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What happens when human
beings are deprived of sleep for long periods of time To answer this question,
a New Yorker, Peter Tripp, offered to stay awake 200 hours. During that time
Tripp was observed by a group of doctors, who reported on his
progress.
After three days of staying awake, he began to show
signs of mental breakdown. He laughed at things that were not funny, and wept at
things that were not sad. Complaining of pressure caused by a hat on his head,
he tried repeatedly to take it off. Tripp, of course, was not wearing a
hat.
On the fifth day he cried out that a doctor’s jacket looked
like crawling worms. Then he imagined he was in another city; he tried to run
away from the building, insisting it was on fire; and he thought the 200-hour
mark had been passed but that doctors were "suffering from mental illness." He
was
nearly mad!
Barely able to stand, Tripp was helped
across the s
A. There is little danger of serious after-effects when human beings are deprived of sleep for long periods of time.
B. Going without sleep for a long period will cause bad shortlivede ffects, but apparently no serious after-effects.
C. After 200 hours without sleep Tripp was suffering from "mental ill ness".
D. The doctors predicted Tripp would sleep for twenty or thirty hours.
