{"id":947,"date":"2009-05-04T02:16:47","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T06:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=947"},"modified":"2009-05-04T02:16:47","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T06:16:47","slug":"weeklong-sleeplessnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2009\/05\/04\/weeklong-sleeplessnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeklong sleeplessnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docstoc.com\/docs\/5488275\/OLCMemo1\">Torture Memos<\/a>, I found one useful tidbit : an improved lower bound on how long one can last under stress without sleep.<\/p>\n<p>During a particularly busy week in college, I once spent 4+ days without sleep (just over 100 hours), and remember the world had a certain quivering texture, and that I heard occasional faint singing in the background, the last day.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t exhausted when I had dinner and went to sleep at last, but certainly slept soundly for the next dozen or so hours.\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve often wondered what the accepted limits on healthy sleeplessness are.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now I know with a bit more detail : those human health heroes who also advise no more than 4 hours of waterboarding sessions and 24 minutes of simulated drowning in a 24-hour period (else you might start to inflict permanent physical or mental harm) say : no more than <strong>7.5 days<\/strong> (<strong>180 hrs<\/strong>) without sleep before resting for a full 8 hours.\u00a0 If any of you manage longer than that, let me know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading through the Torture Memos, I found one useful tidbit : an improved lower bound on how long one can last under stress without sleep. During a particularly busy week in college, I once spent 4+ days without sleep (just over 100 hours), and remember the world had a certain quivering texture, and that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-fh","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}