Home | Community | Message Board

Sporeworks
This site includes paid links. Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Shroomery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Kraken Kratom Shop: Kratom Capsules for Sale

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | Next >  [ show all ]
OfflineCoaster
Baʿal
Male User Gallery


Registered: 05/22/06
Posts: 33,501
Loc: Deep in the Valley
Last seen: 12 years, 3 months
11,700 consecutive sleepless nights
    #7781705 - 12/20/07 01:28 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

You’d think going without sleep for that long may have its drawbacks, but not for the man in central Quang Nam province who has never been ill after decades of insomnia.

His inability to sleep has not only made him famous, but also represents a “miraculous” phenomenon worthy of scientific study.

Sixty-four-year-old Thai Ngoc, known as Hai Ngoc, said he could not sleep at night after getting a fever in 1973, and has counted infinite numbers of sheep during more than 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights.

“I don’t know whether the insomnia has impacted my health or not. But I’m still healthy and can farm normally like others,” Ngoc said.

Proving his health, the elderly resident of Que Trung commune, Que Son district said he can carry two 50kg bags of fertilizer down 4km of road to return home every day.

His wife said, “My husband used to sleep well, but these days, even liquor cannot put him down.”

She said when Ngoc went to Da Nang for a medical examination, doctors gave him a clean bill of health, except a minor decline in liver function.

Ngoc currently lives on his 5ha farm at the foot of a mountain busy with farming and taking care of pigs and chickens all day. His six children live at their house in Que Trung.

“I have tried sleeping pills and Vietnamese traditional medicine but nothing helps, even to sleep for a few minutes,” he said.

Creature of the night

Ngoc often does extra farm work or guards his farm at night to prevent theft, saying he used three months of sleepless nights to dig two large ponds to raise fish.

Neighbor Vu said Ngoc volunteered to help beat a drum during the night and guard the house for the relatives of the dead during funeral ceremonies so that they could take a nap.

Vu also said when the commune was planting sugar cane, several people also asked Ngoc to awaken them at midnight to go to work, since he was up anyway.

On Ngoc’s prolonged insomnia, Phan Ngoc Ha, director of the Hoa Khanh Mental Hospital in Danang said sleep disorders often cause anorexia, lethargy, and irritability.

But, in special cases, some people can handle it and still live and work normally, although this was a very small ratio among insomniacs, Ha added.
http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=12673

dam u could get so much accomplished without sleep
that fool is truely superior
i wonder how his fevor affected him
they really need 2 study more of this man


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineKonyap


Registered: 06/30/07
Posts: 33,945
Loc: Planet Piss
Last seen: 4 years, 2 months
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Coaster]
    #7781743 - 12/20/07 01:39 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

fuck that shit if i didnt have dreams id turn into a acid/shroom head

love my sober trips


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineCoaster
Baʿal
Male User Gallery


Registered: 05/22/06
Posts: 33,501
Loc: Deep in the Valley
Last seen: 12 years, 3 months
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Konyap]
    #7781753 - 12/20/07 01:43 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

and wuts wrong with turning into that
id rather do acid everynight and stay awake then sleep


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleRobo
R Series 66Y
Registered: 05/08/07
Posts: 14,861
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Konyap]
    #7781754 - 12/20/07 01:43 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

That's insane I can't even stand up straight after one night of no sleep, let alone 11,700 nights


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offline2859558484
Growery is Better
 User Gallery


Registered: 01/10/06
Posts: 8,752
Last seen: 3 years, 4 months
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Robo]
    #7781763 - 12/20/07 01:46 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

damn that dudes got some good shard.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineCoaster
Baʿal
Male User Gallery


Registered: 05/22/06
Posts: 33,501
Loc: Deep in the Valley
Last seen: 12 years, 3 months
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Robo]
    #7781764 - 12/20/07 01:47 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

ya man it is truely insane
that fool if he worked here
would b sooo rich
cuz u could like work the stock market in the daytime
and then be a dj at night
hahahahah he could make double incomes
thats fuckin sick man think of the possibilities
or he could be going 2 colllege and work fulltime
tite shit


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleAtheist
Stranger
Male User Gallery


Registered: 01/24/06
Posts: 13,705
Loc: USA
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Coaster]
    #7781768 - 12/20/07 01:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Ngoc

i dont believe that shit until a scientist is there making sure he is not sleeping

sounds fake and impossible


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleRobo
R Series 66Y
Registered: 05/08/07
Posts: 14,861
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Coaster]
    #7781771 - 12/20/07 01:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

:meff:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblememes
Blessed


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 01/11/05
Posts: 27,785
Loc: In a Tree
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: 2859558484]
    #7781773 - 12/20/07 01:50 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

i take naps every day to hold me over until i can sleep again - this guy is nuts.

i'd know so much if i were him. do you think he is tired, but can't fall asleep? or that he just doesnt get tired?

if it were the latter, then i'd DEFINITELY love to have his condition, but being exhausted and not being able to sleep would blow.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineCoaster
Baʿal
Male User Gallery


Registered: 05/22/06
Posts: 33,501
Loc: Deep in the Valley
Last seen: 12 years, 3 months
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: memes]
    #7781782 - 12/20/07 01:52 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

i dont think he gets tired
i mean he fuckin carrys 100 kilograms 4 kilometers everyday
thats consitent lol


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinewildchild68
lion in a coma
 User Gallery


Registered: 11/19/07
Posts: 5,115
Last seen: 9 years, 8 months
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Coaster]
    #7781835 - 12/20/07 02:15 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Yeah, I don't know if I buy it either. From what I've heard, after an extended period of time without sleep your body will just shut down all together and you'll pass out without much warning.

I mean 33 years? Eh, i'm pretty skeptical.

Some of those asians do love their meff, though.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinefapjack
Title
 User Gallery


Registered: 07/26/07
Posts: 16,574
Loc: Central New Jersey
Last seen: 3 years, 10 months
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: wildchild68]
    #7782139 - 12/20/07 03:51 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I think Quang Nam is a pretty cool guy. Eh stays awake for years and doesn't afraid of anything.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineDrewwyann
Slayer of ticks
Male User Gallery


Registered: 10/30/06
Posts: 4,077
Loc: Atlantis
Last seen: 10 years, 3 months
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: fapjack]
    #7782477 - 12/20/07 05:23 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I dunno you guys. It says here that...

"In April, 2007, however, Ngoc reported that he was beginning to feel grumpy due to the lack of sleep."

:lol: grumpy.

I call bullshit on this though. There is no possible way to go that long without sleep.


--------------------


Anyone need a glass pipe? : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002435158931

Love powerfully :peace::heart::peace:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibletrendalM
J♠
Male User Gallery


Registered: 04/17/01
Posts: 20,815
Loc: Ontario, Canada Flag
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Coaster]
    #7782567 - 12/20/07 05:48 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

There is a drug now that you can take which removes the need for sleep. It's not a stimulant, either, not even like caffeine!


--------------------
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.


Edited by trendal (12/20/07 05:54 PM)


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
OfflineDrewwyann
Slayer of ticks
Male User Gallery


Registered: 10/30/06
Posts: 4,077
Loc: Atlantis
Last seen: 10 years, 3 months
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: trendal]
    #7782571 - 12/20/07 05:49 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

whats it called? I don't believe it.


--------------------


Anyone need a glass pipe? : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002435158931

Love powerfully :peace::heart::peace:


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibletrendalM
J♠
Male User Gallery


Registered: 04/17/01
Posts: 20,815
Loc: Ontario, Canada Flag
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Drewwyann]
    #7782603 - 12/20/07 05:59 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)



--------------------
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Invisiblescout24
Hallelujah!
 User Gallery

Registered: 02/12/07
Posts: 2,769
Loc: Disappear Here
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: Coaster]
    #7782625 - 12/20/07 06:04 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

You will die without sleep. He may be sleep deprived for years, but not sleepless. It's impossible.

Furthermore, there's plenty of evidence that lack of sleep negatively affects one's health.


--------------------
Always
Be
Closing


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleDiploidM
Cuban


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 01/09/03
Posts: 19,274
Loc: Rabbit Hole
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: trendal]
    #7782631 - 12/20/07 06:06 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

There is a drug now that you can take which totally removes the need for sleep.

I read about that. Its effects are temporary and only work on monkeys not humans. It's called CX717.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CX717

This guy sounds like the other popular BS story going around of some monk who hasn't had food or water for several years.

I doubt this guy really stayed awake for years. And his story of visiting his doctor sounds like BS too. A competent doctor would have ordered a sleep study (polysomnography) which involves monitoring a patient's EEG and other parameters while he spends a night in a medical sleep lab. From the story, all the doctor did was a hematology study. By most standards, that's malpractice.


--------------------
Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleSilversoul
Rhizome
Male User Gallery

Registered: 01/01/05
Posts: 23,576
Loc: The Barricades
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: trendal]
    #7782637 - 12/20/07 06:09 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Damn. I gotta get some of that. Sometimes at raves, the only reason I do drugs is to stay up all night.


--------------------


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleDiploidM
Cuban


Folding@home Statistics
Registered: 01/09/03
Posts: 19,274
Loc: Rabbit Hole
Re: 11,700 consecutive sleepless nights [Re: trendal]
    #7782645 - 12/20/07 06:11 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil

Oh wow, there's another one. From the Wiki article, I don't think that one can be used to indefinitely postpone sleep either.


--------------------
Republican Values:

1) You can't get married to your spouse who is the same sex as you.
2) You can't have an abortion no matter how much you don't want a child.
3) You can't have a certain plant in your possession or you'll get locked up with a rapist and a murderer.

4) We need a smaller, less-intrusive government.


Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | Next >  [ show all ]

Kraken Kratom Shop: Kratom Capsules for Sale


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* And I Thought I Have Insomnia gregorio 577 1 02/18/06 01:06 PM
by eligal
* Fuck... I don't feel right
( 1 2 all )
Konnrade 1,748 35 03/30/06 02:37 PM
by 40oz
* Outta tune geetars and sleepless nights... AbstractHarmonix 741 9 01/30/05 09:11 AM
by joecrab
* Discord Movie Night Week #44 SARAtonin 103 0 05/04/21 02:00 PM
by SARAtonin
* Late Night Thread
( 1 2 3 4 ... 9 10 all )
THE KRAT BARON 11,291 197 07/18/05 09:06 AM
by dnL
* Modafinil/Provigil/Modalert. Isn't it fucking Brilliant!
( 1 2 all )
Elmer 5,544 27 03/12/09 08:35 PM
by Elmer
* How many of hours of sleep do you get a night
( 1 2 all )
Noetical 2,846 36 06/28/05 09:20 PM
by Skunk420
* Advice Needed. Animal Abuse. Deranged Friend? Sleepless...
( 1 2 all )
absolute zero 5,314 29 07/06/06 10:28 AM
by absolute zero

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: Entire Staff
3,770 topic views. 3 members, 52 guests and 63 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.029 seconds spending 0.006 seconds on 14 queries.