Monday, 22 April 2013

Sleep Deprivation and Hallucination Research




I wanted to properly research the the effects of hallucinations through sleep deprivation, and whether or not there were other people who had experienced hallucinations spiders or insects crawling on them so that I could make sure that there was enough evidence of this to base  my concept on.



I found this video of a woman on the news who was caught hallucinating that spiders were crawling over her body.

WHY DO WE HALLUCINATE ON LACK OF SLEEP


                                                                                

This video about Peter Tripp's experience tells us why people hallucinate when they haven't slept for a long period of time. The psychologists that were monitoring Tripp found that his brain was mimicking REM sleep (which is when we dream) even though he was awake. Therefore he was, in effect, dreaming while awake. 

This research has given me enough to start to build a character around the condition.



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