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Originally Posted by vivek16
umm. On a side note, how long can a human being survive/remain sane without sleep? 
-vivek |
Well, it is really hard to die from lack of sleep; the world record is around two weeks for normal people with a full recovery. For longest period awake, I believe the record is several months, but very long periods of sleeplessness like that are caused by medical disorders that result in death. (There was a rather interesting 60 Minutes story on a family in, IIRC, Italy that had one of these sleep disorders running through their ancestry. Basically, one day in their thirties or forties, without warning, some members of the family would be unable to fall asleep and later die after months of sleep deprivation) You do start to hallucinate after a couple of days without sleep though, which may be a problem operating power tools...