.. Define 'definable sleep'.

Yeah.

Trust me, they were sleeping in some form or another. It may have been short fits of nrem, they may have never completed a single natural circadian rythm, but they were sleeping.

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For me, the longest I stayed up was 27 hours (little more than a day). I usually go to bed like at 3AM in the morning and sleep until like 2PM in the past few days. There have been days when I go to sleep as late as 11AM in the morning and wake up at 9PM at night. This kind of sleeping always worries my father and makes him wonder if I'm some sort of drug addict. Personally, I wish he'd just STFU and lay off. I'm just weird like that.

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Yeah, my dad is the kind of guy that goes to bed before you ever wake up, and wake up before you ever go to sleep.

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Two good stories (IMO):

1.) 34 hour stay-up from LANParty/New Year's Eve thing last year. So, we're totally kicking out the Starcraft at like, hour 32, and then this one guy starts screaming when I attack his harvesters, and I'm like, "HAHAHAHA!" and he's like, "NO, dude, it's not that you're killing them, my eyes are bleeding!!!" and they were. Totally something out of a Sci-Fi movie, but it happened. (apparently he popped a blood vessel in the bottom corner of his right eye, but it was sick crazy weird)

2.) I'm up for about 24 full hours, and I'm driving down the road (Dangerous. Don't ever do this!) and I start to zonk out. My friend is like "OMG, dude, wake up!!" and I wake up and make it to drop him off and then home. Around this time, I get up to my room, and have to use the bathroom. I go in, sit down (hey, after pizza and loads of Mountain Dew, you gotta go sometime) and do my business. I woke up 5 hours later when my sister came home and knocked on the door asking if I was alright.

I also passed out this year after an all night gaming experience while putting up christmas lights.



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From what I can tell, "sleep" is a state in which consciousness of the world is suspended. NREM wouldn't fall under that category.

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Same here, except I feel intoxicated.

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It isn't good to sleep too much, either. I fell asleep with my eyes open once, and when I realized what had happened, I tried to move, but I couldn't. And my grandparents (whose house I was staying at) had left to go shopping. I freaked out, and finally regained bodily control by not breathing until I choked and it woke me up.

Oh, and my record is around three days. I spent about a day of it trapped in this sealed off room playing on a Gamecube and with some board games. When I stumbled out of there... it was just whoa...

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And that's the definition that this entire thread is predicated on? Well then all of these are small feats to say the least. Hell, I haven't had a solid night of REM in a little over a year. I guess I win.

For the record though, nrem does indicate a state of suspended consciousness. NREM accounts for like, 3/4ths of your sleeping time. I've gotta imagine that you knew that though, so I'm starting to feel like the rules of this game have changed drastically.

[This message has been edited by Slug (edited December 23, 2003).]

Hmm...I didn't exactly mean to say that, I mean that nrem would fall under "definatble sleep" and so your argument that those people catching a wink or two through nrem wouldn't work.

Exactly, what rules are changing, and for what game?

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[This message has been edited by Roach (edited December 23, 2003).]

Well, that goes against everything that I've ever been taught about insomnia (Btw, while checking to see if I could figure out what Guiness calls "definable sleep", I stumbled across something weird - Only they seem to have heard of chronic colestites. Or non-chronic colestites). My point is, Guiness probably isn't the greatest source here.

Sorry, not gonna take a novelty book using a term that doesn't seem to exist over medical texts.

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Hmmm...you seem to be right on the made-up word bit.

The best I can do is point you towards Robert McDonald , who stayed awake for more than 2 weeks. I'm not trying to say that sleep isn't needed, I'm just saying that you trying to say people are lying for staying up for extended periods of time aren't out of the question, as long as they don't try to claim they were running marathons or something after the third day.

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I've always heard the Robert McDonald claims referred to with doubt, and a quick google search seems to agree - The word "supposedly" or "claimed" is always attached to the factoid. However, I'm not saying it's not true, just that I can't find a decent source on the story, on the specifics, and how it affected him. I *have* seen several stories of people who suffered long-term brain damage from a week of sleep deprivation.

That withstanding - The reason I posted on this thread is because a pet-peeve of mine is stylish insomnia. Somewhere along the line, it became cool to have insomnia, as if it suggested a person who was slightly out of synch with the rest of the population, and somehow unique. Night-owls often display this same behavior. Failing a claim of insomnia, people will simply start throwing out ridiculously long periods of time spent without rest. If you're sticking with your assertion of 11 days, then fine. I won't call you a liar - I've been avoiding calling anyone in particular a liar - But you know as well as I do that there are plenty of lies in this thread, and there were plenty more coming.

That first link is probably going to give me nightmares. The paintings on there are scary...

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