Sleep Deprivation

[TheLizardQueen]

Has anyone ever purposely, or not by choice, been deprived of sleep and felt a soft hallucination coming on? the longest I've ever gone without sleeping is about 3 days, and it felt pretty weird.

[StonerBill]

3 days is more than enough for misperceptions to begin.

[mellow]

Careful, you can die if you go about 9 days without sleep. If thats even possible.

I know what you mean though I've gone about 24 hours without sleep and felt really 'out of it'.

[moka9x9]

I stayed up on Dexedrine for 4 days, and I was looking at candles and the shadows were dancing up the wall, I kept passing out, but only for like 10 minutes at a time.. it was crazy

[prismatism]

yeah, i've done it. on about the 3rd night, i was lying in my room and the spray-paint flowers on my wall started floating around and dripping. then i got scared my stuffed unicorn was alive, and the guy on my Dark Crystal poster seemed to be coming out of the wall towards me. i just stared at that poster for so long :D. oh, and a chair across the room seemed to be going really far away, and then getting really really close, and the legs + bar on the back were wiggly like snakes. i wrote some stuff down, and my writing was crazy. completely random things, and i couldn't concentrate on a full thought long enough to write it down. and i know it wasn't the placebo effect, because i was entirely not expecting it. the coolest thing was how the dimensions of everything seemed to keep changing. it was fun.

[StonerBill]

if you try writing schoolwork in that period when you keep passing out and waking up, youll be surprised when you go to study for the exam!!

[moka9x9]

yeah, i've done it. on about the 3rd night, i was lying in my room and the spray-paint flowers on my wall started floating around and dripping. then i got scared my stuffed unicorn was alive, and the guy on my Dark Crystal poster seemed to be coming out of the wall towards me. i just stared at that poster for so long :D. oh, and a chair across the room seemed to be going really far away, and then getting really really close, and the legs + bar on the back were wiggly like snakes. i wrote some stuff down, and my writing was crazy. completely random things, and i couldn't concentrate on a full thought long enough to write it down. and i know it wasn't the placebo effect, because i was entirely not expecting it. the coolest thing was how the dimensions of everything seemed to keep changing. it was fun.=

Acid Head
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Scitzophrenia

[prismatism]

well i might have schizophrenia (i've wondered about it a lot) but i was pretty sure that was because of the lack of sleep...

damnit. i've never done acid. do you really think that what i experienced was so weird?

[StonerBill]

its not acid or schizophrenia, its sleep deprivation and it fucks everyone up different. neurons are not designed to continually function that long. theyre meant to go through multiple stages of action and metabolism - hence sleep

[Peter Popper]

iv stayed up for a max of 40 hours on ice.

saposably after 24 hours of being awake, your body becomes 'naturally' legally drunk, "this explains the 'extra rich euphoric vision' you get by the time its the next day.

my weirdest experience being when i was up all night, then took my last hit of ice at 1pm (i planned to save the rest and cut myself off at that time).
at about 8pm or 9pm, while in my room studying Biology i noticed an "extra meaning in the text", like suddenly i zoned out into the text and discovered all these amazing things that were written, then snap back to reallity and frantically re-reading the text, it was just plain text.
pretty weird, then about 10 or so minits after having that occuring i mustave "Blacked out" and gone to bed while asleep. as at about 10pm my mum came into my room to see where i was (as i usually go and watch tv before bed)
saying how unusual it was, when she woke me, i thought it was morning then was sooo confused to think that i went to bed without remembering or having control over it. i dont like not having control over what i do, it scared me.

[StonerBill]

built up dream-elements might have tried to surface once your brain no longer had enough dopamine to manage its thoughts? its a simple but vaguely directional idea...?

[Peter Popper]

yeah, i think your right.
like the brain wondered away into a waking dream integrating reality and fantasy, then to suddenly snap out of it.

when you become really tired or been up on speed, sounds seem to take on a slightly distant like illusion.
or if your really tired and your trying to sleep on the couch people sound really distant at those few moments before your asleep and your brain races with crazy thought you wouldnt be able to remember. anyone experienced that?

[trippedelia]

every time, i know exactly whatcha mean

[zeppelin kid]

Yes sleep deprivation will cause most people to funcion pretty badly especially if you are trying to concentrate or think. And you get agitated easily and you can actually feel your body telling you it needs sleep, it feels dirty.

[sourdiesel06]

I've never been up for that long, but I have stayed up for around 48 hours fueled by 60 mg of adderall and the entire second day was a blur. I was wide awake but definitely feeling the early effects of sleep deprivation. Almost like when you first start to feel the high from smoking weed..

[freakon]

yeah, i love to push my self and see haw far my body/mind can take it. sometiimes w sometimes w/o upper/stimulant......... u know it was (i guess it might still be) trend among cool rockers to see how long they could stay awake.... for many of them it was about "what if i miss anythin FUN?!
but i just have to say> if you are awake for a long ime even w/o drugs, DON"T drive, i had a small accident on the motorbike, so stupid, dunno how it happened..... but obviously my brain was not at it fullest potential!
but ok, i love to stay awake so long that you are not tired any more................. yeah well don't try it at home (?) if u donn't know your limits/yourself...........

[sarahhh]

I think the longest i've stayed awake was 4 days... and that was pretty intense.. by the end i remember driving home... passenger of course, and staring out the front window and seeing a huge group of people in the street just standing there as a running car came rushing towards them... i remember thinking what the fuck but not being able to come up with any sort of reatcion other then wide eyes... then as we got closer i realised all the people i thought i saw were really a row of parking meters along the street....I also hear a lot of things on sleep dep.. just random voices and words coming from nowhere, sometimes i hear music that isn't really playing...and get a really strange sence of someone else being there even when im completely along in a room... sleep dep isn't a scarce thing for me.. i usually dont sleep on the weekends as it is, but that was probably the strangest occasion.

[**PsYcHoDeLiC**]

oh, and a chair across the room seemed to be going really far away, and then getting really really close, and the legs + bar on the back were wiggly like snakes. i wrote some stuff down, and my writing was crazy. completely random things, and i couldn't concentrate on a full thought long enough to write it down. and i know it wasn't the placebo effect, because i was entirely not expecting it. .
I exeperienced somethin sorta similar but not from sleep deprivation it was after i had taken some moggies and forced myself to stay awake. the desk down the corridor kept coming closer and then goin further away in like a jolty fashion. xxx

[VespertineRising]

sketching out is a common thing to do when you havent slept in a while. Thoughts flow alot faster but seem confusing at times. Lines start to blur and your perception is alittle bit weakend. Its a funny feeling sometimes

[Tiocfaidh ár Lá]

(a few months ago) I felt relaxed but I couldn’t go to sleep i didn't mean to but no matter what i tried: nothing, music, talking, internet, TV, walking, running, warm milk they just made me want to do it more (the stuff I tried). the third day my friend heard something was up so she gave me something and said I would make me sleep so I’m better now. but it didn't really do much just A good feeling tingle, slight discoloration of stuff, slight energy boost from over tiredness a few more things but mostly just got my cranky and inpatient but if you were trying to get something from it I don’t think it’s a good idea you could get really sick :(

but thats just me... i only get a little sleep but i like my dreams...so i'll stick to other stuff

[LSDPsychonaut]

Happens to me whenever i take too many speedy rolls.

[bellringer]

This has been me all the time since I moved to las vegas and grind poker for a job. I play for really long sessions, get home and watch a season of something, deadwood at the moment, go back and play poker...i finally pass out when I completly can't concentrate on any part of poker anymore. I just more of zone out really hard, everything gets kinda outta focus.

[cantsmokenomore]

Once I didn't sleep for a couple days and everything around me looked swirly and melty. It was pretty awesome. Whenever I don't get enough sleep I feel a slight buzz, and it's hard for me to remember or comprehend what people say. I basically start feeling stony.

My friend stayed up for three days and started seeing pink bunnies in random places. He also climbed the cell phone tower in his back yard, but I think that was alcohol induced.

[italianhippie750]

how could someone die from 9 days without sleep...

[C123-473]

Randy Gardner holds the Guinness world record (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Book_of_Records) for the longest period of time a human being has gone without sleep (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep). In 1964 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964), as a 17-year-old high school (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_school) student, Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days) with the help of friends, TV reporters, and games of pinball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball). On his final day without sleep, Gardner presided over a press conference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_conference) where he spoke without slurring or stumbling his words and in general appeared to be in excellent health. "I wanted to prove that bad things didn't happen if you went without sleep," said Gardner. "I thought, 'I can break that (Peter Tripp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tripp)'s 1959 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959)) record and I don't think it would be a negative experience.'" Sleep experts now believe that such sleep deprivation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation) stunts are dangerous (Veasey et al., 2002).

It is often claimed that Gardner's experiment demonstrated that extreme sleep deprivation has little effect. This is primarily due to a report by researcher William Dement, who stated that on the tenth day of the experiment, Gardner had been, among other things, able to beat Dement at pinball. However, Lt. Cmdr. John J. Ross of the US Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, who monitored Gardner's condition at the request of his parents, reported serious cognitive and behavioral changes. These included moodiness, problems with concentration and short term memory, paranoia, and hallucinations. On the fourth day he had a delusion that he was a famous black football player, and that a street sign was a person. On the eleventh day, when he was asked to subtract seven repeatedly, starting with 100, he stopped at 65. When asked why he had stopped, he replied that he had forgotten what he was doing.

[DirtyBongAlexa]

insomnia rocks sometimes but then it sucks

we have a love hate relationship :)

[zenpuppetz]

sleep deprivation can definitely cause some pretty vivid hallucinations, i used to be a soldier, and operating under sleep deprivation was pretty standard in our training and combat operations and i can tell you i saw some pretty messed up stuff after a few days

[ergotoxine]

Once on a binge of pure crystals- meth ampetamine- I must have used close to a gram over five days- maybe more- in it's pure form thats a lot. Anyway for 5 days I didn't even rest- not even lie down for a minute, I was pretty out of it towards the end but in a weird way- developed a snake phobia- in northern australia we have 5 of the worlds top 10 deadly species of snake- The garden hose was a snake- my shoe laces become snakes- It was hard to tell what's real and what isn't.

[Inavacuum]

y first experience and most recent experience with sleep deprivation happened to me a few weeks ago. I at a bunch of doses at about 11 friday night. I stayed up till 5 or 6 tripping. I then realized I had to go to work at 930. I couldnt sleep bcz I was still midly fucked up from the doses. I drank
pots of coffee and went to work. I found that anytime I wasnt constantly moving (working) I started to doze off incredibly easy. So by 10 that mirning I had been awake for 26 hours. I stayed up another ten for a total of 36 hours with no sleep and the time being around 8 saturday night. When I was off work and at home it was one of the strangest things ever. I started to see shadows and movements that I knew were'nt real. I thin kit was a combo of having a lot of LSD in my system and being hat fucing tired. I was just catching wicked trails which I contributed mainly to the doses but the shadows and just the state of mind I was in was something that could not have been lsd alone. It wasn't fun. I wouldnt be up for doing it again.

[dice]

I don't know the longest I've gone without sleep.... I suppose something like 30 hours... but if I don't get enough sleep I just cry. Haha.....

[MeatWagon499]

last time i did meth i stayed up for somewhere around 72 hours and just about everything id look at would wiggle like it was underwater or something. i remember shit on the ground kind of looking like snakes and shit lol. wasnt too fun i took a xanax my friend gave me and passed out at around 4am.