more difficult time reacting well to unpredicted rapid changes. Sleep deprived people do not have the speed or creative abilities to cope with making quick but logical decisions, nor do they have the ability to implement them well. Studies have demonstrated that a lack of sleep impairs one's ability to simultaneously focus on several different related tasks, reducing the speed as well as the efficiency of one's actions (8). A person may be able to react to a complex scenario when suddenly presented with it but, similar to the verbal tests, the subject will most likely pick an unoriginal solution. If presented with a similar situation multiple times with slight variations in the information presented the subject chooses the same solution, even though it might not be as applicable to the new senario (9).
Part of the frontal lobe, the prefrontal cortex, has several functions specifically coupled with it. Judgment, impulse control, attention, and visual association have all been related to this region of the cerebral cortex (8). A recent study has shown that the prefrontal cortex, usually the most active area of the brain in rested individuals, becomes more active as a person remains awake for long periods of time (3), (4). This region regenerates during the first stage of sleep, giving a person the ability to feel somewhat refreshed after only a short nap (5). The length of the first stage of sleep cycle is somewhat dependant upon how long the person had previously been awake. The longer the period of wakefulness, the longer the brain remains in the first stage of sleep. When the brain enters into the REM stage of sleep the prefrontal cortex is active once more.
The implications of this data seem to be fairly important in supporting the location of the I-function within the brain. The prefrontal cortex is active whenever a person is awake, no matter how little sleep they have had. Also, this area is active while dreaming. Since the individual is aware of him or herself during both of these instances, but is not aware during the stages of sleep when the prefrontal cortex is shut down, it seems logical that the I-function is located within this region. This indicates that the I-function is what is resting and regenerating during the first stage of sleep. It would be interesting to study prefrontal cortex activity while a person is conscious, but unaware of his or her actions, due to an influence such as drugs or alcohol. According to the results of the sleep deprivation studies little or no activity should be seen in the prefrontal cortex at anytime when the individual is unaware of his or herself.
One of the symptoms of prolonged sleep deprivation is hallucinations (10). This could also be related to the I-function since it is the system that integrates the input from all other areas of the brain. If the neurons composing the I-function become too taxed then the picture in the head that the I-function produces may be more dissimilar from reality than usual. The neurons, under pressure to continue functioning but unable to perform optimally, create an image useful enough for a person to see most of his or her surroundings. Metabolic activity in the prefrontal cortex can drop as much as eleven percent after a person has missed sleep for only twenty four hours (8). As a person loses more sleep or continues to receive less-than-adequate amounts of sleep the neurons become even more taxed and the I-function may begin to generate even less coherent images possibly resulting in temporary insanity.
Another piece of evidence supporting the location of the I-function is that mammals have REM sleep whereas cold-blooded animals do not and mammals have a neocortex, located within the prefrontal cortex, while cold-blooded animals do not. REM sleep stimulates areas of the brain used for learning and memory (10). When a person is taught a new skill his or her performance does not improve until he or she receives at least eight hours of sleep (11). An extended period of sleep ensures that the brain will be able to complete the full sleep cycle, including REM sleep. The necessity of sleep for learning could be due to the fact that sleep increases the production of proteins while reducing the rate at which they are broken down (10). Proteins are used to regenerate the neurons within the brain. Without them new synapses may not be able to be formed, thus limiting the amount of information a sleep-deprived individual can maintain.
One of the possible side effects of a continued lack of sleep is death. Usually this is the result of the fact that the immune system is weakened without sleep. The number of white blood cells within the body decreases, as does the activity of the remaining white blood cells. The body also decreases the amount of growth hormone produced (8). The ability of the body to metabolize sugar declines, turning sugar into fat. One study stated that people who sleep less than four hours per night are three times more likely to die within the next six years (11). Although the longest a human has remained awake was eleven days rats that are continually deprived of sleep die within two to five weeks, generally due to their severely weakened immune system (10), (11), (12).
In a way sleep deprivation studies help us to study the relationship between the brain and behavior in a very unique way by observing how a person's behavior changes as the brain shuts down. By taking images of the brain showing where activity is located it is possible to correlate the behavior exhibited by a subject with his or her brain patterns. Just like a person cannot jog for three continuous days a person's brain cannot operate without rest breaks. Since different regions of the brain rest during different stages of the sleep cycle, sleep cannot be cut short. In fact, if the brain does not receive a break it will soon begin to shut down for periods of microsleep. This is essentially several seconds of actual sleep; delta waves that interrupt the regular EEG of an awake person thereby impairing his or her continuity of cognitive function. Microsleep generally happens directly before performance failure occurs (8). Without sleep our brains deteriorate, and if the argument that brain=behavior is true, then our behavior will also suffer accordingly.
WWW Sources
1) an article written by the military concerning sleep deprivation, on the Marine Corps University web site2) Sleep Loss and Frontal Lobe Function, Loughborough Sleep Research Centre
3)study of brain activity and sleep deprivation, University of California San Diego
4) study of brain activity and sleep deprivation, Nature
5) Lack of Sleep Takes Toll on Brain Power, on WebMD website
6) This is your Brain without Sleep, on about.com health website
7) Sleep-deprived brain can call in reinforcements, CNEWS science website
8) Normal sleep and sleep deprivation, on emedicine website
9) Sleep Deprivation and Cognitive Function, Loughborough Sleep Research Centre
10) Brain Basics- Understanding Sleep, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes
11)a journalist's experience with sleep deprivation, men's journal website
12) psychology class lecture notes, State University of New York Stony Brook
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10/15/2005, from a Reader on the Web I have a comment and concern with sleep deprivation. Several of my friends actually stay up and get only 3 hours of sleep then go to school and work. They say that they recieve somewhat of a "buzz" as if they smoked a small amount of weed or drank alchohol. Is this anything that has been heard of before?
i know for a fact that you can go for more then 11 days with out sleep because i went 4 weeks playing computer games on a bet and won but i would never try it again the last 2 weeks it was hard to tell real from not and the stress has caused me some memory loss
Just an observation...you suggest a sleep deprived person uses a different portion of the brain for activities such as speech than a rested individual. I have noticed that at times of my own sleep deprivation it's almost as though my subconscious thought processes have been re-routed through my speech centre...or at very least through my "top-of-mind" thought centre. (Please excuse my lack of technical terminology...I'm not especially well researched in this area.) For example I may find myself aware of the fact that I'm short of breath...and subsequently need to remind myself to breathe...or blink...and sometimes find myself verbalising these stream-of-consciousness processes. Perhaps more concerning are those times I have found myself verbalising these processes while driving...along with the other driving-related requirements (ie. indicate now, clutch and brake, left-hand down a bit...) Any thoughts? Has this been observed elswhere or was it something I imagined in my sleep-deprived state? Darren
My Colleges and I are begining an independant sleep deprivation study, our goal is to remain awake anywhere from ninety-six to one hundrend sixty-eight hours. We were wondering when the Hallucinations occur\what they entail, and how great the effects are on behavior\health before continuing. Thus far, two of us have been designated to conduct this experiment, and the other two stationed to observe. The two that are being deprived of sleep have been awake for 25 hours, 40 minuets, 45 seconds and still going. Any advise?
This is in response to the question posted on 10/15/2005 on the page http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro01/web3/Ledoux.html: Yes, I believe this effect would happen in case of moderate sleep deprivation. Serotonin, the neurotransmitter which is used up during the sleep cycles, is partially responsible for mood balance. The longer a person sleeps, the more serotnin gets used up in the brain, resulting in somewhat of a depressed state of mind - the lethargy we feel if we sleep, say, 14 hours straight. (Antidepressant drugs such as Prozac work by inhibiting the excessive consumption of serotonin in the brain.) The reverse of this is when we don't get enough sleep, there is a slight excess of serotonin in the brain, resulting in the "buzz" you mentioned. It's tired hyperactivity, not really an energetic state.
I think the "buzz" associated with not sleeping has to do with the hallucinations that being to affect the brain after long bouts with no sleep. I suffer from insomnia occasionally and after a long day at work I am definitly not right in the head.
hello my forst time here. I was looking for the functions of the 345 cranial nerves. I have a tumor pressing on it and I want to know there functions, Thank you
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Additional comments made prior to 2007
hello,
my mom works most nights from 9:45 pm until 7:30 am. by the time she
gets home i am about to go to school so i dont see her during the day.
when i am at school she is takind medical classes untill about 2:30 pm.
she tries to take a nap until i get home at around 3:30 pm. She hardley
eats and she comlains aout gaining weight but no more than 20 lbs.
today she threw up. i asked her are u ok. she said its fine ive been
doin this for a few months now. "mom , why didnt you tell me?" i said.
she replied, " u dont need to kno, its just a fact of survival now." i
told her she needs to go see the doctor. she refuses, shes a busy
woman. I read somewhere that if u have a serious case of sleep
deprevation, then u are able to die within the next 6 years. I love my
mom to death and i am starting to get worried , she hardly sleeps and
when she does it is for short amounts of time. please email me back and
tell me if there is anything i can advise to my mom. I care about her
so much and!
i dont want her to be hurt or sick. I would greatly appriciate it. Thank you ... Ty, 31 January 2006
Does lack of sleep increase your appetite? ... Jenna McLaughlin, 5 February 2006
I have a hard time sleeping sometimes, I am guessing insomnia I dont know for sure. I am a student and also work a very physically demanding job. I have found that I can barely work some days and others I have an incredible amount of enerrgy. I have also realized I suffer bouts of depression and was wondering if this is related to the lack of sleep I suffer from. I also at times break down from what I beleive is stress. Could the lack of sleep cause more stress or even make the already present stress even more, for lack of a better word, stressful? Thank you ... Nathaniel Kiser, 17 February 2006
I
have suffered from some sort of sleep disorder all of my life. I
can sometimes get 2-3 hours a night, usually I do not sleep at
all. This lasts for weeks, sometimes months, at a time. I
recently completed a sleep study. The test showed that I have leg
movements at 60-70x per hour, while the normal rate is 10-15x, when I
am actually asleep. However, my brain activity is rapid and
constant, as opposed to being stimulated by the leg activity.
Doctor's questions seemed to indicate a suspicion of bi-polar disorder,
but no other symptoms are present. I was prescribed Requip for the
restless legs, but had no success with it.
I experience some mild exhaustion during the day, but never to the
point of needing a nap. I have taken the Epworth test and my
final score was 1. I do not feel impaired; actually I am quite
energetic. I work out 3-4x a week, do not intake caffeine, sugar
or any other stimulants. The longest I have gone without any sleep at
all is 5 days, then got flu-like symptoms and slept for about 8 hours-a
sleep marathon, so to speak. Then back to the same routine.
I am deeply concerned about the long term effects on my body. I
am a 37 year old female with no serious health problems to speak
of. I have tried numerous sleep aids, ranging from herbal
alternatives, over the counter medicines to hard core prescription
medications (ex: 800 mg of Seroquel). Shockingly, none of
them have helped my sleeplessness. It is almost like I just
simply do not have an "off" button.
If there is anyone out there who might be able to shed some light on
this problem, or anyone who may be suffering from the same symptoms, I
would certainly welcome any commentary and/or suggestions ... BZ, 21
February 2006
I am currently serving in the US Army. I can guaruntee you that i only get around 2 to 4 hours of sleep a night. I work all day and basically all night. I train for war. There are short periods i guess you would call it microsleep, that occur to me when i am driving a humvee. i pass out for i guess 5 seconds which seems like 5 minutes. i do have trouble thinking of solutions and most of the time my words are kind of slurred. Sometimes i cannot stay focus on any task and just sit on a chair staring into the great unknown. Everyone in the army works extremely hard everyday and everynight going without sleep for 3 or 4 days.. probably only getting 2 to 4 hours asleep a night. i feel dead inside. when i am given a task to do and i find it difficult to do that task. i am extremely frustrated and angry and i feel like yelling and screaming at the top of my lungs and then passing out for all eternity. You should do a study of sleep deprivation in the Army. I think you tests would be more accurate than using civilians. the army is said in the army regulation books that we are suppose to get 4 non-consecutive hours of sleep a day. that is bs. you should tell the army that our soldiers need more sleep time. everyday i am angry at not getting enough sleep. i'll stp typing now ... Sean, 26 February 2006
just
from my own experience I can tell you that I have not slept more than 2
hours in over a week now...due to stress and a terrible mattress...in
the past I have often used it as a means to acheive a certain level of
consciousness for spiritual reasons. But this week has begun to feel
like torture. Today I have distressing pinched nerves in my neck, and
excruciating pain all along my spine. I cannot get into a position that
doesn't hurt. I cannot lift anything or move freely. It is beginning to
effect my speech...a few days ago I noticed an increase in irratability
but was able to get a handle on it today...however there are some
benefits I would like to share: my subconsious is definitely much more
accessible. I have noticed a heightened feeling that I am channelling
other people's thoughts in chat rooms, and can tell what they are
thinking before they say it in person. A huge amount of insight has
been dumped on me that I hope I do not forget. Last night, while laying
in the dark for about 6 straight hours just contemplating....I had
revelations about the rune & corresponding Norse mythology that I
had picked out randomly the hour before during a bath. It was
incredibly complex and simple at the same time for me to get a firm
grasp on its' archetypical meaning, how it applies to me, my particular
situation; as well as to ancient man and also other mythologies (i.e.,
Christian). I really enjoyed this insight as a lot of new knowledge
came to me that had escaped me previously. So it has its advantages.
Now that I have had that experience, I went to purchase a better
mattress and some Nyquil so that I may sleep at least 6-7 hrs. sometime
today or tonight, whenever the conditions in my household permit. At
this point my subconscious is telling me that there will be health
risks if I don't. I have learned to listen to it.
Thanks for letting me share that ... Lou Anne Cavin, 27 February 2006
This was pretty informing thank you. I am doing an open ended investigation in biology on sleep deprivation. Im going to be the experimentation though. Just wondering where I should set my limits for my lack of sleep, I\'ve made sure I have no exams when I do it =P. And I was wondering if this like, was a problem because of the hormones and the insufficient time to like recharge them. So, what hormones they are and what they do. Im gonna go research that now hehe. Thanks. Bye ... Amy, 1 March 2006
Everyone says you can't make up lost sleep. Is this true? ... Reader on the web, 3 March 2006
If
I stay up all night and study I seem to do better on tests than when I
study in incrimates. Why is that or am I just imagining it?
Secondly I have migraines. I first got them 5 years ago when I was only
getting 4-5 hours of sleep. I've been getting 8 hours of sleep for the
past 4 years. Why haven't my migraines subsided?
Thank you ... Beth, 3 March 2006
I thought id just add some of my experiences of sleep deprivation and hope it helps this site and anyone with their research.
normally after the first 24 hours i begin to fell as would be expected
'stupid'. in the sense i tend to vier of track of whatever i was doing
and easily loose focus. speech is still fine although it may take me a
few secoonds more than usual to think of what im actually going to say
or do. this cant often lead to me being paused and just stood there in
a total blank for 10 seconds or so. after 48 hours aside from being
tired logic seems to go out the window. simple tasks become hard to do
without concotraing very hard for as something like putting a shoe
on.often whilst doing this i can do much like i did before and just
stare blankly wondering what i as doing before i carry on again. coming
up to the third day which is the most ive been awake, lead me into sort
of a dream world where i could doze off standing up and walking.
conversations were hard to understand due to the amount of
concontration needed. i was pretty much in my own world, so to speak.
from the outside i looked as if i were inder sedativews or something
with an open mouth and just blank thinking. very simple thoughts ran
through my head and life seemed simple to me. thoughts of the weel
ahead or anything like that came to mind. just the simple task i have
to do in the next hour or so. towards the end of the 3 days even eating
became a complicated task and required full concontration. having
DESCENT conversation was near impossibe.
as for what was mentioned earlier about a 'buzz' after smoking weed and
mixed with lack of sleep. i can describe it as the same as sleep
deprivation, but its how you view the effect of it on yourself... you
can view it as fun and just another way to be not in the right state of
mind , as is the point of most drugs and alcohol.
as a matter of fact im actually going without sleep now, not quite 24 hours but long enough for me.. im going to bed!
hope this was of some help ... Dom, 7 March 2007
i have a severe sleep disorder. i have been going on maybe 8 hours sleep every 2 weeks for the last 6 months. And before that i was sleeping maybe a good 8 hours a week and this has been going on for 4 years almost. can anybody beat this. surely if i am out there and do this other people are too. i am surprised i still am even here ... Sandy, 13 March 2006
As
part of a bizarre school project, myself and a group of mates are
attempting a sleep deprevation experiment later on in the year(i fell
upon your website as part of my researsh stage). The idea is to see who
will last the longest without sleep (with a slab of beer at the end to
the winner, thats to keep them motivated). i would like it very much to
hear from you with an idea of what to expect and also some info of
previous experiments done from the past.
Cheers ... Louis Van Pelt, 22 March 2006
well i wuz doin this science project with my friends and we found out that it does cause it can erase your memory and y r u doin this u dont even know wat your doin cause i tryed sleeping late 2 see wat happens and after a while i couldnt remember wat wuz i doin or y wuz i doin this so just remember next time u try sleepin late just remember not sleepin does effect your behavior ... Carolina, 28 March 2006
How
does Al Herpin fit into all this? He reportedly suffered from total
insomnia. Did his brain learn to recover, or simply move activity to
another portion of the brain without sleep? Did he suffer a long but
slow degradation of memory? Sorry I can't find any good mention of him
on the net, or provide any more information on the net on him than
this: http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMI/1.3.4.htm (look at 5. Unwanted
Syndromes) and
http://www.freepres-markethill.org/witness/manneverslept.htm
Do you know anything about this case? ... Mifune, 28 March 2006
Your
article by Sarah Ledoux on sleep deprivation really has helped
me. I am a semi-retired radio broadcaster who recently began
working a couple hours a day hosting early morning radio programming
and doing occasional news anchor duties in order to keep my fingers in
the business. I have not yet been able to develop some consistent
sleep hours, so I may have 6 or 7 hours of nighttime sleep and other
times get only 4 or 5 hours, followed by short afternoon naps, then
usually crashing for a major late morning nap at some time during the
week.
I noticed that my speech on the air is effected. Yesterday,
"inexplicably," I didn\'t finish a word while doing the morning host
gig...while I don't remember the word in question, it was something
like "spoken" which I pronounced "spokuh," not finishing it with the
"n" sound. And on the same day, while doing the news, on too-many
newscasts I mispronounced at least one word in a way that just didn\'t
add up. From time to time, its possible to mispronounce a word
while on the air, but it seemed like there was a disconnect between the
split second that I read the word on the copy in front of me and the
time the word came out of my mouth. It was a totally different
feeling psychologically, than a "normal" on-air
mispronounciation. And then a week or two ago, when I had to make
a routine "timing" decision whether I had time to do a planned story
before the commercial or if I had to make a quick switch to a shorter,
unplanned story (this decision had to be made while I was in the
newscast reading the copy but thinking ahead to how much time I had
left)...it felt like I was clueless as to what to do. Though this
is routine, my thinking was definitely impaired.
All this is to say that Ms. Ledoux' article has really helped me
understand what sleep deprivation has been doing to my brain. It
seems to effect (or is the word "affect") my "thinking" more
dramatically than my physicality (though I find myself working out at
the gym less than my usually disciplined 5 or 6 day a week workout
schedule.) Please thank Ms. Ledoux for her article for me.
I really need to work much harder on getting to bed around 8 p.m. on
most nights, and factoring in a better scheduling around the nights
when I have obligations that take me to 11 p.m. ... Tom Moller, 1 April
2006
It is like when the section of brain that is most active for specific function gets used to the less state of optimal transfer and next section starts cache for function switching over something "bottlenecks" "lags" or slows down, this seems detrimental to length of time used to render descernable output, but may also be slowly acessing the old or first active section and new same time maybe gaining wider length or more less used in that specific routeing of functions process. I find it harder to speak simply, needing more complicated explanations to gain the feeling of "defintion or quoitent correct" nodding head in understanding. Lol the line between actual relevant transfer of understandable "coherant" information v.s. giggity giggity spam blah babble grows <--SMALLER? umm Me thinks the brain on the verge of using all portions due to extreme lengths of slack time (sleep) maybe inherantly affecting perception of reality in a more or less indifferent state i.e. self realization of irrelavance of time to entirety of all existence.Numbers obviously become more dominate rates of optimal language due to universally understood medium words letters are relayed less efficently because of the wide format of interchangeable strings user can understand easier different language regardless of font type etc if relavant numeriacal equivalent is present i.e. health=100 10=*&&*% health=110 or health=90... health could be string in any format of chacters symbols etc but cannot =present amount of self or numbers? Useless if Ω or exponet man I\'ll just stfu and goto sleep try again after those 8 hours, nay it burns I want to define but fear persecution but am hitting the send button regardless big step for me ... Reader on the web, 3 April 2006
i would like to try to stay in wal mart for a weekend. and try to not fall asleep, would this alter my mental health. or woulld it get so boring that i would eventually pass out. thank you ... Chase, 13 April 2006
When sleep deprived and using parts of the brain that are not normally used is it possible or been researched that a new telepathic sense can be awakened, for the past few years iv lost a lot of sleep and in the past year iv had 4 or 5 very detailed dreams that came true and theres no way they were coincadence. I strongly believe Im telepathic or at least have been and am hoping to find some answers here ... Lewis, 23 April 2006
After being an
alcoholic and stopped 4 days ago, I have only slept all together about
1hour 30 min. My mind will just not stop working. I am so sleepy but
just can not do it. I only catch a few minutes at time. It really
starting to affect my health. Is there anything I can do? I have read
in the Big Blue Book that Sleepless can not kill you. I am beginning to
wonder...
Please advise me ... Kat, 13 May 2006
when i didnt sleep for only 3 days i went off it,i was seeing hair
growing on me and my boyfriend at fast rates and i saw lights flyin
around and insects on my bed, they were very vivid and intense ...
Rebeckah, 14 May 2006
Hello. I have been diagnosed with Narcolepsy in 2002, and then subsequently rediagnosed in 2005 with Sleep anpnea, none of the medication that i received for both diagnosis did not work and I'm still suffering very severly with this problem. I'm currently seeing a chiropratic in which the results of an x-ray of the lower brain and neck shows that I have a sligh cure in my spine resulting in some abnormal pressure on a nerve which is responsible for blood oxgen getting to the brain which could be preventing me from getting sleep, doe anybody now of any other information that might be helpful in helping me combat this disorder I desperately need your help, concerned! ... Fred, 14 May 2006
Was looking at site to see link between Bipolar Disorder and Sleep deprivation. I am studying to be a psychiatrist. It is interesting to note that many "manic" Bipolar episodes are preceded usually by 2 or more days of no sleep at all or a period of severely deficient sleep patterns. Also note that Bipolar depression is often preceded and associated with oversleeping? Is this (Bipolar) a real mental illness, or is it often "created" and thrown at individuals showing symptoms of temporary insanity or sadness due to oversleep or undersleep respectiveley? I beleive at the least the "real deal" behind many "Bipolar Disorder" most especially mania is extended periods of sleep deficiency or no sleep at all, all of which go against the brains natural ability in mantaining stable levels of serotonin...good sleeping lifestyle practices should be the prescription in many cases rather than throwing Mood-Stabilizers, Anti-Psychotics and other Bipolar Meds at people who are! nothing more than severely sleep deprived or oversleeping ... Brian C, 19 May 2006
Hi im still young but im really looking foward to study my perfect career, so lately i havent slept good. Im experimenting a little to see if maybe i could get used to it, i agree with some points of your essay and some points i don't know them well yet but im interested on them. If this is true i would start sleeping 8hrs per day but i think is important 4 ppl 2 know this kind of stuff because everyday everyone sleeps less and less ... Swam, 10 September 2006
hey im in 8th grade and im doing a project about this. uhm okay i sleep really late like around 5 am. then wake up at 7 for school. im doing a project on this cause maybe on my way of doing it i can realize something very important that im missing! at school i just start acting lazy meaning not wanting to do my school work and getting behind my clsses. and im not usaully that kind of person i use to get all my things done in time but now everything is falling apart! so i was wondering if sleeping is affecting my daily acedemics and routines in my life? ... CeeCee, 23 September 2006
I don't have anything to comment on but I want to know whether the body temperature of a person increases if the person has slept only for 3 hours at night or even lesser. Or it depends on the time period when he/she has gone to sleep or the temperature or weather of the place. Also does the immunity of the person also reduce due to loss of REM sleep? ... Gayetri Ramachandran, 22 October 2006
I think I'm sleep deprived. I work a condensed work week 4 - 10 hour days. I've been doing this for about 2 years now. I drive 1.5 hours 3 of the 4 days to start work at 6am and end at 4:30pm. I have a three year old who co-sleeps with my wife and I. I usually try to go to bed around 9-10pm to get 6 or 7 hours of sleep before the drive. What usually happens is that my daughter tosses and turns or my wife usually ends up working until midnight, my daughter won't go to sleep easily without both of us there. By the time I get into a really good sleep it's around 12:30am - 1am, during the night my daughter repeatedly kicks off the covers in her sleep. I usually wake up several times a night to cover her back up. Then the alarm clock goes off at 4 in the morning, I shower, shave eat breakfast and then commute to work. I've been experiencing some behavioural problems such as MicroSleeping while driving, or at work, inability to concentrate, focus or staring off into space. When people talk to me I usually hear about the first three words and then drift off into la-la land as my eyes glaze over and drift away from whomever is talking to me. Last Friday at work I tried to explain what I was doing to my boss and couldn't spit it out! I ended up grunting and pointing like a caveman! This lasted about 40 seconds and he looked at me very strangely until I was finally able to spit it out in short sentences.
I think my work is suffering from lack of sleep, my wife notices that I'm listless and zombie-like when I get home. This in turn is affecting my marriage. So with both my marriage and job at stake is there any recommendations that you can suggest.
I would be entirley grateful ... Matt Strawbridge, 22 October 2006
Recently,I happened to come across a fact that getting less than 6hrs of sleep per night actually leads us to diabetes and obesity.Infact,when a person wakes up in a sleep deprived state ,there's a growing drive for high carb foods(in the morning).Moreover,production of insulin in the pancreas is also inhibited in this state.Usually I end up getting just 4-5 hrs of sleep per night and if by chance,I get to sleep some 45mins in the public bus on my way to college.Sometimes I experience slurred language,inability to focus and feeling sleepy all the time.Meanwhile,in the weekend I sleep for around 8-11 hrs and this drives me too lazy and decreased energy.And then the life goes on ... John Kane, 8 November 2006
hello im a middleschooler who todally dosnt agree w/ having to wake up sooo early. ive also read that us teenagers should get more sleep than we do so i think that they should give us more time to sleep, on school days and we should at least try to go to sleep earlier ... Jay Bruner, 14 November 2006
I have also noticed the 'buzz' effect of sleep deprivation, it was kinda pleasant, and I think it's similar to a kind of psychosis, you feel slightly removed from reality, as if having taken a mental painkiller.
Also, I have noticed when sleep-deprived, that it is easy to drift off into a kind of daze, and in these times it's easy to get into a stream-of-consciousness rant about varied unrelated subjects. I would have expected this to be a cause of increased functioning in language/creative ideas parts of the brain, because it seems like more thoughts can escape from your unconscious into the conscious, but your research suggests otherwise.
Another effect of sleep deprivation that I have felt is that when sleep deprived, the body's tollerance for alcohol, (and probably other drugs), is much lowered, so a small amount of alcohol will have more effect on you when you're very tired.
Remember this is all from personal experience and shouldn't be considered empirical/true. Everything I have mentioned is only fit for stimulating ideas ... Mombius Hibachi, 19 November 2006
I have done a great deal of sleep deprivation related training in the military, under the mistaken belief that through practice you can get good at it. Afte around 15 years of service I had a seizure, and all the blood vessels in my left eye popped amongs some other unpleasant effects like forgetting my name. The nuerologist told me there was a good chance that this was caused by a life of repeated bouts of sleep deprivation (after I was tested for a myraid of other things like low blood sugar, and epilepsy). Is there anything that I can do to lessen the effects of sleep deprivation? My job kind of requires that I stay up for long hours in order to survive, and be able to carry out my duties ... Nordeen, 9 December 2006
Its really nice to read people's experiences in life.
please keep on adding guyz....its really interesting to read about what happened to your life style when you got deprived of sleep ... Mr. Yelmar, 27 December 2006
your list for SYMPTOMS of sleep loss leads one to believe you'll just feel "sleepy".
Doctors KNOW about the PSYCHOSIS you can get from it, so you should INCLUDE this on your site.
These symptoms include:
-hallucinations (visual, tactile, smell, taste)
-hearing "voices", most of which or MENTAL VOICES
-total loss of judgement
-false memories
-paranoia
-fears
-believing things that aren't true
-following "commands" (when the mental voices tell you to do something)
-"movies" playing in your head where "mental voices &
chaaracters" appear & play a "storyline" (like a movie would),
which can last for seconds, hours, days, or weeks. and you may BELIEVE
it to be REALLY occurring.
please post this so people will KNOW what it is that's happening to them, & people will know WHY they shouldn't sleep deprive themselves ... Dudbubbin, 1 January 2007
For a project i stayed up for 37 hours and i never reached the point where i got hillucinations and actually i didn't really experience any really terrible side effects. I did experience the typical side effects such as headaches, slowed movements and thoughts, but after a span of time i felt normal but around hour 36 i could really feel the drag towards sleep. This article has really helped me with an essay that i have to write for this project and i will be sure to use it as a reference. Hope my input can help you in some way ... Mike Radford, 7 January 2007
I can't sleep. when to a sleep clinic was told that I had a very bad sleep D.gave me all kind of medication but notting help could you help me ... Suzanne Thibault, 14 January 2007
I seem to have woken up to the idea that the symptoms of sleep deprivation can easily be misdiagnosed or misunderstood by others, and,then theres the posibility that the sufferer may believe he or she has other unrelated problems. In my case i began to think that i was autistic to some degree, and as a result i embarked on a course to find out. To cut the story short, i came to a point where it was obvious that prelonged periods of sleep deprivation over a span of some 20-25 years have gradually turned me into a completely different person. I have no motivation to do even the things i've always enjoyed and tasks that require ones undivided attention seems to be too much to handle. I made a lot of mistakes typing this dialogue and had to continually make amends to the text, which to me proof is that disorientation is a key symptom. On a daily basis i wander about the work place not able to do whatever job i've been given, even to the point where i have packed up for the day and gone home. Other days are different to the extent that i suffer a kind of panic attack but afterwards i seem to be fine for a while, but definitely a lot more sluggish. I may be suffering from depression too but i've not looked into that side of the matter as yet.
I was tired when i typed this and it was a chore. I hope its of some help, better still will it result in something that will help me! ... H. Rojewski, 22 January 2007
I start hallucinating after about 3 days of no sleep. I see people everywhere that ive never seen before. They just appear out of the walls and ceilings. All i have to do is stare at a solid object for a few seconds. Sure enough people will start coming through and they usually float up towards the ceiling. Also dark rooms are just full of people floating around and walking through. Once i get some sleep i dont see these things at all. The longer i stay up the more clear and intense these experiences become. I used to take large amounts of Dextromethorphan and would experience these types of things. But i havent touched Dxm in years. Could this be some form of permanent brain damage? ... Jay Grigsby, 4 February 2007
I am a homicide investigator for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. We work a 21 day cycle. 3 days off, five days on during which we are on call. one of those days we work a shift of desk duty answering telephones from either 0500-1300, 1300-2100 or 2100-0500. This is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year including holidays. During the on call we get called out at all hours throughout the county to investigate murder. We commonly leave late at night, go home late the next day. we get 3 days off then we begin a 10 day stretch. Starting on a friday we are on call until monday at 0600 hours during that time we work one shift of desk duty. What effect does this have on a persons health? ... Boyd Zumwalt, 16 February 2007
Re: "i know for a fact that you can go for more then 11 days with out sleep because i went 4 weeks playing computer games on a bet and won but i would never try it again the last 2 weeks it was hard to tell real from not and the stress has caused me some memory loss" -- Reader on the web, 11/06/2005
SS or it never happened.
In the state of sitting on your backside for 4 straight weeks, without any sleep, and more than likely consuming high-energy, caffine full liquids and or foods, you would have died of a heart attack ... Matt Bryant, 20 March 2007
ALOHA! MY NAME IS BOB. I HAVE NOT SLEP FOR 4 MONTHS NOW. PLEASE EXCUSE THE CAPS, I AM HAVING A HARD TIME TO SEE. I SUFFER FROM CHRONIC BACK PAIN AND OTHER FAILED SURGERIES. PRAISE THE LORD,INDEED, HE HAD HEALED ME 6 MONTHS AGO FROM MY SCIATIC NERVE THAT I HAD SUFFERED FOR 35 YEARS, PRAISE THE LORD. I AM ON MY 2ND PUMP NOW FOR PAIN. IT WAS SET ON #11, FILLED WITH DILAUDID PLUS. ANYWAY AFTER THE LORD LEALED ME, PRAISE THE LORD, I CUT IT BACK OVER A 6 MONTH PERIOD TO A #4. WELL THIS OPENED ANOTHER CAN OF WORMS FOR ME. I STIL HAVE A BULGING DISC, A LEASON, SPINAL STINOSIS, MASIVE SCARTISSUE, NERVE DAMAGE, ETC. I CAN ONLY HAVE MY PUMP REPROGRAMED ONCE A MONTH AT 10% INCREASE DURING MY SLEPING HOURS, FROM 8:30PM TO 4:AM. I HAVE NOT SLEP FOR MORE THAN A FEW MINUTES AT A TIME OVER 4 MONTHS. NOW WHAT I AM About to say is that without any sleep your brain goes crazy. i am lucky that i am retired. i start to think about a lot of weird things, really crazy, i cannot explain. it is also sooooooo hard to keep my concentration. I PRAY THAT MY NEXT INCREASE WILL HELP ME WITH MY SLEEP. I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING AS FAR AS SLEEPING AIDS. NOTHING WORKS. I WILL GET UP MAYBE 6 TIMES A NIGHT. I AM SOOOOOOOO TIRED WHEN I GET UP IT IS NOT FUNNY. CAN ANYONE HELP ME. GOD BLESS YOU ALL ... Robert Boyko, 23 March 2007
I am doing research for a science experiment for my science class and I need to see what will happen to people when they don't sleep for 48 hours. Do you have any tips or information I could use? ... Talyn, 23 March 2007
Hi. I'm a student and i don't think i'm getting enough sleep. I normally go to sleep from 11 - 12, and wake up 6 30, will this effect my studies? What effect will it have on me? ... Frank, 5 June 2007
I really hope there is someone out there who can help me with this problem.Some three years ago I was struck down with a nasty dose of Chronic Bronchitis, during that period of illness there was a period of thirteen days when I hardly got a wink of sleep due to continually coughing.I felt dissorientated couldn't think straight and was basically quite poorly. Also in that period I did something Quite uncharateristic of me, I sent an email to a work coleague stating that my presant wife shouted at me because of my incesant coughing and that she would get annoyed if I had not cooked her meal by the time she arrived home from work. I remember saying more or less the same thing to my mother some fifteen years ago when I was married to and alcoholic wife. My presant wife read the email which caused me even more traumer and her daughter will not let the subject drop. Could there be a connection here because I cannot explain why I did such a thing, I love my wife dearly and wouldn't do anything knowingly to hurt her. at the time of the illness I was 63 yrs of age ... John Evans, 16 September 2007
I guess i don't get as much sleep as i should be getting, but last night it got creepy. story is, i have a mouse. i used to have two, but one ran away, so i got a new one, because the petsmart people say they are social, but unfortunately, the old one ate the new one. well, last night, i looked down at the cage and there were two mice. i starred blankly for some period of time. then i ran to my cell, and called people to see if anyone knew anyrhing about the extra mouse, and non one did. i went back later, and it wasn't there any more. i've looked ever since then and haven't seen it. what?? did i really see osmething that wasn't there? ... Noel Knight, 25 September 2007
i had noticed u said the longest a human has stayed awake was eleven days.ive went without sleep for 16 days last summer without the use of drugs.during that time i aquired my GED considering i dropped out in the seventh grade i would say i was comprehending and retaining information pretty well but anyhow i just wanted to ask how long i could go without sleep safe from dying ... Zachary, 30 September 2007
i am a senior in high school and i have to get up between six and six thirty to be to school on time by seven thirty. i usually set my alarm clock to go off at six then again at six fifteen. sometimes my dad comes in and wakes me before my alarm and on these days i always feel more tired than i would had i woken uop to my alarm even if its just a few minutes before my alarm. is this normal? why does losing just a few minutes of sleep make me feel exhausted throughout the day? ... Britni, 1 October 2007
hi... I was wondering about sleep deprivation verses major depression. I've been diagnosed with major depression but I have also had a lot of sleep deprivation. i go back and forth between being deprived of sleep and sleeping for really long periods of time. could my sleep deprivation be the reason for my depression? and if so, why wouldn't my psychologist and psychiatrist have caught that because I've described my sleep patterns to them both. are there other factors in diagnosing major depression that I'm missing? from what i can tell, sleep deprivation has a lot to do with behavior malfunction, speech problems, etc., which are symtoms of depression. anyway, I would really like your advice if possible. thank you for the article - it was fascinating ... Anna, 1 October 2007
I'm 14 and i just had a hallicination the other night but i can't recall what it was, but previous hallicinations i remmember. One hallucination was I was the size of an ant in a forrest at night but i also was a hungry chameleon and was trying to eat myself, no joke. I recall that got out of bed cause i felt odd, so i just went to the bathroom, and while i was on the toilet i felt scared, i got up exited the bathroom and i found myself freaking out, my sister was trying to calm me down. Her point of veiw was she came out to go to the bathroom and she saw me standing there looking at the ground, and she said my name and i started to freak out and said there was a worm on my head, but i thought she asked me if there was a worm on my head and i just went with it, so i start saying "There is a worm on my head get it off!" which i don't remmember, also another was a little more calm but still as stressful, it was black every where and i was as if standing on glass, there were old ruin looking columns every where and i had to choose the one REAL column or the whole universe would cease to exist. I also have ones with strange feelings where my mind thinks in a totally different way that i can't explain, One there was bright light all around me and two pitch black wholes on either side of me, in each whole there was a small Imp, and both kept on coming up at the same time trying to pull me in their hole and split me apart, another was the calmest one, There was a frame arch and i was standing in it, there was a light bulb at the top pointing down, (like on the inside) and i was floating through space and breathing. When i hallucinate my mind thinks TOTALLY different, and anything can make me feel like i'm about to die, another was (i know "Don't watch so much TV." wasn't the case though) it was the same setting as the imp dream was, but i was awake, each Dragon Ball Z villain had a hole 3 villains were there, but they were standing above their hole, and i had to go Super Saiyan or they would kill me but there was a chance i would die if i went Super Saiyan, i was 9 at the time, also random things will remind me of my dreams or hallucinations, such as when i was writing this i was going to write "fourteen" instead of 14 but i thought i had a typo and didn't know how to spell fourteen even though it was correct and i got the Sleep Deprivation "feeling" almost remmembering the hallucination i had last night (but i couldn't). So if anyone can explain my type of Sleep Deprivation or anyone that has similar problems or hallucinations or anyone that knows and has experiance the type of "Feeling" or different type of thinking, please contact me ... Devin Farrell, 22 October 2007
Fantastic site! I really enjoyed the article "The Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Brain and Behavior." I'm looking for information on types of diagnostic tests for chronic insomnia and studies that gives ratios on degree and types of impairment for amount of sleep loss. For example: For every 5 hours of sleep lost, there is a 10% decline in ability to focus, concentrate, etc ... Pamela Jackson, 25 October 2007
Hi my name is femi, i am 15 years old and i live in essex, U.K. Althuogh i haven't carried out any research on this issue, but what i think is that the human brain is designed in away that everything you do is to a set out programme in your head, so when you sleep your brain recollects the days events and thats why you have things known as dreams. Then theres an unconsious state during the sleep were your brain works in credibly hard to programme the next day. Thats why you feel very tired and heavy even when you haven't done anything hard, this is very evident i.e those who sleep more do anything better than those who do not ... Femi, 30 October 2007
Polyphasic Sleeping
For those of you who dont know what polyphasic sleeping is it is breaking up your sleeping times into 20-30 minute chunks ever 4 hours. That is the equivalent of 2-3 hours per day. And you are getting more REM sleep while doing it. I didnt take the time to look through if anyone else has wrote about it but I am trying it starting today actually and I am going to blog about it probably about everyday. So if you want to see if this actually works you can read about it.
My scholar programme is not
My scholar programme is not allowing me to sleep enough.
I have been sleeping less than four hours a day for a few weeks now.
I have been experiencing memory loss.
There is nothing I can do about this. My workload is insane.
......
i stay up for 3 days alot an it doesnt effect me but try different tempatures in the room cold makes me sleep.
adderall and no sleep
I am now currently on a adderall binge. I have not slept or eaten anything for three and a half days straight. The only nutrients my body is getting is from the two gatorades that i take with me to my classes everyday. I have lost 13 pounds, I have crazy huge bags under my eyes. My vision is very distorted at random times. Btw, I am only doing this binge to get my school work done. I accomplish a lot more during the odd hours of the night and early morning. I space out randomly, and i am having trouble with everyday simple tasks. I have exams and papers due this week and the next. My heart is definitely beating irregularly and i feel sharp pains in my chest/heart. I can't fully remember how many adderall i have taken, but i know i have had at least two or three 25mg xr's each day. If i had to guess i would say i have taken approximately 7-9 adderall(25mg XR) in the past 3 and a half days. I am stressing out very easily, and i am constantly keeping myself occupied. I have smoked about 6 packs of cigs so far and i can definitely feel how weak my lungs have become. I also get random twitches throughout my body. After i started reading things on this webpage i started experiencing the incidents for myself.....it was a bit trippy and scary. My overall state of mind and body is extremely distorted and after my roommate told me he heard about people dieing or getting messed up from not getting enough sleep i started to become worried. I have never stayed up this long in my life.....this is not natural. no one should ever attempt what i have accomplished. any feedback? tonight is my last all nighter, so all together i will have stayed up without any food or sleep for about 4 to 5 days.
Don't be a fool
Yeah, I have feedback. Fuckin' eat food, dude. The lack of sleep probably would not hit you as hard if you were actually eating.
Over 144 hours without sleep...
I read above that lack of sleep can cause:
-hallucinations (visual, tactile, smell, taste)
-hearing "voices", most of which or MENTAL VOICES
-total loss of judgement
-false memories
-paranoia
-fears
-believing things that aren't true
-following "commands" (when the mental voices tell you to do something)
-"movies" playing in your head where "mental voices & chaaracters" appear & play a "storyline" (like a movie would), which can last for seconds, hours, days, or weeks. and you may BELIEVE it to be REALLY occurring.
This all happened to me. It was within the last two weeks of July 2007. I had been having trouble sleeping, there was a lot of stress in my life and at the time I was off work on STD. Night would come and I couldn't sleep so I would clean, day would come I would still be awake so I would walk or do whatever I could to fill my day... Long story short after 6 days the worst happened as I laid in my bed the tv was on in the other room, it was night 6 no sleep. My roommate begged me to rest, brought me food and said don't leave this bed, you need sleep. I had watched a movie earlier that day and left the set on. Tv was not something I generally watched but that day I had and I often wish I had not. At some point I started the hallucinations, I got up and watched this show, the people on the show were speaking directly to me, I went back to bed, I was scared, they said they had been watching me, the last week was a test and I was on a show, the whole world was watching, including G-d. I laid there for hours, I still couldn't sleep, I could hear the tv, I was texting some friends back home and then all they sudden I was instructed to leave the house, it all seemed so real. I opened the door and ran out with my dog mind you. My roommate said when he came home he found the doors wide open. I continued this hallucination of thinking I needed to run from where I was... I was texting friends and whatever come up on predictive was the message I sent. I thought they were traveling to see me (they were 2,000+ miles away). They were coming to rescue me from my extended vacation. Needless to say I was not in my right state of mind. A security guard at a near by condo building saw me and asked me if I needed help. I was apparently very confused. From there a life squad was called, because I told him someone told me to run, I thought he was someone I knew and I started talking to them in song. I was using the word of all the 2Pac songs I knew and it all seemed to play out in my reality. I was taken to a nearby hopsital where I was convinced that G-d himself had sent me there on a mission, I must have been clear out of my mind, but in the same token I can remember it all. To this day that fact scares me. My finally memories were of me being nice to everyone and being able to answer all there questions, but trying to convince them I was there to tell them G-d loved them. Last thing I remember was them giving me something in an iv to make me sleep, that part was terrible and still haunts me, because at that point I felt like I was going to die. I can't believe it now. I believe I told the hospital I hadn't sleep in over 6 days, I also told them this was all a part of a show were G-d had been watching me with all of American and I had finally won, the goal was for me to realize my future and to let go of the past. The last stop was suppose to be the hospital where I was to be reunited with my lost love. It was to say the last very scary to wake up in the hopital the next day. I was suppose to have psych evaluation but decided that I was fine out of fear. My roommate got a call from the pound they had my dog and finally found me at the hospital. When I was released I slept for days on end. I don't even remember eating, just waking now and then to go to the restroom. That's it. Since then I have been able to sleep pretty well but I too worry about my future and how this has and will contiue to affect my overall wellbeing. Any thoughts or comments are welcome. It was nice to share this, and get it off my chest; I have admitted this experience to few. I still think about that day and wonder if my mind has been permentatly damaged from this experience.
I went two months sleeping
I went two months sleeping little or not at all. I was severely depressed and had broken up with a boyfriend. I am wondering if this will shorten my life now. I have three children who mean everything to me.
No it will not, if you seek a
No it will not, if you seek a doctor's help immediately. a dr can give you medication to help you sleep and to help you pull yourself out of depression.
sleep
i had a doctor hit me in a accident i have had 5 sergery 4 been put to sleep every since i woke up shared room man saying things only i would know first was a neck sergery i close my eyes images apear they move my puples follow i then hear voice askink me about my past before i think or thought comes out they tell me if it is different from what in i think they use the people that you run around against with you i have had cia and secret service aquaintances i was up for months with sleep only when my brain shut down when i was shocked or something my arms and legs moved so hard it awoke me then it started all over again same questions never stopping thre my life it has been three years and six months so far places i go weird things happen they tell me thre my head to drop the lawsuite against the dr. he amitted falt said my car blended in with the road the insurance co refused medical treatment to me when i called them even thought my neck was injured and on accident report.his insurance company paid for damagies on car i was driving to this day i have contacted several agencies fbi cia us marshals office i have had windows broken out of my apt glass could have cut my throth phone calls going out and coming in have been a problem.i cant believe that these agencies would not respond i went to the defence dr he xrayed me asked if i was wired, i ask what he meant he said do u fell any tlingling in my legs i said i feel them sometime but also had phone in my pocket if u have knowalege. several things under sleep deprivation cia torture i feel like they are going thre my injuries simulating as for i have had 3rd degree burnes and several other injuries
hey guys... ummm... well i
hey guys...
ummm... well i suffer from lack of concentration, 'videos' playing in my head, i think i hear my name called out heaps, i speak really softly when i think im being really loud, i stare into space a lot and have no concept of time while im doing so... the longest was a whole school lunch time with a think a few minutes of 'normal' time during...
i never really linked it to sleep deprivation...
but thanks to this site i think im gonna monitor my sleeping patterns and see it if i can't nail down the problem...
maybe i'll even keep you posted...
thanx XD
something
sometimes but very rarely i will be up for more then 24 hours then the following
day i will sleep close to 15 hours. wonder what causes it its just weird.
I dont think its my diet i dont consume caffine (i.e soda or coffie) have little to no stress and eat healthy and i dont smoke or anything like that but it happens and i dont know why anyone got a clue ?
Sleepin Problems
Hi. I want to thank you for having such a good information on this page. I have had very bad sleeping problems for about two months now. I basically sleep less than four hours a night and in two or more segments. Normally I can't fall asleep since I have all this stuff running through my mind, but now it is just that I am afraid of not falling asleep. This is absolutely horrbile since it makes it impossible to get any sleep. The first few weeks it was ok but now I really start seeing the symptoms as I am having serious concentration problems and my mind has kinda slowed down. I am going to see a doctor on wednesday and I will do anything to get a good eight hours of sleep one night...
Hi, have you tried Magnesium
Hi, have you tried Magnesium tablets, they can help with sleeping problems. Take them at night time and they are natural too.
not sleeping for 24 hours
it was hard but we drank alot of energy drinks to help us stay awake!!! another thing is, this was our science fair project! this is the only thing we could think of and it was kinda last minute cuz our project is due in about 13 days and we have to do it on a powerpoint which is hard for us cuz today is the only day we have cuz im always busy!! but anyway if i were u dont try this cuz its HARD!!!!!!!!
sensitive to noise pollution
I can't sleep because i think every little sound might be in reference to me, and somethings seem suspicious or just annoying. It seems like the whole world revolves around me and not in a good way.
Sometimes i get no sleep and sometimes 4 or less and hardly ever get the average 8 wanted.
Lets hope it all gets better for us.
6:42 am April 27th
Iight so im 19 hours awake right now..
Im gunna keep login.. Daily Like alll day..
*Huge sigh*
Probly gunna use this site as another way of staying up..
Im pretty much doing this because i want to experiance that awake dream state & see if i can like start moving objects N shit whith my mind.
I really bealive , Our human minds can completly bend the laws of gravity , physics & anything we see as impossible on this earth.. Can be done. There is a way to do everything & anything we can think up. Period .
Anyways like i said , Daily log Catch you again =)
Its just a matter of time before it starts happening.
...and i thought i was back to normal again
so its Luke here again. its been a while since my last post here.
So since the incident with Call Of Duty, i went back to getting more sleep, and before i knew it i was basically sleeping like a normal person again, and I was happy. But we know that wouldn't last long.
I once again started staying up late texting or talking to my friends and barely getting any sleep. Now I've kinda hit a brick wall... I always have trouble remembering which of my friends told me what. Haha, so if one of them ever tells me a secret, I might accidentaly let it out to somebody else. I'm trying to work on that now... Sometimes it's funny, because I'm like, "Hey did you tell me that?" or, "Is it your birthday or somebody else's?!"
Now I don't know if this has anything to do with sleep deprivation, but I'm practically famous for falling, tripping, and getting hurt by gravity. It's something i can't stop. I'm always getting helped off of the ground. Getting called a klutz is basically normal now. Oh well, it's not like I'm emotionally wounded.
I'm going to NASCAR with my friends tomorrow... Let's just hope i don't trip onto the track. :)
LukeT
S.O.S. need help for science fair
hey me to! though i havent found any info please send suggestions if you have any thanks :l
i had to do a science fair
i had to do a science fair project on sleep deprivation. This sight helped me to get background research! sweet thanks!
sleep deprevation correction
This is what I would say.
1. Try Yoga...get DVD's by Beryl Birch, or Bryan Kest, & learn those very slowly; 5 mins a day. Sounds overly easy, but make it impossible to fail at first. Then increase each week by a minute or one posture. After a year you will be at 52 minutes or 60 minutes. You will have changed your life.
2. Try changing your diet. This means get rid of all processed foods. They are not foods, but chemicals made in a lab; packaged to simulate foods. Foods grow...like fruits from a tree, vegetables from vines or plants. The basics are:
-pure yogurt, NO sugar. No additives...simple
-pure vegetables, doesn't need to be organic, just the whole thing
-pure fruits, not canned, not packaged, not cut, but whole
-pure grains, barley, spelt, oat meal, brown rice.
-pure legumes...whole nuts, almonds, sunflower seed, sesame seeds, etc.
Another rule is the NO's:
-no white flour, period.
-no white sugar, period--very acidic
-no salt, period--very acidic
-no orange juice--very acidic--leaches our all your calcium, which is the cheerful mineral.
-no tomatoes, or tomato products--one meal leaches out all calcium you ingested in the previous 7 days
-no pork--go 30 days without pork & some miracles will happen...aches, pains, discomforts will be "gone." Just try it...as pigs have no sweat glands...
Finally, work up to 2 hours of exercise each day.
I know of a 101 year old woman, was hunch backed, had a walker and in a rest home. Her 80 something yr old daughter came to visit & was following a TV exercise program in this woman's rest home room. The mother started following a long with a can of soup that was sitting on the table, while sitting--all she could do was sit & lift this can. When the daughter saw her mother's interest, she began to come to her room daily. She gradually helped her build to 2 hours/day. After the first year, the mother was up to an hour a day. She no longer needed a walker.
After two years, she had no more hunch back.
She was out of the rest home & working out a full 2 hours every day "at a gym," at 103 years of age. She now works out with her daughter every day. Every day.
A television network wanted to interview her and caught her on the way to the gym. Can we interview you about this great metamorphic change you have gone through, they asked? She said, sure, but you'll need to follow me to the gym, because this is when I'm scheduled to exercise and I don't let anything interfere.
So they did. Beautiful story, huh?
If you think you don't have time to exercise 2 hours a day, then you don't, I guess, but think of Thomas Jefferson, who said, "no less than 2 hours a day should be devoted to exercise." [Don't you love that word, 'devoted?']
Well, he didn't accomplish very much, other than write the declaration of independence, was pres of the US, and an independently wealthy lawyer, experimental farmer, inventor, ambassador, etc, etc. I might have some of the details missed there, but he accomplished more than most of us are in this modern society of conveniences, and yet he knew the value of a healthy body. Actually, the body and mind are so closely related that there probably really shouldn't be a line drawn there.
This is a great little deal, 2 hours a day. Send me a note of what happens. I'd love to hear from those that get off their "walkers" whatever that is...weight, sleep problems, drinking, lack of progress walkers, or marriage challenges, finances, educational, social, dating problem walkers. I'd love to hear from you. You'll get rid of your hunched back as well. Then you'll be able to see clearly enough to get to the next level. It might be spirituality, or service to your community. But you won't see it until you get over this hump of fitness. There's a whole new person and life just waiting for you to come and get it; to come and experience it. Best wishes.
I can't sleep...for weeks
I can't sleep for weeks.
I have real problem of not sleeping. My doctor told me that my day and night sleeping pattern is screwed up therefore, I should train my body to sleep in night not day. But, I just cannot sleep whatever I do. So, my doctor prescribed a Zopiclone. It works for first time I use it. But later it doesn't work. Now, the doctor give me a Quetiapine. It is working fine now but, problem is that if i don't use it I just cannot sleep for days even a week. I set a record for more than 2 weeks of not sleeping. Funny thing is that even I don't sleep for more than 2 weeks I don't have sleep deprivation behaviors. However, sometime I felt sensations on the whole brain. like I am feeling a small amount of voltage flowing around my brain. What's going on in my brian? Any suggestions?
Actually dying from sleep deprivation........
There was a story in a nightime news program,maybe back in the eighties,about a man that became ill and they could not find out what was wrong with him.He steadily got worse until he had to be hospitalized.Eventually the nurses noticed every time they entered his room he was wide awake,but failing in his functionality.He underwent a myriad of testing but they could find nothing physically wrong and I think any psychological or psychiatric problems were also ruled out.He eventually died and the only thing they could note about him on his death was that he did not sleep.I think this went on for months.It wore him down.They had videos of him.I would like to find that story.Do any of you have any idea?
sleeping
i'm jessica and i'm in 6th grade.i haven't gone to bed for quite some time and i'm really tired.i go to sleep during classes,on the bus anywhere thats available but i'm still not getting enough sleep.i feel like my eye lids are stuck to the top of my eye and i can't get it down.i do NOT know what to do.
When I was younger I was
When I was younger I was like you and I couldn't sleep at home because I didn't feel safe. I was always afraid that something would happened to me if i didn't stay awake. I would sleep anywhere but at home. Here is the thing if you can go to sleep anywhere I mean anywhere and not at home. Then you have to figure out what problem is going on at home thats making you not sleep. I didn't truly figure out my prblem until I was 26 I am now 28. Till this day every once in awhile I still get that feeling that if I fall asleep someone will hurt me if I fall asleep. And talking helps you hae no idea how much talking can help relieve stress.
I dream (or would like to) of sleep
When I was a child my parents would keep me up at night listening to loud music. Perhaps they thought I would get used to it. I think it started a cycle of cronic insomnia that has yet to end. I have lived all over, had all different beds, had different jobs, but I can never, never turn my mind off. Last year I kicked a 3 year habit of Benzos, I was up to about 4mgs of Xanax a night and finally decided I had to stop. The reason I started however was because without sleep,I was always sick. So I figured what was worse, being an addict or being sick all the time. I choose addict. Coming off these drugs was (as my research shows) is as hard as coming of Heroin. I was sick, in terrible pain, had seizures and ended up in a hospital, it was awful but I did it. Recently, I have started getting sick again, all the time. I miss work, I feel guilty, that makes me worry, it keeps me up again, I get sicker, miss more work. So I find myself turning to the hard core sleep drugs again (having already tried every single natural remedy in the world) Today, after 6 days straight without a wink of sleep, I lost it at work. I raised my voice, I cried, I shook, I even pointed my finger. My behavior was completely irrational. I have experience all of the symptoms people on this board have, and I am I just sick and tired of being sick and tired. Then I see the commercials and wonder if I am depressed and need those drugs? But really, it is all a matter of my mind, I think about work constantly, I worry about things non stop, I cannot seem to stop, cannot seem to turn my mind off. I try counting and breathing and chanting and books and music.I am not really sure why all these people on this board are trying to stay awake when the rest of us would just love to sleep. One nigh, and I will always remember it, I slept 6 hours without waking once. It was an amazing thing I will never forget.
I dream (or would like to) of sleep
I read what you have written and was amaized because I thought that I was the only one getting grazy without sleep. No one around me understands what this is going to my body. My husband make noices in his sleep all night long the dogs keep me up with there noices. Anything that moves I hear and somethimes it feels like I am not lying down I am hovering over my bed. I cannot tell you when last I slept a full night through. Everything that happens around me is too much I want to cry and shout all day long. I don't know what to do? Don't know if I should go to the doctor because I don't want to live on medication I just want to sleep. I think it has to do with my perants fighting all night when I was still a child, I couldn't sleep because I didn't know when he was going to hurt her again and then we will have to run in the night before he would try to kill her. I don't know what to do?
Wierd Reality
hi i am a 14 year old. i've been awake for 2 weeks without any sleep and its strange that everything around me looks the same as it did before i stopped sleeping but its also different then what would make reality. seem like a one dimentional world which i think either i'm near death or have already passed on.
anything that can get me even 1 minute of sleep would help i've already had violent seizures that nearly put me in a coma (according to my parents it was horrifying)
this is valkyrie signing out
My results!
In total I made it for total of 4 consecutive days without any sleep. Some of the hallucinations I experianced were auditory as well as visual. One my experiances wasas follows I Was bed and I looked up and noticed a really wierd looking flying object in my room bumping the top of my ceiling. I thought it was a toy my sister was playing with but when i got up to investigate i discovered that i was the only one in the house at the time. It really wierded me out and actually frightned me . As for the auditory hallucinations I imagined i was hearing some sort of power tools but ithappened to be very late at night and noone would be using such a tool. Now as for the total experiance food became unedible. Soda and video games were my best friend during the time especially because i had contact with people at all time through the online games. I also found that talking to my meth head friensd over the cell phone helped me to stay awake. Im sure you can guess why she was awake......meth. Anyways on the final day of my concisesnoius i went to visit a friend at about 5 in the moring we talked for a few hours and i got home around 9 in the morning. When i finally got home i felt completely exhausted and felt an incontrollable urge to lye down. Next thing i know its almost midnight and im wondering where the time went. It was one of the most extreme things i have ever experienced atying up for so long. I plan to retry the experiment agin only this time without cigarretes for stmulation and without as much video games. I will stay in contact with friends through cellular texting and i will catch up on my reading. wish me luck and ill keep you all posted.
hallucinations
I have not had any sleep for 10 days and I can tell you I have hallucinated for allmost 8 days now. Can anyone shed some light on this please? Where do I go? What do I do?
It hurts to sleep
Hi I'm lubie from Canberra and 7 months ago the girl i loved broke up with me...
i have been having trouble sleeping because i always dream of her, i can sleep but i avoid it because its painful... now i force myself to sleep but i cant, i think it has become a habit of not sleeping... iv tried calming music and it all reminds me of her... iv been diagnosed with depression and i guess that's why i cant sleep... i need to sleep because my whole life has been failing because i cant think properly... but really i think ill be fine, although if everyone in my family knew, i think that they would totally freak out on me... I'm really witting for my cousin who is having the same problems because of a girl... he's 25 and I'm 15 and could anyone please tell me a way for him to be able to sleep properly?
Help
my mom and grandmother think im sleep deprived ,ive read some of the other comments and i dont think mine's that severe i skeep from around 12 -1 to around 6:50 i never hear my alarm in the morning so i miss the bus, my mom wakes me (angerly) im normally lazy in the mornings so in turn im usually late 4 school i have over 5 tardies 2 my first peroid class. most of the time in the morning i just close my door after my mom wakes me and go back to sleep because i feel like im 2 tired to function properlyand after my mom yells again that im gonna b late because she thinks im changing my clothes.yesterday (dec. 3,2008) around 12 my mom called my downstairs to ask me if i was done w/ my hw ( i have a project overdue that takes several more hours) i told her no and she wouldnt let me do my hw she reapetedly told me 2 go to bed because she said i looked like i was gonna pass out , and i looked confused. i thought it was random but she kept talking and i started 2 cry (i still dont know why) , my mom had 2 walk me up the stairs after i tripped,i had a really intense headache after i sat down and got up too fast, i began 2 feel slightly dizzy so i fell aleep in my day clothes in my bed and when i woke up it was 12p.m. in the afternoon . i knew i wouldnt be able to go 2 skool but when i awoke i was still tired . i now remember having test a long time ago when my mom said i was staring off into space they took me some place , put these things on my head & hair & made me sleep i didnt know what they were doing at the time i might have been 5 - 7 in 6th & 7th grade i went to sleep around 2 a.m. and ariving late to class, now reading theses articles it all fits together creepely . need help on what to do please email u if u have answers , im just a 13 year old 8th grader looking for answers
Sleep? What's that?
Somehow I have survived insomnia for more than 30 yr. which is more than half my life. It makes me tired just thinking of sleep deprivation. Sometimes I think I would sell my soul if I could just sleep more than 4 hour of sleep a night, if you want to call it that. Often I sleep less than that, 2 or 3 hours a night.
Sleep deprivation is barred as torture by the Geneva Convention. I guess I have been tortured for 3 decades. It gets a little old after awhile.
Sleeping pills don't do a whole lot of good.
It's hell feeling like hell most of the time.
i can relate
It's hard I wish i could get 2 or 3 hours of sleep a night. I don't get sleep at all. My head feels weird and hurts a lot. It's stressed from sleeplessness. For some reason my lobes or eyes will not shutdown. It's like they got use to staying up so they don't wanna close. I don't get a lot of sleep but i try to do other things to take my mind off it. I have cognition issues, but somehow i can still type this. You have to force yourself to do things to stimulate the mind somehow. I look at the bright side. I'm still alive. It's hell but hey is it really that bad? yeah heha
sleeping
o.k. first things first maybes its just all in your head you just don't know it yet.if its that bad get a sleeping mask where it when your about to fall asleep. that will keep your eyes shut or you can just use tape.
good luck with your problem and i hope i helped.
sleep depravation effects
Hi my name is Daveed Zich and ive purposly been depriving myself of sleep just to see how it affects me. Well as of the time im writing this Ive basically been up for 3 days with about 5 hours of sleep total. Im am now going to completely cut out any and all sleep. But for the little time I have slept in the past few days I had one of the most vivid dreams that Ive ever expirienced it was almost as if I didnt realize it was a dream until I woke up. It turns out i was asleep for only about an hour but while expiriencing the dream it seemed to have lasted for days. Anyways im very curios as to how intense the hallucinations might be and im planning on staying up for as long as possible. To help me stay awake Ill be drinking lots of soda, playing online vid games, and smoking cigarettes they seem to stimulate me. Now ill be starting tonight with a new go and I plan to try for 5 consecutive days without any sleep whatsoever. Ill be posting here in the neare future to keep u guys posted as to how im doing.
That is exactly what i am
That is exactly what i am doing.
it interests me very much to see how i will act after staying awake for so long.
like you, i am also very curious about the intensity of the hallucinations.
i am in high school, and im worried about my grades going down and people thinking im on some sort of hallucinogen or drug, but it seems like a fun expiriment...
good luck!!
...going without sleep still messes me up.
But of course as we all have seen, the comments on this page do not point to there being anything different happening than getting messed up by sleep deprivation.
So maybe a month after posting my first comment on this page, (going without sleep can mess me up sometimes...) i started getting back to a normal pattern of sleeping. Now just about a week ago my neighbor friend rented Call Of Duty: World at War. Now you probably know where this is going...
So yes i went over and played COD. Yes i even spent the night at his house Tuesday and Wednesday. And yes of course, i played about a full days worth of COD... Now after i played all those two nights i thought i'd be fine. But again, this has happened before with the parties. Why didn't i see it coming?
So it's friday and two of my friends are over at my place and we're eating pizza. Nothing big, just hanging out and talking i guess. From there on out the night and the next day basically blurred into one another. That evening was spent like Harold and Kumar state because we went on some trip to the Circle K (instead of a White Castle) a few miles away to get me some energy drinks. It took nearly two hours...i think.
If i could remember anything, i would tell you everything, but nope. My brain couldn't handle it. So i'm going off of what my friends told me happened. We left for the store, and i was walking around as if i had way too many beers (but i haven't drunk before) and people walking by looked at us with the wierdest looks. They made me stay out of the store to stop the workers inside from wanting to question me about drugs. Serious then...only kind of funny now.
I think i thought i was playing COD because i was running around calling out "bouncing betty!" and tripping over myself. Somewhere on the way back i suddenly stopped and pulled some Christopher Titus out for a minute and reenacted the bonfire part. "I screamed, what would you do?" apparently i was hilarious...
So with that all out of the way. I'm going to actually do some school. Until i write back... this is LukeT. (was the Trashmunki, but thats just dumb)
In July of this year I
In July of this year I passed out at the wheel and flipped my car 3.5 times; I didn't wake up for 24 hours. The only reason I am alive is because the doctors said my body basically shut so far down as to be in a comatose state. My doctor thinks I may have had a seizure, but I am not sure. Is it possible to have a sleep deprivation induced seizure?
I am a university freshman this year and for the last seven years I have only slept 1-3 hours a night. How is this going to affect my learning capabilities?
Is there anything I can do to help make myself sleep more at night? My psychiatrist gave me lorazepam 2mg to take every night but it doesn't even touch me most nights.
sleeping
if you get some sleep your grades will go up.your probably really tired and its perfectly fine if you are.start going to bed at about 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. and try to get some sleep.
'we'll get all the sleep we
'we'll get all the sleep we need when we're dead'....'life's too short to waste on sleep'....ya, right. you wouldn't hear a peep outta me if sleep wasn't a VITAL and NECESSARY part of life. forget everything else, but DO NOT forget to sleep at night....it WILL catch up with you sooner rather than later and you WILL pay a VERY heavy price for it. try to establish a routine so that your body gets used to getting tired at say 10 at night so you can wake up bright and early at 6 or 7 and get ready for the day. always sleep AT LEAST 7-8 hours a night unless you know you can function with less. that's all i got. peace, good will, and be excellent to each other.
Sleep deprivation.
Hi i'm a typical 34 year old male, i have my share of issues but the major one i think effects more people then just the one who have the obvious signs.
* Dark sometimes almost black circles or bags surround the eyes.
* Irritable most of the time, or quick to over react.
* Erratic behavior ie: something they wouldn't normally do.
This list of common symptoms is almost endless, depends heavily on these things in a persons life
* Figurative environment - ie: where they live, eg: near freeway or noisy neighborhood, where they work and relax or perhaps sometimes retire to.
* Assumptions made - how they see their life in general "i get enough sleep, i'll be ok, i need more sleep" etc.
* Surmountable evidence - meaning as time rolls by, the habits of a sleep deprived person will, can or may appear normal, but is still evident.
* Terminology - is it really fair to take a persons life and label it as "Sleep deprivation?" The answer is no, clearly not, but any suspicion of SD should be treated by a professional and handled accordingly.
Now in case some of you didn't notice, i have just illustrated a good way to die fast
(note the letter each point above begins with)
I believe there is one other major factor that most people overlook, and that would be the fact that SD & stress is high on my list of things to avoid at all costs. Stress when coupled with SD almost magnifies the actual problem, it can also compile (in a very short time ie: less then a week) the start of irregular sleeping pattern, after two (2) weeks the problem (Stress & SD) may start to appear normal, even though the early signs tells us something is starting to go wrong. My advice to anyone who thinks they may have developed these kinds of problems or symptoms is have a health professional check you out (Start by referral from a GP if you need to) and look at what is needed to get some sleep, because if it took you two (2) weeks to get like this, it will probably take you twice as long to catch up on the sleep you missed ie: a month.
I had been working a rotational shift, and i was also supervising other staff on these shifts, stress wasn't a major factor until some things that were going on at home really started to magnify how i was feeling. My family had gotten used to my irritability and coming home in the middle of the night, watching TV or researching on the internet till the wee small hours to wind down after being on the go for 8-10 hours on shift, this went on for approximately six (6) months, day shift one week, night shift the next ... gradually building up a sleeping problem, i realized i lived less then 100 meters from a major railway line, and beyond that was a 6 lane freeway that kept the noise levels up pretty much constant. I went to the local hospital (whilst suffering from a severe lack of sleep) explaining to them, i couldn't seem to get to sleep and i felt as though i was about to have coronary failure of some sort, to which they began to treat me initially as a junkie (assuming i was high) and kept asking me what i had taken, then they took a slightly different, more scary approach and began to treat me as if i might be suffering from some form of either anxiety or depression, possibly even insanity as i had been listening in to the doctors who spoke about me, presuming i couldn't hear them. Obviously i was keen to find out what their prognosis was and i was alarmed to find out i was to be kept under lock and key so to speak, i was not allowed access outside the hospital, and even more concerning was the fact, there was no possible exit without sneaking past the front desk.
About 7-8 hours later i managed to escape the confines of the hospital and decided to call my local GP for help, he prescribed sleeping tablets and i slept on them for about 9 - 10 weeks every night until some form of normal returned. I still feel as though lack of sleep is being under diagnosed as some form of depression or other similar problem. If you think you aren't getting enough sleep, you probably aren't and this is the first problem you should always treat it as such. Get your sleeping pattern constant for a week or two, and maintain this, if your health continues to improve, you saved yourself a possible adventure to the mental health unit at your local hospital.
I was able to get more sleep
I have been through four years of college and I had the most hectic sleep pattern because of my flexible schedules every semester and not to mention work study programs. I hated not being able to sleep when I wanted. I dont know about everyone else on here because it seems some people enjoy not going to sleep but I know for me personally I needed to change this habit because I was hired for a job right out of college and I couldnt afford to not get sleep at night. I tried this all natural product called Sleep aid and it helped me sleep a great deal. I also purchased some relaxation music. I've been using the 2 for quite a while now and it seems to work pretty well. I have been sleeping great for months now. Just wanted to share my experience with all of you guys and I hope that this was helpful.
the things it does to you...
back again to write more...
its story time o yea
so for a while (aobut 2 weeks) i went back to actually going to sleep and getting rest. but of course that didnt stick for long. so now im up again (5 a.m. right now) and i went completely with no sleep yesterday and now today again...this is what happens....
When i go with no sleep, weird stuf happens...from getting scared to death of bb's to more recently, seeing bugs on my arm. it realy freaked me out that night when i halucinated the bugs...i was talking to myu friend on the fone and i was completely out of it, then all of a sudden i start saying something about a bug on my arm and how it kept getin bigger and it was gonna kill me. he decided he'd continue and go on with my story and he told me that the bug was actualy good cuz it payed my rent... what?!!?
so thats all for now, and il write more later...anyways, wierd things happen wen u dont sleep...so always wear a helmet.
I NEED SLEEP
I was so curious to read about being sleep deprived becuz I think I am. Now its not like I go days without sleep. As a matter of fact, I sleep everynight. But for only 3 or 4 hours. I've been having crazy thoughts and dreams. I've been so concerned and worried about everything and everybody around me like never before. I've tried coffee, energy drinks, and naps. But nothing works. I dont know what 2 do. I just dont want it to get worse. Plus I 'm in school, I have a beautiful daughther in school now and I work during the week. Its stressful. But could me not getting sleep be the cause of my stress??? Please give me some answers or advice.
Thank you
NM
Let me firstly say i am not
Let me firstly say i am not a health professional, and you should see one as soon as you possibly can. I was however diagnosed and treated for a common workplace problem, and that of course is sleep deprivation.
It breeds anxiety and depression, you need to get more sleep and even if that means do only what you have to, and spend more time in bed. Only you or your GP can recommend how much sleep is needed, but if being treated like i was, you would probably be needing some form of either relaxation techniques and or in extreme cases, sleep medication like i was on for several months.
remidy needed
Hi there,
i was wondering if you have any suggestions on how my partner may get to sleep.
I have found that it is effecting all aspects of her life including our relationship.
It is frustrating not being able to help.
I am scared for her sanity and health.
Thanks
vic
listin to music
listin to music
Relaxation is the key to
Relaxation is the key to regular sleep, giving the body a chance to unwind, if this does not help, go seek professional help from a Doctor.
Sleep deprivation and drug use
What is the relationship between long term "upper" drugs, such as meth, and sleep deprivation? Are the mental effects of drug use just caused by the drug or in combination of lack of sleep and the drug? I have noticed similarities between the effects of meth and sleep deprivation. Any thoughts on this?
Sleep Deprivation and related drug use
I use to say that the real high from meth was the sleep deprivation. The hallucinations were great... I loved to hallucinate. That is when I was an avid user, well to be quite honest an addict. I used speed for over 15 years and in the end was doing it IV style. In response to your question and being a seasoned-veteran with meth, I just had to write something. I do believe that the mental effects of the drug,combines with the no sleep part can take a person to dangerous, and heightened levels within their mind(s). Often, if a person has been awake for more than 48 hours, I would be opt to say that they are going to, or already are hallucinating.Psychosis from lack of sleep, the drug's chemical and dopamine effects on the brain can cause auditory and visual hallucinations as well as delusional behavior. Meth and what it may contain within it can vary from being made with and/or cut with bleach,acetone,baby laxatives, MSM, chlorohydride crystals, other household cleaners etc,etc, etc ... the list goes on. You have to consider administration of the drug being taken and the amount of time in which someone may be up. Either way, it is gambling with your central nervous system and your neural receptors called: dendrites in your brain... it can fry em! You need those dendrites to connect your thoughts to the axon part of your neurons to make synaptic connections. There is NO NEED to stay up for more than 24 hours ... no need. I think about the amount of sleep I have lost within my lifetime just from staying up from ALL the meth I have done, and I can never get it back. You might sleep just a mere 14 hours from being out (or should I say up) on a binge from tweaking, after having been up for three or even 10 or more days. Sleep deprivation actually increases the efficiency of sleep. I have meet people who have told me they stayed up for a month straight... bullshit! You simply cannot stay up for that amount of time and NOT have your body say: STOP and it shuts down. The little nodding or "falling out" which is experienced by many meth users is called: micro sleep... that is your body telling you that hey man quit the dumb shit I need to sleep some! The micro sleep usually doesn't last but by 2-10 seconds if that, and you usually don't remember it. Anyone out there a meth user , and having been an addict myself for over 15 years and living out on the streets of San Fran because the of drug. PLEASE think twice about what you are doing and consider becoming sober... or the very least take a break. Speed rapes your soul... it rapes who you are! Blessed Be everyone!
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