The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired 469
Sleepy Dog Millionare writes "Brian Palmer, writing for Slate, asks 'Can you die from lack of sleep?' and shockingly, the answer may very well be Yes, you can. Palmer points to 'ground breaking experiments' in the area of sleep research. It turns out that sleep deprivation can actually be deadly in rats. The obvious conclusion is that it is probably deadly in all mammals. So the next time you think you need to pull multiple all-night hack-a-thons, ask yourself if it's worth risking your life for."
If I were sleep deprived (Score:5, Funny)
I wouldn't be able to get a first post.
Ah...... (Score:5, Funny)
But did they feed the rats Jolt?
It keeps me alive!
Now if I can just do something about those damned bats...
Lack of sleep IS dangerous (Score:5, Funny)
According to a reliable source [memory-alpha.org], a lack of REM sleep in a group of people will cause them to go crazy and start murdering each other...
Rats make for lousy test subjects (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:If I were sleep deprived (Score:5, Funny)
In the modern world it seems to be macho to go without sleep.
Stop talking like a pussy, boy!
Thank you Captain Obvious! (Score:4, Funny)
Is there anyone here who seriously thought that it would be even remotely related to ok, to not sleep for several days?
Not only does it make you stupid as hell, and depressed. Your brain also starts to fail more and more. Even if you do not die, you will not be far away from a zombie.
Hope you do not run up to me in that state, because I am going to shoot you. I don't take risks zombies. Zombies and raptors. Especially zombie raptors. ^^
IT = RIP (Score:1, Funny)
Sleep kills? (Score:2, Funny)
Everyone who's wise knows sleep is really an addictive illness [skytopia.com] that needs to be overcome.
What's the LD50? (Score:4, Funny)
What's the LD50?
Re:It can do it to cats (Score:3, Funny)
I remember reading some time ago (in the 1970's) of some research that was already old then (1950's?), about sleep deprivation literally killing cats.
Anybody who can keep a cat awake deserves a Nobel Prize.
Re:World Record (Score:0, Funny)
lol - someone had to say it..
That's 11 (eleven) 0x0B in hex, \013 in octal, 1011 in binary, days... not 2....
Re:If I were sleep deprived (Score:5, Funny)
There's a whole new meaning to being dead tired...
Re:Ah...... (Score:1, Funny)
That's so funny, I threw up my energy drink into the one I'm currently drinking!
~stolen from the brothers Chapman
Re:Depends what you're doing (Score:5, Funny)
After working at my office all day, I started work on the survey project in my basement around 5pm on a Friday night and worked on it for a while and had a wonderful time
You make slashdot proud.
Re:Hack-a-thons? No. (Score:5, Funny)
Lalalalala, I can't hear you, lalalalalala!
Re:Lack of sleep IS dangerous (Score:5, Funny)
I'm never going to understand Asian tastes...
Can't sleep (Score:4, Funny)
Clown will eat me.
My sleep story, how about yours? (Score:5, Funny)
I had a night job at a factory one time. 11pm to 7am. This meant that I slept about every two days.
I had a beekeeping hobby during the off factory hours. Can't put those little critters off. Once I was so sleepy I gathered a swarm into a box on the top of a 10' ladder. Then took a good nap up there with the idea or waiting for the bees to move to my box. Woke up a couple of hours later to an unpleasant dream which turned out to be reality. I had slept through a few bee stings. The swarm had moved, not into the box, but over and into my bee netting, clothes, hair, face, etc.
It was just annoying because swarms are fairly placid. So I carefully pulled my bee covered bee netting off and put that in the box. Went and took a proper nap in a bed.
You folks do anything interesting while sleep deprived? Leave out anything that could get you into trouble.
Re:If I were sleep deprived (Score:5, Funny)
Sleep deprivation also causes you to miss jokes, and often also miss the whooshing noise that occurs after you miss them.
Re:Sure about that? (Score:4, Funny)
[citation needed]
It was a programme on TV the other week about some guy in Canada and an experimental drug with a name of some sort. What more do you need???
Re:Take with one hand, give with the other (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ah...... (Score:5, Funny)
Too much Red Bull gives you Wings, And a halo.
feh (Score:2, Funny)
I have twin ten-month-old boys. Apparently, I should have died dozens of times over by now.
Re:"Shockingly"?? (Score:3, Funny)
I don't have the need to be out late every night in a desperate search for pussy.
You should keep your cat indoors. And anyway, they attack the native wildlife if you let them out at night.
(What do you mean "Slashdot nerd"? I don't understand.)
Re:If I were sleep deprived (Score:3, Funny)
Sleep deprivation is a myth. Margaret Thatcher got by with four hours sleep a night, before she went mad.
Re:If I were sleep deprived (Score:3, Funny)
Depends on what you're doing instead of sleeping.
Re:"Shockingly"?? (Score:3, Funny)
But if you know how to get that REM while awake instead, I'm listening.
I'd imagine it would be rather uncomfortable what with your eyes rapidly moving around and making everything wiggly.
Re:Lack of sleep IS dangerous (Score:3, Funny)
Well, since you're obviously an unpatriotic Taiwanese, ...
Oh, sorry. I got caught up in the scrum. Never mind.
Re:If I were sleep deprived (Score:5, Funny)
Raped Eye Movement
You managed to spell the rest of your comment correctly, so was this just a Freudian slip or do you want to enlighten us as to the details of this horrific biological state?
Re:Hack-a-thons? No. (Score:3, Funny)
Uh, no. Even if be had lived, what were his chances of reproducing?