A movie exists now that is literally just called Rapid Eye Movement...

Some asshole forces another asshole to stay awake longer than he should ever have to?

Subtle..

Rapid Eye Movement is the state you hit when you sleep- REM Sleep, its vital for humans to have otherwise we freak out and maybe die, the brain is not designed to run 24/7.. Imagine using roads across a whole country and then never maintaining them, thats What lack of REM sleep'l do to ya.

There was even a star trek next generation episode about this where the crew is through some alien force not able to hit REM sleep and if I recall it right D'anna troi is all fucked up by it and loses her empathic powers until they are free of the alien influence at which points she's like "Oh they just wanted to communicate"

Just wanted to communicate.. By removing REM sleep... This is how the REM cloning system works. It replaces your sleep or REM time with being made aware again just in a new body your mind has been transferred into just like Avatar.

Imagine never being able to sleep.

Imagine going to sleep and then feeling as though you are awake again.

Would grate on your mind after a time, don't ya think?

I made a video that shows this from the frist episode of the new Battlestar Galactica series, the first ep was called 33... And its about how the cylons (Who use Clones) are keeping all the humans theyre hunting perpetually awake by attacking them ever 33 minutes.

The masons love the number 33, and if i was a betting man, i'd say it probably takes the brain around 30ish minutes to hit rem sleep.

Just cuz.

The Dtube link probably wont work, hasn't loaded any for me in ages, its so slooooooooooooooooow. which is a shame.