> Kenneth Boyd wrote:
[CLIP--we've seen the initial flame before]
[This is for the nonidentified XYZ..Anti_PR_Representative [sic]]
> > Not that we're ever going to verify this:
> >
> > Let's see you be awake for 72 hours continuously, without
> > any chemical boosting [caffiene, tea, coffee, diet pills,
> > antihistamines, Dayquil as stimulants. Ban hallucinogens, they
> > get in dreaming automatically [sic]. I also disallow the
> > depressants, such as sleeping pills.]
> >
> > Note that I mean *continuously*. Dozing off for 10 seconds
> > disqualifies the contestant.
> >
> > If you actually can *do* this: you have just proven you are at
> > risk for a major mental illness! If you can actually do any
> > creativity at all after hour #30, you're doing better than anyone
> > I've ever met in person, including myself.
> >
> > If you fail: I rest my case. Your body demanded dreaming so
> > severely it bashed you into taking it.
>
> I don't know if I could make it 72 hours without a doze, but after
> working third shift for years, then taking a year off for grad,
> school, then coming back to third shift.... I can recall having
> played the guitar (and improvised, implying creativity) after being
> up for a good thirty hours. Although, that's a different level of
> creativity than, say, being required to write a math proof.
>
> - JPSchneider
> - jschneid@hanoverdirect.com
Different *mode*, not different *level*. I'm an artist on the job, not a
scientist.
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