Tony Wright (sleep deprivation)
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Tony Wright is an author and consciousness researcher from Penzance, Cornwall, England. He claims to hold the world record for sleep deprivation.[1]
Wright claimed the world sleep deprivation record in May 2007 with 266 continuous hours of sleeplessness. He based his record-breaking attempt on the belief that Randy Gardner was officially recognized by the Guinness World Records as holding the deprivation record of 264 hours.[2] However, the Guinness record was actually for 11½ days, or 276 hours, and was set by Toimi Silvo in Hamina, Finland, from February 5–15, 1964, and Wright did not in fact break the Guinness record.[2] However, Wright's friend Graham Gynn asserts that the Gardner record was the accepted record in the sleep research community.[2] Regardless, Wright's record claim was not credited by the Guinness Book of Records, since after 1990 it no longer accepted records related to sleep deprivation due to the health risks.[2][3]