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- clickwir, on 10/25/2007, -1/+30He had a fever... and the only perscription is more cowbell.
- ThePhilomath, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I would say that the man unquestionably has some form of brain damage. Most likely his reticular formation, the area that controls arousal in animals, in the brainstem has been damaged. Still, it would be pretty interesting to get him in a lab and do some studies on him.
As for him having a clean bill of health, that just isn't true. Healthy people sleep. I'd put my money on the fever causing damage in parts of the brainstem. If so he's lucky, and easily could have died if the damage was in the medulla that controls your heart and breathing. - CrymeLord, on 10/25/2007, -2/+16Why are people so quick to label something is fake when all they have is a single article to go on? I didn't realize there were so many sleep experts on digg. Bottom line. Weird ***** happens, and even though we have volume after volume of information on the human body, we still have an infintile understanding of it. Challenging the authenticity of the site based on nothing but it's origin is short-sighted.
Why not just say. "Interesting article. I hope some other source investigates so we get some more information."? People find this weird pleasure in putting down things. I've never understood it. - jhub908, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I wish I could do that, sleeping takes way too much time. I could do so much cool stuff if I had that much free time. Sleeping is fun and all but i'd rather have 24 hours a day instead of 18-16
- boxcan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Dude's a zombie!
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7So because it's a vietnamese news site it's not credible?
Unlike all those fantastic American news outlets... - Apreche, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10No digg. sounds like a lie to me. More evidence first.
- cielerella, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I don't believe it.
From everything I've ever heard on the subject, a person would die from lack of sleep.
There's no concrete evidence to back up this story in the report. - kinapuffen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4First this can't be true for obvious reasons, if he lied or if it's just the media that screwed it up doesn't matter. Why are you talking ***** about Vietnam in general?
Second. Why shouldn't he be able to carry 220lbs/100kg? I saw old men in China carry food and soft drinks up mountains (yes it was crazy) to sell to tourists. These "bags" weighted 60kg+ and I'm talking a mountain. They did this the whole day to earn money, you should have seen these guys calfs. - qishi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Right. Probably a translation error. I think 'slept' is Vietnamese for 'bathed.'
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Once I met a girl who told me that she slept only a tiny bit at night, and her little brother never slept. He just rested in bed with his eyes closed at night.
I thought it was some sort of weird genetic thing. Never had a chance to verify any of it of course. But she seemed a fairly normal and honest type, and had nothing to gain by telling me any of it.
It's very weird (non-normal at least, and maybe non-real!) to see this
in humans, but there are other animals (e.g., sharks, I think) that never
sleep. - mtdna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4No way. The article says he doesn't sleep - it also says he's 64 years old and "can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day". Ummm - two 50kg bags = 2 * 50kg * 2.2kg/lb = 220 pounds.
- dyslexicsUNTIED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you people are all so closed minded. have you never heard of insomnia? and i dont mean when you have to go take a test or something the next day and you are worried, it is a legitimate condition in humans. i have seen many stories and tv programs about it and the people do not sleep, at all. they do sit and rest their mind and body, almost in a state of meditation but do not ever actually fall asleep; they are completely awake and aware of everything. obviously your body can never go without some type of rest, but that does not mean you need to sleep. there are odd things that happen in people and odd conditions that can be caused by many different circumstances. i completely believe this story and cannot believe how some of you on here just say no, thats immpossible. hey, maybe you cant do it or have never seen it but does that make it impossible? if i go with some of the reasoning you people give, then i can definitively say that God does not exist, there is no way. how would some of you feel about that? im just trying to make a point here, you really need to think about what you are going to say and what conclusions you come to before you make them final.
- middy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Just because YOU can't carry 220 lbs. 4 km doesn't mean that HE can't. My mother hauls around 100 lb. bags of fertilizer like that she's 63.
- cblalock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i'd be an ornery sumbitch if i didn't sleep for 33 years. i get woken up an hour early and i'm a beast.
- crpietschmann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Never sleeping would probably be a bit much. It's be cool if I could handle only sleeping about 3 hours a day. That would leave 21 hours a day to do stuff.
- senfo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That's interesting, but it sucks for him. Not that I don't look forward to the day, but I love sleeping, even if it's just to take a break.
Somebody once asked me, "Do you sleep because your body is tired or because your mind is tired?" It got me wondering and I've never been able to come up with an answer. But I think this person might give doctors the chance to answer that question and many other unanswered questions regarding sleep. - thenativeraver, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8If the guy was SO famous you would think that a credible site would cover it, I couldn't find any other credible sources blogs and a tabloid that's it.
This is *****.
+Inaccurate - XServe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2that's a real machinist
- roastedbagel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3exactly as cielerella stated, its physically impossible. The brain needs sleep for certain reasons, otherwise he'd go into some sort of shock/sleep deprivation induced coma....or something like that
- theinfamousj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The LJ community "Scientists" have gotten their paws on this article and have been discussing it, too. http://community.livejournal.com/_scientists_/709812.html
- trnelson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol mond, that guy could farm up a storm!
- HugoMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seems to be possible that you can live at least 9 monthes with total insomnia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia, with detah caused by independant illness
i am not convinced you cannot have a mutation/ a disease that would enable a few humans on earth to live without sleep. - TheWolfen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm certainly not close-minded, but I call ***** here, as well. The only "evidence" presented is the man's word, and given that it contradicts every study of the human brain ever made (with regard to sleep), I don't see how it could possibly be true. He'd have gone insane, then died, many years ago. He just cat-naps or something but thought he'd get some attention by making a ridiculous claim.
Stories like this don't belong on Digg. This is not a tabloid site (at least in theory). - richmastaplus, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1somebody teach this dude to code
- 1337geek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1impossible, he would be a vegie.
- evil-doer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i call ***** too. and from the picture, theres no way that old man could carry 220 pounds 4km. by the look of him he would have trouble walking 4km carrying a basket of eggs.
btw, for reference i found a picture of someone carrying exactly 220 pounds. this is at a strongman event, where they carry this weight 100-200 feet. the man in this picture is 275 pounds.
http://www.ontariostrongman.ca/competitions/2003/Beaverton/images/P-FW1.jpg
now tell me a skinny little 65 year old asian man can carry that much weight 6km. ya. right. - dendrimer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe he's just sleep walking and hasn't woken up in 33 yrs. Or, as boxcan says, dude is probably a zombie.
- settsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2
science = god.
if science can't prove it, it's impossible. - Crossmenjeff, on 01/01/2009, -0/+1the website sounds an awful lot like the onion
- cyberbeing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm, maybe this is some weird side effect from the nerve agents the US used in the Vietnam War. His fever was in the right time period so it makes me wonder. Not that I have ever heard of nerve agents causing such a thing. ThePhilomath- mentioned something about brain damage probably being the cause of something like this so who knows....
- au071, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I remember there is an x-files episode for someone like this....
- aurifex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Very, very low probability that this is true. The Nazis did studies on weird stuff like this. They found that humans die after 10 days without sleep. The need for sleep is hardwired into out physiology. Having a fever isn't going to turn that off.
Not true. In the 1960's, a radio DJ stayed awake as part of a fund raiser for 11 days straight, with no stimulants. He didn't die, and in fact, only slept for 10 hours when he finally did fall asleep, and suffered minor depression for 3 months. After that he lived visibly healthy for the rest of his life. - Scynet, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You people need to stop saying it's impossible because normal people die without sleep. WELL NO *****, BUT HE'S OBVIOUSLY NOT NORMAL!
We sleep so our brain can "recharge". What makes you think that a brain can't do it while you're awake? I think the lot of you are just jealous... - samssf, on 01/01/2009, -0/+1Right, and polyphasic sleep is a load of BS also. I don't care what Steve Pavlina says.... there's plenty of people who write about astral projection, and weight loss through meditation, etc etc... but none of it can ever be verified.
- mathie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I also doubt its validity. As any news from anywhere in this world, you shouldn't believe everything you hear until there is a scientific explanation for them. But you shouldn't put stereotype on the source. I'm a Vietnamese and there are tabloids like National Enquirer in Vietnam like anywhere else too.
- tidejwe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This article is inaccurate. It is not possible to even go a month with "NO SLEEP". I have done massive research on sleep deprivation. Insomniacs actually have "Micro-sleep" sessions. Anyway, do some research. . . it's not possible to have "NO SLEEP" that long. They've done tests.
- TomJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have a solution! Besides, it is arguably less violent than riddleboxs sleeper hold.
Just translate and force him to read the comments posted on Digg regarding this article. He'll be out in no time . . . - entheos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In the book by Dale Carnegie "How to Stop Worrying & Start Living", he talked about a man who suffered a head injury during the war and lost the ability to sleep. This man lived a full life (can't remember exactly how long) and said he would lie down and rest with his eyes closed from time to time, but never sleep. I think the point of the story is that while you may need rest, you shouldn't worry about no sleep. Sleep is a good and usually easy way, but if you miss one or a few thousand nights worth, it will not kill you (right away).
And if I didn't have to sleep, I think I spend it on something other than digging ponds or ditches. - rmdl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm surprised as to how much people aren't informed about sleep, hahaha.
It's the equivalent of a story saying, "This man hasn't eaten in 20 years and has had no additional nutritional substances (ex: IV) put into his body."
It just can't happen. Sleep, like eating, is detrimental to a functioning body. Anyone who has taken basic biology (well, cellular biology) can attest to this. You don't need to be a master of anything to use common sense and applying it to basic biological functions. - jeolmeun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Never sleeping would probably be a bit much. It's be cool if I could handle only sleeping about 3 hours a day. That would leave 21 hours a day to do stuff."
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
"This means you’re only sleeping 2-3 hours per day. I’d previously heard of polyphasic sleep, but until now I hadn’t come across practical schedules that people seem to be reporting interesting results with." - hakz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"He had a fever... and the only perscription is more cowbell."
LOL I remember that. - dragulaaeop, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Guess he's running on linux then eh?
- Darkshine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A lot of people on Digg seem to be closeminded. I mean, what if it is real? We could really learn a lot here. But I guess we'll always have those people who don't believe till they see.
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1People who are very good at meditation can get by on very little sleep, but lack of sleep for most of us quickly leads to hallucination and eventually death.
- pjh3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I want to know just how messed up his memory must be.
- JustinPM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'd cite the fact that of not showing up after 1 year without sleep. It wouldn't start being recorded at 33 years. He would have been a medical superstar ages ago. The fact that he doesn't show up elsewhere calls me to question it.
- Falcorian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sites Dugg... And everything I've ever heard is against this...
+Inaccurate. - skell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is quite possible. I hear Chuck Norris never sleeps either...
- techvivek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I dont believe this
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