What Happens to Your Body If You Stop Sleeping?

In 1963, a 17-year-old boy named Randy Gardner stayed awake for 11 days. By the end, he couldn’t do simple math, couldn’t finish a sentence, and believed he was a professional football player. So what actually happens to your body when you stop sleeping? In this video, we break down what sleep deprivation does to your brain and body, hour by hour: Why 17 hours awake makes you think like someone who’s been drinking What microsleeps are and why they’re so dangerous How missing sleep breaks your emotions and rewires your hunger How your brain cleans itself every night What happened in the longest sleepless experiments on record Why fatal familial insomnia is so rare and so terrifying Tonight, when you’re tempted to scroll for just one more hour, remember the boy in San Diego. Subscribe to Nyxen for more strange, simple explanations of how your body and brain work. New videos every week. __________________________________________________ It took me alot of hours to make this video. please if you have time; like and subscribe. If not, no problem. I will see you in the next one. Love you guys❤️ Nyxen. __________________________________________________ SOURCES __________________________________________________ Sources and further reading: Gardner & Dement sleep deprivation case, 1963-64 (Stanford) Williamson & Feyer, “Moderate sleep deprivation produces impairments in cognitive and motor performance equivalent to legally prescribed levels of alcohol intoxication,” Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2000 Walker et al., amygdala reactivity after sleep loss, Current Biology, 2007 Spiegel, Tasali, Penev & Van Cauter, sleep curtailment and leptin/ghrelin, Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004 Xie et al., “Sleep drives metabolite clearance from the adult brain,” Science, 2013 Jenkins & Dallenbach, forgetting during sleep and waking, 1924 Rechtschaffen et al., sleep deprivation in the rat, 1983-89 Van Dongen et al., chronic sleep restriction, Sleep, 2003 He et al., DEC2 mutation and short sleep, Science, 2009 __________________________________________________ #sleep #sleepdeprivation #psychology #neuroscience #science