What's the longest you've gone w/o sleep??

[kerssens]

A week after I turned 21 I had a 4 am flight to Vegas so we stayed up the night before and didn't sleep the first day in Vegas....total time awake 54 straight hrs

[Topflight]

I don't think I've ever gone more than 24.

[2planka]

Was up for 52 hours straight in grad school. Slept for 12 hours then drove home for the summer. That was 10 years ago and I still remember how horrible it was.

[ThaSaltCracka]

I have done more than 24 hours a few times. 54 is amazing and stupid at the same time! /images/graemlins/laugh.gif /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[Alobar]

got stoned with my friends in high school. Took my friends jacked up bad ass 4x4 out into the lake (It was drained at the time). buried it to the frame rails in mud. spent all night shoveling. The next morning, went back into town to find someone to pull him out. Came back and found someone had broken into his bronco and stolen his battery. followed the footprints in the mud a mile across the lake to the other side, just in time to see the fucker drive off. grrrr

Anyway, by the time we finally got him out and I got home, I had been awake for 36 hours. Kinda sad that that is the longest I've ever been awake in my 26 years. I need a more exciting life /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[kerssens]

Jade was up even longer...I left him at the Blackjack tables when he was up almost a grand...when I woke up he had lost it all

[Sponger15SB]

Alobar you're only 26? I figured you for like 30-35.

[AngryCola]

It's not smart, and I think I slept for a whole day afterwards. I don't recommend it to anyone, but it was a personal accomplishment. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

I also drove from Flint, MI to Kansas City, MO (about a 16 hour drive), after having slept for 3 hours the night before. I wouldn't advise anyone to do that, either. /images/graemlins/spade.gif

[ThaSaltCracka]

I think Jade routinely goes days without sleeping.

[slickpoppa]

I think my personal record is about 42 hours. At one point, I started to semi-hallucinate, which was pretty cool. One day I want to crack the 72 hour barrier, just to see what it's like. At that point I think you start to have some really crazy hallucinations.

[nolanfan34]

Senior year of college. Last day of Thanksgiving break. Got back into Pullman in the afternoon, and went straight into the editing studio to work on an hour long version of our college sports highlights show that I produced.

My co-producer and I pretty much went straightthru the night working on this masterpiece, that included a 10 minute montage of season highlights from the football season, as this was the 97 season where the Cougs went to the Rose Bowl after thumping the Huskies in the Apple Cup (last time we won that game /images/graemlins/mad.gif).

Anyway, the show was in the can at about 9:00 am, just in time to go to class. Went to class that day, then hit the bars that night to celebrate. I think it ended up being close to 45 or 50 hours straight being awake, and I felt like crap the rest of the week, but it was worth it.

[BusterStacks]

good hallucinations? or uncomfortable paranoid ones?

[kerssens]

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that included a 10 minute montage of season highlights from the football season, as this was the 97 season where the Cougs went to the Rose Bowl after thumping the Huskies in the Apple Cup (last time we won that game ).


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My friend was just talking about that game the other day, he was there and said he left thinking that Ryan Leaf was gonna be the next great QB.

[Aces McGee]

I was awake for the final 42 hours that I was in college.

-McGee

[slickpoppa]

Not really good or bad, just nonsensical. My thoughts were like gibberish.

[daryn]

42 hours for me too. seems popular. mine was vegas baby. 32 hours straight at a 2/4 NL table at bellagio. it's a $200 buyin game and i had something like $2400 in chips near the end. i definitely started to hallucinate.

[astroglide]

i did around 60 hours once. it was around the fourth of july, a friend and i wanted to try staying up for an entire weekend. we watched fireworks in somebody's driveway on saturday and something got in my eye. it was driving me berserk, getting bloodshot and more and more painful as the lack of sleep progressed. when i eventually went home i sat on a couch and immediately crashed. i woke up a while later with tears streamed down my bad eye. touched my cheek and found a huge, dead winged insect that was apparently in there for a day. i ended up sleeping like 16 straight hours after that, i don't even recall going to the bathroom.

[Lazymeatball]

The longest I've stayed up is probably around 36-40 hours or so, multiple times, for no reason at all, mostly involving homework, school or videogames.

I think a more impressive stat is that I've stayed in bed for 20 hours straight, waking up only to realize there was nothing worth getting out of bed for that day and going back to sleep.

ps. Daryn plus minor sleep deprivation equals funny/annoying. "I just want to touch that girls back right now, I feel like I could melt right into it."

[goofball]

haven't you been heavily favored that last 2 years too?

[billyjex]

I've probably been up from 10am till midnight of the next day partying way too hard.. I guess that's like 38 hours. It's an absolutely horrible feeling the next day.. not worth it.

[Diplomat]

The longest I have gone was about 50-55 hours, the first time I went to CT. I woke up early to catch a flight, had a long layover in Chicago, didn't get to Hartford until just after midnight. From there we went straight to Mohegan Sun and played stud until 11 am. Then we bumped into a friend who was going to Foxwoods, so we went there and played HE from about 2 pm until 11 am the next morning...then we tried to drive to New Haven...pulled off the road and into a strip mall to get coffee, everyone fell asleep in the car as soon as the engine was shut off. I think we were out for like 4 hours, sitting in front of a coffee shop. It must have looked pretty funny, 4 guys sleeping in a Ford Escort. Anyway, when we woke up, it was dark again and we went back to Foxwoods. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

-Diplomat

[Topflight]

You guys probably smelled like [censored].

[Beerfund]

bout 60 hours, a week before we left for Iraq, 200 vehicles to pack and rail load and a million other little things to do /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[Rob Blackburn]

60+ hours, first semester of undergrad, all my exams were on wed., thur., and fri. Decided to party the whole weekend prior into tue. morning. I realized tue. night I was so far behind I was forced to stay awake wed. through fri., I came very close to giving myself a MI from all the mini-thins and coffee I drank.

I also repeated this one other time in my first year of medical school.

[Bobby Digital]

Close to 48, can't remember exactly. Anything over 35 and I get bad headaches, get dizzy, and start to yell at people for little to no reason.

[nolanfan34]

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haven't you been heavily favored that last 2 years too?

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I'm sorry, I can't read your question with this blood pouring out of my eyes.






OK, the answer is yes.

[wacki]

72 hours, and I will never ever do it again.

[Duke]

I'm not really sure. It started out on a Tuesday, and I basically played online poker and video games constantly. I didn't eat, just drank Pepsi. I think I went through Friday when I finally got myself a bottle of Ketel One to get myself to at least pass out.

This was right at the onset of the worst depression I ever had. A week later I was still not eating, and just drinking enough to pass out. I lost quite a bit of weight, and ended up with what I'll call "alka-shits" where I'd just stream clear/light brown [censored] into the toilet.

I figure I was up for in excess of 72 hours, but was in a sort of trance. My world had kinda just fallen apart. I do not recommend it for anyone.

~D

[AngryCola]

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At that point I think you start to have some really crazy hallucinations.

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This is true. That part of it can either be fun, or not so fun. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[astroglide]

haha! that's awesome

[ThaSaltCracka]

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I'm not really sure. It started out on a Tuesday, and I basically played online poker and video games constantly. I didn't eat, just drank Pepsi. I think I went through Friday when I finally got myself a bottle of Ketel One to get myself to at least pass out.

This was right at the onset of the worst depression I ever had. A week later I was still not eating, and just drinking enough to pass out. I lost quite a bit of weight, and ended up with what I'll call "alka-shits" where I'd just stream clear/light brown [censored] into the toilet.

I figure I was up for in excess of 72 hours, but was in a sort of trance. My world had kinda just fallen apart. I do not recommend it for anyone.

~D

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WTF /images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Daliman]

41 straight hours is mine, I wonder how many REALLY long ones were "chemically enhanced".

P.S. The longest ever anyone has gone was like 11 days straight, a 18 year old kid doing it for a science project. He said after day 6, his mind felt as if it had been scrubbed by sandpaper, and he was pretty much reduced to gibbering by day 9.

[nothumb]

I stayed up for over 72 hours during finals week twice... I cracked the 80 hour mark one of those times... crazy thing was, the last event I had to be awake for was a jazz concert (I play bass) and one of the pieces our combo was playing was a tune called "Hallucinations." /images/graemlins/crazy.gif I was indeed totally zonked. During the part of the song where I was supposed to take a bass solo we decided instead to break into the intro from Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime" (similar keys and we just jazzed it up a bit.) Then broke right back into the head from that.

I didn't suffer too many side effects from that, but my lifestyle at that time gave me so many side effects anyway that it would be hard to know the difference. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

NT

[Blarg]

I remember now what it was for me...I slept only 11 hours in ten days once. A professor decided to change the rules on our final class project, which was 100% of the grade, after mine was already handed in. Went for the first four days with no sleep then slept 8 hours, then dropped two three hour stretches in there somewhere the other six days. I lost about 30 pounds -- and I was skinny in the first place. I weighed I think 135 pounds at 6'2" at the end of it.

[Dantes]

I think around 40 hours when I was 19ish. I don't remember or know exactly, but what I do remember is going home and sleeping for 8 hours, waking up, going to the bathroom, sleeping for another 8 hours, waking up and going to bathroom and then going back to bed for another 8 hours. Yes I basically slept for 24 hours straight.

I stay up for 24-30 hours at a time about every other month now and its ok I guess, not that bad. I start to get hallucinations at the 24 hour mark - I constantly see things out of the corner of my eye and see inanimate objects moving. Its not fun.

[JTG51]

I think I stayed up for 16 or 17 straight hours once, but as you can imagine I was pretty tired, so my memory might be off.

[Alobar]

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Alobar you're only 26? I figured you for like 30-35.

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lol, really? most people always figure me for like 20ish. Prolly due to the incredible lack of maturity /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[RED_RAIN]

I'm the type of guy who goes weeks with like 3-6 hours of sleep a night.

Last year as a junior in college I wanted to know how long I could stay up.

I stayed up 68 hours (Wednesday-Friday). Once I tried to actually sleep I wasn't able to as I was so tired that I couldn't fall asleep. I was actually pretty afraid as I heard of a video game player who died after 3 days of no sleep, lack of food, and such in an internet cafe. I also hear it can cause brain damage (which I might have or already had hehehe).

Once I got to bed, I slept 20 hours straight.

I will never do it again, nor do I suggest more than 40 hours max. I've done that maybe 3 times.

This is the guy who started the Energy Drink thread, will I die *L*. I recently went 3 days with 3 hours of sleep and 8 energy drinks. Then my heart started to hurt.

[nothumb]

They did sleep deprivation tests on horses and found that basically they all died of crazy infections and stuff that their bodies couldn't fend off. You definitely need to take your vitamins and stuff during finals week if that's how you rock. Me, I'm a hardy lad, haven't had so much as a cold in years, so I wasn't too worried.

The belief at the time was that the whiskey would kill anything that wasn't supposed to be there. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

NT

[AngryCola]

That sounds kind of like my 68 hour experience. Not very fun. /images/graemlins/spade.gif

[Rick Nebiolo]

I think tonight after responding to a thread on Brick and Mortar. About 22 hours so far.

~ Rick

[GuyOnTilt]

I won't be able to beat anybody for "most consecutive hours without sleep", but I'd bet I'd win in "most consecutive hours watching Sylvester Stallone movies." Senior year in High School. 25 hour Stallone-a-thon. It was supposed to be just like 8 of my closest friends, but like 50 people ended up showing up. And I'm not exaggerating. There were sleeping bodies EVERYWHERE in that girl's house. Only my friend Dave and I made it through the whole 25 hours without falling asleep. We (stupidly) saved the Rocky's for last. Rocky IV was brutal. Five was alright just because we were so pumped that we were so close to finishing. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

GoT

[jakethebake]

It started as a 3-Day bet when I was in high school, but developed into a case of severe insomnia. I was a total zombie.

[sfer]

BS. You slept inside of those 12 days.

[jakethebake]

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BS. You slept inside of those 12 days.

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No I didn't. No sleep at all. I went the three days and had insomnia at the end of it. I finally got taken to the hospital where they gave me something and kept me for 2 days.

[sfer]

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No I didn't. No sleep at all. I went the three days and had insomnia at the end of it. I finally got taken to the hospital where they gave me something and kept me for 2 days.

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I don't believe you. (http://www.pbs.org/livelyhood/nightshift/sleep_deprivation.html)

[daryn]

oops...

quick it's not too late to register a new name on 2+2 and be reborn!

[elwoodblues]

Often during insomnia you will sleep and not realize it because it isn't a deep sleep. There is no way you stayed awake for 12 days (unless you are counting just the days, not the nights)

[Blarg]

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I stay up for 24-30 hours at a time about every other month now and its ok I guess, not that bad. I start to get hallucinations at the 24 hour mark - I constantly see things out of the corner of my eye and see inanimate objects moving. Its not fun.


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Heh, yeah I've had those many, many times. Coffee just makes it much, much worse, for me. I start to constantly see exactly what you're talking about. It's pretty spooky.

[jakethebake]

i don't care what u believe...lol.

[jakethebake]

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(unless you are counting just the days, not the nights)

[/ QUOTE ]Funny. But it was 12 days. I don't really care what anyone believes. I don't know anything about records, but go to a sleep deprivation clinic. You'd be amazed at what some of those people have gone thru.