What would happen if I stopped sleeping?

sleeping is 4 wimps!!! what the fudge would happen if I stopped sleeping? whta would happen if I stopped sleeping? what wouldhappne? I WONT DIE ...RIGHT???!!

It would eventually kill you indirectly. You get very sick and your body slowly shuts itself down.

The world record for the longest days without sleep is 142

Sleep deprivation severely affects the human body's ability to metabolize glucose, which can lead to early-stage Diabetes Type 2.

A 2001 Study at Chicago Medical Institute suggested that sleep deprivation may be linked to more serious diseases, such as heart disease, mental illnesses, such as psychosis and bipolar disorder,

Animal studies suggest that sleep deprivation increases stress hormones, which may reduce new cell production in adult brains.

A 1999 study[13] found that sleep deprivation resulted in reduced cortisol secretion the next day, driven by increased subsequent slow-wave sleep. Sleep deprivation was found to enhance activity on the Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (which controls reactions to stress and regulates body functions such as digestion, the immune system, mood, sex, or energy usage) while suppressing growth hormones.

A study conducted in 2005 showed that a group of rats who were deprived of five days of sleep had no significant effect on their ability to heal wounds, compared to a group of rats not deprived of sleep.

Sleep deprivation can have some of the same hazardous effects as being drunk.[15] People who drove after being awake for 17–19 hours performed worse than those with a blood alcohol level of .05 percent, which is the legal limit for drunk driving in most western European countries (the U.S. and UK set their blood alcohol limits at .08 percent).

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u bcum sleep deprived...I dont think you would die

Your absolutly redikulous.
What are you afaid of the boogy monster or something...

You would begin to look like L from Deathnote.

Sleep deprivation leads to deteoriorated performance in terms of mental capability as well as physical. Staying awake for more than 4 days...well...I'm assuming if you don't have enough juice, your body WILL automatically goto sleep and shutoff until you have enough energy to wake up.

This site will give you a pretty good idea of what you can expect.

http://www.sleep-deprivation.com/articles/effects-of-sleep-deprivation/

ew! you would get dark circles under your eyes! and I highly doubt you could even go a week w/ out sleeping...want to bet on it???/

well once I tried staying awake as long as possible...lol it lasted about 3 days, trust me its harder then it sounds
I got like 16 straight hrs of sleep after that

you would die. and probably look pretty ugly.

irishgirly how can I look "pretty and ugly" at the same time? ^.^

A brain is very similar to a computer. Sleep is basically the brain shutting down into a standby mode in order to understand and file all the information that has been introduced to it throughout the day before hand. So sleep is for the brain and not the body, the body can actually function quite easily without sleep as long as it rests every now and again. If you have too much of an information back-log to compile then your brain will crash, just like a computer will. It will simply stop working and all of your bodily functions will desist to work in the same way they would if your body got too cold. The agreed time one can go without sleep is approximately three weeks but I wouldn't advise it!

I once heard that you can only go 10 days without sleep.

your such a retard!!! Sleeping is the body's time to repair.If you stop sleeping,your body can't repair itself very well.So at some point,you'll die.

you wud die after bout 10 days or summet!