Click to play videoNew Delhi: By staying awake for roughly 11 days, a man from a small English town, Penzance, has entered the record books.
Forty-two-year-old horticulturalist, Tony Wright, kept awake for 264 hours and created a new record. Wright attributed his success to a raw food diet.
Having done research on sleep patterns for more than 15 years, he claims each side of the brain needs a different amount of sleep.
He says that with appropriate preparation, it is possible to stay awake and remain functional for long periods.
While it may seem counterintuitive or irrational, going without sleep to access more refined and functional consciousness states has been part of the mystic tradition for millennia. Tony is hoping that the record attempt will shed light on this and other enigmas of the human mind.
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