How Sleep Deprived Are You? | Brain Games

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How Sleep Deprived Are You? | Brain Games
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[@gcb69]

its realy ironic for me its curently 3 am and i have to wake up a 7 am and what i do i watch a video about how we dont sleep enought :)

[@jackmanne6238]

PugForLife same here it's 2 am I gotta get up at 6 am for school 😭😭

[@triptiaggarwal343]

I feel u

[@Celevie]

PugForLife islam promotes sleeping early. Sleep at night prayer after dinner and wake up at dawn prayer

[@evilz13]

Agreed, its already 4am while I am watching this video too

[@advikdeshmukh805]

How is that ironic?

[@dontbeadumby243]

I've been awake for around 40 hours and I did experience this at school. There was a desk in front of me but I didn't notice it untill I was an inch away from hitting it

[@hannahlee3859]

I must be sleep deprived since I was baby. Somehow I require more sleep than others from the beginning. Even if I slept more than 8 hours, I answer yes to all of the questions.

[@kutielitious]

Hannah Lee sameee. Im glad im not the only one

[@hinaakbar8951]

Same here. i think i got some problem

[@ddomainessrsls601]

you may acually be not getting a really important vitamin or you acually get to much sleep its hard to explain

[@YogeshKalyanpad]

Me too

[@autumnchey]

this happens to me too bc i have chronic fatigue. you should look into it, you might have it

[@dwightxyt]

Yes I noticed that boat with a dead body on it ....

[@av3r3st24]

😂😂

[@Prakido]

I answered 'yes' to all of them... uh oh

[@funkytime69]

"How likely would it be for you to snooze if you were travelling in the passenger's seat of a car for more than an hour?" "Yes"

[@prathmeshbarge8750]

Me too 😆😆

[@jejcnsjdndjskdjrn8329]

Sadie same but I’ve been awake all night so that’s why

[@kempai]

I answered yes to both reading a book and lying down in the afternoon. I get 7+ hours of sleep each night.

[@fakeplayer3308]

I answer the first and second due to boredom

[@coolboykev1]

I have this thing when I'm still somewhat lucid and understand what people are saying but my brain is sort of shutting off. These episodes depend on how much sleep I had the night before but sometimes they last about 30 minutes or so. Whenever this happens, I start rambling or just continue the conversation like in automatic mode but with sleepy eyes. After this, I usually just close my eyes for 2 minutes and recover full energy, and I mean full energy. Is this a sort of microsleep or not, because it's not like I blackout because my body still does the activity I was supposed to do. It's like autopilot. Sometimes I don't remember what I had said but I know that at the moment it made sense.

[@PiePierrot]

I know what you mean, sometimes I do the same thing sorta. I'll experience brief periods when I'm really sleep-deprived where I'm technically awake but my brain is not cooperating or I'm sorta on autopilot I think. I think I read that this is a type of microsleep too sort of, where you zone out because parts of your brain are asleep. This is still dangerous though, because even if your eyes are open if you aren't thinking coherently and aren't able to notice and react quickly behind the wheel of a car, it could spell death for you and others.

[@guasypoly280]

Been playing video games for about 26 hours now, I saw the difference instantly. My photographic memory helps though

[@AssClappicus]

I'm much more concerned with the direct health impacts of sleep deprivation rather than this.

[@jayemover_16]

I have insomnia thanks to my ADHD, but cars just put me right to sleep for some reason. I'd be falling asleep on the 3 minute car drive to school.

[@DDougz]

ive been awake for 27 hours and i still noticed the boat appearing after the flash...

[@elizabethg1604]

DDougz I've been awake for 19 hours and I didn't notice t R.I.P

[@YogeshKalyanpad]

I am sleeping regularly for 8 hrs. Still if they ask me to sleep in the afternoon, I would do that too. And I didn't notice the boat...

[@madibernardo5328]

I think I’m so sleep deprived at this point bc I literally didn’t even realize questions were being asked 💀 until I came to the comments and saw someone say they answered yes to all the questions

[@Odbarc]

I need 10 hours of sleep or I feel sick. As if coming down with a cold or flu where the symptoms haven't kicked in just yet. I call it "almost sick".

[@cancerouslump7961]

So is this zoning out until I feel really faint and slam my face on the desk and pass out during 1st block?

[@elizabethg1604]

Well I have 2 hours of math homework 1 hour of language arts or science homework and 4 hours of history homework everyday except Friday so no wonder I'm sleep deprived.

[@akiradem69]

I’m not even an American but sleeping while traveling is a habit for me since HS since I go to school in another city & been doing it for years. I’m now working & I sometimes would sleep almost the whole day in my only day off. How about if you are like studying or doing something & your mind slipped off & you thought you are still doing what you are doing but you are actually asleep. I sometimes would wake up writing scribbles 😂

[@zorinx6590]

Doctor on hes left be like: don't mind me.

[@erickvillegas8327]

I take naps and almost never get 8 hours of sleep . I saw the boat tho.

[@kyle4563]

Same except I don’t take naps

[@ShayMinxxPark]

Currently on my 45 hour. and what a day to come across this LMAOAOAOAOAOAOoOoO

[@saadk72510]

Shay Bae go to sleep

[@justchillin1012]

Experience micro sleep alot at school, one minute i think im paying attention and in a blink of an eye my head is slumped over looking crazy in class💀

[@BabaaYaga888]

i have been having this since a few months now and I'm very worried because this is my first year of college, if this continues rip

[@necro-maniac3894]

I've been up for three days, but maybe i'm just not noticing the effects. Although I must say I do notice one difference. And that would be an increase in paranoia. How lovely for me.

[@sl4983]

Wow!!!

[@dirtybongwater5751]

I woke up 42 hours ago and still noticed the boat

[@sukruoosten]

yessssss saw the boat right away first time !!!!

[@iraisjanez2548]

Where can I watch the complete episode?

[@0.5views79]

*Sleeps 500 hours a day that mom argues with me for it* *this dude saying I'm still not getting enough sleep* I'm gonna show this to mom

[@linus855]

“500 hours a day”

[@nicolevanguilder9771]

Watches this when I have to wake up in 6 hours

[@charactersunknown9057]

Me- sleeps for 12 hours a day Also me- I feel way too sleep deprived

[@MrDucksgoquack]

Sleep when Im supposed to be keeping an eye on patients? NatGeo told me to :D Also I sleep whenever Im in a car. WHENEVER I live for afternoon naps.

[@SwrveYT]

Heck I get 9 hours of sleep every night yet I can fall asleep to any of those

[@gedDous514]

I love this kinds of videos! it keeps me awake!

[@AskiFin]

Answers no to all.. but I have been sleeping only on every other night for the past 3 years.. On nights when I sleep I sleep from 9 pm to 7 am (10H), no naps. Currently didn't sleep last night, noticed the boat instantly (well first I noticed the area then the boat itself) I call bullshit on 7-8 H a night. I'm not saying the way I live is healthy, but different types of ppl exist.

[@tejuswadbudhe7909]

Thank you

[@MARTINBEING]

Sir iam big fan of u plz make more video.

[@emp3202]

just went thru an unintentional 83or84hour sleep depervation episode. I did not sleep for one minute . (I have chronic insomnia so this stuff happens a lot happens ..) MY QUESTION IS, for people with moderate-severe PTSD. .. since our nervous and adrenal systems are comprised. do we experience different effects of not sleeping? I naturally, constantly feel like I have way too much nervous energy. like I'm on a roller-coaster at the top of the first hill, ready to drop. even while sleep deprived... my effects were high BP and hr (i have hypertension anyway) , extreme tremors, nausea, headache, joint pain, no temperature regulation, teeth chattering, trouble breathing, visual trails, and slight audio distortion. HOWEVER , my cognitive ability didn't change, in fact, I got a lot done, and was able to interact with others more easily than usual. lol I'm trying to figure out what's going on with my sleep cus it's effecting me , making scheduling appointments and things, very hard to do.

[@emp3202]

technically I should be falling asleep everywhere I go cus I can't sleep for more than 2 hours straight (if lucky) ... but I don't at all. I even was addicted to heavy sedatives and heroin/fentanyl for years and I wouldn't even get tired or high. I also don't absorb anesthesia very well so i always need to be given more.

[@TH3GAMEHELPER]

doctors dont know what i have but i never feel tire ever all though by brain is i dont feel the " heavy eyes etc"

[@nihilisticpancakeface6553]

is it weird i always get lost in thought? like here i am thinking about what an atom really looks like and then my body goes into pause mode so i end up staring at a chair for 12 seconds with my mouth ocassionaly open

[@nihilisticpancakeface6553]

my classmates think im weird

[@2okaycola]

I fall asleep in the car if there’s someone to talk to the rage baiter otherwise no such luck

[@UnlimitlesslyFunnyDude]

We must educate ourselves on how to look after our wellbeing, or else our mind/physique will become overwhelmed with tension.

[@12311395]

Only got 1hr of sleep for the past 2 days …ive been a insomniac for almost a month now…nothing works except medications

[@iebpk]

Good reason the world needs autonomous cars.

[@BotonBangBoyz]

weeaboo

[@sl4983]

so everyone can drive sleep deprived? Right..

[@2noisy4u]

I slept on thursday and now i'm watching this on monday. If you are tired,close yeys and look at right corner, then left. It's not REM, but oes your brain like it? :D

[@alfonsbochove]

I noticed the boat

[@XiARKADEiX]

Where's part 3?

[@BillyInnes]

I answered yes to all 3. I guess that's what happen when you work midnights.

[@jjm2874]

I’m so sleep deprived that if I took a real sleep now, I’d wake up in 2020 when yeezy becomes president.

[@shkvocals]

2020:)

[@jjm2874]

CoverTunes BySHK dude what tf is with 2020?? I’m going back to sleep...

[@zombiekiller7101]

It's 2021 now :)

[@jjm2874]

@@zombiekiller7101 still in lockdown, still sleeping 😴

[@yes3165]

@@jjm2874 2022 :)

[@helloimnisha]

I am not sleep deprived. I am just a sloth for life.

[@zealoustipp1538]

Never stay ^ 2 days straight. You feel like you. Gone faint.

[@bushrakhan9410]

I'm sure I'll 100% sleep inside a car because for me it's the most comfortable place to sleep and i almost every time doze off while lying on a sofa in the afternoon😂

[@axenoo201]

7-8h? Max i can get is 3 i dont have time for sleep

[@MonMon-hh3wf]

How long did you get 3 hours of sleep?

[@BirendraKumar-nr3nb]

I sleep a lot but still fatigue

[@Xtremedog83]

I answered no to all of these and figured out the boat but I know I am sleep deprived😂😅😣

[@wolfgang5496]

I have enough sleep everyday yet I answered yes to all of them. What does this mean😰

[@captainstark5496]

I am exam tomorrow , maths exam , i haven't completed anything and i am here watching a video of a sleep.

[@Rezilete]

I can sleep for an entire day and still want to sleep

[@sanjanasoni2262]

Exams, root of all the problems

[@annabelp3013]

I said no to all of them.

[@dance4life1208]

Didn't see the boat 😩

[@vatsalyasharan4202]

Sleep is the real luxury

[@andylee7883]

Oh boy...

[@JA-ob6zz]

What if I get 10-12 hours of sleep and I answered yes to three of those questions

[@postmortemarg]

what do you call a person who simply wont understand that sleep deprivation is bad for them?

[@boblob3509]

im beyond saving

[@elizabethg1604]

Uhm...well I answered yes for everyone of them

[@ChristabelAManu]

Been up for 2 days now body is shaking I’m dead tired but still can’t sleep 😭

[@sanaraheem5000]

I sleep everywhere every time. But i sleep morr than 8 hours everyday why do i fall asleep so easily?

[@7949RAJ]

I slept for 14 hours yesterday and i still feel sleey. Is this ok?

[@Heena6790]

That's too much.

[@rippedoutguts6762]

me watching this at 5am: 👁👄👁

[@samschrager8038]

Same lmao

[@yaysub3294]

clark stayecy

[@amysifuentes55]

I wouldn’t be able to sleep bc I CANT

[@lovelyyluciddreams4352]

Me watching this knowing I get about 1-3 hours of sleep each night and have horrible insomnia: 👁👄👁 🤷🏻‍♀️guess I’ll die

[@jfresh2054]

Same

[@kyojurorengoku1042]

Me who is watching after being up for 53 hours

[@kalpanab8234]

How could you offer your body like that for electrical pulses?

[@crystalko4012]

I said yes immediately to every question lol cuz I happens to Mr everyday, falling asleep at random places easilu

[@randomgblsfs2190]

Sleep deprived...lol

[@PrettyGirlRock1115]

When she was talking about how it could be a car you didn't notice I started laughing and just said to myself I want to die smiling... I didn't sleep yet and it's 7am

[@santos688]

I thought that was ali a

[@jamestropicals8262]

I get like 9 hours of sleep

[@av3r3st24]

nope.

[@r.i.p.4485]

I fell asleep mid way through the zzzzzzzzz

[@franck10able]

Second

[@eloisethorne6472]

who else clicked like after they saw the baby?

[@suckmydingledong]

in so gucking drired

[@toastedtoast7304]

FIRST LOL XDDD

[@red81511]

Night time disease ?

[@tomjary9284]

Some people are playing with my head or I'm playing with some peoples head that's a mystery for another What if 😂😂. 😈😇

[@linus855]

if you’re watching this at 3am, yes...

[@sexcdoll]

i slept all day yesterday i’m surprised i’m even up 😭i could eat my favorite food and go to sleep immediately even play my favorite game or try to workout it’s like my body only wants to sleep i could get 12 hours of sleep and still need more