Deprive myself of sleep for at least 48 hours

It made me

dreamy!

How I did it: This is a very rewarding challenge. It is buckets of fun. You will experience visual and aural hallucinations. A whole new level of conciousness awaits to be explored. All you have to do it sleep not for 48 hours.

I was very, very lucky to complete this goal. The timing was absolutely perfect. I have attempted this challenge once before and was mercilessly defeated by sleep. The second time however I had something to look forward to. I clearly could see where I was going.

To a lot of people this goal has no point. Quite frankly it is hard to see the purpose of depriving oneself of sleep for 48 hours. However for me it's more a case of a challenge. A test of my own will strength. Plus there are the hallucinations and micro-dreams which your brain will project before your eyes to make you go to sleep. I wanted to experience the feelings associated with sleep deprivation. You can read all the articles in the world about something but until you try it you can never truly know what it feels like.

I began the challenge on Wednesday morning. In the mean time I have booked a holiday in Devon on Friday. So between Wednesday and Friday I had time to pack and think about activities I might occupy myself with on this short, weekend, break.

The first night was relatively easy and yet quite interesting. As I was setting up my computer for another film marathon I heard a hissing noise from the cupboard under the stairs. It looked to me like my gas meter was making the noise. I have spent the rest of the night dealing with the gas emergency people (whom I have called), telling me that my water pipe has burst right under the gas meter. You can imagine the rest and probably figure out why I haven't gone to bed that night. However, it didn't turn out to be that bad and I had it fixed by midday so in all a lot of good came out of this.

The second night is usually the hardest. However I was still to come up with an a list of activities for the short break the following day. As I was researching some places we could visit my eyes would start getting heavy. It was hard to click the mouse. My concentration span was the shortest I have ever experienced it. I could not focus my eyes on the text I was reading. You can imagine how relieved I was to see the sun rising.

By midday my 48 hours was up and I was in the car on my way to Devon. I was falling asleep very five or ten minutes and during that time I have experienced some of the wildest and weirdest dreams I have ever had. I have felt a great sense of accomplishment but that might be down to the hallucinations that I was having. Read how I did it… 2 years ago