What’s your longest you’ve gone without sleep? I think my personal record was about 72 hours, if not more than that. Some nights I would intentionally keep myself awake in the hope that it would make me sleep better the next night (this is generally not a good strategy). Sleep deprivation can be used as a form of torture, but some people actually enjoy it. In extreme cases it can produce hallucinations and intensify your emotions -- usually for the worse.
As far as I know the world record for sleep deprivation is 11 days and nights. This rather amazing feat was carried out by Tony Wright, a 42 year old man from Cornwall, England. The previous record (of 264 hours) was set way back in 1964, but since then the Guinness Book of World Records has stopped publishing this particular type of record because of the health risk.
Apparently this guy stayed awake by playing a lot of pool and keeping to a strictly raw food diet. Now the real question is, why would a sane man intentionally put himself through such an agonizing experience?
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