The only way you can get to sleep is when your mind is not racing with the speed of a locomotive or even an airplane!
When this happens and you are not able to sleep, do not fret! You can get your shut eye the next day!
But do you know that the record of not sleeping is of 19 days! Or is it!?
And you were feeling drowsy losing one day of sleep!
read on!
Missing 24 hours of sleep isn’t uncommon. Still, missing a night of sleep does affect you. Studies have compared 24-hour wakefulness to having a blood alcohol concentration of 0.10 percent. This is above the legal limit to drive in many countries!
After 72 hours without sleep, most people experience an overwhelming urge to sleep. Many are unable to stay awake on their own.
There occurs severe side effects including hallucinations and severely reduced brain function!
This is 72 hours! Imagine 11 days or 19 or…more than fifty years without sleep!
In January 1964, American student Randy Gardner was shown in a photo sitting on a bed next to various household objects he will later have to identify by memory as part of a sleep deprivation experiment in San Diego, Calif.
On Jan. 8, 1964, Gardner reached the last day of the experiment. He had been awake for 11 days straight — 264 hours — a new Guinness World Record!
Gardner, McAllister and Marciano (his friends) won first place at the San Diego science fair.
Although Gardner’s record was broken within the same year, his experiment is one of the most well-documented cases of sleep deprivation. It supported later studies of “microsleeps.” According to Guinness World Records, microsleeps are “momentary lapses into sleep that last for just a few seconds.”
Decades later, urged by this and similar experiments, the field of sleep research had grown exponentially, including the detrimental effects of sleep deprivation.
The last Guinness world record for sleep deprivation was awarded in 1986 to Robert McDonald, who deprived himself of sleep for almost 19 days!
But from 1996, the GWR stopped tracking sleep deprivation, citing the “harmful” effects of sleeplessness.
So just when you think three weeks of no sleep is dangerous, there is this
81-year-old farmer named Thai Ngoc from Vietnam who claims to have not slept since 1973!
Thai Ngoc, who hails from Quang Nam province, spends his days tending to crops and ponds, as well as raising fish on his farm in the Na Trang valley.
Unlike others who rest when the sun sets, he purportedly works tirelessly day and night!
According to Ngoc, he began to lose his ability to sleep after contracting a fever in 1973. Since then, his condition persisted despite seeking medical advice and medications from the local doctors.
Ngoc said he would occasionally turn to alcoholic beverages, but they only leave him in a drowsy haze without causing him to fall asleep!
One theory surrounding Ngoc’s insomnia is the possibility of post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from the Vietnam War. Whatever be the reason and also it really does not matter if the story is true! Just reading the story and writing this is making me sleepy! Am sure it had the same effect on the reader of this blog! I can almost feel you trying to stifle a yawn!
Now if you are feeling sleep then, Congratulations! And celebrations! Of course you guessed it right! That does remind me of the celebrity Cliff Richard! The ‘bachelor boy’ and his soulful music! The very first english album or song I heard in my conscious (occasionally that is!) life was Greatest hits by Cliff Richards! Every song of that album is gold!
Then again if you are really sleep, then just listen to ‘constantly’ and sleep comfortably since it is normal to sleep in the night!
Shubh ratri!
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