sleep deprivation

I’m pretty sure there is an insomnia thread on here somewhere, but I don’t think a creepy Insomnia thread so thought I’d start one. I have been suffering mild insomnia for around 20 years now. It flares up from time to time and it’s not nice, and sometimes bloody creepy hence my post. I woke...

This has been doing the rounds on the net. People asking if it's real, an urban legend, or a new fictional story. The more I read, the more I go for the latter! Full text at: http://u842p409.ilyke.net/the-russian-s ... ment/35168

Don't know how true this actually is. Surely he'd have gone mad by now: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1249864.html

Sounds like they havn't got the casaultiy pinned down on this one: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,12977,1140726,00.html

Ok, what are your experiences of sleep and sleep deprivation. What's the longest anyone here has slept for? What's the longest you've gone without sleep for? What symptoms of sleep deprivation have you experienced? Have any of you experienced sleep paralysis, reccurring dreams, sleep...

The more we do the less we sleep. In the modern world the presures of work and leasure are squeasing out sleep. If you need proof you only have to look at the times some of us are awake and posting to the message boards. We deprive ourselves of sleep willingly and often look on time asleep as...