What the longest a human being can go without sleep and function? Is it ever considered wise to go without sleep?

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According to Guinness... 264 hours (11 days) If you've had a recent head injury, doctors will advise you do not go to sleep for awhile. Sources: sleepzine.com/category/sleep-celebrity/ .

I think about 10 days because your brain chemistry changes when you enter REM/deep sleep mode. Without those changes, your body will fail. If you go for several days without sleep, you can enter a sort of 'waking REM' where your brain starts dreaming even though you are 'awake'.

I participated in an experiment in college where we stayed up three nights without sleep, then were video taped in interviews. It was weird watching it afterwards, because I was lucid and interactive with the interviewer, but I had no memory of the interview itself. The REALLY weird thing is that we did this as part of an Art story class - the idea was to discover if we know 'truth' in our dream selves that we don't know in our waking selves, and if so, is there a way to transfer that truth to our art?

And did great artists in history have this kind of connectiveness with themselves that we've somehow lost in the complexity of our culture? Anyway, there is a limit to how long a human can go without sleep. Long enough and you will experience some really weird effects, but after that, you could die.So no it's not 'wise' to go without sleep.

The body can handle it, for a night or two, but really, we're built for 8 hours a night (allowing some variation, person to person).

I believe the longest I could go without sleep and function properly is: 46 hours. I am not accurate by paper figures, it’s by my personal experience. I believe it is not wise to do so.

The thought and decision making process when one person has lack of sleep are not always rational. And, believe me I would not be very good company if you try to keep me up! For me, drinking coffee and other caffeine drinks do not always work.My stomach just feels like a big pool of water!

I would never jeopardize my life or anyone else’s by operating machinery or a vehicle. Sleep Deprivation is very serious, If you do not get the proper sleep, you could pass out, faint, get light headed, become dizzy, irritable, have hallucinations, headaches or cause injury to self by falling down. I personally would not advise anyone to try this at home!(or anywhere else).

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There are functioning insomniacs who never sleep There are people who never sleep at all and are still functioning. But those are extreme cases. The experts say you need 8 or more hours in every 24 hour period.

The 24 hour period is our natural circadian rythem, set by the 24 hour day. The Navy has done some interesting experiments in their nuclear submarines, which operate 24 hours a day, but have no natural daylight to set the circadian rythem. They found people were most effective working on a 18 hour "day" with 6 hours of sleep, 6 hours on duty and 6 hours awake, but off duty.

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1 ThoughtMonkey, regarding your answer "There are functioning insomniacs who never sleep":I'm not sure that it's technically true that there are insomniacs who 'never' sleep. Sleep disorders may prevent a full night sleep, or prevent sustained sleep, but I'm pretty confident (though I didn't bother to get a medical reference) that the human body cannot sustain itself without the chemicals produced by the brain during sleep periods.

ThoughtMonkey, regarding your answer "There are functioning insomniacs who never sleep":I'm not sure that it's technically true that there are insomniacs who 'never' sleep. Sleep disorders may prevent a full night sleep, or prevent sustained sleep, but I'm pretty confident (though I didn't bother to get a medical reference) that the human body cannot sustain itself without the chemicals produced by the brain during sleep periods.

Do you think the problem with human longevity will be solved once scientists find cures for all diseases or do you think.

What are the minimum number of hours a human can sleep and function 100%.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.