How Long You Can Survive Without Sleep?

Sleep

Sleep is such a thing, which is very important to you. Whether it is a child or a teenage or a big person, sleep is a basic requirement for everyone. One research revealed that the human spends about 25 years while sleeping in his entire life. But have you ever wondered what will happen if you quit sleeping?

Today, we are going to tell you the great things, which has got to know from many studies. But we already tell you that you should not try this anyway.

Sleep is a basic need for your body, so it will be good to not mess with it. But once you must read this, that what will happen with you without sleeping, and the extent to which your mind will be gone.

After 1 Day (Sleep deprivation)

You may not believe it, but without sleep you will come to sleep definitely, and after 18 to 19 hours you will feel very little energy, and headache will also start happening.

But as soon as you cross 24 hours, then You will feel very happy, and no matter how much another joke, You will find it funny. You will become a very funny type, and this world will look very positive to you. You will feel your energy increased. You might be wondering how this can happen?

This happens because a system of your brain, which is called the Meso-Limbic system, become active after 24 hours without sleep, and a large amount of Dopamine name chemical starts to flow in your brain. To break your sleep, to balance the lack of sleep, this chemical starts to release more than the limit. You probably do not believe, but in this state, your motivation also increases, and without any reason, you feel happy.

You may feel very good to hear, You may feel very good to hear, and you feel like let’s do this for 1 day without sleep experiencing this fun, but the problem is that it does not last long.

After 2 Days (Sleep deprivation)

Coming the second day, Again, your condition will start getting worse. That energy and gladly filled state will not be able to sustain for long. That’s the time when your behavior will start becoming weird, and people around you will feel that you are drunk. At this time You should not run a bicycle, bike, or car, Otherwise, it is almost sure to be your accident.

After two days without sleeping, you will start taking your decisions without thinking of anything. Because the part of decision-making brain that is called Frontal Lobe, starts to turn off, and your cognitive and logical ability starts decreasing.

After two days you will not be able to solve any problem of maths. Your body’s glucose will not be metabolized after the end of two days. Means, the energy of your body will be reduced more than the extent. Now your immune system will also begin to be ineffective. The system which protects you every moment from diseases, that system will now start to stop. Because of this, those who have viruses in your surroundings will be able to attack them comfortably on your body. Due to which diseases will catch you early.

You will start to see many strange physical symptoms, like the muscles of the hands will start fluttering loudly, you will also get the problem of Stammering, meaning you will talk the intermittent conversation. Thinking of your brain will take longer than normal, and if you will try to read, means trying to focus on something, then you will also not be able to focus on that even for two seconds. Means, your focus and concentration power will be reduced to 90%. It will be impossible for you to sit in peace in one place.

After 3 Days (Sleep deprivation)

After three days without sleeping, you will start to hallucinate. Means, that the whole world will now look you like a video, and not just a world like video, but you will also hear funny strange voices. Such voices that will not be in the real world but you will hear it in a weird way. This happens because you start dreaming while you are awake.

Fact is that the dream is very important for your body. Do you know, that without dream actually, you will die. It is such a basic need that if you do not sleep for 3 days, then finally your body starts dreaming in awake. And when the dream and real world mix, then occurs hallucinations. When you sleep, you are in one of these two states (REM and NON-REM).

Non-REM  means sleep without dream and REM (Rapid eye movement) means dream sleep. Everyone sleeps in REM, But if you just sleep in non-REM, where REM is missing, then you will die. It is very important to keep the body alive. Scientists do not know until today that why the dream is important to you. But it certainly knows that without them you can not stay alive, and that is the reason that you start dreaming even in the awakened state.

Many people say that they do not see the dream, But the Fact is that this can not happen. You actually dream but forget it till morning, because a person can not live without dreams. And many people also remember the dreams well.

After 4 Days (Sleep deprivation)

After four days without sleep, Your body will start to shut down slowly. You will not be able to talk to others in the normal way. You will take 1 to 2 seconds to get a word out from the mouth, and the sense of time will be altered. Means, when you will get out, then you will see this world in slow motion. You will perceive everything at very slow motion.

four days without sleep, now a time has come, where your cognitive abilities are so low, that 1 + 1 = What happens, you will also not be able to process it in the brain.

After 5 Days (Sleep deprivation)

After five days without sleep, your reaction time will be very slow. Reaction time means, a state In which if someone slapped you, then after 5 seconds you will know that someone has slapped you. Things will be so strange, that you will start experiencing of Exploding head syndrome for a while. Means, you will feel like every moment your head is bursting, Like an explosion of a star.

Another will be a strange phenomenon. You will feel like someone is behind you. As in darkness looks like someone is watching us, that’s exactly you will feel like that. And many strange and horror feelings will also develop.

After 6 Days

After six days without sleep, you will lose your memory formation. Means, you will not be able to store whatever is happening around you.

Suppose any one letterbox is your brain, and letters are your new memories, which keeps coming to your mind every moment. But after 6 days without sleeping, your brain closes the shutter of this memory box, and whatever new things you feel, they get vanish by bouncing without going inside that box.

After 6 days, a poison release in your mind, whom also called beta-amyloid. When you sleep at night, and when you are in deep sleep, then your brain clears this toxic chemical. But 6 days without sleeping, this chemical gets stored in your head in a dangerous amount. And your most important chemical, called testosterone, that too comes 6 days later on such a level which happens in a 90-year-old person.

After 7 Days

After seven days without sleep, you will become a living zombie. Means, one such person who can not think, can not walk, can not talk, can not remember anything. You will be sitting in one place like a ghost. The power to balance your body will go completely, that’s why you will not be able to walk.

So the question is how many days you will be able to live without sleeping? and in how many days will your body be closed?
 
The official record so far is 264.4 Hours (11 days), which is the name of Randy Gardner. Means, Randy Gardner till the 11th day after 6 days, he kept himself like a zombie, so that he could make that world record.

People came to this conclusion by looking at this record, that If you pass more than 11 days without sleeping then you will die. Means, if you spend 11 days without sleeping then after that your body will shut off completely.

But if we talk practically and scientifically then this is Fact, that when your body is going to be completely closed, then in the last moment, your body will sleep within 1 second. Means, you can not die practically without sleeping.

This is the same thing, that you are trying to die by stop breathing, but keeping on Stop breathing, one time it will come, When you try to stop it from so much power, but In the end, your body will start breathing self. You can not kill yourself by stopping breathing, this is a Fact.

In the last moment, whatever the body has to do, it does it. No matter how much you try, it breathes. Exactly the same way, at the last moment how much you try as well, After 11 days, the body sleeps itself in the last dying moment. That’s why if you do not sleep for 11 days, then one time it will come, when you will try to wake up more forcefully. But in the end, your mind will go to sleep automatically, even world record holder Randy Gardner also slept in the last moment. After a limit, his body itself went to sleep.

The best part is that after sleeping, the body starts to become normal, and there is no long term effect. Means, after 11 days, if you sleep for 11 to 15 hours, then you will get up with freshness. Unable to make a memory, unable to talk, unable to do focus, all these things are reverted back. Means, a good sleep normalizes everything.

Similarly, After completing the record, Randy Gardner slept for 14 hours and 40 minutes, and when he awoke, he becomes normal, even he went to high school after a day.

But it doesn’t mean that we are speaking to you for try all this effort. We are just giving you information, because we all can not be so lucky like him.

These were the point of its experiment, that What will happen if not sleeping constantly? But it is very important to take good sleep every day in real life. Otherwise, the effect we have told you, Being irritated, not able to focus properly, due to the low sleep of every day, Over time, it begins to develop in the real. You begin to weak in your studies or your work.

Sleeping Tips

For good sleep, we tell you some magic tips, so that your brain works perfectly with full power all day long.

If you take a bath before sleeping, then you will get very good sleep. Because, when you take a bath, a chemical emits called Serotonin in your brain, which gives you the feeling of freshness. Remember the fresh feeling that comes after bathing in the day. If you sleep on the same feeling before sleeping at night, then you will get very good sleep. The most important thing is that the REM sleep we talked about, Which is most essential for you to live, That too you will find good.

And a strange fact is that should not be eaten immediately before sleeping. If you need a good night’s sleep, then you do not have to bring digestion in the middle while sleeping. Means, you should keep the gap between food and sleep for about 3 hours. Means if you go to sleep at 11 o’clock at night, then You should eat whatever food you eat till 8 o’clock.

When you go to sleep with full stomach, then your digestion is running very fast. And when the body is in digestion, then the body is not completely relaxed. But when you eat 3 hours earlier, approximately 70% of the process of digestion is completed or the digestion is almost complete. That’s why your body sleeps well. Take 6 -7 hours of deep sleep instead of 10 hours of bad sleep. That’s why, three hours before sleeping, all eating should be finished.

Listening to all these Facts, do you know another most amazing fact that despite so many things, today’s scientists have not fully understood, why people sleep after all?
 
It would be very easy to say that we sleep to rest, But this is not so simple. Fundamentally what is this, what exactly is sleep? None of these know.

Despite being so common, Sleep is one of the most amazing mysteries of science in the world.

World Records In Sleep Deprivation

1. Tom rounds was stayed awake for 260 hours (10.8 Days)
2. Randy Gardner broke the record of Tom rounds, and was stayed awake for 264.4 hours (11 days 25 minutes) in January 1964. He is know for “Longest time without sleep” (Sleep deprivation).
3. Toimi soini (Finland) broken Gardner’s record after a month later is 276 hours (11.5 days) in February 1964.
4. Massive world record with 449 hours (18.7 day) by Maureen Weston in April 1977 (U.K).
5. Latest claimed by Tony Wright for world sleep deprivation with 266 hours (11.1 Days) in may 2007, but his records was not credited** by the Guinness book of records.

**Only Randy Gardner ‘s record was officially accepted with proof as a “Longest time without sleep”
**Since after 1990 Guinness book of records no longer accepted records related to sleep deprivation, Because of it could be dangerous to people’s health (possible serious health risks).

Effects of Sleep Deprivation

1. Weight gain
2. High blood pressure
3. Hormonal changes
4. 4.5 times higher risk of stroke
5. Increased risk of Premature Death