Not Quite up to the Challenge

This is my log for my own sleep deprivation experiment, i didn't stay up for nearly as long as i wanted to but for the first attempt i think i did pretty well. I will try again later and hopefully i can stay up longer and get better results.

The experiment lasted roughly 28 hours. So i was awake for 28 hours straight. Right now i am running on 3 hours of sleep. So in the past 34 to 36 hours i have been asleep for 3 of those hours. I feel asleep at the 28 hour mark and after three hours i woke up again and haven't fell back to sleep. But the time rested in those 3 hours has made my experiment invalid so i must stop the experiment and wait alittle to fully recover and begin again.

this is my log:

Sleep deprivation log.

Day 1: okay so this is my first day in my own sleep deprivation experiment. Well actually I have been awake for about 10 to 12 hours already and have decided that I will now begin my experiment. There are no major motor function disruptions yet and there are no hallucinations, although that occurs after 3 or 4 days of sleep deprivation so there would be little chance that I would experience that. I am having some trouble typing but I think that is because I don’t type often. So now lets see where this take me.

As of now I have really done nothing in the day except I cleaned around the house a little I watched the NBA playoff game and I made cookies… they tasted pretty goooood.
(time was roughly 1:30 a.m. sat)

For now I will test myself for my cognitive ability by playing the game text twist which is a game that tests vocabulary. So my average score now is 4980 at time 2:00 a.m. out of five games.

Just reporting in, it is the hour 16, assuming, that I have been in this experiment. I know Jeff has told me to do a video log because of loss of motor skills and such but I only plan to do 4 days. I don’t feel like pushing it to the limit anytime soon, the only reason I am doing this is to experience the hallucinations. I think I will be doing more damage to my body and brain then taking a hallucinogen.

Yahoo game test score at 16 hours. Average score of 5: 3224; I seem to already be dropping. Oh well lets see if the trend continues.

Nearing on hour 20 or so I begin to think that maybe hallucinations caused by lack of sleep are somehow related to the need to dream. Maybe the dream center of the brain, our memories and whatever else consist of making a dream a dream are overactive in conscious person who does not allow them to release or relax, whatever be the case. If we try to deprive ourselves of sleep maybe those centers of our brain demand that they have their time so the visions we would normally see in a dream we would see when we are awake and we would call these abstractions and flutters of reality hallucinations….

Day 2: I am, what I have to believe is my second day, well I’m just starting it. By my own estimations I have been awake for 24 hours. Thought is alittle slowed but my motor skills don’t seemed impaired. Typing is still really easy although there is numbness and slight “tingly” feeling in my arms. I cannot lay down because I begin to drift in and out. I have to either be sitting or standing and remaining active. If I begin to slow my pace I feel like sleeping. I have already reached the point where I want to stop and then sleep for a good 2 to 3 hours or more. I am trying to fight it but I don’t know how much longer I can sustain this experiment. I know I can go at least another 12 hours. I have a very unusual hunger pain. It is almost a sleepy hunger. As I feel hungry I feel sleepy but when I put something in my gut, even something small like a banana I feel more awake.

Yahoo game test score at 24 hour. (YGT 24) 1812.my vision tilted while playing the game so I think the sleep deprivation is really starting to effect me. It just occurred to me that some of the levels of the game are not scored the same or have the same amount of points possible so a control test is necessary after I get a good amount of sleep

Hour 28, it seems that I do not have the will to do this experiment, I think I need to build my self up to 4 days in time. I have never before attempted to stay awake for longer then 18 hours and I beat that by 10 hours. I say its over because I just woke up from a sleep I just toke. I fell asleep about an hour or 2 ago and so by my estimation I was most likely awake for 26 to 28 hours.
I only experienced numbness in my muscles and a loss of clear thought. Hopefully when I try this again I can stay up a little longer.