Staying awake

[Duggeh]

Whats the longest time that you chaps have run for without any shut eye?

I'm up to 45 hours now, which is I think, the longest I've gone. I'm now just doing it out of some sort of strange morbid masochist curiousity, my companions are two seasons of charmed I've not yet watched and a 12 pack of Tennants lager, 7 to go.

I've no class tomo. No deadlines coming (original stay up was for last recent one).

Should I collapse into bed, its there. Like, 2 feet away. All snug and warm.

OR

Should I just keep going. In the name of science. Or whatever passes for science these days?

I'm aware (from reading and such) of what symptoms I might expect (increasing chance of hallucinations, continuing deterioration in my motor control and speach, increasing feelings of being cold and tired limbs.

Tra lala.

[ojnihs]

i did this in high school once. i got to 58 hours and started to laugh hysterically for no reason. i decided then that it was time to go to sleep. interesting experience i would say, but i'll never do it again by choice.

[Smeggy]

those last seven cans might decide for you

[n_maher]

I like sleep way too much to ever go without it for no good reason. But to answer the question I don't think I've ever gone more than 36hrs or so without at least a couple hours of shut eye.

[grawk]

In my mispent youth, I frequently went 72 hrs on minimal sleep. Now, after 24 I get punchy, and just go sleep.

[jinp6301]

I had a 72 hr day of no sleep when I was doing transfer apps last year

it was horrible

[ojnihs]

I had a 72 hr day of no sleep when I was doing transfer apps last year

it was horrible

owned by transfer apps. how'd they turn out?

[Voltron]

I have certainly done long stretches involuntarily for work in the last 17 years as a lawyer, but in college I did it more of my own will. In college I had a tradition of staying awake on Pete Townshend's birthday from midnight to the next night at least so that I could play every Who and Pete record I had for 24 hours of Pete and re-Pete as necessary. One of those years I recall staying awake until the 2nd day and trying to play softball in the afternoon. I would of course drink plenty in those hours to keep going, and I recall having some Olde English 800 malt liquor that put me completely over the top for that period. I struck out in slow-pitch softball, which is really saying something for somebody who played baseball all of his life.

Ah, good times. I hope you plowed through the remaining 7 cans, Duggeh. Those late hours are the best.

[jinp6301]

owned by transfer apps. how'd they turn out?

Not good I got rejected from schools that I got into from regular admissions slacking off/depression ftl

but it kinda worked out well since I really like what I'm doing in school now

[boomana]

I've gone three or four days without sleep more times than I'd like to remember, almost always due to a combo of work responsibilities colliding with school and home responsibilities and no room for mistakes anywhere. It's strange that once you cross the 72 hr mark, it's like your brain separates from your body. I would be completely lucid mentally, but not be able to get my body to cooperate (typing, etc). Strange feeling. That hasn't happened, thank god, in a long time. I still go one or two days without sleep fairly regularly, but I don't like it, and do my best to avoid it.

[jinp6301]

masturbating furiously?

yes

[JBLoudG20]

Woke up a monday at 8 AM. Went to bed thursday night at 8pm.

[aardvark baguette]

Freaks.

Most I've gone is probably a day and a half.

Actually, there was a stretch of about 6 months where that was the norm several times a week after graduating from college; you tend to have a lot of downtime if you're a freelance graphic designer

Now being full time employed, I welcome sleep with open arms.

[swt61]

Well if I put in just one episode of Charmed I'd be out like a light in no time at all.

I've only gone 48 hrs. w/no sleep once. Toward the end of that span I got what I can only describe as a feeling of absolute clarity and the knowledge that everything in my life would work out OK. I was frantically writing things down thinking I may forget them once I slept, but I didn't, and that sense that everything would be OK has never dissipated in the 23 years that have followed since this incident.

[aerius]

About 40 hours or so on my graduation day from uni. Since then it's been my goal in life to sleep a lot every day. Now I rarely go for more than 13-14 hours without sleep, and I haven't gone past 20. If I had my way I'd spend half of every day sleeping.

[laxx]

The most I've ever done was somewhere in the 50's. I played WoW for 35 hours straight during that spree.

Now the longest I've ever slept was like, 33 hours straight, lol.

[saint.panda]

The longest was probably around 40 when I had to finish my high school graduation paper. I don't think I could handle more than 2 days without falling asleep at some point against my will. During some exam weeks, daily sleep was reduced to 2-4 hours a day but I need at least some sleep to function properly.

[Abbadon]

I went for a f ull 48 hours on my last day of the first semester of uni.

Stayed awake the whole night w/ friends, almost got hit by a car crossing the road next day.

[postjack]

3 days maybe? Liquor, Ritalin, and a trip to six flags.

[bhd812]

Junior and Senior year i would stay up from thursday to sunday with no sleep maybe 3 times a month, if i was that lucky to get a sunday off.

Thursday mourning i would wake up to get ready for school, after school i would work 8 hours at the grocery store job after that i would shower i do either a rave or a party with the lighting job. come home at 5am and get ready for school on Friday mourning then repeat this till Sunday mourning. all day Sunday i would sleep and if i was awake i was just a zombie. i cut the lighting job down by hiring people when i was 19 so they could do the work for me, at the time i was getting more work almost every month. i probably lived like this from the age 17-19, which now i look back i remember all i thought about back then was the feeling to retire..haha

i lost alot of weight at this age and did not have time to drink or do drugs which i guess is a good thing. the important part was having that Sunday to sleep all day, if i did not then the whole week would be seriously messed up and hard even if i would get some sleep in the week.

after high school i had a few people working for me often on the weekends but i still had to drive out to either pick up money or the lights themselves at the end of the party. so instead of working the parties directly i would spend most of my time just driving from one to the other.

i don't regret it but if i gave advice to a 17 yearold now i would tell them work is important but don't live to work exp at that age. i missed out on alot of crap and fun my friends the same age was doing cause of the work.

[Spiug31]

Whats the longest time that you chaps have run for without any shut eye?

around 30 hours non-stop but a recurring effect of when I relapse is disrupted sleep patterns. On that basis for the last 5 years I have mostly been in a sleep deprived state.

Try staying awake once (to sate curiosity) but best not to make a habit of it. The clumsiness, lack of memory and misinterpretation of stimuli involved can make a person quite accident prone.

p.s. this put me in mind of the channel4 reality show "Shattered", it was aired in the UK in 2004 and was a contest where the subjects (who were shut in a simplified big brother house) were to remain awake for a week with the the ones that made it being put into a sleep-off to decide the winner of the

[Duggeh]

Went for about 48 hours. Was cold and bored, went to bed. Now I've got an inverted sleep pattern. woot.

[Spiug31]

nice time of year for it you'll see the sunrise and sunset that way

[darkless]

Longest I tried was 57 hours. I woke up Friday morning at 8:00 am, went to uni, then I attended a linux party from Friday night to Sunday morning, and finally I attended a family birthday until around 4:00 pm. At that time I decided I needed sleep and I finally hit the sheets around 5:00 pm. I slept until the next morning which is also the longest I've ever slept (14 hours).

[Smeggy]

It's also an age thing.

As a youngster I would regularly go for weeks on end with no sleep. These days if I'm not in bed by 8pm with a warm cocoa and hot water bottle I'm trashed for the next month.