Peter Tripp was a radio DJ from the mid 1950s. In 1959 he took part in a 201-hour experiment of sleep deprivation. For much of the wakeathon, he sat in a glass booth in Times Square. After a few days he began to hallucinate, and for the last 66 hours the observing scientists and doctors gave him drugs to help him stay awake. This is his the first part of his story... � ���������������������� � ���������������������� � Watch the video and answer the TRUE/FALSE questions. � 1. Peter Tripp had decided to raise money to give to the radio. TF2. People thought he could only stay awake for two or three days. TF 3. Dr Louis Jolly West tried to convince Tripp's employers to give up ��� the experiment. TF4. Dr Jolly West knew well what the effects of sleep deprivations were. TF 5. Scientits in the late 50s wanted to try new experiments on sleep deprivation. TF�6. Tripp was absolutely determined to go ahead with the experiment. TF7. Dr West accepted to be a consultant because he didn't want to waste the money ��� involved. TF8. When Tripp started the experiment he decided to work 4 hours a day. TF9. The consultants had to make sure Mr Tripp was always awake.TF10. After three days Mr Tripp cheated successfully. TF11. After the third day he became very aggressive. TF12. When his body temperature lowered he became lethargic.TF 13. He had a hallucination and run away into the street. TF15. The doctors found out that the hallucinations corresponded to the dream ����� phase of sleep. TF �Unfortunately the second part of the story has been removed from YouTube.This is how the story ended: The first major change to Tripp was after three days or so. He started to show signs of mild psychosis, he would get irritable with everyone, he was so rude to his barber (who had been his barber for more than twenty years) that he went away crying and never cut his hair again. The second major change was his body temperature dropped. And it continued to drop throughout the whole course of the experiment, as time went on he would ask for more and more layers of clothes, until he looked like an Eskimo compared to everyone else around just wearing T-shirts. The lower it went, the crazier he became. Then, after about the fourth day he began to hallucinate. He saw cobwebs on his shoes. He saw mice and kittens that weren't there. He rummaged through drawers looking for money that never existed. He thought a technician had come to bury him. He was truly trippin' (probably where the term comes from )The scientists were puzzled by the hallucinations, as this sort of thing had not been recorded back then, but then they made a surprising finding. They discovered that when he was going through particularly bad periods of hallucinations, although being awake, the hallucinations were shadowing the 90 minute REM cycle of dream sleep. It was as if he was having dreams, even though he was awake. Strangely though, whenever Tripp had to go on air to do his show the hallucinations would completely disappear, and listeners to the show said they couldn't really hear any difference.By the last day he was completely out of it. He thought although everyone thought he was Peter Tripp, he wasn't, he was actually an impostor pretending to be Peter Tripp. He didn't recognise his wife, and the hallucinations were getting worse. Finally, on the last day after 200 hours his brain waves were monitored, and the doctors found that although he was awake, his brain waves were fully that of a person asleep. This was despite him being fully awake, and him knowing that he was awake. TheEEG showed he was fully asleep, yet he was walking around functionally with his eyes open and talking to people, After this he went to bed and slept for 24 hours. He claimed after this that he felt fine and there were no long term effects, but his wife didn't think so, and they divorced a while later. He also lost his job, and his friends said he was never the same again.So the moral of this story is; get sleep, and plenty of it! It's obviously very important for keeping people sane, for whatever reason. �
