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Randy Gardner (born c. 1946) is an American man from San Diego, California, who once held the record for the longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep.In December 1963/January 1964, 17-year-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 24 minutes (264.4 hours), breaking the previous record of 260 hours held by Tom Rounds.
Filmography Year Title Director Writer Producer Editor Notes 2022 The Sleep Experiment: Yes Yes Yes Yes Directorial Debut 2022 The Lost Jedi: Yes
Texas High School Shorts Runner Up—The Sleep Project, directed by Whitney Bennett and Matthew Cunningham; 2010 SXSW Film Design Awards. Excellence in Poster Design Winner—Feeder, Designer: Joseph Ernst; Excellence in Poster Design Runner Up—Amer, Designer: Gilles Vranckx
The story recounts an experiment set in 1947 at a covert Soviet test facility, where scientists give test subjects a stimulant gas that would prevent sleep. As the experiment progresses, it is shown that the lack of sleep transforms the subjects into violent zombie-like creatures who are addicted to the gas.
Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency [2] or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health.
The Sleep Room is a 1998 Canadian television movie about experiments on Canadian mental patients that were carried out in the 1950s and 1960s by Donald Ewen Cameron and funded by the CIA's MKUltra program.
Sleep is an eight-and-a-half hour concept album based around the neuroscience of sleep [3] by German-British composer Max Richter. [4] [5] It was released on September 4, 2015, accompanied by a one-hour version with variations, From Sleep, [6] later remixed as Sleep Remixes.
The Montreal experiments were a series of experiments, initially aimed to treat schizophrenia [1] by changing memories and erasing the patients' thoughts using the Scottish psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron's method of "psychic driving", [2] as well as drug-induced sleep, intensive electroconvulsive therapy, sensory deprivation and Thorazine.