Randy Gardner Biography

The most incredible stories about people who decided not to waste time on a dream on March 13 are the most incredible stories about people who decided not to waste time sleeping. Rendi Gardner, an official world record for insomnia belongs to a summer student from California, Rendi Gardner. In the year, the guy could not sleep an hour and 12 minutes - this is as long as 11 days.

They alternately distracted him, not allowing him to fall asleep, tested the fortune. Initially, they were going to transfer the results of the experiment to a scientific fair. But the explorer of Stanford University, William K., found out about experience, flew in order to personally observe the experiment. It became more complicated every day, it was especially difficult not to close his eyes at night.

There were even moments when Gardner was losing interest in the experiment and was about to end it. For a day, the guy became irritable, he had hallucinations. Having suffered insomnia for 11 days, Rendi Gardner fell asleep in the laboratory of studying sleep for 14 hours 40 minutes and woke up almost healthy. It turns out that having lost about 90 hours of sleep, Rendi slept only 7 hours longer than usual.

Despite the successful outcome, Rendi's mental abilities at the time of the record were significantly deteriorated, although physical activity was preserved. William K. Dement notes that for 10 days without sleep, Gardner could easily beat him in paintball. However, the creators of the Guinness Book of Records decided to remove such a category from the competition so that people do not harm their health.

Peter Tripp and Tom Rounds, these disk-jockeys in the year, independently spent several days without sleep as part of a marathon to collect money for medical research. Peter Tripp Peter Tripp did not go to bed for an hour, bringing information from a glass booth to the Time Square in New York to passers-by. Having kept his clock without sleep, Peter was on the verge.

He seemed to be flames of flame, breaking out of the drawers of the table, instead of a velvet costume on the doctor, hairy caterpillars were seen. After a sleepless madness, Peter slept for 13 hours. At the same time, the phase of deep sleep doubled, and the fast - three times. Like TRIPP, he suffered from paranoia and hallucinations, he was haunted by nightmares and memory failures.

It was the record of Tom Raunds that Rendy Gardner intended to beat. Margaret Tetcher "Iron Lady", as a prime minister, consciously slept 4 hours a day. The people who worked with her note that on weekdays, Margaret could write another article until 3 a.m., and at 5 in the morning to listen to the radio. But thanks to the prolonged wakefulness, Margaret was aware of all events. Sometimes her husband had to literally force her to go to bed.

Tetcher accustomed all those who worked with her to such a graphics. Because of this, her successor, John Major, was difficult to keep up with a fragile woman in work. Fedor Konyukhov traveler Fedor Konyukhov also set a record without sleep. During a trip around the world, it was decided to conduct an experiment that would help to find out how many athletes can do without sleep, while without losing attention.

A special sensor with a microchip, built into watches, helped track the activity of each participant. Konyukhov slept for minutes every 2 hours. Surprisingly, his yacht was listed in the ranks of the first. All athletes slept no more than an hour a day, but no one surpassed Konyukhov, whose duration of sleep reached the grooms after traveling. Georges Mazui Belgian customs officer began to sleep poorly from the age of 38.

At first he tried to count the sheep to fall asleep, but after that he became interested in more complex calculations. For example, he could calculate the root of the number in 47 degrees in 30 seconds. An ordinary person will take about 10 hours. Now Mazyui sleeps only 2 hours a day, the rest of the time he is engaged in his favorite calculations. He has no complaints about the deterioration of health.

The unique unknown name of the next rating participant is unknown. There is only evidence that once a woman 70 years old turned to the sleep laboratory. She claimed that he was sleeping for no more than 4 hours throughout his life. In the course of research, it was found that the woman’s brain is characterized by increased productivity. He reached 3 and 4 stages of slow sleep faster than usual, after an hour and a half he entered into a quick dream for a short period.

After that, a slow deep sleep came again, and then fast. Since the brain of this woman quickly skipped 1 and 2 stages, he was enough only 4 hours to relax. She was completely healthy. Farmer D. Jones at the end of the 19th century, the doctors registered an interesting case of absolute insomnia. The farmer D. Jones turned to the specialists, who had problems with sleep, but did not be at all upset, and was even glad of the opportunity to work more.

So, at the time of the first appeal to the doctors, he spent 3 months without sleep, after which everything was normalized. But a year later a new attack happened. This time Jones did not sleep throughout the day. Subsequent attacks occurred more often, and insomnia were longer.This did not affect the health and well -being of a man, which surprised the doctors.

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