What Happens If You Never Sleep

You spend about a third of your life asleep. Flake did the math, called it 25 wasted years, and quit sleeping. We follow him hour by hour: the point where being awake works like being drunk, the microsleeps your brain takes without asking, the hallucinations, and the real teenager who stayed awake for 11 days and forgot how to count down. This is a comedy, not medical advice. Please sleep. 0:00 Flake quits sleep 0:20 Hours 1 to 17 0:40 Hour 24 1:01 Hour 48 1:27 Hour 72 1:41 The record 2:13 Why nobody beats it 2:42 Why we sleep Sources "We spend about one-third of our lives asleep", NIH Curriculum Supplement: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB... Hours awake vs. blood alcohol, CDC NIOSH: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/work-hour-t... Severe Sleep Deprivation Causes Hallucinations (2018), Frontiers in Psychiatry: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/... Randy Gardner sleep deprivation experiment, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_G... The boy who stayed awake for 11 days, BBC Future: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20... Why we don't monitor the record, Guinness World Records (2023): https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/... Brain may flush out toxins during sleep (2013), ScienceDaily: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases... Brains sweep themselves clean of toxins during sleep, NPR (2013): https://www.npr.org/sections/health-s... Brain clearance is reduced during sleep and anesthesia (2024), Nature Neuroscience: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4159... New method reignites controversy over brain clearance during sleep, The Transmitter (2024): https://www.thetransmitter.org/glymph...