The 4 Day Challenge

[Pressure]

I've done this before but my psychology teacer reminded me about it again today. I challenge you guys to stay up without any sleep for four days. By this time most people start to hallucinate. Nothing major like seeing your favorite cartoon characters walking around or the walls bleeding for you freaky people . You simply just see weird stuff moving around just out of the corner of your eye. You think you'll see someone walk by but when you turn to look and see no ones there . It quite a bit of fun seeing crap like that too cause its freaky. Also if you stay up long enough you'll start to hear things like maybe someone saying your name or just a knock or something. It all in fun too. The amount of time it takes differs on the person it ranges from 3-5 day without any sleep. If you go to sleep for even just a few minutes like 15-30 minutes you mess it all up. I say the four day challenge because its right between the 3 and the 5. So I challenge you to stay up this long then make a log of some of the thing that you saw or heard while doing it and post it here.

 

[simmo]

Looks like someone's been watching "shatterd" on channel 4, where they stay awake for a week for money :|

 

[Dedalus]

well i would normally give this a go but i've got work on saturday, and then university on monday L(

the longest i've stayed up is just over two days and i did start to see things out of the corner of my right eye, and i kept seeing green floaty things whenever i blinked. never heard anything though.

 

[Pressure]

Channel 4 is a British station is it not? I dunno but I think it is.

And two days isn't enough you see stuff more often by four days. If you stay up like seven days(an entire week for you guys ) you'll probably start to hear stuff.

You guys can stay up longer if you want also I'm not saying you have to stop at four . Also if you're in college as to take part in a study where they wake you up everytime you're entering alpha sleep and are about to get into REM (dreaming sleep). Once they do it enough you'll really go crazy and start thinking like you're other people. I've heard cases where some guy thought he was Napolean and kept going on about this crazy stuff and another guy who thought he was a pirate. But ask about that if you wanna do something crazy like that if you're in college . Oh yea this stuff is easily cured by some good ol sleep. So what they do is put you to sleep and you go back to normal. Ask em to video tape you and make you a copy too . I think it should be the psychology department jsut ask around.

 

[Majestic XII]

Two words:

LAN parties

 

[RandomPING]

Well like two days of no sleep i start to think i catch things out of the corner of my eye or think i hears someone say my name when they said something else. Though staying up that long is really bad on your system, your immune system goes way down and you're a lot more likely to get ill. Also not a good idea for people that can suffer from panic attacks or other major things like that. Other then that, it's probably the closest you can feel to slowly going mad without actually doing perminant damage.

Or you could just purify out some DXM and have an awful awful trip and know what madness is like too ::shudders::

Though it's still tempting to try.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I have work and collage....I also have an exam on monday. if this were the holidays then i would definately try it. Over the new year, i went 2 and a half days without sleep. I also did an 8 hour shift on one of the days (New years day actually)

 

[Doppelgofer]

i swear...im glad i came into this post because ive not had hardly any sleep recently and everything you described has happened to me...i had a strange experience in the night...i thought i saw someone waving their arms in me garden...then they dissapeared......ive been seein dark figures out the corner of my eye and i was down town yesterday and i couldve SWORN someone said my name out loud at least 5 times

 

[Letters]

I'm not feeling particularly masochistic right now.

 

[Sandman]

Yeah, I'm with Letters on this one. Staying up for 4 days straight doesn't sound like fun, so I'm gonna just get my 4-6 hours a night and forget we had this conversation

 

[craig]

Doing this is sooooo pointless... if you can spare the four days to do it it shows you one thing and one thing only: YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS.

 

[Shippi]

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[mchammer75040]

You simply just see weird stuff moving around just out of the corner of your eye. You think you'll see someone walk by but when you turn to look and see no ones there . .

lol thats funny cause i seriously have that happen to me all the time, but i dont stay up for 4 days straight.

 

[Pressure]

Doing this is sooooo pointless... if you can spare the four days to do it it shows you one thing and one thing only: YOU HAVE TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS.

That just sounds funny. "If you stay up for four days straight you have way too much time on your hands." Its funny because if you stay theres no difference in time if you went to sleep or stayed up. What if you had something important to do that night? Staying up and working on it means you didn't have enough time thats why you stayed up. Where as if you went to sleep that would mean you have way too much time on you hands because you could sacrafice that many hours to just sleeping rather than working on something important. Staying up four days takes no effort if your days are event-filled and you're busy all hours opf the day. But if your days are boring it might be a bit of trouble to stay up this long. But I still don't see the reasoning how not sleeping means you have way too much time on your hands :/.

 

[Dan]

what about long term sleep deprivation? Im on the rowing team and morning practices normally mean waking up at 4:50. If I do that for like 2 months can I get hallucinations? Today i had a nice 20 min nap in history, i think I learn better that way.

 

[Dedalus]

what about long term sleep deprivation? Im on the rowing team and morning practices normally mean waking up at 4:50. If I do that for like 2 months can I get hallucinations? Today i had a nice 20 min nap in history, i think I learn better that way.

long term sleep deprevation = very bad for you.

i used to do that during my school days, go to sleep at 12, wake up at 6 for 5 days a week. all i did was sleep whenever i came home. it's not healthy to do it long term, but of course sometimes it's unavoidable.

 

[Pressure]

what about long term sleep deprivation? Im on the rowing team and morning practices normally mean waking up at 4:50. If I do that for like 2 months can I get hallucinations? Today i had a nice 20 min nap in history, i think I learn better that way.

What happens when you sleep is that your brain puts everything in order thats happened that day. This only occurs during the REM state of sleeping which is when you dream. This is also the sleep that makes you feel rested when you wake up. Theres a different type of sleep called NREM which is not as needed by the body. So if you were to get lets say 8 hours of sleep and for some reason none of it was REM sleep you would feel even more tired then you did when you went to sleep. Now if you're up for two months stright without any sleep it can be unhealthly. Its just better to go to sleep after a long day of work (both physical and mental work). Insomniacs can't fall asleep and they need to take medicine or something to help them get to sleep because their brain needs to recharge. Staying up for like lets say a week will only make your brain tired thats why you see and hear thing that you don't. Staying up for two months can be a lot harder on the brain thats why I'd suggest not doing it. Who knows what kind of damage, permanent or temporary, could happen. Atleast with only a week or two of no sleep the only thing you need to do to fix it is just sleep.

 

[Bleeder]

I stayed up for 7 days once.....i think im still kinda screwed from it. (you should also drink electrolytes)

 

[Murray_H]

You can die from a lack of sleep, your brain melts like a Skip when it's put on your tongue...

It doesn't melt, but you can die

 

[Fender357]

I've hallucinated from just staying up till 4am one day.........but then again.............drugs will do that to ya No actually I hadn't done anything and i was seen' stuff in my friends room move around and kind of wiggle at the side of my vission.

 

[spookymooky]

Yeah, our swim team practices at 5:30 before school starts and for about a week I had all the symptoms every day. The moving blurs were really creepy. I would stand still and everytime I moved my eyes a little it looked like fireworks...only grey.

 

[NSPIRE]

When I don't get enough sleep, my eye (always just one or the other... never both) twitches for a few days. It's really f^ckin' annoying.