A cracking new show over here in the UK, involves 10 people having to stay awake for 10 days solid on national telly, for a grand prize of £100,000.
They have now been awake for 112 hours, and are starting to freak out a wee bit... hallucinations and shit like that.
The cougers are only half way there, 1 has already dropped out.
Can anyone else reckon they can do it?
Keep in mind, they are drug tested every morning, so none of that naughty 'columbian dancing powder' to keep you roking for a week and a half...
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no one could pay me enough to sacrifice ...
no one could pay me enough to sacrifice my sleep.
sleeping is the best!
my bed my friend!
i don't think they can do it. Surely it is impossible.
It sounds like a really interesting ...
It sounds like a really interesting show. It's like Big Brother in that as well as being an entertaining TV show, it also allows us to witness a kind of scientific experiment. Like, just what does happen to people when they don't sleep for ages.
There is an interesting piece in the Guardian written by one of the doctors on the ethics panel who advised the show's producers, and the problems they faced.
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sounds like it'll make great viewing. ...
sounds like it'll make great viewing. This from Scientific American, regarding an experiment that sounds extremely similar, keeping people awake for 8-10 days...
"None of these individuals experienced serious medical, neurological, physiological or psychiatric problems. On the other hand, all of them showed progressive and significant deficits in concentration, motivation, perception and other higher mental processes as the duration of sleep deprivation increased."
In other words, they lose it. Should make fantastic telly.
The guy who holds the record for no sleep (Randy Gardner - 11 days) was, at towards the end of his ordeal "awake, but basically cognitively dysfunctional."
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Choice, you can watch it online. ...
Choice, you can watch it online. You'll need to signup to the realone superpass service, but you can get a 14 day free trial (plenty of time to cover the shattered show) and away you go...
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when i was a teenager i used to ...
when i was a teenager i used to experiment with sleep deprivation as a means to bring myself closer to the subconscious, i'd love to have a crack, most i ever managed was about 4 nights though, trick is to keep yourself occupied, keep the lights on, and to drink coffee that's about 5 times too strong, after a couple of days you start seeing things out of the corner of your eyes and stop making much sense
my only apprehension is that it's one of my worst nightmares to wake up and find myself on a game show ... don't fear the reaper ... but screw going crazy on television
i remember some good sleep deprived ...
i remember some good sleep deprived times...
hmmm...another half baked reality Show ...
hmmm...another half baked reality Show where spoilt brats damage their health for the sake of money....how sick is that?
i'm sure if they were spoilt brats ...
i'm sure if they were spoilt brats they wouldn't need the money
huh, well thats crap for ...
huh, well thats crap for starters...
spoilt brats... grow up go to uni or wherever and suddenly have to pay for things themselves...
of course they need the money...
sounds like a cool show....
sounds like a cool show.
Very sickening..reality tv shows like ...
Very sickening..reality tv shows like this get me raged..especially when its all to do with health.
fair point libelle, though i have known ...
fair point libelle, though i have known a few people personally, that never made the step from graduating uni to paying for things themselves ... anyway my point was that i think it's unfair to make a blanket statement in regards to these people, who knows, maybe one of them has a dying relative that needs an expensive operation? hell i'd do it just for the challenge. and to see what happened to my brain of course :)
// to do with health. smoking's ...
// to do with health.
smoking's bad for your health but smokers do it without a second thought, people are self-destructive, everyone's got at least one dirty vice and often there are factors that may seem to justify them.
when m2 was on i tried not to sleep and ...
when m2 was on i tried not to sleep and see how long i could go for, 'sleep deprivation makes you stronger' etc, i got to about 40 hours and that was without coffee etc, the next day i was a zombie....
dont try at home
datz why u take energy pills!...
datz why u take energy pills!
I thought Jotun was opposed to ...
I thought Jotun was opposed to drugs..even though they are legal..they are still considered drugs to me!
hes not against drugs.. just some- like ...
hes not against drugs.. just some- like cocaine...
Is there a threshold they must stay at? ...
Is there a threshold they must stay at? Like, do they monitor how long those 'blinks' are taking or do you need to be moving for significant amounts of time to prove you're awake.
Also, wouldn't it be fun if they brainwashed them or made them perform tasks such as sitting still. Or made them watch a video of paint drying, with questions at the end. "What side of the screen was the bug caught in the paint?" etc.
they are not allowed to close their ...
they are not allowed to close their eyes for more than 10 seconds. If they do the prize fund drops £1000.
Every night a contestent has do do challenge for an hour, which has included a full body massage, sitting in a lazy-boy cuddling a human size teddy bear, lying in a comfy bed getting a bed time story read to you from a granny, and watching paint dry.
They are really fucked now after 130 odd hours of sleep deprevation...
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Damn, that's some twisted shit....
Damn, that's some twisted shit.
yeh sounds gud, but it truly freky shit ...
yeh sounds gud, but it truly freky shit doin dat. ma m8 had truble sleepn so he went to a docta and they did an experiment on him: put him in a room and waited till he fell asleep...after 14 days, after halucinating and all dat shit, he finally passed out after exhaustion. now hes on double dose sleeping pills! freky shit dat!!
but id still go into the sho, coz i rekon i could do dat, especially 4 muny!!
Did anyone seen "my little eye"?...
Did anyone seen "my little eye"?
I think it's a pretty bad idea, it's ...
I think it's a pretty bad idea, it's actually dangerous on your brain - but I suppose they don't care when that amount of money is at hand. (Unless they are one of the ones who don't win)