Making it through 8 days without sleep sounds impossible. On the very first 24 hours of your sleepless day, you’re more emotional, hearing is impaired and you find it extremely challenging to focus. After 36 hours, your physical health starts to be adversely affected such as high blood pressure and heart diseases. 48 hours past and you have micro sleeps and disorientation. And 72 sleepless hours leads to hallucinations and major cognitive deficits.
Why? A lot of energy is spent during the day and your body requires some amount of “rest” or sleep to refill energy. So if you don’t refill after you have spent energy then your body becomes weak and thus starts malfunctioning. This sometimes leads to death if the body cells are not able to feed themselves and has no energy left. So it turns out that theres only one way to make it through fit as a fiddle without sleeping for 8 days. And that is…
Sleep during night time. Always get enough sleep.