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Likely a decent number. Sometimes it's just the hours at one. A job I worked once had us doing 14 hour minimums with a rolling start (Monday start at 7am, by Fr
by petee 5y ago
Likely a decent number. Sometimes it's just the hours at one. A job I worked once had us doing 14 hour minimums with a rolling start (Monday start at 7am, by Friday start at 3pm), until two of the guys fell asleep on the ride home within one week, one barely surviving hitting a parked garbage truck, and the other ran a red light and flipped some guys minivan.
After that we were working 12 hour days instead, in part due to workers saying enoughs enough
Sleep in the film industry is a big issue; years ago Heskel Wexler made a great documentary about it after his camera assistant died driving home, it's called "Who Needs Sleep"
- sethammons 5y agothe film industry, sleep, and driving one sparked a memory. i took a film production elective while completing my undergrad. The class left and I stayed behind to finish up. A while later, they walked back in. Confused, I wondered if they all forgot something. Nope. Turned out it was the next class session! I hadn't moved in nearly 24 hours, and was awake at this point for at least 40 hours. I then had over an hour drive home up a curvy mountain road (at night) with thousand foot cliffs. I actually full on hallucinated. 1/3: A giant SUV (20' tall) was reversing onto the highway. I slammed on the breaks only to realize it wasn't there. 2/3: A bit later, a hundred foot tall heavy woman in a moo moo standing akimbo over the road. I recall telling myself to not look up as I passed underneath. 3/3: someone reversing their boat and trailer onto the road, but the boat was 20' tall (my mind had _something_ going on with giants I guess). By that point, I just drove through the illusion, and, after, realized just how scary that was. Finally got home, and I recall aiming for my pillow and being asleep before hitting the mattress.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoYou were lucky. You could easily have killed somebody on the way and ended up in prison.
- sethammons 5y agoOh absolutely. It was not a good idea.
- exhilaration 5y agoAt least in the U.S. vehicular homicide (that doesn't involve drugs or alcohol) is usually no more than a ticket. Maybe they'll suspend your license for a couple of months. Prison? Pretty much never.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoDon’t publish this too much...
- stordoff 5y agoI've never realised that hallucinations could occur so early, comparatively speaking, into sleep deprivation. I been awake for far longer on a few occasions (longest was a little over 110 hours), and only experienced minor visual effects (trails behind moving objects). I wonder to what degree it differs between people. Mentally though, I was a bit of a mess. I was more or less whilst I was focusing on the thing I was working on, but as soon as I stopped, everything just felt muddy and unclear. I wasn't even sure I was going to find my way to a building I'd walked to multiple times a week for the last three years.