Tyler Shields a photographer in Los Angeles claims he set a world record by staying awake for 40 straight days, which works out to 968 consecutive hours. Is anyone buying this?
Over the summer I worked at a hospital, it was just an office, but I worked with students who were planning a career in medicine. One in particular did sleep deprivation studies over the past summer and he told me that they would keep people in a room for about ten days. When I asked "why ten?" assuming they made them stay awake for ten days he said they kept them awake for three and the rest was to make sure they did not go insane. The people he watched would do crazy things and become very irrational, so it is a little hard for me to believe this guy stayed awake for 40 straight days.
Did anyone else see this? A friend or something? Shields said "he surrounded himself with a team of monitors who watched over him 24 hours per day throughout the stunt." The one thing I feel I have taken away from my journalism class is CHECK YOUR SOURCES. Shields was the only one interviewed for this story. If there was a team of monitors then why weren't they interviewed, quoted, or even given names past this. No one else was interviewed, which is the other reason why I have a hard time believing this. I can say I stayed awake for 40 days but it doesn’t mean shit until you can prove it. I am so happy the Guiness Book of World Records is not recognizing this, they are doing that for a reason: HE CAN’T PROVE IT BECAUSE IT NEVER HAPPENED.
I agree with you. I feel like this is hard to prove and I honestly don't think it really happened, either.
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