This time is 264 hours and 12 minutes, which is 11 days and 12 minutes.
In daily life, many people never think sleep is important. But in fact, half of a person's life is spent in sleep.
As we all know, human beings basically sleep in addition to eating when they are infancy. Even in the childhood stage, sleep time is much longer than that of adults.
It can be seen that sleep is very important for normal people, but as the pace of social life accelerates, "staying up all night" seems to have become a common phenomenon among young people. So how long can a normal person last without sleeping?
1. The first experience of the challenge of not sleeping
Randy Gardner is a young guy in San Diego, California. At Christmas 1963, he had a whim and wanted to undertake a challenge of not sleeping.
So, 3 days later, at 6 o'clock in the morning, Randy, who was prepared and energetic, began his own challenge. In order to obtain real challenge data, he specially invited two roommates to supervise the challenge.
At the beginning, the self-confident young man set himself the goal: Persevere until the new year is considered victory.
Randy Gardner's "Sleepless Challenge"
At that time, this interesting experiment also attracted the attention of Stanford University professor William Demont.
Because he happened to be engaged in this research, and in order to be able to obtain first-hand, accurate experimental data, he also joined Randy's experimental team as an assistant after inquiring.
In the eyes of William Demont, Randy can be said to be a perfect experimenter. He is young, strong and energetic. His daily exercise makes him look healthier, and the results of various physical examinations also prove his judge.
Before the experiment officially started, Randy was full of confidence. He thought that even if he didn't sleep for more than ten days, it wouldn't be a big deal for him. The strong physical quality makes him feel that he can easily face even the biggest difficulty.
and the first night after the experiment started,Although he didn't feel the slightest sleepiness at the time, he drank coffee to refresh himself in order to allow himself to deal with the next challenge more calmly. Sure enough, with the blessing of coffee, Randy ushered in the next day's sun in a state of excitement.
Randy Gardner "Sleepless Challenge"
Looking at the slightly dazzling sunlight, Randy did not feel sleepy. On the contrary, his good mental state at the moment increased his confidence in continuing the challenge.
Faced with the concerned glances from others, Randy patted his chest and said: He has no problems at all.
Soon, it was time for the next night. After exercising as usual, he came with a cup of coffee as usual. Although he did not have the excitement of the first day, he still insisted on not sleeping all night. It was not until the dawn of dawn that he stretched his waist and felt a trace of sleepiness.
But he didn't think it was a big deal, he was totally able to resist it.
However, the challenge on the second day seemed to be the same as the previous day, but Randy didn’t know that there had been some subtle changes in his body, and these changes had produced his spirit. Not a small impact.
so that when he was crossing the road as usual the next day, he was almost hit by a car.
However, before crossing the road, the driver blew his horn. Everyone around Randy heard and took shelter in time.
Only Randy, who seemed to hear nothing, still crossed the road straight.
The driver asked him strangely: "I honked the horn, and everyone heard it so loud, shouldn't you a young man not feel it?"
Seeing the strange gazes from the people around, Randy couldn't help but feel it. I made a whisper, and everyone else heard it. Why didn't I hear it at all?
Randy didn't think much when he thought that the experiment was still going on. Although he felt groggy at this moment, he still did not lie down on a comfortable bed after returning home.
In order to keep himself awake, he first washed his face with cold water,Then I drank another cup of coffee. He wanted to use these so that he could survive this long night.
For the next third and fourth days of the challenge, although Randy finally clenched his teeth through various methods, his spirit clearly had problems.
On the fifth day, even Randy's work efficiency dropped significantly.
Because he can usually get things done in an hour, it took him three hours to barely finish it.
Faced with this situation, the unaware Randy boss issued an ultimatum after severely criticizing him: if the situation persists the next day, just pack things and go!
But at this time Randy can no longer be treated as a normal person. He can no longer hold other things in his mind, and he is full of thoughts of "want to sleep right away"!
Randy Gardner's "Don't Sleep Challenge"
Therefore, although the boss was furious there, Randy was expressionless. After the boss made a fire, seeing Randy didn't respond, he waved his hand and sent Randy out of his office.
But the next day, instead of getting better, Randy's situation has worsened! Because Randy and his colleagues get along very well on weekdays, there has never been any conflict.
And this day, just because a colleague was speaking a little louder, Randy, who was irritable, yelled at his colleague out of control.
Faced with this situation, people in the office feel baffled. And Randy didn't know why he was angry, because he had never been like this before.
At this time, Randy finally realized that not sleeping for a long time had already caused a huge burden on his spirit...
2. Challenge the limit of not sleeping
After thinking about it, Randy felt that he would stick to it. Sooner or later he will have a big problem with his spirit. So the young man began to hesitate whether to withdraw from the experiment.
So he went straight to Professor De Monte’s laboratory and expressed his feelings and views on the experiment to the professor.
After learning about Randy's feelings, everyone told Randy: If he really can't stand it, the experiment can stop at any time.
Although Randy wanted to suspend the experiment, after looking at the people in the laboratory who had been busy for him for several days, Randy felt that he was too sorry for them to quit at this time.
So he held up his stubborn head and tried to stare at his somewhat distracted eyes, telling everyone that he would continue to carry on the challenge.
Randy Gardner's "Sleepless Challenge"
However, although Randy chose to persist, the days that followed were even more difficult. Being drowsy, he always needs to rely on others to talk to him constantly and distract him constantly to avoid falling asleep.
In this torment, the experiment was carried out to the seventh day, at this time Randy already had very obvious "panda eyes". Because his body has not been rested for a long time, he has become abnormally weak.
The whole person doesn't seem to have the youthful vigor anymore, he is more like an old man in apathetic spirit. But in order to continue the experiment, Randy forced himself to eat continuously to maintain his energy intake despite having no appetite.
After eating food, the situation has improved a bit.
So Randy wanted to go to the sports field to exercise his body and expend energy by the way. However, he didn't get any rest for 7 days and 7 nights. At this time, he no longer had the vigorous posture he used to.
Many actions that were originally easy for him are now difficult to perform. Although he has done his best, the cruel facts tell him that he has indeed lost his previous speed and endurance.
Randy Gardner's "Don't Sleep Challenge"
Faced with such a bad situation, Randy had the idea of "giving up" for the first time in his mind.
Because he feels that his body's function is approaching its limit, if he continues to carry on the challenge desperately, he may cause serious and irreversible damage to his body.
So in order to stop the loss in time,He reluctantly lowered his head and said to the laboratory personnel: I'm afraid he can't keep going, or else just give up!
The people who assisted in the experiment felt very strange after listening to Randy. If you want to give up, why not two days ago but now?
If this is the case, wouldn't the two days of persistence have no meaning at all?
But Randy didn't think so. He just wanted to find a comfortable bed and sleep over! As for any "challenges", let them go to hell...
But after Randy became a little more sober, the staff assisting the experiment persuaded him. I hope he can continue to persevere and complete the experiment. But if you really cannot persist, you can still terminate it at any time.
Randy Gardner's "Sleepless Challenge"
After speaking, they looked at Randy. I saw Randy sitting in the chair now, his hands shaking uncontrollably. The bare skin was pale.
In only a few days, Randy, who used to have thick hair, looked unusually sparse at this time!
Even though Randy described it as withered, very pitiful! But in order not to let everyone's efforts go in vain, he decided to hold on.
But only two days later, Randy appeared in the laboratory again. At this time, he seemed to be worse than two days ago, and he strongly urged to abandon this experiment.
After seeing Randy's state, the experimenters also realized that this might be the limit of human performance. So after discussing, they told Randy that there is now a medicine that can make Randy excited and continue the experiment!
3. Drugs can only help Randy to last for two days
Randy is in a trance, and the only thought at this moment is to sleep. But after learning that there was a drug that would allow him to continue testing without being sleepy, he finally agreed.
It's just that the current situation makes him extremely suffering. So, he eagerly asked the doctor to give him medicine.
Although doctors also want to know through experiments what is the limit of continuous sleeplessness in humans, as medical workers, before the formal injection of drugs,Still truthfully told Randy about the side effects of the drug, but he didn't expect Randy to hesitate at all, and he happily agreed.
As the drug entered Randy's body, he soon felt that his mental state had improved.
This unexpected surprise makes him particularly excited, because in his opinion, if he can maintain this state, then he can persist for a long time without sleeping!
Sure enough, just as Randy expected, his mental state has not only improved a lot, but he even walked in the same way as before.
What makes Randy even more happy is that the side effects the doctor said did not appear at all. So he should eat, drink, and play happily with his friends without hesitation. The drug injection seemed to have caused him to accumulate sleepiness and fatigue for a week, and suddenly disappeared.
Randy Gardner's "Sleepless Challenge"
However, where did Randy know that drugs cannot work indefinitely in the body. Once the drug effect expires, the body has accumulated All damage will hit him exponentially.
Sure enough, after relying on the effect of the drug for two more days, the drug completely lost its effect on Randy.
He became drowsy again, and gradually began to become unconscious and finally fell to the ground and comatose. At this point, this cruel experiment has come to an end.
So, how long did Randy endure from the beginning of the challenge to the end? Later, the experimenters calculated that this time was 264 hours and 12 minutes, which is 11 days and 12 minutes.
After that, Randy was in a coma for 12 hours before he gradually woke up. Later, under the meticulous care of the doctor, it took a week before the body slowly returned to the state before the test.
Looking back at the entire challenge process, we found that Randy was lucky.
Because he took such a big risk to experiment, and faced with the possibility of sudden death anytime and anywhere, he actually relied on his strong physical fitness to survive for 11 days. How incredible it is!
However,We must know that although the cruel experiment is over, the warnings that have brought us are far more than these!
In recent years, due to the increasing pressure of life and work, office workers in the workplace will inevitably stay up late and work overtime. However, the physical damage caused by frequent staying up all night will not get better because of the so-called "supplement of sleep."
On the contrary, too much supplementary sensation will increase the burden on the human body. So, how important is correct sleep to people?
4. Sleep is more important than you think
In recent years, with the popularity of smart phones, scientists have found that people’s sleep time is getting shorter and shorter, while the time spent playing with mobile phones in bed is getting shorter It's getting longer.
Such a lifestyle keeps precious sleep time compressed, which makes staying up late a normal life for many people.
Don't people who stay up all night want to sleep?
is not , they actually want to sleep more than ordinary people. To this end, they also ridiculed in their circle of friends: "Except when you don’t want to sleep when you sleep, you want to sleep at other times!" Important role. However, many scientists are deeply worried in the face of the trend that the overall sleep time of the modern population is getting less and less. For this reason, they conducted in-depth research on sleep.
The results of the research tell us: not just staying up late, including eating and drinking, Our various lifestyles must be as close to the body as possible The internal "timer"-commonly known as the biological clock, maintains the same frequency resonance.
If there is an artificial conflict with it, you may unknowingly, and your body will be seriously injured.
"Being at sunrise and resting at sunset" Although it was a living habit of ancient people,It is not feasible for people in modern society, but it is necessary to know that this is the law of work and rest in accordance with the biological clock of the human body. Therefore, people need to rest according to the various needs of the body!
We know that fish in the deep sea can get enough sleep by rotating the left and right brains to rest. Because humans cannot use left and right brains to take turns to rest like fish, adequate sleep is even more important.
Because young people are strong and all physical functions are at their peak, they think that staying up late is not a big deal, and it will pass.
But for older people, if you can’t ensure adequate sleep, you will feel depleted and weak, and some will even feel inexplicably low mood, and it is easy to lose control and get emotional Move anger .
In addition, people who often stay up late, due to the lack of adequate sleep, often suffer from toplessness, obesity and even sudden death. Therefore, it is very important for everyone to ensure adequate and high-quality sleep at the right time!
So, who is reading this article, do you have the habit of staying up late to play with your mobile phone?
From today, let us stop staying up late and sleep reasonably, so that you will have a healthier body and our lives will be more sunny!
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