In 1959, Peter Tripp, a disc jockey, decided to go without sleep for 200 hours so that he could raise money for the March Of Dimes. After he spent about five days going without sleep, he began to have hallucinations. Several of the hallucinations that he had was that he believed that a tweed suit someone was wearing was made of worms, and that a drawer nearby had flames coming out of it. He did manage to get through his broadcast during the day,