What Actually Happens to Your Body When You Stop Sleeping?

Take a good look at these close-ups. This is Ricard Siagian the person whose regular life was disrupted in a single day, the day he completely stopped sleeping. The unknown disease couldn’t be managed by any sleeping pills; doctors and scientists shrugged their shoulders, and Ricard himself, being close to despair, started recording his medical history on his personal YouTube channel in search of any help.
Today, you’ll find out how insomnia can drive you crazy, hear the real stories of people who haven’t slept in a few months, learn to induce lucid dreams, and know the answer to the main question is it possible to die of insomnia?

[ShortHax]

Sleeping is like a free trial of being dead unless you would like to go to premium

[dylanbrassel]

Being someone who suffers from severe insomnia, this hits right in the feels. There is literally no worse feeling.

[noobmanAbo]

I haven't slept since yesterday....and this popped up

[pandabeb]

Watching this after I Couldn't slept for 36 hours bt still appeared for my most important board exams of my 13 years. And yes those who can sleep peacefully damn It's a huge blessing. Cherish it no matter what!!

[jadarose]

1 thing you missed, a certain amount of humans require different amounts of sleep. For example, infants sleep close to 16 hours a day, I think. They're up for a very little amount of time. So infants, children, teens, young adults, adults, and seniors usually have different amounts of sleep. I learned about it in physcology

[ComicalRealm]

day 4: the pictures keep looking at me and smiling

[brivvy]

This is scary… how I feel when I am extremely tired, but can’t sleep. I have insomnia and sleep apnea, so I sleep very little - but I feel rested for a bit. Imagine that painful, restless feeling you have but can’t sleep. The anxiety from writing this has my body twitching. I don’t think I could live long… I would jump from the tallest building.

[OrcinusLaryngologist]

I went a about three days without sleep and ended up in the hospital thinking the entire globe was trying to kill me.

[EvynProkopchuk]

Ridddle: Take care and go to bed early tonight.
Me (looks at the clock): alright, midnight it is then

[newscience]

Exhaustion and sleep loss can have plenty of consequences, but it's pretty rare to die from lack of sleep. That said, operating on little to no sleep can increase your risk of having an accident while driving or doing something potentially hazardous.

[betterchapter]

I haven't slept in 204 years I'm writing this in my dream...

[Hershizzle]

Im addicted to the wonderful feeling of falling asleep from exhaustion. I hate going to bed, loooove passing out and not waking up for 12 hours!! Don’t get me started on the first pee! Primo!!!

[CaptnBeeBop]

When I was addicted to drugs the most I made it to was 9 days awake. Of course would fall asleep for 10-15mins here and there if I sat down but otherwise was up

[rmhminiman]

I remember one time in 2012, June to be exact, I did not sleep for somewhere between 16 - 20 days. I was my dad's {god bless his soul} partner in his medication trip and every time I am about to sleep or think of it I hear my dad sighing or whining, right then and there I will absolutely forget what even is sleep. been a good two years of this scenario repeatedly till god flattened my dad's beat sensor. ♥ Ever since then I never slept more than 2 - 3 hours tops even if I am more than the word exhausted can define.

[morzie]

After 3 days you start hulucinating and after a week you are pretty much insane, I know this from experience

[robertanglin]

Doctor: you have a rare sleeping disorder
Patient: how rare?
Doctor: what do you want it to be named?

[peterwang]

Before watching this video, I thought I had a superhuman ability to control my dreams. Now I know it is common and it has a name: lucid dreaming. You learn something everyday.

[dvk]

Your channel is by far the best on YouTube

[DonCharybdisKeso]

I recently came out of a long period (2.5 years) of being awake for 40 hours, sleeping 6, awake for 40 and so on so forth. This at the age between 34-36. Funny enough I never had any problems with having it like that.

[Sickwitit]

I've been able to lucid dream since I was a kid. Not by trying, it just started happening. It's not every night, but at least a couple times a week I will be in a dream and think, "this is a dream" and from that point I can influence what happens. I remember one of the most memorable times this happened, I realized I was dreaming and thought, "I'm gonna go find a sick car." Walked down my street and found a Ferrari, it was unlocked and on, and I just started driving it. Nowadays (I'm 29) when I realize I'm dreaming, it's like the movie Inception and my dream starts falling apart until I wake up. Not in a scary way, but I feel myself waking up because I realized in dreaming. Even when I try hard to stay asleep because I *want* the dream to continue.