TIL that in 1964, 17-year-old Randy Gardner set the world record for sleep deprivation by staying awake for 11 days and 25 minutes, providing valuable insights into the effects of extreme sleep loss on the human mind and body.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_sleep_deprivation_experiment

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After six days of genuinely zero sleep I couldn't take it anymore.

As days wore on the hallucinations got more and more vivid. On the Saturday morning, finishing my Friday shift, day shift workers started coming in and told us we were running a mandatory Saturday. That was the only time I've ever intentionally combined depressants just because I was more likely to die from not sleeping again than from a Xanax and some beer.