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If you thought the DaVinci Sleep Schedule was intense, check out what this Hollywood celebrity photographer is doing: Tyler Shields says that last month he completed 40 days straight without sleep. This story may belong in the nearby Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Odditorium, but if true, experts think it's a very dangerous endeavor. Shields, however, found it "an interesting way to create different brain waves and see things differently," he told KTLA. "As the years have gone on and I have to do more work and I have to do more things it's just become less and less need for sleep."