Is it possible to die from sleep deprivation?!


Question: Yes
your brain needs sleep, to process the day
Or you loose your fine motor functions first,
the ability to do basic tasks -- to think in a straight line.

you may appear drunk as your words begin to slur
Your immune system will begin to fail, and you will become more vulnerable to disease

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_depri...

here you will find some of the other effects


Answers: Yes
your brain needs sleep, to process the day
Or you loose your fine motor functions first,
the ability to do basic tasks -- to think in a straight line.

you may appear drunk as your words begin to slur
Your immune system will begin to fail, and you will become more vulnerable to disease

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_depri...

here you will find some of the other effects

Yes, it is possible but it would take days of no sleep. After 3 days of no sleep you start to hallucinate and shut down.

Crank addicts find this out all the time.

I'm pretty sure it is but only from severe sleep deprivation. There was a story about this little asian kid who play Starcraft for so many days straight without sleeping and ended up dying. I'm not sure if he wasn't eating either, but regardless he still died

im not sure about dying but it would send you pretty crazy. thats why it was used as a form of torture during the war.

Yes it is though you will hallucinate first and " flip biscuits " as a friend of mine so quaintly puts it .

I don't know about death, but I've had grand mal seizures from not sleeping. After about 3 days being awake straight through, I'll hallucinate & eventually collapse into seizures. Not a good thing, so make sure you sleep!

Yes.
As a matter of fact their is a genetic disorder that causes people to stop sleeping during middle age. It starts small and gets worse. Once the disease in in full swing the people who suffer from it tend to die in about 6 months time.





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