Longest you've stayed awake? Why?

[DJL 232]

I'm approaching 40 hours now and am starting to slow down a bit. It started when I got up at 4AM on Monday so I could get in early to work on the plans for a building in NJ. Well, I kept finding more things that needed to be done and the was able to inch back the deadline ------- Holy Shit, this is the most boring thing I've ever written. I'm going home now.

"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

[skymama 35]

Probably around 30 hours because I went into labor right when it was time for bed. The night before my due dates. Twice. I gave up after that.

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[StreetScooby 5]

Straight? Several days. I'm a recovering raging insomniac. The worst was a year where I slept roughly 20 hours per week. Body just wouldn't go to sleep. Whew! Never want to do that again.

We are all engines of karma

[Cornholio 0]

I'm not entirely sure, but there were several 6-7 day stretches that I didn't sleep at all. Crystal meth and crank will do that to you. Ahh, the good ol' days.

Edit, after the 3rd day or so, you start to see things... We used to call them "Meth Monsters"

Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast!
Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool!
bellyflier on the dz.com hybrid record jump

[SkydiveStMarys 0]

A full weekend (finally crashed tuesday evening)...many many MANY moons ago...'cause doing an 8 ball tends to keep you..aaah..wired!!


Bobbi

A miracle is not defined by an event. A miracle is defined by gratitude.

[StreetScooby 5]

Quote

Crystal meth and crank will do that to you. Ahh, the good ol' days.

They were good while they were lasting

We are all engines of karma

[mailin 0]

ditto - 49 hours... they had to give me strong stuff to go to sleep eventually...


Jen

Arianna Frances

[waltappel 1]

56 hours. I was working and going to school and didn't have time to sleep. It sucked!

Walt

[pincheck 0]

48 hours shift work really fucks with your internal clock, I used to find that if i stayed awake after a certain time i would get a second wind and would be unable to go to sleep

Billy-Sonic Haggis Flickr-Fun

[lisamariewillbe 1]

36 ish hours right now

Sudsy Fist: i don't think i'd ever say this
Sudsy Fist: but you're looking damn sudsydoable in this

[DJL 232]

Quote

I used to find that if i stayed awake after a certain time i would get a second wind and would be unable to go to sleep

Yeah, after lunch I just cranked through work. I did nod off a few times in the seminar though. I'm gonna crank some music for the drive home.

"I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

[soberamprat 0]

heard some place that a person can only survive about 11 days without sleep

http://www.swoopstudios.com/videos/videos-rex.php

[crutch 0]

three days, was working nights and trying to finish a class. i did take a couple of power naps (20 minutes) after the first 36 hours. i finally went to sleep after walking in front of a forklift at work, waking up on the pallet that was on the forks, and scaring the driver when i stood up and he saw me there.

[jumper03 0]

routinely was up for 96+ hours the last six months of my PhD....I wanted the hell out.

Finished a year faster than anyone ever.

I'm still way behind on sleep and can't sleep normally.

Scars remind us that the past is real

[grue 1]

101 hours on a bet. I was a hostile son of a bitch at that point

cavete terrae.

[Broke 0]

Yeah man that really sucks ass. I work rotating shifts and it is really screwing with my sleep schedule.

Divot your source for all things Hillbilly.
Anvil Brother 84
SCR 14192

[sixtysevengt5oo 0]

66 hrs. because of finals, for the last 14 hrs of studying i thought that there was a homeless dude sitting next to me, and every 10 min or so i would look over there to reasure myself that it was a halucination, but then at the 66th hr., i stood up to go to the bathroom and for about 20 sec. i didnt see the room i was actually in, i saw the hanger at the dropzone where i work, with a reserve hung up for inspection (tell you what i really had on my mind). so yeah no sleep = halucinations.

p.s. did you know that as per the DSM IV (the manual that defines all recognized mental disorders) if you are awake for more than 72 hrs. strait, you are considered mentally ill, and it is a legitimate way to plea insanity in a court of law, so long as the illegal act came within the period of sleeplessness following 72hrs.

[skydivermom 0]

Around 55 or so...for the same reason as two other moms on here...LABOR! It's amazing what we can do when we have to
Yes it was worth it!

Mrs. WaltAppel

All things work together for good to them that love God...Romans 8:28

[DanDruff 0]

Ive done about 55 hours of hard larbor on a wildland fire. Going from 100 degrees plus during the day down to the 40's at night out in the nevada desert. We got to finish the whole ordeal off with a nice 3 hour hike out. Ahhhhh the good old days

• Quote

[lawrocket 3]

I had one four day period without sleep. Back in 93, I was trying to get back into college. That summer, my m-t-w-r schedule was work from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., school from 330 to 5:30, and work from 6:30-2:00 a.m. Maybe 2 hours of sleep per night - until the time I had midterms on Monday and Thursday. So I was up all the way from about 5:00 a.m. on Monday through 2:30 on Friday because I was working and studying.

And people wonder how I lost 65 pounds in a three month span.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[Muenkel 0]

I think it was about 3 1/2 days. My mom was in the ICU in critical condition very close to death back in 1991.

Fortunately, she survived and made a full recovery.
Chris

_________________________________________
Chris

[piisfish 135]

56 hours.. I just didn't feel like sleeping...

Longest I slept was 38hours.. just didn't feel like waking up.. Actually woke up after 14hours to take a pee and eat something.. but that only took me 15 minutes..

scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

[freeflir29 0]

3-4 days. Many times in the military and once or twice while travelling across the planet and going right into partying when I got back.

[MikeJD 0]

About 36 hours. Came back from a trip to the States on an overnight flight, didn't sleep on the plane (I rarely do) and went straight on to do a long day at work.

Can't compete with some of the people on here though - four days, without drugs? . I want to hear more about the resulting psychosis! Euphoria is what I tend to get with extreme tiredness.

[leroydb 0]

4 days and Id have to kill ya if i told ya... Just kidding

Leroy


..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio...