Longest time without sleep?

[TheSlash]

What's the longest time you have gone without sleep? Mine's probably about 30 hours constantly on the go, living on Coca Cola.
I find it's harder to finally to sleep after being awake for along time, your body is full of rubbish, like Coke. If i've been awake for along time it's usually work related and ends somewhere like middday Sunday, so not a natural time to start trying to get your head down

 

[Gizmogle]

About 24hrs. I'm a bit of a lightweight really.

 

[16CSVT2700]

Erm, probably Saturday night through Monday ..
Tho small bursts of sleep were interrupted by bottles and coffee stirrers

 

[Craig]

About 38 hours (8am - 10pm ish the next day) I think while at uni, not something I plan to repeat any time soon.

 

[me123]

39 hours. hock: Never again though! Spent the next 4 days pretty much sleeping from what I remember.

 

[Bayum]

Hahahaha

Erm, i spent like two weeks living on about ten minutes of sleep a day, and being sick the rest of the time. . .

Otherwise, it's gotta be a good two days =/

School weren't impressed when I collapsed on them!

 

[AlexS]

Getting on for 3 days - it came to a head when I started seeing figures and things forming in a steam heat leak and was promptly dispatched to the pub - where after a few beers I became somewhat convinced my dead grandparents were chasing me down the street.

As a result I went to bed and I haven't done something so stupid since.

 

[Phoenix]

Mine was about 48 hours I think it was from 3 o clock Friday to 3 0 clock Sunday was actually for decent reasons as well as on the Friday morn caught a flight home from italy did coursework all day to catch up from my holiday then went clubbing with some mates.
Nearly got kicked out the club for falling asleep.

 

[rmt]

6 days.

I was hallucinating by the end of it.

 

[Bayum]

Everyone hallucinates after a period of time without sleep.

In Psychology, we read a study on a DJ called Randy Gardner, and he took part in a *stay awakeathon* and at the end of it, he was so mentally disturbed, that he had to see a psychiatrist, as *spiders were running around in his shoes*... As the Psychiatrist came through the Door, Randy ran out screaming, as he thought an undertaker had come to bury him alive...

The conclusion was, is that sleep is imperative in helping us distinguish between whats real, and whats not real... As well as many other things, but they don't have to do with the topic at the moment =D

 

[90019]

the longest i've been awake without sleep is about 60 hours

After, i slept for a day

 

[TheSlash]

Yeah, i've done the whole Hallucinating thing. I've Had a go at one of my work mates about it aswell. He used to drive trucks for awhile. He thought it was funny that he hallucinated a road bridge in front of him being totally missing, because he was so tired. Jammed the anchors on and everything :roll:

 

[1D53]

About 50 or so hours. Bad times.

 

[O L Leigh]

Have missed three nights of sleep when I was at Uni (though only one at a time and not all in a row). Two of those were quite full-on too. The weird thing was that I didn't feel too bad mentally as a result of it, but I did feel really weak physically.

A friend's housemate once tried to prove that sleep was not really needed. He ended up hallucinating so bad that he needed psychiatric help.

O L Leigh

 

[Spaceflower]

Have missed three nights of sleep when I was at Uni (though only one at a time and not all in a row). Two of those were quite full-on too. The weird thing was that I didn't feel too bad mentally as a result of it, but I did feel really weak physically.

Ditto. Also too much coffee really doesnt help. I kind of felt slightly poisoned.

Being a fisherman, I have stopped awake the night before a big match (fishing competition) preparing. I would rather miss the match now with experience though, as it turns you from a regular framer (slang for placing in a competition) into a complete noddy (slang, no need for explanation). It takes your enthusiasm, enjoyment, confidence, rational thought, decision making abilities.....sleep on it.

Also, before going to uni, I used to work 12 hour night shifts, then spend the following day getting drunk, followed by two hours sleep before next shift. Surprisingly this never seemed to affect me............................

Also, working as a driver through the night...............easy. Stick on the tunes and become so p!ssed off, sleep is the last thing on your mind, when the mafia, government, etc are trying to kill you (delusional?).
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longest ive stopped awake? probably around 36 hours. The worst is outside at night. It gets very cold when your'e tired.

 

[AlexS]

If however we're on about all nighters - I have them every few weeks, usually because for some reason I've found something interesting on the telly at 3am or similar.

A Father Ted marathon can look strangely attractive at those times even when you have to get up the next day!

 

[Aureol]

A pathetic 36 hours for me. Woke up at about 13:00 on the Friday, was on MSN at about 04:00 Saturday and saw jacknottm online, he said he was going to the NVR gala, so I decided to join him and caught the 06:54 to Nottingham. Finally went to bed at 01:00 Sunday morning.
And I agree with William, it does get bloody cold when you're tired.

 

[P156KWJ]

42 hours for me, want to try and beat that some time

 

[DavyCrocket]

About 30.

Though on my first night shift I'll usually wake up at 10am, start my night shift at 11pm, finish at 7am and get home to bed about 9am! If I'm lucky and theres no engineering trains or late running I might get an hours nap

 

[Bayum]

A pathetic 36 hours for me. Woke up at about 13:00 on the Friday, was on MSN at about 04:00 Saturday and saw jacknottm online, he said he was going to the NVR gala, so I decided to join him and caught the 06:54 to Nottingham. Finally went to bed at 01:00 Sunday morning.
And I agree with William, it does get bloody cold when you're tired.

Thats because in one of the stages of sleep (REM I think) your temperature drops... And if your body can't get into REM Sleep, it assumes that it needs it and does it automatically.

 

[37412]

I'm terrible at staying awake, hardly ever manage to do a full railtour without collapsing in a heap somewhere and i'm normally dossed out for most of a long car journey. Worst is normally after a overnight move on the sleepers or something, normally moping around half asleep all the next day dossing out for a few minutes here and there regularly.

 

[TEW]

About 30 hours is my most, never felt so bad in my life. Couldn't even stand up, I just fell asleep lying outside.
I had about 5 hours two days in a row though and managed to feel just as bad then and kept falling asleep every time I sat down.

 

[Techniquest]

Regularly do all-nighters as a part of multi-day bashes. Indeed, I will be next week on the Scottish MegaBash. I plan to be awake by about 10am and get some sleep on the 2345 London Victoria to Aberdeen at some point before spending the whole day exploring Scotland. I am in no doubt I'll only get to sleep when I get close to the border and will be too tired to stay awake all day. The killer will be the rancid all-nighter in Edinburgh from 2332 until 0450. Temperatures in Glasgow tomorrow are due to drop to -4, I dread to think what it'll be like next week!

Longest time being awake must be something near 48 hours whilst on the Irish bash with James back in December 2004. 3 days straight of exploring altogether before going home, by Joe we were exhausted by the end of it all!

Someone mentioned having too much coffee doesn't help, which I find to be true. Indeed, before now I've had a coffee and fallen asleep soon after!

I'm no good at all-nighters much now, I used to be able to do them on very little food and drink without much difficulty. These days it's much harder to do so unless I've had decent amounts of food and plenty of drinks.

 

[Daniel533]

Ive only ever stayed up for 26 hours once, and i will hopefully never to do it again.

 

[P156KWJ]

true lightweight

 

[BJMorley]

Not much for me... around 21 hours.

 

[Daniel533]

true lightweight

Maybe, but i like my sleep

 

[EE Type 3]

I've stayed awake for 3 days in a row, living off Red Bull. Never again. I was a wreck after 2 days, I was almost dead after the 3rd.

 

[me123]

In response to Techniquest: Glasgow is currently frozen over, it is near impossible for me to get to uni! I'll give you an update on the weather nearer the time

 

[Phoenix]

Everyone hallucinates after a period of time without sleep.

In Psychology, we read a study on a DJ called Randy Gardner, and he took part in a *stay awakeathon* and at the end of it, he was so mentally disturbed, that he had to see a psychiatrist, as *spiders were running around in his shoes*... As the Psychiatrist came through the Door, Randy ran out screaming, as he thought an undertaker had come to bury him alive...

The conclusion was, is that sleep is imperative in helping us distinguish between whats real, and whats not real... As well as many other things, but they don't have to do with the topic at the moment =D

Yeah I did something about that in A level psychology.