Talk:Sleep deprivation/Archive 2

Hallucinations caused by Sleep Deprivation

I recently went 2 days with out sleep, as a result I started having hallucinations. I was seeing objects on my wall moving on there own. Then I started to see a green light coming from behind said objects. I was fine at first with it. I mean I went 2 days with out sleep that is very uncommon for my self. Then I the light began too take form as two little kids. They only stood approx. 1 foot tall. Along with that, I saw a rainbow colored light on my curtain and a very big green light on my ceiling. Is this normal with deprivation of sleep? 172.132.200.36 07:46, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Quite normal. Get more sleep. Zuiram 00:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

There was a period in my life when I stayed up for 48 hours or so every single "day". I've gone on medication since then, thank god. I've never, never had anything like a vivid hallucination. A confused view of the world around me, sure. But what you describe has to be the result of something else. BTW, I've currently been up for... 70 hours and 30 minutes now. Distorted vision, sure. --MQDuck 01:27, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Stages of sleep deprivation

I was wondering if it would be approapriate to discribe what the stages of total sleep deprivation is in terms of time passed. For example, after 3 days, hallunication may occur.

Microsleep

Microsleep redirects to this page, but there is no direct mention of microsleep outside of the references section. Although microsleep and sleep deprivation are closely related concepts, I'm not convinced they should be the same page. --Keflavich 14:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

• I came here looking for information about microsleep, read the entire entry and found nothing to satiate my curiosity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.238.10.221 (talk) 06:15, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

• Exactly. Agreed. 72.75.1.209 (talk) 22:03, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

"Recreation" Section

This section is unsourced and everything in it sounds fishy. I've never heard of this "Creating the World in Seven Days" mess, but then again, ppl who would engage in such hazardous activities are not among my circle of friends. This needs to be either properly sourced or removed. PowderedToastMan 23:04, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

I intend to revive the section less said ' "Creating the World in Seven Days" mess ', and I am considering creating an article on the subject and merging/moving the current article All-nighter into it. Thoughts/consideration on my user talk page :-). Bennyboyz3000 06:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

Impairment of ability

It says that people were impaired after only 17-19 hours. I found this disturbing because average adults stay awake that long in a usual day.

And average adults are impaired. They just tend not to realize it til they've gone a while getting proper sleep.

Kody Baker reference

I am unable to find anything on him allegedly going 2.5 month without sleep.

Effects of sleep deprivation

"Lack of sleep may result in [...] Sleep" This is a pretty odd point, how does loss of sleep cause sleep? It causes microsleep, but that article was removed long ago for reasons unknown. 213.187.176.234 09:16, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

This article REALLY needs to explain the effects of sleep deprivation, like what it does to one's health. --AlexForche (talk) 22:54, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

The article mentions that The Guinness Book of World Records dropped the category due to health risks, but no risks are listed in this article. Rklawton (talk) 00:26, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Torture

"Sleep deprivation is considered by some to be torture"

Theway this is written it sounds as though this is just the casual opinion of a couple of people. Surely there is a better way of phrasing this. Calgary 17:36, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

"people experience hallucinations after less than 48 hours without sleep"

RUBBISH —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.135.242.68 (talk) 03:59, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

By personal experience I agree. --Draco ignoramus sophomoricus (talk) 16:27, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Me too. It depends on genetic and environmental factors, but some mild psychotic state may generally be noticed before 48 hours. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.58.0.39 (talk) 15:58, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

So what are we going to do about it?

A complete overhaul of our 9 to 5 world would have to occur, and ESPECIALLY of the school system, to change this pattern of nobody getting any sleep. What's being done to get us there? It seems like a far-off dream... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 19:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Temperature Homeostasis

Just thought that I should mention this. The more sleep deprived you are, the less I think that your body will be able to withstand the extremes of temperatures (though I'm not sure which way this works worst against the body - for higher temps or lower ones?). Yes, I know, I need to find a citation...

NotACootie (talk) 01:45, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Having served as a conscript, what I know is after a week or so, with less than three hours of sleep per day, somehow it seems that the cold is not felt. I do not know though if it is because the body regulates or because of the depersonalazation syndrome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Draco ignoramus sophomoricus (talk • contribs) 16:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Separate physiological effects

Some of the physiological effects listed are a result of pulling one or two all-nighters in a row. Others listed are the result of general sleep depravation over time (like getting only 3-4 hours of sleep a night over the course of a few months) I believe that the list should be altered slightly to show this, but I respectfully decline to edit it myself without an account. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.188.113.180 (talk) 09:43, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Control within relationships

This section has been mostly deleted by anonymous IP addresses, but even the original didn't seem relevant. It offered no information that the Torture section didn't and was generally off-topic. I'm removing what's left of it. --Ueli-PLS (talk) 11:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

citations

i noticed many lying about on this article on the physiological effects part. i looked at 2 citations tht is listed in a sentence above the effects and it does cite most of the effects meaning tht the citation needed tags are not needed. Pro66 (talk) 12:26, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Bot report : Found duplicate references !

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DumZiBoT (talk) 11:03, 14 August 2008 (UTC)