Views:1079 | By: Kim Perhaps you have done longer than me but since am writing, I will brag about my 50 hours which are way less compared to Randy Gardner's 264 without sleep, am not trying to beat him, I will be sleeping right after I post this. I will blink fast as many times as I can before my eyes cannot open no more, a trick I learned to make me sleep quicker from a guy who used to be in the army. Just how long can a human stay awake before their next sleep becomes the last? I do not know and I do not want to find out.

After 24 hours, drowsiness kicks in accompanied by irritability, concentration and memory difficulties, reduced coordination, impaired judgment, short-term memory problems, raised levels of stress hormones among others.

After 48 hours, a person's cognitive performance will worsen, in addition to hallucination, they will become more irritable and might even punch their best friend for cracking a mean joke.

After 72 hours, brace yourself for severe concentration issues accompanied with memory issues, paranoia, depressed mood and difficulty in communicating with others.

There is more, check out a piece titled "The effects of going more than 24 hours without sleep" by Jamie Eske on Medical News Today. She adds that sleep deprivation can lead to long term effects like obesity, anxiety and depression, watch out, the things you do while sleep deprived could send you under.

Get some sleep, even if 48 hours will not kill you, it might make you say things, see things, become someone or do things you never intended to, the chemistry in your brain will have its way if you do not make a way for it.

Happy Sleeping, not too much :)!