Maxed out: How long can you go without sleep? - health - 23 April 2010 - New Scientist

Maxed out: How long can you go without sleep? - health - 23 April 2010 - New Scientist: "On 28 December 1963, Randy Gardner, a 17-year-old schoolboy in San Diego, California, got up at 6 am feeling wide awake and raring to go. He didn't go back to sleep again until the morning of 8 January 1964. That's 11 days without sleep."