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What Not Sleeping For A Week Does To Your Brain And Body

''We know that sleep deprivation isn’t good for our health. But taken to the extreme, sleep deprivation completely erodes the mind and body, and could eventually lead to death. For this reason, it’s been used as a form of torture.

The Senate Committee’s 2014 report on the CIA’s use of torture revealed that sleep deprivation was used as an “enhanced interrogation technique” in the post-9/11 Bush era. Recent research has shown that you’re more likely to make a false confession if you’re sleep-deprived.

Detainees mentioned in the Senate report were subjected to up to 180 hours — that’s a full seven and a half days — of sleep deprivation, usually standing or in stress positions, or those that cause physical tension. Even when some of the detainees experienced disturbing hallucinations, they continued to be subjected to prolonged sleep deprivation...''

by Carolyn Gregoire