The Importance of Staying Up for 24 Hours

If you have a job that requires accurate movements or accurate thinking, you'll probably make no more mistakes than you usually do. The day after the second sleepless night is better than the preceding sleepless night, but you'll be irritable, rambling, and illogical in speech thought. You can still be spurred to your full mental powers in manual dexterity if this stimulus is strong enough. Wounded soldiers coming out of combat may be so terribly in need of sleep that even the severe pain of wounds does not keep them from going sound asleep as soon as they are allowed to lie down. Anesthetics can be dispensed with. There was a man who kept himself awake for eight days