And what can happen to your body if you stay awake way past your bedtime?
For an astonishing 11 days and 25 minutes, 17-year-old Randy Gardner didn't sleep for a high school science fair project in California in 1963, setting the world record for the longest someone has stayed awake . Other people have reportedly broken this record — Robert McDonald went 18 days and nearly 22 hours without sleeping in 1986 — but none were monitored as closely or by a doctor as Gardner was.
"I would be hard-pressed to believe that someone can stay awake for more than 24 hours without these episodes," Cohen added. In animals, a study from 1989 in rats showed the animals could only go without sleep for between 11 and 32 days before it killed them.
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