What happens when you don't get any sleep at all?

Originally Posted by CetteHamsterLa

My longest period of not sleeping was 6 and a half days done purely to see how long I could if I forced it. It's really not bad if you force cafein and sugar constantly and keep yourself occupied as boredom = the end after 3 days or so. You also really learn about your natural cycles and when your second winds come in as they will give you the energy to relax a bit for an hour or two with less risk of passing out. Lets see after about 2 and a half days I was getting audio halucinations of people talking at me from behind. At about 5 I started seeing things moving in my peripheral vision regularly with the occasional flash of motion darting in front of me. At the last bit I was roughly a zombie in that I could barely respond to anything. I could understand everything that happened around me but reacting to it was nearly impossible. I probably could have forced it to a full 7 days but I was in summer school and working at the time and I had become completely useless at both so I figured I'd best just get back to normal. Course back then I used to sleep roughly 4 hours every other night so I had a lot of practice at the whole thing.

Not like I'm saying I don't believe you, but the world record for staying awake is 11 days. That seems... extraordinary to say the least. It must take incredible willpower.

Jam it back in, in the dark.