![]() ![]() GARDNER: I noticed that in the morning I was really nauseous, and that's when I stumbled on eating citrus for some reason. He stayed away from beds and tried to stand as much as he could. GARDNER: If you're on your own, you're going to succumb. And asked them to stay awake on rotations around the clock to help him stay awake. GARDNER: Bruce McAllister, and Joe Marciano. The idea he came up with? Going without sleep for 264 hours, exactly 11 days - long enough to break a world record. ![]() VEDANTAM: If he wanted to win the science fair here, he'd have to pull out all the stops. When we came to this town, San Diego, I thought, boy, this is a big city. GARDNER: I was a kind of a science nerd when I was young. VEDANTAM: In every town he lived in, Randy entered the science fair. RANDY GARDNER: I'm the oldest of four siblings in a military family. It was the last in a long line of childhood moves. SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Our story begins in 1963, when Randy Gardner moved to San Diego. ![]() And because of that, scientists were able to learn something about the price we pay when we don't get enough rest. Decades ago, a teenage boy named Randy Gardner stopped sleeping for 11 nights. And this next story is about something we think about a lot at MORNING EDITION. ![]()
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