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This weekend I’m going to do 40 hours of continuous improv which I bet is more than the total amount of improv I’ve done in the past year. So, I checked out some of the info on sleep deprivation. This is going to be hilarious.

A study at Harvard Medical School revealed that lack of sleep causes the brain to become incapable of putting an emotional event into the proper perspective and incapable of making a controlled, suitable response to the event.

A 1996 study by the University of Chicago Medical Center showed that sleep deprivation severely affects the human body’s ability to metabolize glucose, which can lead to early-stage Tyoe 2 Diabetes.

According to a 2000 study, sleep deprivation can have some of the same hazardous effects as being drunk. People who drove after being awake for 17–19 hours performed worse than those with a blood alcohol level of .05 percent

Many people experience microsleep episodes during sleep deprivation, in which they sleep for periods of seconds to fractions of a second and frequently don’t remember these episodes.
[Microsleeping improvisers = hilarious]

A 3-year-old boy named Rhett Lamb of St. Petersburg, Florida has a rare condition and has only slept for one to two hours per day in the past three years. He has a rare abnormality called an Arnold-Chiari malformation where brain tissue protrudes into the spinal canal.

There is a response latency that seems to be higher when it comes to actions regarding personal morality and the willingness to violate a personal belief, rather than in situations when morality is not in question.

In 1997 the University of Minnesota did research that compared students who went to school at 7:15 a.m. and those who went to school at 8:40 a.m. They found that students who went to school at 8:40 got higher grades and more sleep on the weekdays.
[No shit? Really? Did it also reveal that people who wake up early, get out of bed at an earlier time?]

The Guinness World Records record for time without sleep is 449 hours (18 days, 17 hours) by Maureen Weston, of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in April, 1977, in a rocking-chair marathon.
[Maureen was soon-after diagnosed with diabetes and seen pleasuring three sailors while microsleeping]

It’s all going down at The Hideout this weekend from 5pm on Friday June 26 to Sunday morning at 9am. It’s going to be epic.

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