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Postby Graham » 24 Jun 2005, 17:17

This was all done in the name of science. Really.

Okay, so Bill and Morgan needed to do a psych project and he wanted to do it on the effects of sleep deprivation on cognative abilities. So they, James, Derek and I agreed to try and stay awake for 48 hours while he tested us.

Problem being that he too was staying up for the duration and it got harder and harder for him to even administer the tests, let alone for us to answer them.

As you can see we tried to make it out like a reality show at the beginning, but that soon fell through. There's a lot of funny set-up for it though. All will be available on the Season 2 DVD. So there.

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Postby James » 24 Jun 2005, 17:44

funny side story we started that sat morning at about 10am which is when i woke up and had to be at work (for an 8 hour shift) at 5am starting sunday morning without any sleep the night before and 4 hours the night before that (damn you WOW) so at about 7am i am serving a customer and i apparently just fell asleep for about 5 seconds until the customer poked me (she was a regular, so whatever) and told me to wake the hell up. it was rather ammusing... for all that want to know, i stayed awake for 41 hours... so graham beat me by 1 hour.
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Postby vixenblade » 24 Jun 2005, 18:24

I find it amusing that you guys couldn't stay up for the two days straight... then again, I'm an insomniac.

LoL. I have started a conversation with someone in my head before, though. At least I'm not alone. =P
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Postby Kramy » 25 Jun 2005, 21:11

Staying up a long time is easy depending on what you're doing. I noticed a lot of walking, which is bad and tires out the mind. Endlessly playing Wc3 or WOW or some other extremely addicting game in 12 hour increments for 2 days should be fairly easy though. Just remember to eat every 12 hours, and eat nothing but buns lathered in butter inbetween, for energy.

Also, you have to be good enough at the game that it doesn't really require that much thinking(which is why I mentioned Wc3). Less thinking means less brain usage. I played Wc3 for 16h straight once without any negative impact, and was quite alert the rest of the night and next morning. That only adds up to about 30h though, I suppose.

Another thing that hinders your staying up though is people. If your mind is trying to decipher what noises are(or what someone else is saying) you tire out faster.
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Postby Dana » 25 Jun 2005, 22:11

Namby-pambies, the lot of you. I stay up for 45 hours on a semi-regular basis, especially during finals. O course, that's nothing on Travis locking himself in the PDP8 lab for 72 hours straight to finish one of his term projects on time.
Snacks are very important, it turns out.
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Postby HockeyEngineer » 03 Jul 2005, 12:02

I was actually on that bus going to work when Bill tried to pay with his debit card. I found it quite amusing... of course at the time I didn't realize he had been awake for 28 straight hours, so I was wondering how someone could mistake a debit card for a bus pass. It all makes sense now.
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Postby Graham » 03 Jul 2005, 22:45

No way! Awesome.
By the way, welcome to the boards.

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Postby CheeseGrater » 05 Jul 2005, 00:25

Heh. ^^ My friends and I absoloutly LOVE this one. Now, we always try to incorperate 'as hurt by much' into our conversations as much as possible. :P

Sad fact, though: You guys when sleep deperived is eerily reminicent of my friends while they are completely compus mentus. :P:P
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Postby sky » 13 Jul 2005, 12:56

were you still sleep deprived when this was edited? check your clock it runs about as well as you guys were.
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Postby Graham » 13 Jul 2005, 13:23

I don't follow. I just watched the whole video again and all the captioned times were accurate to what was said in the video.

If however, you are referring to the clock on the wall in Bill's living room, it's broken. We know.

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Postby sky » 13 Jul 2005, 13:42

I know I'm ultra observant, and it took some serious paying attention to catch it (and prove to myself that I wasn't hallucinating)...

The last two times that clock is shown (the shots where eveyone gives up in favor of sleep...ah blessed sleep) its not only the wrong time, but the wrong day! (You're only twelve hours off.) Unless there was time travel involved (that would be a skill!) it can't possibly be a reflection on reality... Not that any of this has anything to do with reality...
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Postby Graham » 13 Jul 2005, 23:03

Ha!
Fixed. Thanks for that. Got to keep my AMs and PMs straight.

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Postby kat » 08 Dec 2005, 16:48

So.... I have some friends over on the mainland here who have seen the Sleep Dep Experiment, and they loved it, and they really want to challenge you guys to a longer one. I have their phone number, if you are so inclined. email me at [email protected]
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Postby JesterJ. » 08 Dec 2005, 19:21

James wrote: (damn you WOW.)

World o' Warcraft? Don't say that!!! She can hear *strokes World of Warcraft* my precious......
Anyone that plays WoW is, in my book, someone "cool" (as cool as you can be while being a WoW player). But playing it to stay awake never really worked with me...Unless you're going through a raid or something. Just playing on a level 26 Rogue trying to get a group for BFD(Blackfothom Deeps, eh)..*shudder*..at 4 in the morning..*shudder more*.....
Yeah, that won't make sense to a lot of poeple, mabye a select few out of all of you.

Anyways, just thought I'd post since this topic has been revived after it's half-year slumber. Great vid. btw, one of my best (as it is, after all, a sheer stupidity one :D)
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Postby G » 09 Dec 2005, 13:31

Don't get me started on WOW. Am part of a computer and video games society and i know guys who played non stop for days. Averaging 60/70hrs a week of play time(Gotta love X-Fire). Although my counter strike addiction is just as bad. Got a total of 3hrs sleep over 3 nights once. The rest was spent playing CS. So, i think you guys were right to use games to stay awake. Great vid!!
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Postby JesterJ. » 10 Dec 2005, 12:47

Psh, CS has nothing on TS (The Specialists, Half-Life mod ;)). WoW...Is..fun. Very. I have over a hundred hours of it on Xfire(I think, it might be less), but Xfire isn't even on most of the time
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Postby G » 10 Dec 2005, 15:54

100hrs of WOW. Only 100?! I've go friends with over 1000hrs. How they're still passing their degree's i'm not too sure.
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Postby JesterJ. » 11 Dec 2005, 14:26

Lol,I'd have more but my internet is being a bitch lately, and I cant do anything due to lag (3-4k CONSTANT ping...If that's not bad I don't know what is :shock:). The expansion looks so cool thoguh :shock: I WANT MY INTERNET FIXED BEFORE I GET IT!!
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Postby xgollum » 17 Dec 2005, 19:12

I have a couple of questions and comments. I can't imagine what I would be like under similar circs if I were filmed. Yikes.

Firstly, seriously the way to do this properly, if you wanted to set a record or something, is to eat a lot more. If you didn't eat until you were STARVING, then you weren't eating enough. You have to carb load to do sleep dep. Secondly, you would want to sleep for like 20 hours before hand. When I have to do two or three shifts in a row at my two jobs, I will drug myself into a stupor and seriously sleep like the whole day previously to stock up on sleep. Clinically, they'll tell you it won't help, but from experience, it sucks a lot more if you don't hibernate beforehand.

At some point, Red bull and all the caffeine in the world won't help you. That's the point where you collapse or soldier on.

Seriously, though, did you guys not have anything to do that Monday? Or were you all just assuming you could hack it? How long did you all sleep when you finally sleep? Just a bit? Because if I had done that and gone to sleep at say, 4 a.m. like graham, I would have slept until that midnight, at least. Just wonderin'.

Oh, and what did Kate do to get a almost thanks? And were you at Ash and Pam's place, that's why they had to put up with you? Or did they just see you in the throes and have to deal with your confusion?

That's a lot of questions for a five minute video. Sorry.
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Postby Graham » 18 Dec 2005, 00:43

Yeah, we didn't really leap into this one prepared, we know now about eating, but we figured we'd try it anyway.

We did it (as the commentary on the Season 2 DVD set comingsoon says), as part of a psych experiment for a class Bill and Morgan were taking. And for fun.

When I finally slept, it was just a normal amount of sleep. That's usually the case.

As for Kate's "almost special thanks" it's been a long running sibling rivalry joke that she gets "thanks" just never "special thanks". Until 1337, where she really, really helped, and then she got "extar special thanks". For this, she shot some stuff at the beginning, for the intro, but the stuff she shot aren't in the final cut. Again, the DVD is your answer.

We were doing this at Ash and Bill's place... who's Pam?
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Postby xgollum » 18 Dec 2005, 09:29

It was PAT, yo, not Pam. My mistake.

I can't believe you only got a normal amount of sleep after freaking staying up that long.

One whole semester of my college education was spent in something like 36/20 hour shifts where I would stay up for a day and a night and a day, and then sleep for a night and a day. I'm surprised no one thought I was on crack or meth, but it was a christian university (I use the term uni VERY loosely, at that), and while the people there were happy to judge, they were naive enough that drug use wouldn't have occured to them.
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Postby Graham » 18 Dec 2005, 12:13

xgollum wrote: I'm surprised no one thought I was on crack or meth

Yeah... a couple posts up, kat mentions some friends of hers want to challenge us to another one. Except their rules are: everyone has to be on drugs.
So, we will not be taking them up on their challenge.
Suddenly their boasts of staying up for several days don't hold water.
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Postby xgollum » 18 Dec 2005, 12:18

I caught the challenge, TOTALLY missed the drug references. Maybe that was hashed out (get it?! sorry) in private. Either way, that's totally bogus. Given enough drugs (not counting caffeine, et al), anyone can stay up for as long as you want. Hell, I'll contribute some of my brother's ADD medication and we can all get hopped up on freakin' Ritalin.

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Postby Graham » 18 Dec 2005, 16:57

Yeah, this was something we were told in person.
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Postby xgollum » 18 Dec 2005, 17:25

yeh yeh. UH!

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