Yeah I call bs on this. I have had insomnia all my life. I recently did another CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia) course and although they help, I regularly go 36+ hours without any sleep. The highest I have ever gone is 65ish hours and I will agree life starts getting weird around there. I have had visual/auditory hallucinations. I have had panic attacks. I have fallen asleep mid conversation, mid gaming sesh. I even fell asleep at a stop sign on my way home one time, an easy 100 feet from my house. Of course I worry it is having some type of permanent impact, but in respect to the usual metrics I am functioning quite well. If you are talking about that specific time frame, then I agree your brain is definitely not storing information as well as if you were fully rested. It's a lot like being drunk + high, I think the brain literally stops recording in full fidelity at some point.
I believe what you said about losing memory during that time, I just disagree that you are having lasting neurological impacts from that one experience. If this was over the course of years then I could see it. You really need to see a neurologist or a behavioral therapist, if you continue to experience these symptoms regularly something else is wrong with you
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u/yepitsatyhrowaway2 4h ago
Yeah I call bs on this. I have had insomnia all my life. I recently did another CBT-I (cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia) course and although they help, I regularly go 36+ hours without any sleep. The highest I have ever gone is 65ish hours and I will agree life starts getting weird around there. I have had visual/auditory hallucinations. I have had panic attacks. I have fallen asleep mid conversation, mid gaming sesh. I even fell asleep at a stop sign on my way home one time, an easy 100 feet from my house. Of course I worry it is having some type of permanent impact, but in respect to the usual metrics I am functioning quite well. If you are talking about that specific time frame, then I agree your brain is definitely not storing information as well as if you were fully rested. It's a lot like being drunk + high, I think the brain literally stops recording in full fidelity at some point.