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#1: Sleep Deprivation Experiment - 28/10/2013:08:00AM-29/10/2013:02:00PM

Theory: Hallucinations caused by sleep deprivation will only occur past 24 hours of non-sleep, but generally at less than 48 hours.

Starting hour: 08:00 AM on 28/10/2013

Ending hour: 02:00 PM on 29/10/2013

Experiment: Testing subject will go for a target of 30 hours without sleep. At every hour past 12 hours, a comment will be made to ensure that the subject did not fall asleep, and to report on the experience noted at the time in question.

Variables:

Sugar - from food

Microsleep - ~30s to a minute of sleep, involuntary

Melatonin levels - research shows that 2 hours of exposure to a computer/tablet screen before sleep reduces melatonin levels by 22% (melatonin is a hormone in the body that regulates sleep and circadian rhythms with regards to sleep [the ‘internal clock]). Minimum 2 hours of exposure to screen will be used, with no maximum.

Further experiments will isolate other variables for more accurate testing; however, this first test will determine the general time scale on which we are looking at for hallucinations to occur under normal conditions.

12 hour mark: Complete

Comment: A usual day’s time is ending now, it’s 08:11 PM. The work begins now. Not many effects of deprivation are being felt, as not much time has passed.