We see our hero do a 36 hour chase / escape and not plough into a tree the moment they get behind the wheel. Yet in movies, we see our lawyer pull an "all-two-nighter" and be just as plucky as before, but with a cup of coffee in hand. In action movies, people often dont sleep for days because theyre too busy, and somehow, they still function at a high level. During long missions with minimal sleep, they might even be issued dextroamphetamine to keep them "running". Marines and spec ops do training on it so they can recognize the symptoms and adapt their strategy accordingly. 48 hours of sleep deprivation followed by and adrenaline rush can easily result in loss of consciousness when the adrenaline wears off.Ĭontrary to popular belief, sleep deprivation can't be trained, there's no way to build a tolerance for it. People get extremely clumsy and exerting large amounts of force also becomes problematic unless fueled by adrenaline. After 48 hours without sleep, lack of fine motor skills starts kicking in. After 24 hours of no sleep, most people start losing the ability to focus, putting their thoughts into sentences that make sense, some even start slurring their speech. We routinely see characters be awake 24-48 hours and sometimes we get a shot of them holding a cup of coffee, maybe their hair is a bit off but otherwise, they're able to function perfectly. But what we rarely see is how devastating lack of sleep can be on the human body, especially in stressful environments. People talk about how unrealistic it is that protagonists walk off major injuries like being knocked out, getting shot, stabbed etc.
This has always been something that bugs me.
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