Channel4: Shattered

[DeludedGuy]

Has anyone seen that? Where you have to stay awake for 7 days? I fall asleep watching the program, crap TV.

[Allen]

Just when you think they can't come up with any more cr@p like this, they do... and make it worse! What is the enjoyment with this so-called 'reality TV'?

[acidrainy]

Heh, I'm quite interested in this from a scientific point of view, must be ridiculously hard to do!

I remembered when I messed my sleeping pattern up I forced myself to stay away ~48 to fix it only problem was after the 48th hour I hit a sort of euphoria and could of lasted another 24

One thing I learnt from it was that the SAS are trained to stay awake - in combat no less - for 4 days! quite impressive really.

[Jiff Lemon]

Dread to think what the disclaimers are like when they signed up. Sleep deprivation can cause serious long term problems.....

[sja360]

a japanese person died due to sitting playing games for 68 hours i believe, so expect some deaths on shattered
im serious about the japanese guy tho..

[acidrainy]

The longest recorded time for someone staying awake was 11 days (with no permanent problems). So it's entirely possible, but bloody hard!

Apparently a nights sleep is all thats required to get back to normal.

I know what you're thinking, "No **** sherlock"

[5cupa]

Originally posted by sja360
a japanese person died due to sitting playing games for 68 hours i believe, so expect some deaths on shattered
im serious about the japanese guy tho..

that guy died from DVT, coz he didnt move around enough

[spazman]

68 hours sstraight damn!

[G4Z]

i have been watching it and it is very interesting, I was woken up at 5:30 this morning by a burgular alarm this morning (whole nother story... but suffice to say I rang the guy up who owned the place and gave him a right earbashing this morning as this is not the first time that damn alarm has woken me up) and watching the show made me feel a whole lot better about how tired I was



tbh I think it is quite a challenge although they are getting to sleep for short periods throughout the week probably because if they didnt nobody would be able to make it to the end.

[5lab]

i think it'll be interesting. maybe not to watch thou

i dont think anyone will make it. i've done 2 skipped nights on the trot - from 7am one day till 10pm 2 days later - thats 63 hours. i was hallucinating by the end of that and wasnt personally sure if i was asleep or not.

[Theo]

I applied for that, actually.. but the mail strike meant that my application form didn't get there until after the deadline. (Despite sending it so it would be there a day or two BEFORE it finished).

[G4Z]

damn shame m8, would have been great to see a hexus lad on there!

I dont think I could do it, im irritable enough when i only get 6 hours kip in a night, I would be getting violent doing that I reckon.

[acidrainy]

Well thats 112hours :/
And most of them look fine! (under the circumstances!)

Mind you they do get about 1 hours kip a day for safety reasons. That does help a fair bit I suppose......

Mind you, still damn hard!

[Stylez]

a japanese person died due to sitting playing games for 68 hours i believe, so expect some deaths on shattered
im serious about the japanese guy tho..

Yeah but he didn't eat from what i heard hence why he died not because he was deprived of sleep although that doesn't help and leaves you vunerable to virus's etc.

[DR]

Who else is out of the program?

[Theo]

All of the girls except Claire S. are out, thankfully... Really quite dirty skankies, they were...

A Maori guy came to do the midnight school thing, tonight - was quite funny how the guys got really into learning the Haka. Good TV, imo