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This is a serious question, so answer truthfully.

What's the longest time you've ever gone without sleep?

once, i went 3 days when i had college finals

Where is the poll?

Where is the poll?

Right there.

Going on 20 years now.

Less than 24 hours. My parents require it. :headbang:

Going on 20 years now.
Wasn't there an X-Files episode about that?

Going on 20 years now.

Continous strech Keruvalia, naps and sleeping at all break the strech, starting all over.

Okay. So do you mean NO sleep? I find it hard to believe that YOU a healthy person could do that.

I love sleep, never go more than 15 to 20 hours without it and if i have trouble sleeping i consult with my old friend Jack

Okay. So do you mean NO sleep? I find it hard to believe that YOU a healthy person could do that.


Lol, well, it isn't as hard as some may think.
It's been said, I find eating at regular, close together, intervals helps. And as someone else said, if you try to stay awake, you go right to sleep.

I love sleep, never go more than 15 to 20 hours without it and if i have trouble sleeping i consult with my old friend Jack
daniels? *captain obvious award*

Wasn't there an X-Files episode about that?
Top episode, think they were soldiers who were given some drug to keep them awake and they went crazy.

Along with Keruvalia, I'll say 4 years even though I voted. I don't tey to keep record. It's no any thing incredible for me. :mad:

daniels? *captain obvious award*
Actually, for some odd reason that wasn't obvious to me.
I was more thinking "off" for some reason or other.

:D

2 Days... was during the holidays and I was so stressed out, that I just played Counter-Strike for 2 days straight in the cybercafe.

Rm15 for 10 hours. = USD 3.87 for 10 hours. Or 39 cents per hour! :D

Pretty much after that, I had to call my brother to drive me home, and I fell very ill after that. Plus my eyes were fuzzy for a month.

I think I've gone 24-36 hours, if I remember correctly... :hmm:

Actually, for some odd reason that wasn't obvious to me.
I was more thinking "off" for some reason or other.

:D

heh, your mind's in the gutter, mine's in the bar (that's the place you go before you crash in the gutter :D )

Over 36 hours when I went on a college trip to Mallorca. We had to get up really early in the morning to catch the plane, so me and my friend didn't bother going to sleep, we just stayed up and played PlanetSide.

Probably a little over 48 hours. No particular reason, I just felt like doing it during the holidays one year.

I have not been to sleep for 36 hours but I have gone with only 2 hours sleep 4 days

I think the longest I have ever stayed up with no sleep at all was 3 days.

I have also had some insane times where I would sleep for about 2 hours and then get up, maybe take a 30 min nap, stay up all night and then just a few hours the next day. Like right before my wedding or getting ready for shows.

My record is 78 hours.

Originally posted by Alenaland
getting ready for shows.

shows?

shows?

Jewelry shows.

I just looked in the mirror. I am so sleep-deprived I look like a coke addict. :mad:

I was up for 2 nights in a row (somewhere around 55 hours) last summer... since then i've pulled countless all-nighters for essays/exams and the like. The hardest part it seems is staying up for that first 24 hours, then after that adrenaline keeps you moving.

I've found the key for me is to either be doing something I really enjoy or to be under such a tight deadline my brain won't shut off.

I could never stay up to study for exams because it wasn't something I enjoyed and I would rather sleep and wing it, than stay up to study and then be too tired to think.

I think 36 or so.... absolute max. is 48

Only times I did stay up was to party all night. Can't stay awake and drunk for long periods of time

I should note that its currently 3:45 AM where I live, so even when I do sleep, I dont exactly have healthy sleeping patterns.

But this is to be expected of a university student... no?

very true sleep patterns for us post-sec students is somewhat, shall we say, patternless?

I just looked in the mirror. I am so sleep-deprived I look like a coke addict. :mad:

Heh, join the club. Ahhhh shadow-covering-foundation-stick, what would I ever do without you?

I usually get about 2 hours sleep per day, sometimes a little more if I'm bored and have nothing of interest to do. Then about every two or three weeks I collapse on the weekend and sleep almost the full 48 hours.

My (almost) 144 hour record was from two Christmas' ago - I was working on a Necronomicon as a gift for a friend, and 't involved ever so much copying out of Lovecraftian stories* that I just sort of... forgot. To sleep. For 6 days.

Yeahhh... I was not a happy camper for a few weeks after that, let me tell you. I must have caught every damn cold variant floating around within a ten kilometre radius. Blasted immune system and its reliance on healthy sleeping habits.


*not to mention the staining of the pages with tea and the handcrafting of the cover and the cursing at the damn pages in the middle that got moldy from the blasted tea staining and the abolishment of the tea scent by wafting, and eventually rubbing, incense into the pages

i've only stayed up a weekend, willfully. i assume that sleeping disorders dont count, cause thats kinda.. cheating.

i've only stayed up a weekend, willfully. i assume that sleeping disorders dont count, cause thats kinda.. cheating.

Why is that cheating? If you can't sleep, you can't sleep, whether it is a "disorder", too much caffeine, too busy, or whatever. Just my opinion, of course.

Why is that cheating? If you can't sleep, you can't sleep, whether it is a "disorder", too much caffeine, too busy, or whatever. Just my opinion, of course.

the way i saw it, i didnt have much of a choice but to stay up. thats just me.

well, that and it made the question easier to answer.

A few days I guess.

Actually, for some odd reason that wasn't obvious to me.
I was more thinking "off" for some reason or other.

:DOriginally Posted by Kevady
daniels? *captain obvious award*

Strange that, I immediately thought of the British flag......Union (ahem)

Honestly, it's not something I keep up with anymore. I used to keep a sleep journal while I was under a doctor's supervision for insomnia and, from what I remember, the longest stretch I've gone without sleep was around 70-75 hours.

My sleeping pattern generally has me asleep, deep and dreamless, for four 30 minute intervals at random times in any given 24 hours. Once a month, I will crash into near constant dream sleep for 12-15 hours.

It's not so bad, really. It gives me 22 hours in the day with which to be productive.

Got up really early for no particular reason (say about 3 am) and later that day went over to a friends house to stay over for the night.

Late evening we broke open caffine drinks, multiple 2 litre bottles, watched the Texas Chainsaw Massacre once and Finding Nemo three times along with a variety of programs they show inbetween midnight and 5 am (too late for porn and too early for anything decent).

My friend fell asleep on the sofa. I freaked him out coz when he woke up i was sitting cross-legged on the footstool staring at him with blood-shot eyes (too much TV :D ).

Went home and eventually went to sleep at about 11 pm. 3 am ==> midnight = 21 hours, midnight ==> 11 pm = 23 hours. 21 + 23 = 44 hours.

I frequently pull all nighters....my favourite club is open from 9pm-7am. And then of course, theres the common all-nighter-before-essay-deadline :(

I sat for three and a half days straight playing CS:Source a month ago. That's my record, and I'm still suffering from it...

My mind and body start winding down after being awake 16hours like clock work.
I usually sleep 5 to 7 hours. Longest I've stayed awake is between 36 and 48.

When I came over to HK, I came down with a cold, and for 2 days didn't sleep at all. I just read or NS'ed (I don't think any of my posts were too bizarre back then) all night. So that's probably close to 50 hours w/o sleep.

My most interesting sleepless period was when I went 32 hours witout sleep, when I was in the middle of a forest fire - literally, I was one of the fireworkers helping put through a fire break. The flames got without a few metres of us - we were saved by a helicopter dumping it's monsoon bucket on it (no dead scuba divers inside unfortunately). We didn't really have much to do, mostly walking behind this bloody great 60 tonne bulldozer as it knocked over trees, creating the fire break. We just had to beat out any embers we saw.
What made it worse is that what I had for lunch decided to violently disagree with me, so the entire night I had wicked stomach pains and was desperately trying not to crap myself.
Wasn't a good night.
We'd been at work (I used to work in the forest) since 6am Wednesday (so I'd gotten up at 5am) when at 3pm a call came through about a fire in a nearby forest. So we all headed up that way. Got there at 5pm, got briefed and headed into the thick of it. We were meant to be relieved at 9pm, but the other crew didn't turn up until 8am the following morning. Debrief, shower, breakfast and then everyone decided to head back home. I went with them as that was my only ride. Didn't get back home until 1pm Thursday. Went straight out, slept until 8pm, woke up had some chocolate, went back to sleep until 7am Friday.
What annoyed me the most was finding out later that had we stayed, the Forest company would have put us up in a hotel and kept paying us on standby ($15 p/hr) for the whole time the fire was going. It was finally put out on the Friday, about 30 hours after we'd been relieved (i.e. stopped being paid). The other guys had families they wanted to get back to, but I was still pretty pissed off at them, as I was only working part-time, and that extra $450 would have been lovely (especially as we would've been paid for literally sleeping!).

I found one thing odd when I came here. Back in NZ, I always found it hard to get to sleep early. I would always go to bed around 1 or 2am and wake up at 9am (if allowed). I though coming here, being 5 hours behind, I would start feeling tired around 9pm and wake up fresh at 6am (a good idea I felt). But oddly enough, within a few days of coming here (aside from the cold mentioned above), I was straight back into my normal sleep patterns of not feeling tired until 1am. My bodyclock synchronised itself with local time very quickly. Very odd.

Bit of trivia -
You can go without food longer than you can go without sleep. Studies with rats where they operated on them so they're incapable of sleeping usually has them dropping dead within a few days. The longest anyone's ever gone without sleep has only been 260 hours (12 days). You can go much longer without food - hell, David Blaine did it for 44 days.
In order of importance to your health and continued survival:
Air (a few minutes)
Water (a few days)
Sleep (a couple of weeks)
Food (a couple of months)
Sex (ok I just put this in, but it sure isn't healthy to abstain!)

61 hours is the most I've ever gone without sleep. Not fun. Not even a little.

dammit, i didn't read the post before i answered. i thought you meant how long have we gone without sleep as of now.
no the answer would be, lemme see, 5 days, so 5 times 24, minus around 12. 108 hours. a friend of mine was watching a house for a week, and it was a nonstop party.

Worst four days of my life -- started getting auditory and visual hallucinations. Not fun, and never again.

eighty five hours. It's amazing what twelve bottles of Jolt, a continuous supply of cartoons, and cadbury creme eggs can do.

I love Cadbury creme eggs! :)

I love Cadbury creme eggs! :)

As well you should! I've had about a dozen or so in the last month. Shooting for fifty by Easter!

Maybe there's a reason that my friends call me "the compactor".

A typical day back in University:

Friday up by 5:30 am and off to school, with eight full credit classes was there until around 7 or 8 pm, leave school and drive home for dinner around 9 or 10 pm, get ready and go to work at the mill around 11:30 pm... leave sawmill 8 or 9 am saturday, drive home, shower change and get ready for work as produce rep around 11 am, work until 8 pm, drive home for some dinner and get ready for second shift at mill around 11:30 pm again, leave sawmill 8 or 9 am sunday (same as previous day), drive home, shower change blah blah... repeat until monday morning - leave mill early around 5 or 6 am, shower and change then drive to University - late for first class generally getting there around 8 am, at school until 5 or 6 pm.

So yeah, an average weekend was around 84-85 hours... Im sure there were times I was awake much longer than that, but that was an SOP for me back in those days. Its strange I didnt get killed working with the machinery at the sawmill or driving highways in between jobs and school, but even stranger is that I could never manage the same things now. I need my sleep nowadays and cant go more than 24 hours without it.

I love Cadbury creme eggs! :)

Don't we all... Now I want some. Damnit.

117 hours. Started off I had to do an all-nighter for an essay on the Thursday night, then went out on the Friday night, and at around 4am on Saturday a mate bet me I couldn't stay up for the entire weekend - at £1 per hour I managed to stay awake. Anyway, by the end of the weekend, I'd managed to be awake for 89 hours, then I decided I might as well go for 100 - which would've been 11am on Monday. Managed that, then aimed for 5 days (120 hours). Finally fell asleep at 4am on Tuesday, 3 hours short. And slept 'til Thursday night. But I made £44 out of it, so I guess it wasn't too bad.

Is your life still that routine? If it is that could be why you're so sad all the time. :(

Cadbury creme eggs rock! I don't think i"m getting anything for easter though. :(

Bit of trivia -
You can go without food longer than you can go without sleep. Studies with rats where they operated on them so they're incapable of sleeping usually has them dropping dead within a few days. The longest anyone's ever gone without sleep has only been 260 hours (12 days). >SNIP<I once knew a meth adict who claimed 16 days........




Of course sleep deprivation psychosis had made him so crazy it's hard to trust his count.

Okay. So do you mean NO sleep? I find it hard to believe that YOU a healthy person could do that.

You obviously have never been in any military organization.

5 days and it was hell...

Lately, the longest I've gone without sleep has only been a day and a half. In highschool though, I think for the sheer hell of things I went 2 days - the whole weekend matter-of-fact.

I once knew a meth adict who claimed 16 days........
Of course sleep deprivation psychosis had made him so crazy it's hard to trust his count.
Also unless it's in controlled conditions, it's difficult to know whether he was awake the whole time. He may have dozed without realising it. Of course if he was high on speed the whole time, he could have easily gone a fortnight w/o sleep. I was only using the guiness book of records of a properly recorded instance of going without sleep.

After about four days, you kind of forget how to fall asleep. It gets easy after 4 days.

I've been up for about 40 hours before. I had to go to school the day before, then catch a bus at 2. AM to make an 8 AM 5 hour flight to Hawaii. No sleeping at all. >_<

Has anyone else gotten a sensation of feeling irrationally, positively wired, trying to stay awake after a long period of sleep-deprivation? It's like my body decided to release some sort of reserve adrenaline to keep me from pulling a Mister Bean, falling out of my chair snoring.

I love Cadbury creme eggs! :)
They are really nice frozen (honest).


I think me record is in the region 85 hours, chemically unassisted (excluding coffee).

Without coffee, just under 2 days iirc.

For some reason I cannot stay up as easily as I used to.

Worst four days of my life -- started getting auditory and visual hallucinations. Not fun, and never again.

I never get the visual hallucinations that everyone else talks about getting. Just the auditory.

Is your life still that routine? If it is that could be why you're so sad all the time.
I think this was directed at me (if not pay no heed to this response Oksana)

In any case the answer is no. That was my routine while attending University for most of the three years I was there. Not, not a healthy routine by any standards, but I did what I had to do to make it. Coming from a poor family it was the only way I could have a post-secondary education. As far as it being the cause of my sadness, no - it is not.

I suppose in some ways it is related, but beleive me its more complicated than I can bear to explain, and with regard to my time at school has nothing at all to do with my sleep habits.

Thank you just the same for your concern though Oksana, it counts that people care. :)

I just thought it may be a cause. I know when life gets to be too much of the same thing, people tend to feel bad about life and in general.

I just thought it may be a cause. I know when life gets to be too much of the same thing, people tend to feel bad about life and in general.
I try, in general, not to allow to much repetition at all in my life - whether it be in work, entertainment, pastimes, relationships or otherwise... its a little easier to deal that way.

Only a little more than 24 hours. I've slept longer.

They did a study somewhere, and the longest someone went without sleep is a week or something like that. It' in the Guiness Book.

I stayed up about 48 hours and 5 minutes, but I just decided to vote "between 36 and 48 hours". I mean, what difference is five minutes gonna make?

Funny thing --- After that sleepless marathon, I slept for almost 20 hours. And the strange thing is that I actually felt good when I woke up!

They did a study somewhere, and the longest someone went without sleep is a week or something like that. It' in the Guiness Book.

The world record is 11 days, 1 hour, 12 minutes, set by Randy Gardner in 1965.

http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/nightshift/sleep_deprivation.html

My record is somewhere around 1.5 days, nothing to brag about.

Originally posted by Skaje
The world record is 11 days, 1 hour, 12 minutes, set by Randy Gardner in 1965.

http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/night...eprivation.html

My record is somewhere around 1.5 days, nothing to brag about.

Wow, I'd like to know what happend after that, did he fall aslepp for about a week? He probably had crazy hallucinations.

Flying home from Japan I had bought the cheapest ticket. It involved two transfers, one in Portland and one in scary Salt Lake City. I spent 8 hours walking around Salt Lake City airport like a zombie.
And on another point, SLC airport is creepy. Hordes of clean cut kids help old people with their luggage and stand around being polite. I was terrified of them sure that the pod people were loose.
What is wrong with you Mormons!? Where is your sense of selfishness and poor civic behavior!?

Ever seen SLC Punk? It makes fun of the strict Mormon heritage and culture of Salt Lake City.

Er... I think it was something like... 20 hours...

I just accomplised 24 now I am going for 48.