Sleep deprivation? Does it really make you hallucinate? best answer gets 10 poin!


Question: Sleep deprivation!? Does it really make you hallucinate!? best answer gets 10 points!. =]]!?
a friend told me you can hallucinate by being deprived of sleep for too long!.!. can you really!?!? and can you have like 1hour sleep breaks or any short break and have it still work!?
how long do you have to stay up for for it to make you HALLUCINATE!?!? ILL GIVE BEST ANSWER IF YOUR ANSWER HELPS ME OUT THE MOST!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


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it's true!. you can hallucinate if you are deprived of sleep for 4 days!. the world record so far is about 11 and a half days!.This is what happened to the kid: On the first day, Randy Gardner woke at six A!.M!. feeling alert and ready to go!. By day two he had begun to drag, experiencing a fuzzy-headed lack of focus!. When handed series of objects, he struggled to recognize them by touch alone!. The third day he became uncharacteristically moody, snapping at his friends!. He had trouble repeating common tongue twisters such as Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers!. By the fourth day, the sand-clawed demons of sleep were scraping at the back of his eyeballs!. He suddenly and inexplicably hallucinated that he was Paul Lowe, a large black football player for the San Diego Chargers!. Gardner, in reality, was white, seventeen years old, and 130 pounds soaking wet!.

concentration, motivation, perception are all affected during the period of staying awake!. Experiments on animals have also shown that if u stay awake for over 2 weeks,it can result in death!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Yes - sleep deprivation can make you hallucinate!. However, I'm a bit hesitant to answer your question because it sounds to me as if this is something you're wanting to try!. I work in an ICU and have many patients that develop "ICU psychosis" after a few days in the unit!. Due to the constant activity of the ICU, it's never really "night-time!." Patients are awakened at all hours of the night and day for tests, assessments and medications!. After a short time, they lose track of time and know no difference between day and night!. They get confused over the day, or where they are and why they are in the hospital!. Eventually, if they continue without a decent amount of uninterrupted sound sleep, they will hallucinate and often become violent!. Sometimes they present a danger to themselves and others!. If this persists, death is a possible outcome!. Generally, onset of symptoms takes about 48-60 hours peaking at 72-96 hours!. I don't recommend attempting to stay up just to hallucinate - it really honestly can be dangerous!. Furthermore, you can be deemed incompetent in which case someone would have to be appointed guardianship of you to act in your best interests, or what they believe to be your best interests!. It's not worth it!. Hope this helps!.
God bless,
SarahWww@Answer-Health@Com

Sleep deprivation kills!.

Seriously!.

If you keep depriving yourself of sleep you end up with a run down immune system and no reserve to fight anything!.

If you must limit sleep, try to work out if your body clock is 25 hours (less common) or 23 hours (more common)!.

Typically you will notice if you sleep for three hours and feel refreshed and re-energised, this puts you on 25 hour clock!.

If you feel rubbish after three hours, you will probably feel great at four hours - this puts you at the 23 hour body clock!.

Multiples and divisions of these times work - upto a point!. If you don't get sleep for four days, you WILL hallucinate!. You cause a chemical imbalance which literally allows you to see things which AREN'T THERE!

Generally you can go one night in 20 minutes awake, 20 minutes nap - lay on top of the bed, fully clothed, with the lights on!.

The following day, you must rest - preferably after physical exercise!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Yes, you can hallucinate, but if you're trying to do it to get high or something, for gawd's sake, don't!.
Hallucinating when you're sleep deprived is not funny!. Last time I was sleep deprived I was tortured by my hallucinations!. I couldn't stop the hallucinations, and I felt like I was going insane!. :[
And even worse, if you're driving, or with a friend, or anything like that, you might get you or somebody else hurt!.
Some people die of sleep deprivation!.!.!. it's not something to be toying with!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

the time it takes for hallucinations to start from sleep deprivation is different from person to person, age is also a factor!. its why kids in high school and college are able to stay up all hours of the night while their parents simply cannot, but even that has its limits on the body and is different from person to person!.

taking one hour sleep breaks can help you stay up longer but it is ill advised to even think about doing something like that to your body / brain

staying up for too long overloads your brain!. it is not able to distinguish reality from fantasy, and you hallucinate, or better yet your dreams become reality and you actually live them!. very very very unhealthy and people have been known to die or become comatose becuase of it!.

(theoretically) lets say you have a laptop that can only run on battery power and will not run while it is plugged into the wall (again, theoretical example)!. you turn the laptop on and can only use if for a certain amount of time before the charge on the battery runs out!. the computer then shuts off and you have to plug it into the wall to charge the battery to use it again!. the laptop running on the battery power would be like you staying up and functioning throughout the day, plugging it into the wall would be you sleeping at night!.

again, people have been known to die or become comatose becuase of sleep deprivation, best advice would be not to even try it at all

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When I was in combat I went 10 days without sleep (but was taking meds we were issued to stay awake) and it took a great toll on all of us and required weeks to recuperate!. In Roman times Senators found guilty of treason were executed through sleep deprivation and it was not a nice way to die!.

Many addicts will suffer extreme insomnia during and after the physical withdrawal which is the most difficult part of the detox process!.

Yes, sleep deprivation can cause a host of physical and psychological symptoms including hallucinations!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

If you are trying to see pink hephalumps and dancing rainbows than you got the wrong idea!. After about 48 hours you might start seeing a shadow or something move out of the corner of your eye!. but after that it's not really hallucinating!. It is your mind just going to sleep on you with your eyes still open and you start to slip into a dream for a second!. This may happen in short flashes causing one to think he is hallucinating when really it was just the beginning of a dream focused on what you may be looking at when it happens!. It's just a state of mind!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Well, i don't know about hallucinating, but I know that it turns you into an idiot if you stay up all night!. One night I pulled an all nigher with my friends, and the next morning I went to get some gas, and when i went to swipe my debit card, I swiped it with the stripe up instead of down, and i started laughing at it!. I never stayed up for more than a few nights at a time, so i couldn't tell you first hand, but without sleep, you don't function well!. Not getting any sleep for an extended period of time can also kill you!. i'm not sure how, but it can!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

No sleep deorivation makes you restless, short tempered, highly irritable & forces you to lose your cool fast!. in short, it drives you mad!.

in india, I have seen Sadhus using marijuna & other drugs to hallucinate!. They say it helps them on in their journey!.

please try it out!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Yes you can, but its not a pleasent hallucination!. I went through a phase where I wouldnt sleep for 4+ days at a time, I had actually stayed up for 9 days straight once!. Oh man, that was horrible!. It was really bad, I had became afraid to sleep, I would shake and sweat when I layed down and closed my eyes!. I had also lost alot of weight!. If you want to hallucinate, stop being a pussy and do the real shiit!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

yea!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.if u stay awake one whole night, u'll start getting hallucinations by afternoon the next day!.
i saw a show in discovery once where sme1 conducted a research on this by staying awake by drinking coffee the whole nite!. I think tht guy was sent to the emergency room!.!.!.

And ya!.!.!.u can die of sleep deprivation!. SO go ahead try it pronto!.!.!.!.

and leave a message her if u die!.!.!.k!?Www@Answer-Health@Com

i am not so sure yet if i am up for this too!.!.,but i am thinking it over as i am looking at these little green men that have been keeping me up for a few days!!.!.what!?i don"t even understand what they said!!i must be tired!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Oh, come on!

No, it doesn't!.!.!.I've been awake for days and I'm fine-

OH MY GOD IT'S ELVIS! HOLY CRAP THE KING! HE'S ALIVE! WOW! THIS IS GREAT!

What do you think!.!.!.!?Www@Answer-Health@Com

its not good hallucination
eat a shitload of nutmeg if you want free drugs!.
you'd have to stay up for about 100 hours
there was this study!.
and no naps and no caffeine or any other stimulants!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Well once I was awake for 38 hours straight and had to work between those hours!. I didn't hallucinate but maybe for others they do!. Maybe you could try and share us your experience!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

You can also die from sleep deprivation!.!. does that also sound fun to you!?Www@Answer-Health@Com

I see white spots, lose cognative functions, but that is it!. And I really don't like it! But I work third shift!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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