★Someone stayed for years without sleeping★ The Guinness World Record stands at 449 hours (18 days, 17 hours), held by Maureen Weston, in April 1977, in a rocking-chair marathon. Claims of not having slept in years have been made at times, by certain individuals, but either without scientific verification, or contradicted in independent verification: Never scientifically verified: Thái Ngọc, born 1942, claimed in 2006 to have been awake for 33 years or 11,700 nights, according to the Vietnamese news organization Thanh Niên. It was said that Ngoc acquired the ability to go without sleep after a bout of fever in 1973, but other reports indicate he stopped sleeping in 1976 with no known trigger. At the time of the Thanh Nien report, Ngoc suffered from no apparent ill effects (other than a minor decline in liver function), was mentally sound and could carry 100 kg of pig feed down a 4 km road, but another report indicates that he was healthy before the sleepless episode but that now he was not feeling well because of sleep deprivation. @medicalcortex #medstudents #medstudent #nurse #sleepdeprived #sleep #sleeptime #f4f #l4l #premed #usmle #surgery #nightshift #neurosurgeon #neurology
