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Title: 33 Years Without sleep
Post by: 7 on February 24, 2006 07:56 am CST
64-year old Thai Ngoc had a fever in 1973 and after that he never went to sleep again - not even for a quick nap. He even had a medical examination, but doctors gave him a clean bill of health.
   

 
        http://www.rapidnewswire.com/sleepless.htm (http://www.rapidnewswire.com/sleepless.htm)
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Post by: WhoCouldIBe on February 24, 2006 08:29 am CST
That's allmost as funny as the guy that got caught having a cyber affair with APHEX LOLSSS!

Get the hell out of here you sick person! I'm surprised you showed your face back here,, even if it's been over a year now....GO ON! BE GONE WITH YE!!! :twisted:
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Post by: KoRo on February 24, 2006 01:39 pm CST
That isn't even physically possible, based on every study done on the need for sleep to keep our brains working properly. He would have gotten mentally phatigued after about 50 hours, and only get worse and worse....


and dont say he's an evolutionary leap  :P


and is that newspaper even a credible source? If this story were true, it would have been a huge story in the scientific community, and from there made it on to national news at least....
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Post by: FireFox on February 24, 2006 02:08 pm CST
I doubt it's real. Either the source or the person and the people around them are unreliable. Prolonged sleep deprivation has the ability to cause death. In this case, he would surely be dead. The brain will begin to deteriorate after some time without sleep.

However, at least one other source has it listed, but not that I know to be credible. The man would most likely be unfuctioning, even if he were to somehow, say, get past the fact of death. Learning cannot properly occur without sleep.
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Post by: Taurik on February 24, 2006 05:34 pm CST
Quote from: "WhoCouldIBe"
That's allmost as funny as the guy that got caught having a cyber affair with APHEX LOLSSS!

Get the hell out of here you sick person! I'm surprised you showed your face back here,, even if it's been over a year now....GO ON! BE GONE WITH YE!!! :twisted:

Who gives two malarkeys?
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Post by: Dirk on February 24, 2006 07:20 pm CST
If you hadn't made a post, acknowledging the little boy's post no one would have. Thanks for pointing it out and giving the little brat attention though.  :bicker:
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Post by: Taurik on February 24, 2006 07:40 pm CST
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If you hadn't made a post, acknowledging the little boy's post no one would have. Thanks for pointing it out and giving the little brat attention though.  :bicker:

Who gives two malarkeys?
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Post by: FireFox on February 24, 2006 09:17 pm CST
Kids, play nice.
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Post by: Taurik on February 24, 2006 09:56 pm CST
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Kids, play nice.

I'm not inclined and Dirk's not capable. :(
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Post by: Dirk on February 24, 2006 11:03 pm CST
Or we could pretend like this is an online forum and do what is done on online forums.
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Post by: NFY on February 25, 2006 12:23 am CST
agreed. move back to mexico dirk.
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Post by: KoRo on February 25, 2006 12:35 am CST
First link of search, and even this comes up.
http://http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro01/web3/Ledoux.html
Seriously, sleep = 100% needed
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Post by: 12Stones on March 1, 2006 04:16 pm CST
I believe it..  I'm sure at times he 'zones out' which people with insomnia do since they can't sleep.  It's not that the brain needs sleep, but it needs a period of no use, or no processing.  Think about it..  all you do when you sleep is not use your brain aside from subconscious activity which is constantly active whether you are sleeping or awake.

I think it's totally possible.  The reason it's so bad for people without insomnia is because they can't cope with it since it's normally not a problem for them..  they just stay awake and continually use their brain till they either fall asleep or die.
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Post by: KoRo on March 1, 2006 06:32 pm CST
Actually 12Stones, I dont think that's quite correct (not trying to put you down) When you're asleep, the brain isn't neccisarily inactive. If anything, it's active in very different regions. When you sleep, your brain essentially collects everything that you saw, heard, and did during your wakening period and organizes it for biochemical memory storage...Think of it as defragging your hard drive (but actually doing something to help). Also, if your brain was not processing anything, chances are you wouldn't dream at all. And since scientists have found that dreaming is imperative to proper brain function, your brain obviously has to be doing some pretty important shat at night. But you are correct, in a sense, that our brain needs a period of non-processing..but only in a conscious sense. When our consciousness drifts out, our subconscious takes over.

also, remember the different stages of sleep. our brainwaves change drastically based on what stage of sleep we're in (the deepest of course being REM sleep)....Actually, looking back on it, the way we sleep is more like....its comparible to a dishwasher and it's different cycles...except we cycle through it about 4 or 5 times during sleep.
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Post by: Dirk on March 1, 2006 06:39 pm CST
Well as long as we're all pretending to be sleep experts, I saw a TV commercial about a bed that imrpoves sleep quality 33%.
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Post by: KoRo on March 1, 2006 06:43 pm CST
ogm is that, liek, teh matress that you can set your comfort level at? zomg mines 99.99999
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Post by: Paradox666 on March 2, 2006 07:01 am CST
That has to be fake..


Sup 7
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Post by: Artorius on March 3, 2006 09:04 am CST
Only 12044 days to go... >_<
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Post by: 12Stones on March 12, 2006 10:44 pm CST
Quote from: "KoRo"
ogm is that, liek, teh matress that you can set your comfort level at? zomg mines 99.99999


dude fork that comfort zone mattress TEMPUR-PEDIC MATTRESS 4 LYFE
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Post by: KoRo on March 12, 2006 11:30 pm CST
thats the one made with space-age material isnt it.."Watch as kelly jumps up and down, and doesnt spill a drop!"
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Post by: 12Stones on March 12, 2006 11:42 pm CST
I bet if we got like 500 people to order the free pamphlet and the small sample cube of tempur-pedic material, we could combine them and have a ghetto-pedic bed..  or better yet..  fill up a pool with them and go swimming..
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Post by: Particle on March 12, 2006 11:43 pm CST
Ghettopedic.  That must be the Sam's Choice alternative.  =)
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Post by: NFY on March 13, 2006 12:40 am CST
I don't find the tempur-pedic mattress comfortable at all
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Post by: Dirk on March 13, 2006 04:57 am CST
You wouldn't.
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Post by: Particle on March 13, 2006 11:03 am CST
I dunno, I don't think I would like the space age (funny that we still use that term...it applied more to the 60's and 70's than today) cracker-ass memory foam whatever the crap it is either.  I'm more of a concrete slab with a pillow man, myself.
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Post by: NFY on March 13, 2006 01:00 pm CST
it's not as comfortable as you'd think...it's as if it sucks you in.
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Post by: KoRo on March 13, 2006 01:03 pm CST
i get the feeling it would be hard to move around in bed. and isnt this technically the 'Information Age'? Thats the last one i heard...
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Post by: Dirk on March 13, 2006 03:40 pm CST
You don't get to name the age that you're in, though some people try.
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Post by: KoRo on March 13, 2006 04:52 pm CST
true, very true...i would call it the dead-end age
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Post by: Particle on March 13, 2006 05:00 pm CST
I think Information Age is widely accepted as the current age.
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Post by: 12Stones on March 14, 2006 09:39 am CST
Quote from: "NFY"
it's not as comfortable as you'd think...it's as if it sucks you in.


I bet that malarkey is hot, too..  like being wrapped in a blanket that  you cant get out of..