This is what happens to a person who does not sleep for a long time. Don't joke with it! The Man Who Doesn't Sleep Stories of the People Who Don't Sleep
In Germany, in the city of Halle, an unusual and one of the most amazing people on the planet lives, his name is Yakov Tsiperovich. The essence of his story is as follows: in 1979, as a result of poisoning, this man experienced a state of clinical death. Clinical death lasted one hour or so, which in itself is absolutely impossible, because the cells of the cerebral cortex die 3-5 minutes after cardiac arrest, but the most interesting thing is not this, but the fact that, waking up a week after what happened, this person lost the ability to sleep - and not only to sleep, he could not even lie down.
As soon as he took a horizontal position, some kind of force literally threw him up, and this went on for 16 years. And all these years he was in a state of absolute insomnia, which, from the point of view of medicine and in general all our knowledge about a person, is impossible .
In 1995, he began yoga classes, and with the help of meditation and other oriental practices, he managed to force his body to take a horizontal position, but not more than 2-3 hours. But the most unusual thing in this whole story is that all these years this person has absolutely not changed in appearance. Now he is 58 years old, but it is impossible to give him more than 25, and this leads to certain reflections.
But most importantly, after the experienced clinical death, his body temperature does not rise above 34 degrees.
Many experts believe that this is the reason for his youth. Unfortunately, German science, like Russian science, cannot say anything about this.
Yakov Tsiperovich was born in 1953 in the city of Minsk, graduated from high school, then worked as an electrician in various organizations in the city of Minsk, and his whole life until 1979 was no different from the life of young people like him.
In 1979, as a result of severe poisoning, his heart stopped and, contrary to all the terms known to medicine, he was in a state of clinical death for an hour. An hour later, the heart began to work again, but he came to himself only after a week. When he woke up, he realized that something strange had happened to him.
He couldn't even lay down. As soon as he took a horizontal position, some kind of force immediately threw him up and it was impossible to overcome this state with any efforts. In addition, he could not speak for six months, his speech was paralyzed. Something strange was going on with the body temperature, it did not exceed 33.5 degrees. Six months later, his speech was completely restored, but his voice became completely different, as if not his. Everything was different, even thoughts. The brain was literally stuffed with strange and incomprehensible knowledge and the whole world seemed completely different.
Then other oddities began, completely inexplicable and incomprehensible. He stopped feeling his body, all the time it felt like he was in weightlessness, and most unusually, all objects suddenly became lighter than they were before. He could jokingly rearrange a huge closet full of things or do push-ups from the floor 10,000 times, or lift a two-pound weight like a toy little finger dozens of times.
There were so many oddities that he can hardly list them all now. For example, the entire thought process took place in poetic form. Then a very strange perception of people began, Yakov seemed to read their thoughts, but not literally, as if they were read aloud, but on some other level inaccessible to ordinary understanding. It was as if he penetrated the shell of the person with whom he communicated and began to feel everything just like him.
When Yakov was over 40, he suddenly realized that time had stopped for him. This was especially noticeable when he met with classmates, and even those at the sight of Yakov were completely confused, he not only looked youthful, he did not change at all, not one iota.
Now Yakov is 58 years old, but he looks the same as in the photographs of 1975. At the moment he lives in Germany and is one of the most famous unusual people on the planet.
What happened and how to explain it? This is probably the only case in the world when fantasy became reality. Or is it a reminder to people how little they know about themselves.
We bring to your attention an interview compiled on the questions of visitors to the site E1.RU
Question: Hello!
I would like to know if you saw anything during clinical death?
(I heard stories about flying along the corridor to the light). If you have, please describe briefly.
Answer: What Raymond Moody described in the book Life After Life largely coincided with my feelings, but these were only the first few moments (a tunnel, a bright light, a vision of everything that was happening around my body), then there was something more that no longer fit into the framework of the prevailing ideas and descriptions of people who have suffered this. I turned into light, which changed its shape and color all the time, and in the form of this light substance, with great speed, I rushed through a giant spiral, from time to time stopping at some of its coils. During these stops, I seemed to absorb a powerful stream of scattered and strange information. Everything was there: past, future, present. But the stream that carried all this through me made it clear that the time that flows on earth here does not matter, and therefore the past, present and future simply do not exist.
Question: Maybe you know who we are and why, and also what we should do?
Answer: Everything that exists in the Universe is a part of the picture that the Creator conceived, and creating it, he put a certain meaning into any, even the smallest detail of his creation. People are constantly trying to discover the secret of their origin, not realizing that it is in this secret that the main condition for their existence is hidden. And what do we need to do? Fight evil. This is the meaning of our being on this planet.
Question: Good afternoon! Your biography is very impressive.
The interesting thing is this: how does a person with such abilities live in everyday life?
Doesn't interfere?
If it helps, what does it mean?
Either way, it's great! ;-)
Answer: Do my abilities hinder or help me? I never ask these questions. I just took it all for granted and live in harmony with everything that happens to me, because I know that it is useless to resist.
Question: Hello Jacob!
It is interesting whether you recognized all those around you after clinical death and did people appear whose appearance is familiar to you, but you are not familiar to them?
Thanks for the answer.
Hello to you.
Answer: After returning from there, I was preoccupied with completely different problems. The inability to lie down and, as a result, the complete lack of sleep led me to a state of horror and panic, and more than one year passed before I realized that it was possible to live in such an incredible state.
Question: Hello, I would like to ask this question: would you like to live like everyone else or did you like what happened after clinical death (you look young)
Answer: Liked or disliked, these are probably not the right definitions in this situation. I have to live as I live, but the fact that I do not change outwardly ... of course it's nice.
Question: Good afternoon!
It is very interesting what did you see during that hour in which your heart did not work, as well as during the week that you did not come to your senses?
I mean maybe a vision or a dream?
Sincerely, Eugene!
Answer: I have already answered the question about my first sensations, but what happened then? This week, which I spent after returning from there, was completely erased from my consciousness, but it seems to me that at that time the brain was trying to fix the information I received in some of its structures.
Question: Jacob, good afternoon.
Do you believe in God?
Are you afraid of death?
Answer: Yes, I believe. Am I afraid of death? I used to be afraid, but now I know: when we leave here, we come there.
Question: Hello Jacob!
1. Do you attend church? What religion do you profess?
2. Do you have love?
Thank you. With deep respect, Irma.
Answer: When I want to turn to God, I turn to him and I do not need intermediaries.
I have love and it is very big, it is my wife and my son.
Question: Have you heard anything about astral projections? Have you read Robert Monroe's Journey Out of the Body?
Answer: I have not read Robert Monroe's book, but I will read it someday.
Question: Do you have psychic abilities? If so, how could you use them for the benefit of other people? Such a rare gift is a shame to waste on trifles.
Maybe apply your abilities in the field of combating terrorism - the prevention of terrorist attacks?
Answer: Hundreds of people are now declaring this, so I will keep silent.
Question: what did you see at that moment.
Answer: I have already answered this question.
Question: Dear Yakov Tsiperovich! Hello! I read about your fantastic change. It's all interesting and exciting from the outside. How do you personally deal with this change? The fact that you have touched not quite the ordinary, yet incomprehensible, does not frighten you? Or do you understand everything, so it's simple, easy and free?
When I accidentally felt that I could touch something mysterious, not known, it frightened me, it seemed to me that I could go crazy, but it attracted me just as strongly.
Answer: Those changes that happened to me at first frightened and disturbed me, and of course there was a fear of losing my mind, but then a clear and clear vision of the whole picture came and then it became easy. A person is afraid until he understands something. Understanding the problem brings liberation from it.
2. Would you like to get rid of the changes that have occurred?
3. Do you have a desire to put your abilities to the benefit of mankind?
4. Can you initialize (“infect” with your abilities) others?
5. Does the future already exist or is it being created? If it is happening, then by whom?
Answer: As for the book, I have such plans.
Would I like to get rid of the changes that have occurred? If this is given to me, then so be it, and I am already very used to these changes, after all, 25 years.
As for the good for humanity... If humanity wants it, why not.
Among the huge array of information received from my experience, there is one that makes it possible to stop the flow of a person’s internal time (this can infect other people if there is desire and will)
Question: 1. How do you assess what happened?
2. Are you scared?
3. If there are so many riddles with you, do you know that God does not speak in riddles?
Do you believe in Christ, and what does he “speak” to you in your heart regarding what happened to you?
Answer: At first I assessed what happened as a punishment for some deeds. But many years later, I realized that it was probably a gift. After all, the suffering that tormented me so much for the first time after the incident turned into completely unimaginable things and brought me to a level where no one had yet reached.
Now I'm not afraid, because it seems to me that I know what is waiting for me around the corner.
Question: Are you tempted to try to repeat clinical death?
Answer: When I was there, I really did not want to return, but they forced me to do it, which means I am needed here. Such things are repeated only on demand from there.
Question: I would gladly die, but where do you draw strength for life?
Answer: Each person has his own route and he must go through it. If it is very difficult, you need to carefully look around, there will definitely be a path leading to the spring and a clearing that will give us rest. Look Anton carefully around.
Question: How do you sleep if you cannot take a horizontal position?
Answer: The first 16 years after the incident, I spent in a state of absolute insomnia, my brain did not turn off for a second. The doctors couldn't believe it, but it was a fact.
Question: Would he wish none of this had ever happened to him?
Answer: Previously yes, now no.
Question: Do you have the gift of clairvoyance?
Can you view events in the future or in the past?
Answer: At the level of a very heightened intuition, this happens all the time.
Question: Good afternoon
If you have a wife / lover, how does she react to a man who is nearby and does not age?
Answer: I have a wife. She is 12 years younger than me and she calmly reacts to what is happening.
Question: Yakov Tsiperovich, please tell me. Are you a zombie by any chance?
Answer: No, I'm not a zombie.
Question: Do you regret that this happened to you? Are you feeling omnipotent?
Answer: Not now.
And I don't feel omnipotent. I am just a small part of this huge Universe, which gave me its communication and gave me the opportunity to look beyond the other side of life.
Question: Hello! I wonder what kind of knowledge your brain has become stuffed with?
Answer: I think I have already partially answered this question. It was a very strange occurrence. I can't explain it, but I'll try to describe it. After leaving the body and during the passage through the spiral (I described this in the answer to the first question), incomprehensible knowledge was literally downloaded into me. They acted chaotically, without any sequence and explanations. Information was simply given that was related to some branches of knowledge, to science, to medicine, to philosophy. An analysis was given to many events that, it seems to me, have not even happened yet. There was a lot I could not understand, and I still do not understand, but something was clear. Particularly in the field of medicine. For example, I very clearly remember an absolutely incredible construction, with the help of which it is possible to restore people's health with extraordinary ease and, if necessary, extend life to almost any age. This design consisted of a certain number of cylinders, as if dressed on top of each other, but not in contact with each other. A man was placed in the middle of the first, smallest cylinder. He sat on a round platform, which did not come into contact with the shell of the cylinder and was in a stationary state. The cylinders themselves rotated in different directions with certain specified rotation characteristics. It was the speed of rotation of each individual cylinder that determined what was happening inside. And this is what happened inside. Under the influence of fields unknown to me, caused by the rotation of the cylinders, a person was returned at any age. And it doesn’t matter how old a person is, what illness he has and what is happening to him now. By changing the characteristics of the rotation of the cylinders, it is possible to return the human body to any given state. I do not know if it is possible to apply this knowledge now, but I have no doubt that it will be so.
Question: What are you doing now?
How do you use your unusual abilities?
Answer: Now I am doing a lot of various oriental practices for self-improvement, and I also need it for the distribution of energy flows.
Question: Hello! Jacob, do you remember what happened to you when you were in a state of clinical death? did you see anything....?
What unusual thing happened to you lately?
Answer: The fact of the matter is that nothing special happens to me. Time seems to have stopped for me in 1979 and it's been one long, long day.
Question: Is there a meaning in our life, is there a purpose, is there a destiny? Why are we, why?
Answer: You are asking questions to which humanity has been looking for answers for thousands of years. Many people manage to find it, many do not, and many do not even think about it. But it seems to me that the meaning of life is to try to make the person who is next to you happy. Then everyone will be fine.
Question: I am interested in one single question: WHO AM I??
Answer: The question is interesting, very simple and at the same time incredibly complex. Once upon a time I asked myself this question and this is what came out of it.
I am the day, I am the night
I am heat, I am white frost,
I am chaos, I am a high dream
I am an island, I am a blue sky canopy,
I am the bottom of life, I am the height of life.
I am one moment, I am eternity without limit,
In me alone - flowering and decay,
I am an incorporeal spirit, a suffering body,
I am freedom and the most terrible captivity.
I am two ends, and also two beginnings,
When one is not a judge for another,
But if one of them were gone,
I wouldn't live either.
Question: Hello!
Do you remember anything from your life before the injury? Did you have any visions during your cardiac arrest? Do you have observations that when you wake up the next day, you find changes in your environment? Has the weight of objects suddenly decreased? Can you fly? What is dreaming in dreams? Can you see through the obstacle? Or consider the terrain of another country? Can't breathe, can't eat? Can you feed on the energy of the sun? How do you perceive your age, do you have the feeling that you are eternally 20-25 years old, and will always be so? Can you see astral beings?
Answer: You are asking about the weight of the items. This is one of the biggest weird things that has happened to me. I stopped feeling the heaviness of my body, it felt like I was in weightlessness. This state could not be called comfortable, and in order to somehow get rid of it, I began to do push-ups from the floor. Sometimes I did push-ups for hours many thousands of times, but fatigue never set in, then I grabbed the barbells, weights, in order to at least somehow tire myself. At that time, I lifted a two-pound weight with my little finger 50-60 times. But everything was useless, the feeling of heaviness of the body did not come. All this was accompanied by a very strange body temperature of 33.5. This happened to me in 1980-1981. Then the body temperature gradually rose to 35. Now I don’t have a constant body temperature at all, it changes many times a day.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to fly yet.
Question: After what happened to you, do you have a sense of harmony and unity with the world, or do you, on the contrary, feel discomfort? And if you have acquired some new knowledge, please share it with people.
Answer: After what happened to me, a new understanding of this world came to me, and with it harmony. As for new knowledge, yes it is, and I give a lot to people.
Question: Have you had to provide resuscitation to people who are in a state of clinical death?
Answer: No.
Question: You can laugh, but I believe you!
I believe that there are things that the human mind cannot explain.
Can you contact the dead, in particular my son Michael. He died on May 24, 2000.
Answer: I sympathize with you very much, but unfortunately I do not have this gift.
Question: Hello Jacob!
What do you consider the most valuable thing in your new life?
What is worth living for?
Thank you very much for your answer, regards, Vera.
Answer: The most valuable thing that I have gained in my new life is the experience of communicating with an incomprehensible and unknown world, which gave me the opportunity to take a fresh look at this life. Life is worth living for your loved ones.
Question: Please tell me, have you experienced the state of leaving the physical body? Can you tell what is there, beyond the physical life?
If so, have you met people who have gone to another world?
Answer: Yes, I really saw there, beyond the bounds of this life, a lot of things that still lead me to a state of awe and bewilderment. When I tried to tell scientists and ordinary people about this, it almost always aroused distrust and skepticism. There were a huge number of people, or rather entities, who were in the same light-like state as I was. There was a very intensive exchange of information between them, which partly echoed our earthly problems, but basically it was an exchange of experience of being in that energy world. As I understand it, some of these entities have been there for tens of thousands of years, but these dates are significant only for us, and there they have absolutely no meaning.
Question: Jacob, good afternoon!
I read about an unusual condition that appeared in you after clinical death.
I would like to know your opinion of an “unusual person”, in the generally accepted sense, about the possibility of influencing human behavior with the help of damage, the evil eye, treatment with the help of correcting the energy of the person himself.
Sincerely, Svetlana.
Answer: As far as I understand such concepts as damage or the evil eye, this is nothing more than the materialization of a thought into an energy clot, which acquires the property of a projectile, the destructive power of which depends on the energy power of the person who sent it. In the same way, you can send good energy that can heal or protect a person. It is imperative to protect yourself from evil energy.
Question: Hello! When your perception and consciousness changed, how did you begin to relate to people?
Answer: With great tolerance and compassion.
Thank you very much for your interesting questions.
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Well ... this is not the only case ...
The man who hasn't slept for 35 years
At night he works in the field
Currently, Mr. Thai Ngoc lives in his forestry, rarely going home. His wife periodically visits him, brings him
necessary products and household items
Through hard work for long periods without sleep, Mr. Thai Ngoc's 8-hectare forestry is developing into a natural perennial forest.
With the help of this buffalo, Mr. Thai Ngoc single-handedly develops the land in his field
Old Thai Ngoc dug this fish pond by hand
Wu Kong Dien
There are currently many reports in the media about "a man who has not slept for 35 years in a row." We are talking about 65-year-old Vietnamese citizen Thai Ngoc, a native of the Quechung community, Nong Son county, Quang Nam province.
Sleepless nights for TV people
Lately, many foreign film crews have come to the remote village in Nong Son County to make films about Mr. Thai Ngoc. His family members say that each group stays at his house for 3-5 days, bring and install up to a dozen cameras in the house, in the yard, in the garden and at the place of his weaving. Day and night they record on film all his actions, not missing a single detail. Members of the shift team watch him, his nightly activities. And at night, when others are sleeping, he continues agricultural work in the field, in his free time he is engaged in weaving baskets. His work time is doubled compared to ordinary people's work schedule, and the amount of work done is also doubled.
Despite sleepless nights, old Thai Ngoc leads a normal life, never gets sick. It happens that curious people come to his house, visit him and try to spend the night without sleep with him. However, none of them could spend the whole night with him. He says: “I lost sleep before 1975, and I already forgot what sleep means, and from a long vigil I do not get worse. For me, being awake is a normal state, I do business when there is work.
After work, members of the film crew with sleepy faces wearily say goodbye to the owner, because for them to spend nights without sleep is always a difficult test. They are trying to tell the world about an extraordinary person who has not known sleep for 35 years with excellent health. And the small sums of money received from them, he will invest in the development of his garden.
He received an offer from doctors who invite him to go abroad so that specialists can study and treat him, but he refuses such offers. He says: “If I were sick with insomnia, I would go with them, because in our country they still cannot cure. But I am perfectly healthy, I work twice, there is no need to go. Look, there are 8 hectares of planted forest, and it is so green and well-groomed due to the fact that I do not sleep at night!”
The economy develops, the owner rejoices
In his farm, old Thai Ngoc divides the land into suitable plots for growing different types of trees. There are acacias, fruit trees, as well as perennial trees that produce valuable woods that are less and less common in nature or are in danger of extinction. He dug ponds for breeding fish with his own hands during sleepless nights. His labor efficiency is especially high on moonlit nights without rain. And on dark nights, he works under the light of a kerosene lamp or a fire.
“I feel very sad on jobless nights! I lay down, got up, smoked and drank tea alone, waiting for the morning, so that I could admire my forest, which develops daily and gradually covers the wild hills!” says Thai Ngoc. In addition to the forestry under the Zionglui mountain, he has another farm at a distance of 4 km, where he grows valuable types of wood.
Nearby live poor single spouses who are over 80 years old. In the past 30 years, Thai Ngoc has been visiting them often, helping them with the household and daily life. Thanks to sleepless nights, all agricultural crops on his farm, as well as on the farm of neighboring old people, are reliably protected from forest boars and other animals.
There are people in the world who do not sleep for quite a long period of time, but no one has yet lost sleep for such a long time as Mr. Thai Ngoc. He has been awake for half his life, and it is unknown if he will ever be able to sleep in the future, or stay awake for the rest of his life. So far, he is doing well: thanks to sleepless nights, he has grown a forest on a vast area of desert hills destroyed during the war, and has done a lot of good for himself, his family and for the economy. His 61-year-old wife, Nguyen Thi Bai, is a housewife with four adult children, and they all have a simple, normal life, like all ordinary people in the world.
Mr. Thai Ngoc says : “Many film crews came to my house to film all my classes, they think that some unknown psychological disease is progressing in me, which is why I lost sleep. They convinced me to go to Da Nang for a mental health check-up. Doctors say I don't have any psychological disorders. They tested my memory by arranging different objects such as a banana, a glass, a knife and others on the cells with numbers, showed me and asked me to name them in turn by the numbers on the cells. I repeated everything correctly. Only after that they believed me and started making documentaries.
A film crew from Thailand came first and paid me 30 million VND to keep me filming for 18 months, but I refused. I don't sell my insomnia. Then others came with an offer to go abroad with them, I also did not accept their offer, because I don’t know what I would do on sleepless nights there, in a foreign land. Here I continue to work at night, but if all the work is done during the day, then I look after the household, protecting it from wild animals.
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Yes, this hour has stressed me too. 5-6 minutes after cardiac arrest and breathing, the brain dies. And it's irreversible...
The duration of clinical death is determined by the period during which the higher parts of the brain (subcortex and especially the cortex) are able to maintain viability under hypoxic conditions. Describing clinical death, V. A. Negovsky speaks of two terms.
The first term of clinical death lasts only 3-5 minutes. This is the time during which the higher parts of the brain retain their viability during anoxia (lack of oxygen supply to organs, in particular the brain) under normothermic conditions (body temperature - 36.5 ° C). All world practice shows that if this period is exceeded, people can be revived, but as a result, decortication (death of the cerebral cortex) or even decerebration (death of all parts of the brain) occurs.
But there may be a second term of clinical death, which doctors have to deal with when providing assistance or in special conditions. The second period of clinical death can last tens of minutes, and resuscitation measures (methods of resuscitation) will be very effective. The second period of clinical death is observed when special conditions are created to slow down the processes of degeneration of the higher parts of the brain during hypoxia (decrease in the oxygen content in the blood) or anoxia (see above).
The duration of clinical death increases under conditions of hypothermia (artificial cooling of an organ or the whole body), with electric shocks, and with drowning. In clinical practice, this can be achieved through physical effects (hypothermia of the head, hyperbaric oxygenation - breathing oxygen at elevated pressure in a special chamber), the use of pharmacological substances that create states similar to suspended animation (a sharp decrease in metabolism), hemosorption (hardware blood purification), transfusion fresh (not canned) donated blood and some others.
If resuscitation measures were not carried out or were unsuccessful, biological or true death occurs, which is an irreversible cessation of physiological processes in cells and tissues.
Material from Wikipedia
The consequences of a sleepless week for the human body.
Dedicated to people of difficult professions.
First day 
If a person does not sleep for a day, then this will not cause any serious consequences for his health, however, a long period of wakefulness will lead to a failure of the circadian cycle, which is determined by the setting of a person's biological clock.
Scientists believe that approximately 20,000 neurons in the hypothalamus are responsible for the biological rhythms of the body. This is the so-called suprachiasmatic nucleus.
Circadian rhythms are synchronized with the 24-hour light cycle of day and night and are associated with brain activity and metabolism, so even a daily delay in sleep will lead to a slight disruption in the body's systems.
If a person does not sleep for a day, then, firstly, he will feel tired, and secondly, he may have problems with memory and attention. This is due to a violation of the functions of the neocortex, which is responsible for memory and learning abilities.
Second-third days 
If a person does not go to bed for two or three days, then in addition to fatigue and memory problems, he will have a violation of coordination in movements, serious problems with concentration of thoughts and concentration of vision will begin to arise. Due to the exhaustion of the nervous system, a nervous tic may appear.
Due to a disruption in the work of the frontal lobe of the brain, a person will begin to lose the ability to think creatively and focus on the task, his speech will become monotonous, clichéd.
In addition to "brain" complications, a person's digestive system will also begin to "rebel". This is due to the fact that a long period of wakefulness activates the protective evolutionary mechanism "fight or flight" in the body.
A person will increase the production of leptin and increase appetite (with an addiction to salty and fatty foods), the body, in response to a stressful situation, will start the function of storing fats and producing hormones responsible for insomnia. Oddly enough, it will not be easy for a person to fall asleep during this period, even if he wants to.
Fourth-fifth day 
On the fourth or fifth day without sleep, a person may begin to experience hallucinations, he will become extremely irritable. After five days without sleep, the work of the main parts of the brain will slow down in a person, neural activity will be extremely weak.
Serious violations will be observed in the parietal zone, which is responsible for logic and mathematical abilities, so solving even the simplest arithmetic problems will be an impossible task for a person.
Due to disturbances in the temporal lobe, which is responsible for speech abilities, a person’s speech will become even more incoherent than on the third day without sleep.
The hallucinations already mentioned will begin to occur due to a malfunction in the prefrontal cortex of the brain.
Sixth to seventh days 
On the sixth or seventh day without sleep, a person will not be much like himself at the beginning of this sleepless marathon. His behavior will be extremely strange, hallucinations will be both visual and auditory.
The official record holder for insomnia, American student Randy Gardner (did not sleep for 254 hours, 11 days), on the sixth day without sleep, developed syndromes typical of Alzheimer's disease, had severe hallucinations and paranoia appeared.
He mistook a road sign for a person and believed that the radio station host wanted to kill him.
Gardner had a strong tremor of the limbs, he could not speak coherently, solving simple problems baffled him - he simply forgot what he had just been told and what the task was.
By the seventh day without sleep, the body will experience serious stress of all body systems, brain neurons will be inactive, the heart muscle will be worn out, immunity will almost cease to resist viruses and bacteria due to the passivity of T-lymphocytes, the liver will experience enormous stress.
In general, such experiments with health are extremely dangerous. 
Surely most readers know that the average person can last no longer without sleep than without food. If you have ever been without sleep for one, two or even three nights in a row, then you will agree that insomnia for many years is something beyond human capabilities. But in fact, there are individuals who have not closed their eyes for decades, feeling quite good about it. And no, now we are not talking about fictional characters like the main characters of Fight Club or The Machinist, but about real people.
Al Herpin
One of the earliest references to a person who is fully capable of going without sleep refers to Al Herpin. This man was born in 1862 in Paris and then moved to New Jersey, USA. According to him, he never slept during his entire life. And after numerous experiments and experiments that scientists put on him, he proved that he can really do without problems without sleep.
Al was repeatedly examined by scientists who again and again came to the conclusion that the physical condition of their ward, despite the complete lack of sleep, is absolutely normal. Researchers have proposed various reasons that could provoke this phenomenon, but they failed to reach a consensus and agreement on this matter. Al Herpin himself shared the point of view of his mother, who suggested that the unusual quality was caused by the fact that right before the birth she accidentally hurt herself. But much more interesting was precisely how Herpin is able to maintain normal life without sleep.
One of the possible answers to this question was suggested to scientists by nature itself. Some whales are able to go without rest for several months. But at the same time, they alternately “sleep off” either the left hemisphere of the brain or the right. A similar explanation for the lack of sleep was also proposed in the examination of Al Herpin - but was not confirmed experimentally.
How did Al feel? What kind of life did he lead? This man preferred modest farming. From morning to evening he worked, providing himself with food. Of course, after exhausting physical labor, Herpin got tired. However, instead of sleeping, he simply sat in a chair and read until he felt sufficiently rested to continue his work. Herpin outlived many of his explorers and died at 94.
David Jones
David Jones is another American farmer who can go without sleep for a long time. But unlike Herpin, Jones did occasionally sleep. True, I did this about once every three to four months.
The news about David Jones hit the American newspaper in 1895. It mentions that two years ago, Jones had a 93-day insomnia attack, and a year after that, 131 days without sleep. Herpin's episode of constant wakefulness begins again, which has lasted for three weeks, according to the newspaper. The farmer was placed under medical observation. Doctors noted that David ate, talked, worked and communicated as usual. Judging by his testimony, he did not experience any particular fatigue from lack of sleep. Moreover, the farmer was clearly not upset by the prospect of never sleeping again - he, on the contrary, rejoiced at the prospect of working quietly and having a lot of free time at the same time.
Nothing is known about whether David Jones slept after this next attack - the scientists quickly gave up and stopped monitoring the farmer, and he himself clearly did not want too much popularity, and therefore did not shine anywhere else.
The second man-phenomenon turns out to be an American farmer
Rachel Sagi
Rachel Sagi is a housewife from Hungary. One morning in 1911, she woke up with a terrible headache that haunted her for a long time. Rachel could not understand the cause of such a migraine in any way and turned to the doctor. The doctor suggested that the pain may be caused by the abuse of sleep. The doctor's prescription was simple - to sleep less, 5-7 hours a day. As it turned out, the doctor was only partly right - headaches were indeed associated with sleep. As soon as the housewife stopped sleeping at all, the migraine went away and never returned. Rachel managed to spend 25 years without sleep - from that visit to the doctor, she never closed her eyes until her death.
Not much information has been preserved about Rachel - there were no thorough studies of her health, or they were not published. The housewife herself has told the newspapers (which sometimes brought her up as a sensational topic) that she feels quite normal, and is no more tired than when sleep was part of her daily routine.
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Valentine Medina
A very remarkable story of 61-year-old Valentin Medina. This man, lacking sufficient funds, was unable to buy a train ticket to Madrid in 1960. So, being a stubborn man, he simply walked to his destination from South Castile. Valentine mastered the road 140 miles long in four days. Sometimes Medina would stop by the side of the road to rest his tired legs. What made the poor man go so desperately to Madrid? The fact is that Valentine suffered from many years of insomnia. According to the man himself, he never slept in his life. The local doctors of South Castile could not help him, so he went to the doctors of the larger cities. They accepted Valentine and, questioning the veracity of his story, contacted doctors from his hometown. They, to the surprise of scientists, confirmed the uniqueness of Valentine's condition.
One of the doctors knew Medina as a little boy - and even then it was proved that he never sleeps. The boy was brought to the doctor by his father, worried about his son's condition.
Madrid doctors examined and examined Valentin, but found no pathologies. The man was completely healthy - as much as possible for a 61-year-old poor man. Doctors collected money for Valentin for a return ticket and sent him home, equipping him with a package of a powerful sedative. Medina regularly took the medicine until he realized that it was acting in an undesirable way - drowsiness did not come, but his legs became cottony. This interfered with the man in his work.
Subsequently, journalists approached him. Medina said that he could neither write nor read - and this made him very upset. According to Valentin, literacy could help him pass the sleepless nights - he could read books.
Eustace Burnett
Eustace Burnett is another farmer on our list, but this time an Englishman. This man simply stopped sleeping at the age of 27 (circa 1900). Prior to this, it is noteworthy that he did not observe any deviations in sleep patterns. Eustace was visited by doctors from all over the planet who wanted to see this phenomenon live. Many tried to get him to sleep using drugs or hypnosis. From the latter, Burnett only had a headache, and sleeping pills only deprived the body of mobility and speed of reaction - but sleep did not go.
Eustace himself is not very upset by the state of affairs. Every night, while his household sleeps, he lies in bed for about six hours to rest his body. Eustace lived for more than 80 years without complaining of fatigue or drowsiness.
So far, there is no scientific explanation for this phenomenon. Which is not surprising, because there are not so many people suffering from chronic lack of sleep. But, perhaps, when the reasons for such an unusual phenomenon are found, we will get more control over the sleep pattern.
Today Yakov is 62 years old, but he looks no older than 45 years old. Wife Karina long ago got used to his unique abilities, and son Alexander strives to become the same as his father. It seems to be an ordinary family from Minsk. In fact, everything was like everyone else, if it were not for the existence of such an unusual phenomenon, which is quite rare all over the world.
Everything happened as usual in 1979. At the time when Yakov was 26 years old, the first wife, jealous, attempted to poison her husband. It ended for Yakov with clinical death, resuscitation, and almost a week-long coma.
After he came to his senses, he ceased to recognize the world around him. Yakov said that he felt changes in his thoughts, and there was information in his head that he never knew. A lot of things Yakov could not understand and indifferently passed through his consciousness.
He discovered a completely different world around him and began to perceive absolutely everything clearly. Jacob began to see the circumstances and consequences of various situations. He understood that this was not a figment of the imagination, it all came from somewhere in his head. Jacob felt like a completely different person.
Yakov became a toy of Vanka-Vstanka
However, that's not all. Sometimes it happens that after some extreme cases, a person completely changes. But something else happened to Jacob - he stopped recognizing his body. Sometimes he felt himself: arms, legs, head. It seems that everything is in its place, however, it is unfamiliar to him. It was amazing to feel how an arm or leg reacts to commands in a completely different way.
The weird moments didn't end there. After returning to normal life, Jacob suddenly realized that he could not sleep. He really wanted to sleep, but he couldn't sleep. It was not the usual insomnia when sleep does not come. Jacob simply could not even lie down.
He began to feel like a toy Roly-Vstanka, which, no matter how much he wants to put it down, it will still take a vertical position. He went to bed, but some invisible force lifted him back. As soon as Jacob began to doze, something clicked in his head, and he immediately returned to the waking phase. It was terrible. Jacob struggled to sleep. However, it dragged on first for a week, then for a month and even for a year. He experienced insane fear, because he did not hope that his body could withstand such a load.
Incredible physical abilities
But soon there was a revolution. Jacob's forces, on the contrary, began to arrive. Muscle mass increased by itself, and weight increased. There was a feeling of great physical strength, which arose from somewhere inside. The feeling of tiredness disappeared.
Once Jacob decided to set the measure of his abilities in the physical plane. He was able to do 10 thousand push-ups in 9 hours with several breaks, but he did not feel the fatigue that would help him fall asleep.
Jacob no longer perceives the disappearance of sleep as a physiological torment. He just became psychologically dependent. This dependence implies that a person must sleep. He began to endure insomnia quite easily. This can be compared to the completion of the painful process of the formation of a new human organism, and the beginning of its growth.
His life is one long day
And, in the end, Yakov learned about another unusual feature many years later at a personal meeting with classmates who had gray hair and wrinkles over the years. What was Jacob's surprise when he realized that he had not changed at all. His body seemed to stop in place.
For Jacob, time ceased to exist. Day and night became indivisible. Life for Tsiperovich is one long day. He lives outside of time and believes that life is eternal.
There is objective evidence of the existence of the process of preserving the human body. For a long time, Jacob's body temperature was no more than 34 degrees, and only literally a year ago it rose to 35 degrees. In his body, the aging and metabolism processes slowed down. However, Jacob cannot yet be considered immortal.
Path to immortality
How does medicine relate to this? After all, most likely, this phenomenon will help develop a way by which it will be possible to live forever. Plus, physical strength and a lot of time for self-development, work and creation. Science knows nothing about such cases.
About medical workers and doctors of science Yakov speaks with chagrin. Nobody seriously investigated his abilities. On his own initiative, Yakov was examined more than once. In the hospital, he underwent an electroencephalogram and took tests. No pathologies were found in his body, since the tests were perfect. Jacob was even almost accused of pretense.
Medicine couldn't help him.
At first, he visited clinics in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Yakov was examined by such professors as Vein and Ilyin. However, at the Bekhterev Institute of the Brain he was refused even an examination. The doctors justified this by the fact that many people do not sleep, and there is nothing special about this.
Since traditional medicine did not help him recover, Yakov turned to the psychic Juna in Moscow, as well as the Minsk psycho-neurologists Pavlinskaya and Semenova. They did not report anything new, but only grinned, saying that they had enough of their problems. Yakov concluded that his abilities did not arouse absolutely any interest among those around him.
How can you take advantage of the extra eight hours of work, if you have excellent physical health?
Yakov replied that he did not use this time in any way. For him, this is not extra time, but usual, like any person. At night, when everyone is asleep and you can’t do any noisy things, he does the usual things: reading, writing, or thinking about something.
Fighting this insomnia is futile
Over the past year, Jacob has stopped spending a lot of time trying to sleep. However, with the help of meditation, he learned to disconnect from the world for several hours.
At first, he tried to fight insomnia with sleeping pills. Yakov took large doses of drugs such as radedorm, relanium and elenium. Medicines did not help, instead of sleep, there were feelings of weakness and loss of strength. However, this could not replace a full sleep. In this regard, Yakov was forced to completely abandon medications. And yet, he still wants to be an ordinary person who is able to sleep.
Tsiperovich's fame has become dangerous
Jacob writes poems of a philosophical and lyrical nature. A film was made about him in Japan and France. The central and regional press wrote about him. In addition, the phenomenon of Yakov Tsiperovich was broadcast on the Belarusian radio station "Freedom".
Yakov was very dissatisfied with the work of journalists, because after the next publications about his life in the newspaper, he could not calmly go out into the street. In Jacob's yard, people were on guard to ask their questions. His phone was constantly torn from frequent calls. All this did not correspond to Jacob's reclusive way of life.
In addition, his life was no longer safe. Once even sectarians came to him, who knocked on the door for a long time, demanding a meeting with him for some reason. On that day, Yakov was saved by a large Caucasian shepherd dog who lives with him. He concluded that being famous is not at all as pleasant as it seemed.
Where do people get such phenomena? Perhaps they are the harbingers of a new period. Today there are very few such people. They have a hard time in life. They are alone. It is on people with such a phenomenon that a great mission is entrusted - to change the opinions of the people and open their eyes to the world around them, which is so huge and limitless in its diversity.