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A boy did an experiment during which he did not sleep for 11 days.
These are his results
What happens to the body and mind without sleep?
This question was sought to be solved by two boys who conducted a scientific experiment at school almost 60 years ago.
Since then this experiment has been published all over the world and even reached the Guinness Book of Records.
But what exactly happened there during 11 days of comments?
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Sunday, 08 August 2021, 13:15 Updated: 13:22
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In 1963, two teenage boys decided to undertake a science project for the school where they stayed as awake as possible, which eventually led them to the Guinness Book of Records and all the news sites in the U.S. and around the world. Randy Gardner and Bruce McAllister decided they wanted to explore the effects of lack Sleep on the cognitive and physical performance.Randy was the one chosen for the ambitious and dangerous
experiment.The experiment could have ended without the attention of the environment, had it not been for a local newspaper that covered it, caught the attention of Stanford sleep researcher Dr. William C.
Dementia.
"Randy's parents were very worried that this was something that would really hurt him. Because the question 'if you don't get enough sleep - will you die?'
"It remains unresolved," Dement said in an interview with the BBC.
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Previous human trials have shown that lack of sleep has caused paranoia, suspicion and other problems in volunteers - while a subsequent experiment that kept domestic cats awake for 15 days proved fatal.
At his parents' request, the experiment on Randy was supervised by Dement, and another officer from the U.S. Navy's Neuropsychiatric Research Unit in San Diego.
The case was recently published on the iflscience website.
The experiment begins
In order to keep Randy awake, two of his friends (Bruce McLeister and Joe Marciano) played pinball and basketball with him, prevented him from lying down, and made him talk through the bathroom door every time he went to vacate, in case he fell asleep on the toilet.
The first day of the experiment went well for the 17-year-old boy, but by the second day he was already having a hard time recognizing objects in contact.
On the third day he had mood swings and he struggled to come up with toothy sentences.
The memory defects and first hallucinations began on the fourth day of the experiment.
"I hallucinated that I was this famous black football player, Paul Lau, from the San Diego Chargers," he wrote in the Esquire newspaper years later.
"My friends thought it was funny, because I weighed about 60 kg." The hallucinations continued the next day, when the boy saw a forest trail in front of him, and not the rest of his house. "After that point, everything actually started to deteriorate," he wrote. , Just low.
It was as if someone had taken sandpaper and sanded my brain.
My body was fine, but my mind went out. "
Over the next few days his speech deteriorated, he swallowed words and his speech slowed, at the same time his memory also became blurred. He would start sentences, then stop in the middle, or forget where he was going. However, He still managed to play ping pong.As others who suffered from insomnia, he experienced paranoia at some point.
What happens to the brain without sleep?
Gif of the brain (Photo: Giphy)
On the last day of his experiment, Randy was expressionless and needed many reminders and ongoing requests to answer every question asked, and he would answer everything when he swallowed the words and had difficulty speaking.
The tests of his mental abilities ceased very quickly, as he would eventually forget what he was doing.
However, he does not seem to have suffered from many side effects, and as mentioned he set a new world record after surviving the days and nights without sleep.
In an interview with him on the NPR website in 2017, FAVHV CI 71 'Gardner recounted the experience: "It was crazy, the part where I could not remember things, it was almost like experiencing Alzheimer's caused by insomnia."
The mind is drowsy
At 2:00 a.m. on January 8, 1964, Randy broke the world record. It passed 11 days, 264 hours, without sleep and there was only one way to celebrate. He was taken to a marine hospital where researchers attached electrodes to his head to monitor his brain waves, and went to sleep. "I slept a little over 14 hours. I remember when I woke up I was in a nervous mood, but no more nervous than a normal person."
So what happened there? Parts of his brain actually ‘dozed off’ so they could rehabilitate themselves - while parts of him were fully awake and sensible. This is probably what explains the fact that much worse things did not happen to his body, along with his mind.
The drowsiness defined by the researchers is in fact what is called micro sleep and it describes a period of sleep that lasts a fraction of a second or up to 30 seconds.
People who experience these episodes can doze off without realizing it and this situation can occur anywhere, whether it is at work, school or while watching TV.
Micro-sleep can also occur while driving, and it can already become a dangerous condition.
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