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What Happens If You Don't Sleep for a Week?

What Happens If You Don't Sleep for a Week?

Most of us don't get the recommended eight hours of sleep a night. But what if you went a whole week without sleeping? What would happen to your body? And how quickly would you start to hallucinate without sleep?


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Timeline

00:00:No sleep for a week

01:00:How much should you sleep?

03:02:Sleeplessness dangers

04:54:Hallucination