If you are feeling a little tired this Monday morning, imagine how you would feel after days of not sleeping.
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The longest anyone's been known to go without sleep is 11 days, the video says. Supposedly that person suffered no lasting health effects. But if you are staying up that long, you are likely also taking stimulants like caffeine and energy drinks, which have their own health effects.
But, $4, weeks to months, even. Likely these people have been experiencing "microsleeps."
They point to cases of the incredibly rare disease Fatal Familial
In the Michael Jackson trial an expert claimed that the performer had gone 60 days without REM sleep, because he had been put into a coma-like state nightly as a "treatment for his insomnia."$4 that this lack of REM sleep would have killed Jackson soon, if an overdose of the coma-inducing Propofol hadn't.