Sleep Deprivation

Happens to me whenever i take too many speedy rolls.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Randy Gardner holds the Guinness world record for the longest period of time a human being has gone without sleep. In 1964, as a 17-year-old high school student, Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days) with the help of friends, TV reporters, and games of pinball. On his final day without sleep, Gardner presided over a 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's 1959) record and I don't think it would be a negative experience.'" Sleep experts now believe that such 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.

 

insomnia rocks sometimes but then it sucks

we have a love hate relationship

 

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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.....

 

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.