Don’t Try This At Home: 11 Days Without Sleep

Have you ever wondered what happens when people simply don’t sleep? Someone who must know a bit about this is American Randy Gardner. He actually managed to stay awake for 11 days, setting a new world record in the process!

But the 11 sleepless days and nights didn’t go entirely smoothly. After four or five days without sleep, he was already very aggressive, had blackouts and began seeing things that weren’t there.

Making a record attempt like this is really not a good idea. Not only do you become irritable and aggressive, but you also start to hallucinate. A woman who went three days without sleeping suddenly began to see spider webs in front of her face all the time. An experiment on rats also had a disturbing result. Rats who were forced to stay awake eventually died.