Sunday, May 20, 2007

Sleep Shmeep


It turns out I'm not my best with only 2 hours sleep. It makes it real hard to stay awake for the high council speaker. On the bright side, taking a nap later is a lot easier.

9 comments:

Jennifer B. said...

Hope you got that nap!

Kristen said...

Make that multiple naps. Or at least the need for such.

I think you are up to about 2 years of cumulative sleep lost.

I wonder what the world record for sleep deprivation is...

Clark said...

Longest period without sleep

Depending on how one defines sleep, there are several persons who can claim the record for having gone the longest without sleep. Aside from mere curiosity, these records may prove important to various sleep theories.

1. Thai Ngoc, born 1942, has stayed awake for 33 years or 11,700 nights, according to Vietnamese news organization Thanh Nien...

2. Randy Gardner holds the world record for intentionally having gone the longest without sleep. In 1965, Gardner, then 18, stayed awake for 264 hours (about 11 days) for a high school science project...

3. People born with the rare genetic disorder Morvan’s fibrillary chorea or Morvan’s syndrome can go without sleep for several months at a time. Michel Jouvet and his colleagues in Lyon, France, studied a 27-year-old man and found he had virtually no sleep over a period of several months. During that time he did not feel sleepy or tired and did not show any disorders of mood, memory, or anxiety. Nevertheless, nearly every night between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m., he experienced a 20 to 60-minute period of auditory, visual, olfactory, and somesthetic (sense of touch) hallucinations, as well as pain and vasoconstriction in his fingers and toes. In recent investigations, Morvan's syndrome has been attributed to serum antibodies directed against specific potassium (K+) channels in cell and nerve membranes.

Tylershark said...

Thank you wikipedia.

Anonymous said...

You're welcome.

-Wikipedia

DMom said...

This is being written as you go into your 40 something hours of work, with another 24, at least, to go. I don't know how you do it and they don't pay you enough.

Anonymous said...

I think they pay you plenty. How hard can it be to listen to your ipod all day and occasionally push some buttons.

Clark said...

Are we doing guesses on when brice is coming? I guess...7 lbs 9 oz, 18.76 inches. And he will be born at 10:27pm on June 1, 2007.

Clark said...

Will it be bryce with a "y" or "i".