What If You Stopped Sleeping

"Why do we sleep?" has been a notoriously difficult question for scientists to answer, but, "What happens if we don't?" is actually pretty simple — nothing good. Not getting enough sleep can make you hallucinate, mess with your thinking and memory, and even lead to organ failure. And it doesn't take very long at all for these negative effects to start occurring. Here's what would happen to your brain and body, day by day, if you stopped sleeping.

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What If You Stopped Sleeping

[jerichosombilon]

Science: You need 8-12 hours of sleep.
School: 3 hours take it or leave it

[rexk]

Still remember when I nearly choked myself out after spraying whole room with mortein to get rid of spiders I hallucinated due to sleep deprivation. Good times...

[MK-dggr]

Who's watching this during late hours struggling to fall asleep...

[Icykrissy]

College students watching this video: *Am I a joke to you?*

[cinnamongirl]

Not getting enough sleep could kill you.
Me: *already sleeps 22 hours a day*

[sidhantjasrotia]

I never drank, but now it turns out that i know how being drunk feels like

[lollysongh]

Youtube needs to stop spying on me....

[jodymorgan]

I hope everyone who is having trouble sleeping can at one point find peace in some kind of sleep. I have times when I can't sleep and it's hard to fall asleep.

[jhin]

me watching this at 3 A.M. at the third day without sleeping:
update I've been sleeping good 8 hours now but I still wake up during P.M. ._. well it's a start

[DaddyMMD]

Bruno says
"Today i dont feel like doing anything. I just wanna lay in ma bed." me 2.

[darkphoenix]

Me watching this at 4am

*hmm interesting*

[Krebzonide]

I've gone without sleep before and it wasn't that bad. Around the 20 hour mark when it had been dark out for like 6 hours I felt very sleepy, but once the sun came up and I walked around a bit I felt perfectly normal, and at 30 hours I was much more coordinated than when I'm at 0.1 bac. I did have a nice 10 hour sleep that night when usually I have trouble sleeping 8 hours.

[TheLobsterCopter]

A guy went a week without sleeping once to see what would happen. Basically the effects you described here, but the really interesting thing is what happened AFTER he stopped the experiment. He caught up on sleep and said he felt fine, but his personality was permanently damaged. Everyone around him said it was like he was a different person, and his life went to shit because of his new behaviour.

[aamodkhatri]

*I'm sacrificing my sleep to watch it at 4 in the morning...hope it's worth it*

[playergirl]

I’ve went 4 whole days without sleep. The only thing I get the auditory and micro sleep things🥺🥱

[pinochet]

How dare you even mention this.

I. Need. My. Sleep.

[Qeisama]

"Then there's a potential for hallucination"

Me, an insomniac after 2 days of no sleep: The sky is purple and trees have orange leaves. Everything is glitching. So trippy.

[shammendraeshwar]

Im in my 16th hour of my 24 hour shift and still awake, not the video im supposed to come across.youtube algorithm is freaky sometimes.

[pzkqtvm]

Are you reminding me to stop finishing this work due tomorrow and just sleep already?

[danielepolverigiani]

It happened me twice when I was younger, more or less at 17yo, the most I stayed awake was ~56 hours I remember I skipped 2 nights but I "rested" in the bed unable to fall asleep for few hours in both of the night.
It was VERY strange, because all started the 1st evening when I was experiencing a weird unmotivated euphoria and the upcoming night I just decided to skip going to bed because I felt great, I tought I would sleep on the afternoon, but nope, I wasn't tired and the next night I was instead unable to sleep but unable to concentrate too and a little anxious, also the sun was really annoying me and I felt like I had no weight, but... all the they I wasn't tired BUT at certain point of the afternoon on the 3rd day I started to see the wolrd flashing black, like if I was skipping frames and I was very worried, as I went to the bed I fell asleep.

The 2nd time it happened it was just like 48hours and to be honest, since I had no fatigue or issue, I honestly hope it will happen to me again atleast once XD
It's very a strange feeling because I'm not tired or sleepy at all.