Talk:The Russian Sleep Experiment/@comment-35457723-20190206205143/@comment-39635228-20190607013200

Randy Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 25 minutes, and he's still alive and well. What makes you think the human body can't function after 5 days without sleep? By the eleventh day, while he did have some pretty bad symptoms of sleep deprivation, he was definitely "somewhat functional."