Can Staying Awake Too Long Really Kill You?
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Every college student knows the eye-stinging pain of a caffeine-induced all-nighter. It’s been well documented that prolonged sleep deprivation will lead to lower cognitive and motor function, as well as impaired memory; it might even give you the tired-giggles. No one has ever definitively shown why sleep is necessary for our survival, and no person has ever had sleep deprivation listed as their cause of death. As prominent sleep researcher John Allan Hobson states “The only known function of sleep is to cure sleepiness”. So, can sleep really kill you?
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Perhaps this would be a good time to recommend for those who have trouble sleeping or are otherwise wanting to optimize sleep quality Sleep Smarter, by Shawn Stevenson: amzn.to/2BULjHd - a book not without issues, but on the whole a decent quick-read primer on optimizing sleep- or Sleep Soundly Every Night, Feel Fantastic Every Day: A Doctor’s Guide to Solving Your Sleep Problems, by Dr. Robert Rosenberg: amzn.to/2C2OkHT
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Today I Found Out hello Simon, could please do Can UK ever become republic? Please I'm really interested.
Please do a video about why "night shifts" are also known as "graveyard shifts". I love your videos, keep them coming. :)
Considering that I'm watching this wehen I've been up about 30 hours, I think, I'll check this out.
That said, could you talk about circadian rhythm disorders? My problem isn't so much that I don't get enough sleep; it's that I can go to bed any time of the day or night. And I quite frequently (at least once per month, but usually a couple times) stay up for more than 24 hours because of an insomniated night. In fact, right now, I'm on a binge of 24 hours followed by 16 followed by now 30. I don't know how long this will last, but I'm trying to reset my body to sleep at a reasonable time. I would like to know if this is a good idea or not. It seems to work, but I don't know what I might be doing to my body in the meantime.
Today I Found Out what is happening to my snowglobes? The water level is dropping! It’s not cracked or leaking. Is it evaporating? How?!?
When I was in my 20s, I went through a period of about a month when I was working three jobs. Got around 1-2 hours sleep per night, 7 days a week. Yes the fatigue was crippling - not just confusion but a lot of physical pain. You become really emotional about everything. After about 3 weeks I started vomiting on and off all day. Then the hallucinations started, and I decided it was time to quit.
What Simon conveniently 'forgets' to mention is that 100% of all people who have slept have died. Pretty shocking statistic that cannot be ignored.
What do you mean? I've slept and I've never died.
fcukugimmeausername haha
I also have slept once or twice and I'm still alive.
Incorrect, actually due to the spike of human population, only about 70% (citation needed) of humans who have slept have died due to humans that are alive being in the 30%.
That's a totally pointless comment which can and should be ignored. If you don't sleep, you will die exponentially faster than if you do get adequate sleep. There's no way around that and only a total idiot would argue otherwise.
Can you do "what is the origin of the pause and play button symbols?" (like the two vertical bars and the triangle)
K Johnson I've never even thought about that lol
...really, you're stumped on pause and play buttons?
I'm sure if you just Googled it, you would get an answer.
I'd rather watch a TIFO video on why you're so dumb. :)
R dude why are you so mean? Like You could have literally googled if sleep can kill you, right? But you didn't. Because watching a video is more intertaning. Which is literally the whole point.
Bump!
R ....when you have nothing better to argue about so you change the subject by talking about spelling mistakes 😂👏
Oooh, I have a true story for you all. When I was younger, a friend and I decided to test how long we could stay awake and really try to push the limit while his parents were on a two week vacation (yeah, kids could feed themselves and not burn the house down back then). The internet was still a fledgling thing (think back to your first free AOL minutes disk) and there was certainly no appealing wells of knowledge like this on it yet, so we had no idea the dangers. We basically fueled ourselves with deer jerkey, leftover pizza from a party, off brand soda, and very over sugared lemonade. We played video games until sleepiness prompted us to get up and battle with fireworks or something similar to get us amped again. Day one was a blast. Night one was a breeze. Day two was childsplay. Night two was a bit of a struggle and was marked by a kind of hollow feeling in the chest and mild discomfort. By day three we both had problems with shivering and a constant sensation of cold, weakness, and mild slowness of thought and intended movement. During day four I had several bouts of deep confusion and simple yet novel tasks seemed to be slipping beyond my abilities though I could functionally do anything I already knew how to do well. Night four was marked by increasing numbness and by day five I was experiencing a sensation of severance from my surroundings (like vr is these days). We pushed through that day and into night five by basically pacing continuously, singing along to loud music, and having something like a rubik's cube in hand and in motion constantly. Before I gave in near day 6 (I think) I was drifting in and out of terrifying hallucinations. The last thing I remember is being completely alone in the universe as the livingroom wall opening a giant screaching mouth and consuming me. I suspect this was me making some pathetic sound and collapsing onto the couch that sat in front of that wall. Once we were well rested again he described a similar experience with less terror involved. Its hard to say for sure but I recall my first post experiment sleep to have exceeded 20 hours and been broken only by the extreme need to use the restroom and a poweful hunger that compelled me to almost mindlessly construct and eat half a stale french loaf worth of sandwich and two tall glasses of milk before returning to another sleep of about 16 hours. He woke up at his desk at some other point and later recanted a similar tale of nearly pissing himself and eating consumptively before quickly crashing in his bed. After we were both up and comparing notes we felt kind of beaten up, easily annoyed, and enduring headaches, but our mental capacity had largely returned. I went home, thinking I was back in the game enough that I could surely now hide my participation in such a stupid experiment from my mother. She grilled me for not checking in every night and asked repeatedly if I was taking drugs. I stuck hard to the story that we played too many video games and probably didn't get enough sleep. It wasn't until at least couple of mornings later that I would say I was back at 100% but I recall feeling surprisingly great at that point. There's a first hand account for you all, I did it just for the sake of curiosity, and it was fucking terrible. Now you know, so please don't try it. There was probably a solid 6 or 7 hours in there where I had serious doubts that I was alive or even had ever been real. That's a strange and disturbing place to be, but I hope you enjoyed the recollection.
Atlas WalkedAway You should write a book... Oh, wait....
Just kidding. That's crazy though.
Sounds about right (yes I've done it)
Everything after day 3 feels like I'm drunk, or mildly high, by day 5 I have trouble walking and the hallucinations are intense, definitely a multi drug trip
Deflated Hypnotist For sure. The hallucinations are too real man. I think it's some portion of the brain going into sleep without consent and the pineal gland doing its job and dumping dmt.
Andrew Delashaw I've thought about it strongly. I've had a modus operandi centered around taking the path less traveled and allowing my curiosity to run amok for as long as I can remember. I figure, worst case scenario is that I get an awesome gravestone, anything short of that is another incredible recollection to tell. Alas my time and attention is oft too divided to get a pen to paper for anything less than turning bumblefuckery into science.
Atlas WalkedAway Had this friend call me at 2 in the morning asked if she could come over she had been awake for three days. She lived up the street from me. I really don't know how she drove over in her car but lo and behold there she was a miracle she didn't get hurt or kill anybody! The reason for being awake for three days was that her parents were out of town and she was afraid to sleep in the house by herself so Finally, she called me because she needed a place to sleep I wish she would've called me sooner still a miracle she drove to my house at two in the morning and didn't kill anybody
This has been the absolute best video I've seen to explain what sleep does. This actually helped me understand my own bad sleep habits. What I don't understand is why I'm backwards. I feel right awake at night, but sun comes up and I'm tired and want to sleep. This has been since I was a child. I slept through the school day just about and was up all night in my bed just staring at the ceiling fan.
I’m the same way too but I have noticed as I got older that my sleep will shift throughout the month. Therefore, I’m pretty sure that I have Non 24 sleep wake disorder. More often than not that I am awake at night and sleep during the day unfortunately.
While in the hospital, after waking from a medically induced coma, I was awake for just over a week, 220 hours. I was awake mainly from being in pain. My room was right by the nurse desk and their light shined right on my face, which did not help. I felt myself going crazy with nothing to do but stare at a wall until I would start to hallucinate.
sounds fun
wtf did the medical staff not do anything? Like give you pain killers and... IDK turn off the fucking light? Sounds like a horrible hospital, would not pay for such horrible services.
Psychosis induced by sleep deprivation in hospitals is a known problem and the fact that it's rarely addressed is, itself, kinda nuts. Besides 24 hour light, add round-the-clock blood pressure and other medical checks, noise and, sometimes, long lingering effects of anesthesia after surgery. America's got the worst health care in the industrialized world.
Don't forget the part where they wake you up to give you a sleeping pill.
lol, ikr?
Since teenagers usually have a later melatonin release, wouldn’t it make sense to have school days start later in order to insure proper education?
As a teenager, I commonly got 6 hours of sleep per night because of both the workload and the time I was naturally able to get to sleep. A lot of my peers will go about a week with only 2-3 hours of sleep (not per day, per week) if they have a lot of work to do (I’m not exaggerating). I personally have gone about 5 days with only 10 hours of sleep.
Actually some places seem to do that already, at least I read about it, not sure how common it is though.
6 hours per night has always been the bare minimum for getting me through the day reasonably well (maybe 5 when really pushing it), and I'd generally be sleeping till noon on weekends... always been the sleepy kind. 2-3 hours per week sounds terrible, how are they supposed to perform at any level or learn anything? (I know when I'm seriously sleep deprived, I turn into an irritable psychopath... scary stuff.)
If it's that bad over a longer period of time, I would suggest a strict "offline diet" and stripping back to the very basics, maybe just for a week or two. Let's face it, people are wasting tons of time on their phones or gaming without even really noticing, time that may be put to much better use elsewhere in this case. It *will* be uncomfortable at first, since we are dealing with things that can be every bit as addicting as any drugs. It may be advisable to do this in groups so you've got someone to talk to while the rest of the world is staring at their phones, and really parents should be positively involved, too.
At the very least, noting down what you are doing for how long throughout the week could be very insightful. Managing your time well is a very useful asset in, well, not sucking at life.
Nitpick: Piers are where you find boats and ships, while peers are the people you hang out with. There's also pears, but that would be apples and oranges. :p
Man it must feel great to sleep, New York schools start at 7am
Sounds like you need to prioritize better. No high school in the world gives that much homework.
I used to ALWAYS wake up around 7 o'clock in the morning. Then I became a teenager and can barely drag myself out of bed at that time.
Go to bed earlier. Take melatonin if you can't adjust your cycle yourself. That's why you need school
Missing the obvious.
Also... Not a contest to see who has gone longest without sleep. You have zero idea what 20+ years of insomnia does to your tolerance for lack of sleep (and I'm not giving that info) you also need to learn how to take care of yourself to avoid most (unfortunately not all) of the symptoms that oversimplifying Simon gave
I'm not gonna try to find out.
Guessing your body will shut down before then.
I stayed awake for three days and was so exhausted that i couldnt sleep at some point. Many gamers died within 3 days bc of lack of sleep combined with little to no nutrtition and minimal physical activity. I went to school back then so I didnt die lol
Might satisfy a little curiosity, No deaths involved. Only 100 hours though. th-cam.com/video/p5hTP2nNPn0/w-d-xo.html
When I was younger, I found a rule at my military college stating that someone is not responsible for their own actions when awake for 72 hours. It was finals, close to graduation, so I told my friends what I was doing, and wanted them to watch me.
...at 70 hours, I started picking fights with people. My friends scooped me up and made me go to sleep.
I will! Wake me up and tell me the results.
i have huge sleep debt and i feel like im dying every single day
How much of a sleep debt do you have?
Onnie Duvall over a hundred accumulated hours easily
暗堂 If sleep debt really had cumulative effect I would have been dead years ago. Since I first started trying to stay awake as long as possible as often as possible when I was 13 I have gone sleepless for 36-48 hours several hundred times, 49-73 hours about three dozen times, and 95-108 hours three times. Most nights I have slept between 2 and 5 hours and even after staying wake for longer than 3 days I would only sleep 3 or 4 hours. All of this started at age 13 and I am now 61, so I am skeptical of sleepless generalities.
What is the longest you have ever gone with no sleep? How often do you go sleepless? How old were you when this started and how old are you now?
Onnie Duvall Well the longest I've ever gone without sleep is 30 hours as a teenager, and not purposely. I'm 22 now and the reason I barely get any sleep is construction sounds around my house among other noises, I'm a really light sleeper. On average I get about four hours of sleep every night with the occasional quiet day where I net about 6 to 8 hours, which barely improves my mood at all.
I don't want to believe in a cumulative effect either but I'm in so much anxiety and I deal with headaches and panic attacks too much to not recognize a correlation. Still, I hope you're doing better off sir!
Onnie Duvall so.. Unless you are exagerating, you are saying you spent more than a year without sleeping(combined days)?
Excellent video. I didn't realize how important sleep is to so many functions of the body.
Holy fuck for real?
Abara your comment made be laugh harder then it should have
Longest I was "awake" was 5 days. Another time was 4 .
Both times I had dreams while I was awake. This was in the military.
Everyone was seeing and talking about things that were not part of reality. My VA doctor said that 3 days awake was the equivalent to taking LSD. I never have taken it, but it was scary fun, and we had weapons.
ramairgto72
I was awake so long at Ranger school I started to hallucinate at night while waste deep in a steam. Then I wandered off thinking I was home. It was bizarre. I wasn’t the only one.
Ive taken Acid and were awake for 3-4 without drugs already, didnt really feel similar. not even on the visuals aspect not to speak about the feeling.
For the record, the effects of sleep deprivation feel NOTHING like the effects of LSD.
Lsd is pretty fun...but I would never consider grabbing my m4 while I'm tripling
I hope i dont re-incarnate into a lab mouse O.O
holdmybeer you must have done some fucked up shit to have that concern.
You could be in the control group.
holdmybeer I hope lab mice don't reincarnate into people or other creatures that could seek retribution on humans.
holdmybeer
Unplug your modem and router's power cables.
Wait about thirty seconds.
Plug your modem back in and wait a minute for it to completely power on.
Plug your router back in and wait a minute for it to power on and connect.
Well, first you have to believe in reincarnation. Then you have to believe that people can be reincarnated as something other than human. Most cultures who believe in reincarnation don't believe this.
I spent 3 days awake as I was in a hostel and it was a dump. I went absolutely crazy. I had to check out and pay for a hotel in the end
Andrew Howard I stayed awake for 6 days on some stuff one time... I passed out standing up in my living room and hit my head on the coffee table. I slept for 6 hours and woke up , drank an entire gallon of milk and ate almost everything in my fridge and went back to sleep. Where I slept another 16 hours. I will never do it again. & it took a lot of money to stay up for that long. Drugs ain’t cheap. 3 days is still a long time though.
In my profile picture for example I had been up for idk 2 days I think. Playing games on drugs and a side effect of that is your eye lids get super puffy lol
I've stayed awake longer than the person online listed as staying awake the longest in the world. He was 11 days, but for me it was 14 days. I was hallucinating severely, and watching the striped wallpaper rotate up the wall like a conveyor belt. For me it wasn't intentional, but the cause of benzodiazepine withdrawal in a foreign country where I didn't have access to medication, though eventually they gave me diazepam prescribed to the name "Sparkle Thorton" lol (drug laws in Thailand are severe). Every time my body tried to enter into REM sleep, I got myoclonus, a type of seizure that made my body jump 2 feet out of the bed. It was so miserable, and I was utterly delirious, and towards the end it happened every 15-30 seconds. The only thing that kept me clinging to reality was Hatful of Hollow by The Smiths, and a few Ruby Throat albums. I'm thinking there might even be others who have been awake longer. People have died from benzodiazepine withdrawal before, so I think maybe some of those cases were due to sleep deprivation.
stay away from benzos, kids. They're more dangerous than any other drug in the world. Clean for 2 years now though.
Interesting!! Thanks for sharing all that! I myself have problems wth whole body twitching (kindo looks/feels like seizures), that get worse when i dont sleep well. Low doese diazapam can really help with it though, and its low enough i dont get loopy (usually 5 mg is snough...10 if its really severe). My twitching is a side effect of prednisone...which is def a double edged sword-can do great things liek save your life (or in my case, whats left of my eyesight), but has so many horrible side effects (some that are cumlulative)-i woudl be blind without it, but am also miserable because of it. Started a new therapy for my eye condition, and will be able to considering tapering off prednisone in 2-4 weeks...fingers crossed! I am glad you made it through your ordeal! I have had insomnia and RLS since my early teens and even mild sleep deprivation can make you utterly insane...i take alot just to sleep now...sad really...wonder if i would be dead without these meds that help me sleep?
Danielle Spargo assuming your recollection is accurate from your hallucinated state, I wonder what effects the drugs had on your body that may or may not have supplemented your body's natural functions regarding sleep, which allowed you to go as long as you did without it.
I had a 3 month patch of broken sleep where I don't reckon I managed a single REM sleep and was just passing in and out of consciousness throughout the day and the night unaware of what was what or where I was. Eventually I got committed to the psyche ward because I was oblivious to anyone in the room and having conversations with people who weren't. Seemingly the anti-depressants I had ended a year earlier had rewired me to have healthy dopamine levels until one day the situation reversed itself and the arse fell out of my world, which wasn't very nice, I thought I was becoming a schizophrenic or had FFI.
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I have a good research idea. The origins of nodding one's head. In America it means yea, but in Korea it means no. Why?
Nick Camacho is that that really so? That’s interesting. Do they shake their heads to answer yes then?
Suzy Eide They do the same in Bulgaria.
Apparently in Greece, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, Bulgaria, Albania, and Sicily, a single nod of the head upwards means "no."
Nick Camacho I cannot answer for Korea,but I think it was the 1986 PBS series The Story of English related the following. In Italy there is a region,largely based around the ancient Greek colony of Neapolis (Naples). The head movement for no is based around a baby refusing the breast,a backward flip. There is on the other side of a particular mountain ridge,the head movement for no being the headshake we commonly use. And everywhere else in Italy. Possibly Korea uses a similar movement to the ancient Greek one. Differences in dialect commonly follow differences in subculture choice in accepted communication by body movement. Sicily was affected byCarthage,Greece,Rome,Arab,Norman,and other conquerors. The body movements there should be a microcosm of bits of behaviour deemed acceptable over time and culture.
uhhh ive lived in korea and that is not true
I share topics from these videos with my employees to keep work fresh and interesting. They are presented as "fun facts of the day!". You and your team are truly doing a great service. Thank you
7:24 lady is freakin me the shit out XD
It's an evolutionary response to seeing so much of the whites of her eyes above the iris. It's also why people get creeped out at porcelain dolls, and any dolls who have their eyes set too low. Basically, the eyes set down that far means a person or animal is looking at you in a very alert or hyperactive state, perhaps to attack you or because they are insane and thus dangerously unpredictable. And yes, I had the same reaction you did to the picture, but I knew why. XD
Watching this video about sleep made me feel tired and I ended up getting 16 hours of sleep that night. Luckily, it was a Saturday night. Now I'm gonna watch this video every time I need to get a decent amount of sleep.
I wish my brain worked like that.
Would be nice to have a follow up on this topic: What happened to the people who successfully stayed awake for several days, and did not die at the end - did they suffer longterm consequences because of that?
Also, what about people who naturally sleep less than 8 hours, should they force more sleep on themselves or are they just lucky their metabolism works well int those conditions. And if the latter is true, how are their bodies able to achieve that?
Lastly what about which is more important: Amount of time you sleep or when you go to sleep?
I stayed awake for 14 days. Started hallucinating, pretty much broke psychologically around the 11 day mark.
I've done the same. Same result. To anyone reading this: don't do that.
Jason Emmons yeah I'm talking like ten years ago, not some thing I would repeat. Obviously drug related.
Jason Emmons still from a physiological point of view it's interesting. One thing that many people start to see after prolonged sleep deprivation is shadow people.
Alex Oelkers Me too, 14 is my record for staying awake. Between the insomnia and manic episode and then after a few days it's constant panic attacks. On the last few days though I felt blissful, it was like I was actually drifting off as I died, it was super surreal. (I don't think I was really dying but with my health it's possible I was and managed to recover, wouldn't have been the first time I recovered from my death bed)
Out of curiosity, what did you see? Once, after being awake for about 36 hours, I was waiting for a bus, and hallucinated my own reflection in a puddle. I only discovered I was hallucinating when I realized there was no puddle.
I'm lucky if I get 2 hours of broken sleep per day over the past several weeks.
Recently gave up smoking and my mind has gone hyperactive, only consuming
a heap of Chilli in my meals seems to 'knock' me out, very good relaxant.
Andrew Osier rose hips n valarium? natural n calms. bob marely tea has rose hips. 2 of those n id feel drugged n sleep good.
Interesting. I just got over a bout of covid and had massive cravings for chili, which I'm normally not that fond of. It helped me get some sleep 💤
My first year working was on shifts alternating between night, evening an day. Not only that but I also did a lot of overtime. It wasn't uncommon for me to work two full shifts, get home, eat, shower and chill before sleeping an hour and jumping back in the fray. That's when I actually slept. Intense bouts of confusion, paranoia and hysteria were commonplace and I learned to "cope" with hallucinations while performing my duties.
Never again.
I have really bad insomnia... Not fun. After three days without sleep, I can't function.
I'm sorry you have to experience such a terrible burden.
Have you tried taking melatonin? I also have insomnia, and it helps quite a bit. Though I do still have to psych myself up for sleep. FYI: If you buy it at Kroger (or one of their sister stores) you can get 2 bottles for the price of 1. I pay about $6 for 2 bottles of 60
Same here, I feel you.
After 40 hours of being awake I tested my reaction time.
The mean was ~350ms, the mode ~260. The huge difference between these values is due to some miss-clicks where i either didn't press the button strong enough or i accidentally moved the mouse cursor off the click target.
Please talk about why wild west environments are (at least in their initial stages) so fun, like the old days of Second Life, 4chan, and currently the beginnings of the V.R open worlds... They're always so fun in their initial unregulated random chaoticness.
Because they're all free expression, you get to create a new culture/inside joke, and you're there before either real scumbags or annoying children find it and either change the culture or create new regulations on the users
Because at first, the site owners don't worry about how much money they could squeeze from their users. It was about developing a community. Eventually, it was all about pleasing the advertisers and investors who don't care about the community or the culture.
Thank you so much for uploading this video. This perfectly explains why I've been having frequent panic attacks the past two months.
As a guy who suffers from advanced insomnia and has for more than 2 decades, I can firmly assure anyone, that lack of sleep has absolutely no benefits.
lack of sleep has absolutely no benefits ? umm more time = more things done
@@aligmal5031 Less sleep = More time, sure, but also Less sleep = Less functional action.
When you don't sleep, memories take longer to form, your reaction time slows down, and your ability to think ahead goes as well.
Your energy to do things or think falls to the point that it becomes emotionally painful to perform simple tasks. Any minor annoyance or frustration turns into a federal f***ing issue, and you lose your ability to move on from those problems in a healthy manner.
Trust me, it's not worth it, and it never will be.
Take it from a guy who knows first-hand.
I once was awake for 14 days.
A course of steroids for Crohn's disease caused steroid induced mania and psychosis.
I didn't die, but kinda wished I was.
I was so bored. Wasn't tired.
I was a different person. A crazy me.
He's gone now, his memories broke off and sit at the back of my mind.
If I try to remember those events, it's like playing a record, or a recording.
He comes back, to remember him is to be him.
He laughs a lot.
Assuming everything you've stated is accurate, then you have a very comprehensive and publishable argument for the purpose of sleep. (IE It is absolutely critical for healthy chemical function related to physical/psychiatric disease, and longevity/premature morbidity)
I've suffered from Insomnia for 2 decades, but it's become increasingly severe & debilitating since approx. 2012.
However, somehow this TH-cam video has given me more knowledge, insight & understanding of my Circadian Rhythm Disorder in just 13:14 minutes, than the Sleep Disorder Clinic managed over at least 3 years.
So "Cheers!" for the upload, 'Today I Found Out'!!!
"...do rest assured..." totaly rolled my eyes
Good video! I'm glad you mentioned fatal familial insomnia, as it was the first thing I thought of when you asked if sleep deprivation could kill you (can't remember what I ate yesterday, but I can remember bizarre medical conditions I learned about in my teens, go figure). I'm curious to know more about the long-term effects of taking sleep aids to combat insomnia.
5:45 DANG THAT GUY HAS A JAWLINE! I bet he was popular when he was young.
well im gonna die by next month according to this video.. i sleep about 4 hours per night.. and have done this since i was about 14.. im 33 now.
Midget Penguin I have found in my lifetime of sleep deprivation (mostly for the fun of it) that the body often adapts to less sleep better than it does to getting too much sleep. Also, everyone's sleep requirements are different.
Midget Penguin
I know someone who consistently gets 4ish hours of sleep. He essentially has extreme ADHD, and has worked super hard his entire life. He is old ish, quite well off, and in good health. However, if I were to try that, I would surely die.
Did u die?
That is not at ALL what the video said though. A person can SURVIVE on four hours - I’ve done it too. But your quality of life is NOT as good as it would be if you got twice the amount of sleep. You’re also more likely to develop dementia and heart disease in a couple decades.
That's crazy, must feel like shit. No naps?
I can definitely attest to the impaired driving ability, I had to take my wife to the hospital the other evening and I couldn't sleep the whole time we were there, which due to a staff shortage ended up being about 20 hours, however as it was the evening, I'd already gone around 16 hours since last sleeping, driving home after 36 sleepless hours was a pretty harrowing experience.
Try joining the Army, you’ll learn to function very well while sleep deprived.
As someone who had undiagnosed sleep apnea for almost 20 years, I can confirm you can live getting very little to no sleep on a nightly basis. However, it isn't much of a life. Doctors were estimating I was getting about 2 hours of sleep a night with over 100 incidents of waking up nightly. I felt tired all day, wanted to eat nothing but carbs, had heart palpitations, gained far too much weight, went into pre-diabetes and often slipped in and out of consciousness while driving or walking. My point is not for people to feel empathetic. It's to warn people that you should get tested if you have any suspicion that you have sleeping problems. And with how bad our medical system is, you might have to pester your doctor many times and force the issue. I got lucky, moving to a new area and finding a doctor who recognized my symptoms as being related to sleep apnea. But I had a dozen different doctors before that who mis-diagnosed my issues, usually claiming it was depression and shoving pills on me. Or just throwing up their hands and saying they couldn't figure out what the problem is. One literally said "Well, you've lived this long with these symptoms so it must be normal for you." Be weary and don't let a doctor do this to you.
Well, you know what they say.
Early to bed, early to rise.
Never to bed, early demise.
I have to take so many meds just to sleep...and not usually all that well.
-1200mg Gabapentin (to induce/maintain sleep)
-Tylenol #3 (with codeine-for pain)
-8 mg Tizanadine (for muscle pain, but it also makes me so sleepy)
-100mg Atarax (for severe night sweats)
A Nightmare on Elm Street taught me everything I need to know about sleep deprivation
As with most things a person can be conditioned, and function fairly well little to no sleep. I have a physiological-medical condition (not FFI) which actually makes me physically unable to sleep without the help of medications. Prior to being diagnosed I "slept" about 20hrs a week in brief catnaps here, and there. Many times I stayed awake for a week, sometimes as long as ten days. During this period I served in the military, and preformed well in a combat environment and otherwise. Following that I attended college, and graduated first in my class with highest honors. Not sleeping was my norm, much like functional alcoholics live relatively normal lives. Now, having being diagnosed and treated, I sleep 7-8hrs a night. Life is kinda boring on this standard sleep cycle, and I never seem to have enough time to get things done.
I'm fucked since I can only get 4-6 of sleep at most, and I'm watching this at 3:30am.
xXDahChubChubXx some people actually thrive on less sleep. It's rare but the people exist. I sleep less than most people too and I'm not sleepy all the time..
Same here 4-6 average
The whole 8 hours sleep thing has been debunked by science already so some of the listed facts are not so factual after all
Yeah I'm never fully refreshed but I feel a lot more alert and more awake getting 4 hours over 8 hours, my body must have adapted to thrive on less sleep over the last 7 years (which is when I started high school)
1 - As you grow older, your body will often require less sleep.
2 - Just because you "thrive" at the moment, it doesn't mean that your body isn't shredding itself apart without you knowing it; As a related example, one of my pals needed to have their appendix removed and after the surgery, the doctors wondered why he wassn't screaming from pain, considering how close he was to croaking from it; He sismply just didn't sense it in him.
I can Imagine it began doing that ages ago, I'm sure I'm feeling it when I wake up hungover after a night of drinking.
I’ve been a full time shift worker (including nights) for about 15 years now and in that time I’ve also raised two small children, the youngest of whom didn’t sleep a night through until 3.5. I trained myself to sleep well in the day for a sustained period, and to sleep well so that I can get by on 4-5 hours per night for about five days to a week without too many issues. I am good at telling my body to make the most of any chance to catch up on sleep and can fall asleep within a few minutes with a bit of focus at any time. I don’t know if I can power nap as a thing but I’ve done it once and it was absolutely epic. In my job I have to be very on the ball and awake for my whol shift day or night so it’s essential to get enough sleep - not doing so is dangerous. I’ve realised quality not quantity is often key - a broken 8 hours is worth less than a quality four hours. Sounds silly but have a dark sleeping environment, comfy bed, being properly clothed (chest and shoulders in particular must be clothed even if lightly) and making sure you are properly wound down, fed and watered before rest make a huge difference to sleep quality.
Keeping your eyes open isn't really doing anything. You can fall asleep with your eyes open. I had this several times while staring at the screen at the office 😂
Greta M. That's really creepy
haha, I used to sit on the couch watching tv after a hard day of physical work and then suddenly startle myself by snoring - with my eyes open.
I’m gonna have to blame you for my sleep deprivation, every time I lay down I get on TH-cam and stay up for 3-4 more hours watching videos haha
I say Simon stays awake for 30 days and releases a video each of those days. Then we can scientifically watch how lack of sleep affects his video quality.
Maskedduelist 13 yeesss
I say Simon stay* awake.
Subjunctive btw
Clean Unfortunately, that is still not grammatically correct. You should have rephrased it by saying, ‘Simon should stay awake for thirty days and release a video every day’. Sorry.
Rooster Farmer Thank you. That actually makes more sense.
Until he dies that is. or fails by falling asleep.
That really made me chuckle, “Why do we sleep? Because it cures sleepiness”. Pragmatic if nothing else 😀
What about those of us who sleep during the day? I mean, sleep is sleep, yes? :)
Amy Carter working midnite shift n sleeping during the day feels like you never get enough sleep. even 12 hrs.
Amy Carter melatonin releases because of dark. Not sure how different the affects ate but it’s definitely different
Well, not exactly, our circadian cycle is geared toward the cycle of daylight and nighttime. And of course daytime is when most of the rest of the world is awake, making all kinds of daytime ambient sounds. More traffic more people out and about doing daytime activities contributing to sleep disturbances
@@niteshades_promise lel. Speak for yourself. I got GREAT sleep!
All you need is some "Sundown" curtains.
I had a big window in my room at the time I did 3rd shift.....but after I got done setting up my curtains and blocking out the light, it was basically 12 am in my room at high noon. It was wonderful.
I love sleep.
TunnelBear rocks. When their app glitched out and wouldn’t let me sign up, they gave me- someone who hadn’t paid them a dime yet- a month for free, an apology, and appreciation for pointing that out. Then another email comes, and I receive another month, without me saying anything. Keep in mind- all I had done for them was install the app!
Once it was patched, and another email with an apology comes, I signed right up. That level of customer service just doesn’t exist anywhere.
I really need to show this to my co-worker who thinks his 3 hours of sleep have nothing to do with being in and out of the emergency room...
To be precise, the average person's circadian Rhythm averages out to about 25.5 hours - but it /resets/ when you see light when you wake. In Most people.
I speak as the sarcastic owner of a 26 hour circadian rhythm that is not adjusted by light.
After watching TH-cam for more than 12 hours i get this in my recommendations 🤨
Hahahah I’m sorry, that joke about workaholics was perfect here! I love it so much.
Anyway great video!
I'd watch a video going into detail
great vid. now I can say that now, I know why our more elderly relatives slept better than us. no screens.
What about people who are natural Night Owls? Or is there such a thing?
Lily Dunnle If I recall, it has to do with people's brains associating bright light or dark with either wakefulness or sleepiness. Associating brightness with wakefulness is the default setting for humans since there is a physical structure that normally causes the behavior. But the association can be reversed, or for some people, their brains can stop relating light levels with their sleep cycle entirely.
Lily Dunnle A recent study shows there is often a Gene mutation for night owls.
Day sleeping is my default setting when I don't have to be up at a certain time. Even if I purposely try to get myself back on a "normal" schedule, I'll quickly revert back to a vampire schedule within a couple days.
Lily Dunnle I'm 46 and have been (when able) a night owl sense I can remember..... three yrs old, sitting in the hallway crying silently listening to everyone sleep... yes, some are natural night owls
When I was little, my dad worked 3rd shift, and my mom says I used to stay up to watch him leave. I believe I was always gonna be a night owl, but I also conditioned myself to stay awake at night.
Great video!
How about oversleeping? What are the benefits and risks of that? Or, polyphasic sleeping cycles?
Simon is just the Great Value version of Michael from Vsauce
connor o'brien off-brand Vsauce
he also doesn't go waaaayyyyy off topic
Windhelm Guard
That's kind of the point of VSauce though. You start at one interesting topic and just go down the rabbit hole.
god damn store brand 😂
Have you ever bought Great Value products? Their toilet paper is as good as, if not better than the name brand stuff. Anyway, I like them both. Simon's voice is more soothing, however.
While in the Military, we were kept pretty much up for 5 days (was not BUDS) things got pretty weird, we were hallucinating, falling asleep walking, had personality changes. Things stopped when a driver drove a piece of heavy equipment into a truck when he fell asleep driving.
This video makes me tired :)
sleepy sleepy😴
H VonWolfenstein hehe, same zzzzzzzzzzzz
+1
I only got 3 hours of sleep last night. 😳
I've been up all night watching your videos, and THIS is the last one I get shown?
this video made me want to sleep lol!
I've stayed up for two weeks on meth, it was interesting. Another friend who did the same had an odd heart attack, his heart muscle just began to die at a point.
Question:
What starts up the brain before birth? And if we know that, can we "restart" the brain of a braindead person?
A brain dead person usually has serious injury to the nerve cells of their brain (whether by trauma, lack of oxygen, poisoning, etc). This means the brain can't just be restarted as if it were new, you'd need to make it whole first. As to what starts it, it could be impulses from the peripheral nerve endings (your senses) or it could be each nerve has some degree of automatic firing if it's not stimulated.
Currently the science does not know the way to restart the brain of a braindead person. That is why in most countries a braindead person is declared dead. Some people who say that they have been dead and resurrected have just been in a coma.
That's what you would call a developmental biology question, to find out what starts a brain before birth you would have to understand the molecular signals that control brain growth and development. Brain growth and development is something ultimatley controlled by your genes that are activated specifically during early development through undifferentiated stem cells. There could be different medical treatments in some experimental research that involve using stem cells for brain repair, or there is possibly experimental research that involves using CRISPR technology to activate whatever molecular signaling system that repeats nerve growth in early brain development. But at the end of the day, you have to realize that whatever technique used from "starting" brain before birth would not be the same for a braindead person as if you simply "restarted" the persons brain, depending on what you mean by braindead or depending on which parts of the brain are specifally dead, restarting a braindead person's brain would probably not result in the guy regaining whatever he lost in the brain, but it would be like the braindead person was getting a new brain that might require re-learning and getting more memories in order to wire together everything correctly up there, similiar to how baby would have to learn everything for the first time with a new brain.
I hope he makes a video on your question, but I just had to answer it from what I knew and thought cause its was a fine and interesting question!
you dont breathe fluid in the womb thats a fallacy, the infant gets its oxygen from the mother the babies lungs are deflated, the gasp when born inflates the lungs and the diaphram/brain takes over.
its actually way more complicated but i simplified it here.
There was that Korean Starcraft player who stayed awake and playing for 5 days and died, taxing the brain nonstop. There are cases of people who suffer insomniac for several months, the doctors tried inducing sleep and even coma but the brain continued operating. They were suffering dementia and hallucinations and all sorts of other effects described in the video near the end. A teacher in the US in the 2000s or 2010s died that way.
Back when I had no meds for pain for the nerve damage, I had gone without sleep for over 10 days in a row despite trying desperately to sleep. Hallucinations, increased pain, loss of ability to think or speak correctly, & also severe anemia (& more) resulted from this happening over & over. There were no naps, no dozing off for even a minute. I just started going crazy, getting into arguments with people that had not been in my life for decades, even looping back between standing and finding out I never stood. Sometimes I'd be somewhere & have no idea how I got there. I lived with my parents, so they were able to keep me from leaving the house without knowing.
Nowadays I have this neighbor, & I forgive him, but he makes so much noise day & night, & despite me being very kind when explaining to him the dogs, screaming kids, loud music, shouting, revving up engines, etc were affecting my parent's health & my own, he replies "this is my property, I do what I want. Call police if you have problem." First, not his property, he rents but we own ours. Second, I hate calling police on people, but I have done it over 3 times & my dad has over ten times on this guy, & the police just tell him to quiet down, which he does until they leave, then if we want something really done we must go to court, & we can't afford that since we can't work due to physical & mental health issues.
So I just really wish people would realize noise pollution is a thing. I'd give my life to save his children from danger, but they are so undisciplined that they run around screaming just like a normal kid would if chased by a bear! How can I know if they're alright? Its that boy who cried Wolf thing. I never even watch TV, play video games, use the net, listen to music, etc., without headphones purely because I don't want to force my noise on others. Of course I don't expect others to do the same, but I try hard to make others comfortable.
Hey what's up guys! Michael here
It's crazy how sleep, or lack thereof, can affect you. When I was in Peace Corps, I wanted to take a winter vacation for a few days, but asked for permission, pretty late. However, I got approval, and so that night, I didn't sleep and barely ate, which was followed by another day of very little sleep on bus rides to Poland. In about 50 hours, I had maybe 2 hours of sleep and a slice of cake, a pastry in the morning, and a coke. All of this followed a 3-4 day bout of intermittent fevers (not too high ~99°), and congestion. Literally 2 hours after I arrived in Poland, I had a seizure and woke up in the hospital. About a month later, I was diagnosed with grade 3 brain cancer. Needless to say, the tumor was the root cause, but I think the sickness, followed by lack of sleep, and improper eating for a few days, weakened my immune system enough that the symptoms of my cancer finally began to show. It's a good thing, in the long run- I just wonder how long it would've taken to discover it, if I had slept and eaten properly and just generally taken better care of myself.
The up next video is called "Go sub to cherry cyanide and sleep deprivation. Lol." It has 23 views, why the fuck is it there?
I find more interesting the side effects of too much sleep. since there are quite a lot more than lack of it.
you could do a video of that.
i have a question can you go unconscious when falling from a great height?
Especially if you hit the ground at the end.
little jimmy people who have fallen from great heights sometimes will either pass out or have a heart attack from the fear and adrenaline.
After 600 skydives, two from a height of 30,000 feet, I would say no.
nismo510
Nice Vocab 💖🎄
just wanted to say that I don't usually like vlogs or random videos about fun-facts, but i've been happy to subscribe to and watch your channel ever since I discovered it. Your skill in speech and admirable use of research has made me incredibly appreciative of your videos and the content you teach/discuss.
thanks
I fell asleep watching this...
There is an article by the NIH called "Brain may flush out toxins during sleep" that was posted in 2013. I was going to reread the article, as I hadn't read it since it came out, but ironically I'm too tired. I'll read it tomorrow.
What would happen if you only had bread and water to eat for your whole life?
you'd get deathly ill quickly with not the least of your problems being scurvy.
BaldSword Gaming You'd die due to a severe deficit of vitamins and minerals in your diet.
The "Blue Lights" & "Cooler Color Temperatures" from you viewing screens, computer monitors, etc, make it harder to sleep at night; which is why a "Night Light Option"; which gives you "Warmer Colors", & more "Red Colors" on your screen, which can make you sleepy, even in the morning hours.
Modern computers offer a "Night Light Mode" that can be scheduled according to the user's time awake, say... 7 am ~ 9 pm. This means a "Normal Lighting & Color Temperature" when you want to stay awake; then "Warm Colors & Redish Lights" for when you're feeling sleepy.
Yes, I know because I died doing it.
crazy Chicken1 You're the living proof.
crazy Chicken1 RIP in peace, Crazy Chicken
crazy Chicken1 rip 🗿
You had so much to live for! D:
crazy Chicken1 um
This video was uploaded around 12 AM in my country.. And I'm watching this when it was just uploaded.
The irony.
"getting only 6 hours of sleep per night for 1 week has been shown to change 711 of your genes"
wot?
Probably meant the expression of those genes.
I've been building my sleep debt for almost 20 years as a meth addict. When I sleep now it is the deepest,, darkest place you can go while alive and not comatose. I used to stay up for 2 weeks and sleep a weekend as a use pattern. Off and on this whole time. I often honestly wonder what percentage of overall sleep I've had compared to a normie.
Today I Found Out "staying awake too long" is a thing
With my work schedule and my 3 year old son I typically survive on 4 to 5 hours sleep a night. A couple times a year though, I'll take a vacation day and my wife will let me sleep the entire day to kinda recharge.
0:53, I don't know what the hell this guy is talking about. Science/medicine KNOWS that there are certain physiological occurrences that can ONLY take place when the body/brain are sleeping. wtf
Having said that, I concur with Simon. :>)
But why only during sleep? The point there was that the amount science definitively understands about why we NEED sleep in the broad sense is very limited. Yes, we have observed various things happening when we sleep that appear to be beneficial (many of which are described in the video), but why is sleep necessary for those things to happen?
It is known sleep is needed. It is like putting up the scaffolding to repair a building, or jackstands to repair a car, 'securing the work area' in the form of paralysis for a human body is required for healing, intracellular, cellular and other bodily function repair. It is the normal process for this repair. I believe I heard Dr Rhonda Patrick cite the literature for this, and I may annotate this comment with that information later.
Well, if my understanding of what I learned in Anatomy 1& 2 and Pathology is correct, it seems to be like a maintenance cycle for a machine. (and the human body is a biological machine) What we think of as the ongoing processes of the body, is actually 1000's and 1000's of cycles, going on & off as they're designed to. When we sleep many parts of the body stop or slow down, and certain processes start up. All of these things use various types of energy, one part of the machine uses less energy so another can start up.
And sleep also allows the brain to process information in a different way, which seems to allow the brain to "rest". So I guess the "why" is broken down by the specifics of the thousands and thousands of things going on in our bodies that result in what we call being "alive". I don't know if I explained it well, but that is a simplified version of what I gleaned from school. Sorry there's no simple answer.
Menstrel- I don't know if I agree with the paralysis part, but the rest of your statement is spot on. :>)
Balsamic Vi- Stop. Talking.
I remember reading an article, several years ago, about a Vietnamese farmer who hadn't slept in 30 or 40 years. I want to say that it was in the WSJ.
this video makes me sleep
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Love it "it is easy to fix not getting enough sleep, sleep more"
And then you talk about semantic arguments not being wortwhile -laughs-
I have a theory, but nobody will See it or it might has been mentioned by SimonIf you sleep you don't just feel like walking around at night, so that might have helped not dying to sharp rocks or falling of cliffs in the early stages of Land-evolution. Fish don't sleep, exept those that come from Land like whales and dolphins
Alkatron fish sleep. They just don't have eyelids.
Alkatron This sounds really far fetched. I guess energy conservation and recovering/ maintenance of the body is much more important. Dying from stumbeling around in the dark could simply be avoided by developing night vision and it wouldn't explain why nocturnal animals sleep during the day.
P K sure it is farfetched
But sleep also doesn't seem to be only good for saving energy, because then we would have a good answer to why sleep is important.
As far as we Know now sleep only cures sleepyness, so maybe our brains just want to make us stay someplace save
Alkatron Maybe, but I'm sceptical. After all there are bird that are (half-) asleep while flying and mammels that only sleep for a few hours. But it could be part of the reason, I can't disprove it.
P K It absolutely doesn't sound far fetched. Although it is probably a secondary evolution from purple just not doing much at night since there was no convenient portable light sources, and they didn't want those types of issues from walking around at night, at the beginnings of man. Anything can be a trigger for evolution.
I have read accounts of soldiers that were in combat for more than two months, getting shelled every day and every night, that died at thier posts from not being able to sleep. There are accounts from the battle of Down Bien Phu of soldiers starting to die at thier posts after 55 straight days and nights of fighting.
Russian sleeper experiment anyone ;)
Hassworld10 scary :(:(:(:(
this video is basically that,but not a creepypa s ta
It's a well-known hoax.
@@makouras Yeah but you can bet your ass they did something like this. They that stuff to people we can't even imagine.
That was an epic amount of information. Absolutely Brilliant (and you Latin was spot on 😀).
Something I recently learned because of my own sleep complaints, is that it is possible to alter your circadian rhythm with shift work. I worked a 24/48 hours shift for almost 20yrs. It’s been 10 years since I worked last, and I usually have one night of three that I just don’t sleep. As my online name suggests, I have ptsd (mental health problems described eloquently in your video). I don’t have any of the metabolic problems, but I have found that it can take up to 20 years to get back to a ‘normal’ sleep cycle.
The same is true for those that work night shifts, or graveyard shifts for longer than 10yrs. Your sleep/wake cycles are different than ‘normal’ light motivated circadian rhythms.
Have a good night👍
And I’m staying awake all night tonight 👀😂
Joordan and there I was, trying to clean the hair from my phone. Good played, sir.
Diego Molina aha well thank you.
I hate your profile picture.
Joordan your photo is brilliant
My dad had a war story about sleep deprivation. In Vietnam, he and another soldier were in a hole, just the two of them, defending some ground, the enemy all around shooting. If they stopped shooting back, if they fell asleep, the enemy would've overrun the hole, and America would've lost a key point.
They radioed in for backup but it would take a week. So my dad and his buddy agreed to keep one another awake. Not like they could sleep with gunfire 24/7. They were in that hole, back to back, shooting day and night, hoping ammo did not run out, eventually ran out of food, peeing right there since leaving the hole was death, not even able to see near the end, just shooting, reloading, shooting more.
After a week of this, backup came and they were helicoptered out of there. By this point, they could not sleep. At all. Both were utter wrecks (my dad has severe PTSD to this day). They were given tranquilizers, and still they were so amped up and paranoid, they utterly could not sleep. After two days and doctors fearing they'd die from brain damage, the head doctor decided to go big, and he shot both up with elephant tranquilizers.
It worked, and they sleep for many days straight. So it wasn't record breaking, but it was definitely mentally and emotionally damaging.
What about that guy who hasn't slept in 34 years
Obi-Wan Kenobi bullshit! Back it up?
Shelby Seelbach that one guy from teenage mutant ninja turtles who was keeping the dream beavers in his dreams
Obi-Wan Kenobi what about the guy who ate nothing but pure sunlight and water for 100 years?
John Smith that man was a tree
Beyond science made an interesting video on that guy. Microsleeping I guess?
Interesting note for comment @ 9:30 - most states do not need you to have a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .08 to convict a person of DUI but, rather, there is a presumption of DUI if your BAC is over .08. People have been convicted of DUI at lower BACs, it's just harder to get the conviction but, if the jury thinks the driver was impaired, a BAC under .08 may be sufficient. There was a story of a woman in Washington D.C. who got a DUI for a single glass of wine.
What if after you stay awake for 3 weeks your body becomes a machine and you never need to sleep ever again and no one will figure this out because no one will try it!
Someone had tried, and ded
DoItWithMatt fuck up Clarence
People with a certain kind of insomnia (forgot its name) literally can't sleep and stay awake for weeks. They die. So, no, that's not true.
That is called FFI or Fatal Familial Insomnia. It is genetic. Perhaps Simon Whistler can do a video on that. It is very rare (probably under-diagnosed). I also believe that there is a non-fatal form of that as well, also genetic, that allows some people to go without sleep for extreme periods of time with little to no ill effects.
That was so jammed packed with information. Thanks, guys!
How strange, I've been awake for 18 hours.
Without my meds, I usually can't sleep unless I stay awake for four days.
That’s like 2hours above normal.
Rn im around 60 hours but thats cus im havig slight overdose on anthetamine *i cant spell now ffs* i forgot how many pills i took so i took more 😂😂
I found out I had a cyst on my hypothalamus because I developed a druesen (a soft kidney stone) in my right eye that seemed to be putting undue pressure on the front of my brain. Sleep is so lucrative for me and so difficult. Praise your chosen source if you sleep well, even if it doesn't cause severe problems right away, it's mentally destructive.
Neat
we all been there
Dean Jezuali has never slept in 25 plus years. He stopped sleeping at age 19. When you become a doctor in Ontario you read the case study of Dean. They put him in the hospital for a month and monitored him and they did find he was not able to sleep that whole month. Hes the only known person that does not sleep. He explained to me its psychological as he keeps thinking to himself am i sleeping yet and that thought re-occurring keeps him from sleeping. They said it should just happen regardless but with Dean he just doesn't sleep. He said on a few occasions he was able to sleep 20 mins in his car.