No sleep

davyjose

Yesterday morning I came home off the night shift and the OH had to be taken to hospital. Everything was grand, but I didn't get to sleep until eleven last night, having been awake since early afternoon the day before. 30 odd hours -- I was actually dreaming while I was still awake/going insane. I've gone longer, but never without chemical help tbh. What's the longest anyone on here has gone*?







*without sleep, not sex. Ya hear me brummytom?

segaBOY

davyjose wrote: »

Yesterday morning I came home off the night shift and the OH had to be taken to hospital. Everything was grand, but I didn't get to sleep until eleven last night, having been awake since early afternoon the day before. 30 odd hours -- I was actually dreaming while I was still awake/going insane. I've gone longer, but never without chemical help tbh. What's the longest anyone on here has gone*?







*without sleep, not sex. Ya hear me brummytom?

About 40 hours or so

mink_man

about 4 feet?

Dudess

About two days - doing my finals. I don't find it difficult to stay awake, and I don't require much sleep. Seven hours is a super-long lie-in for me. Actually I had about that much sleep last night and I feel slightly as if I've overslept. Weirdly enough, oversleeping makes me feel more tired than sleep deprivation.

minidazzler

I don't know the longest I went without sleep, I would assume around 36-48 hour.
I have done 80 hours on 4 hours sleep before, broken up into 4 sleeps of 1 hourish.

Oh The Humanity

A bit more than 48 hours. Twas a Paddys Day erm....drinking marathon.

davyjose

Jesus lads, I feel a bit ghey now. I thought I was totally htfuing yesterday. I was in ribbons.

It must be said though: I LOVE SLEEP. Sleep is up there with eating, sex, and days off work, in it's awesomeness.

AnonoBoy

Once I went all the way to Brooklyn with no sleep.

Aodan83

About 35 hours I think. Managed GAA training around hour 24, 25 and all. Slept very well afterwards.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

About forty hours I think...I think I started a thread on it actually. During exams last year I used to pull an all nighter, then go for about a five hour (usually mid afternoon) sleep followed by another all nighter. Considering I usually get at least eight hours that's a big deal for me, I went a bit weird.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

For the last 7 days I spent at least 4 of those days with no sleep. Over a period of 72 hours, I got about 3-5 hours sleep... I am an insomniac.

partyatmygaff

A bit over 50 hours back when I was around 11, actually didn't feel tired but when I finally got to a bed, I literally slept the minute my head hit the pillow and woke up an entire 10 hours later confused and jet lagged as it was 9pm when I woke up. It took me 3 days to get back to normal.

Dudess

Ooh, insomnia must suck. While I don't require that much sleep, I do need an unbroken stint of four hours at least. I'm a very light sleeper though, which can be awfully frustrating.

Poor Uncle Tom

Roman Silly Cheesecake wrote: »

For the last 7 days I spent at least 4 of those days with no sleep. Over a period of 72 hours, I got about 3-5 hours sleep... I am an insomniac.

Well if you were also an Athiest and possibly dyslexic you could stay awake all night wondering if there really is a dog..........:D

fintonie

this may be hard to believe but from Monday morning at 7:45 till Saturday 15:00 I called out to my parents house to see my father dying he had gone gaunt so I never slept till he got buried which was the Saturday,

I was there for people calling to see him, I just could not go to sleep it was like I felt I needed to stay awake, but to be honest it never affected me in any funny way I slept for about 12 hrs when I did decide to sleep.

cherryghost

a gaming lan a few years ago led me to stay awake for 62 hours.

Pace2008

In Ibiza, I went a bit less than 72 hours with chemical aid. After about 48 hours the hallucinations kick in and things start to get weird. I didn't experience anything too intense, just music floating up from the toilet and such, but my mate went the full three days and had a mild psychotic episode, ranting about how cactuses and caterpillars were climbing the walls, before breaking down in tears because 'we weren't his friends anymore.' Scary/funny stuff.

davyjose wrote: »

It must be said though: I LOVE SLEEP. Sleep is up there with eating, sex, and days off work, in it's awesomeness.

When you're lying in bed with 30 minutes to go before you have to get up you realise sleep is better than anything.

orourkeda

20 Minutes

greyed

Dudess wrote: »

About two days - doing my finals. I don't find it difficult to stay awake, and I don't require much sleep. Seven hours is a super-long lie-in for me. Actually I had about that much sleep last night and I feel slightly as if I've overslept. Weirdly enough, oversleeping makes me feel more tired than sleep deprivation.

Oh man, I would love to be like you. It would make life so much easier... there is no pattern to my sleep tbh

Longest for me was 3 days, usually for college... full of chemicals, get disorienting as hell.

dr.bollocko

I haven't slept since the 8th of December last year.
The ban stick never sleeps.
Ever.

happyfriday

Just over two days, I was almost dead on my feet by the time I got to bed, then slept for a full day!! Ah good times!!

liah

Haven't slept in about 36 hours or so now. Just can't sleep. Too much shít on my mind I guess.

Longest stint was maybe a week with a couple 20-minute naps, no more than 6 or 7 though.

It happens sometimes.

BrokenArrows

about 40 hours if i recall. few long haul flights after the other.

kelle

We used to do 72 hour weekend call where I work and, in fairness, we could sleep if there was no work BUT - I had the misfortune of being on one weekend where I worked continuously for the whole weekend and got no sleep and, come Monday, I had to stay awake to mind my lively 18 month old son who decided he would not like an afternoon nap. Once my husband arrived home from work, i slept after 82 hours on the go!
Our work practices were reviewed after that!

Raze_them_all

davyjose wrote: »

Yesterday morning I came home off the night shift and the OH had to be taken to hospital. Everything was grand, but I didn't get to sleep until eleven last night, having been awake since early afternoon the day before. 30 odd hours -- I was actually dreaming while I was still awake/going insane. I've gone longer, but never without chemical help tbh. What's the longest anyone on here has gone*?







*without sleep, not sex. Ya hear me brummytom?

4 or 5 days, I'm a gaming nerd and got final fantasy and wanted to finish it, I went to sleep when I opened the fridge and birds started singing!

Voltex

the most I went without sleep was about 48hours...but brain numb kicked in at about 24hrs...dont know how some of you guys did it.

Have to say...that driving whilst that tired is a big NOOOOO NOOOOO...very dangerous!!

Raze_them_all

Voltex wrote: »

the most I went without sleep was about 48hours...but brain numb kicked in at about 24hrs...dont know how some of you guys did it.

Have to say...that driving whilst that tired is a big NOOOOO NOOOOO...very dangerous!!

Sugar and lots of it.

genericguy

davyjose wrote: »

Yesterday morning I came home off the night shift and the OH had to be taken to hospital. Everything was grand, but I didn't get to sleep until eleven last night, having been awake since early afternoon the day before. 30 odd hours -- I was actually dreaming while I was still awake/going insane. I've gone longer, but never without chemical help tbh. What's the longest anyone on here has gone*?

leave tommy alone, we were all teenagers once.

i once worked in a pharmaceutical company on a rotating 12-hour shift, so i had no routine whatsoever for months, working days and nights in the same week. i absolutely under no circumstances can sleep during the day, so when i was on a stint of nights, i'd be awake for over 72 hours crawling the walls. that was the worst experience of my life, althought the boss was sound, and let me take holidays to coincide with those shifts so i only had to do them once a month.

sleep deprivation is absolute torture.

AckwelFoley

not that long, 32 hours i believe but that was an extreme exception. Normally i sleep like clock work, if i have problems i'll mount the missus and fire one off and ill sleep like a baby with a belly full of milk

The one time i was awake for so long due to travelling, i slept for over 24 hours. It was in 1997 i returned home from america and didnt sleep for 32 hours or perhaps a little less, and i was back about a week before the tiredness hit me.

I went to bed at 7pm and didnt wake until 8pm the next day, it was the sound f my dad banging on the door and windows that eventually woke me.. fortunatley i did wake, my dad was on the way to the garda station as he believe i had killed myself in my bedroom.. (long story) and he didnt want to find me dead himself

FruitLover

I don't sleep; I wait.

StraddleFor6

Just hitting 29 hours as we speak. Unemployment is a terrible thing.

pmg58

2 all nighters in a row for my final year project. First night putting the finishing touches to it, the second babysitting a printer that kept jamming every 5 or 6 pages.

By the end of it I thought I was some sort of hummingbird.

maddogcollins

Gonna say close to a week without proper sleep..Had maybe a 40minute nap (2 x 20mins) over the course of each day but I was still very aware of what was going on around me so not proper sleep.

Happens occasionally, especially if I have lots going through my mind. Just cant do anything about it. Im a thinker (of the thinking of information type) and I spend alot of time going too deep into things (prob like this post) and I also find the more frustrated I get with not being able to fall asleep the more it adds to the not being able to fall to sleep and the thoughts running around!

D

61 hours

Lump

72 hours - Easy Peasy.... ok, maybe not

Ross_Mahon

3 days on Xbox live, Lots of junk food and kick from Tescos

Overheal

I was on an insane sleeping schedule for college finals one year. cant even remember it straight. all a ****ing blurrrr but you had to get up pretty early in the middle of the night to catch Tesco's latest shipment of Red Bull knockoff. Those shelves cleared out quick around exam time.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

6 days in a combination of forest/trench/mountains/rivers.

Sleep deprevation execise + constantly doing pretty hard physical and mental activity + bad irish weather + feck all food

= me shooting at a flock of sheep because I thought they were a load of Banshee's after me!

Stress, stress, stress.



My mind plays serious tricks on me at day 5.

Tar.Aldarion

5 or 6 days, pretty hellish.

kenon

About 21 hours would be the max I could do or have done then I'll start sleeping on my feet.

big_show

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

5 or 6 days, pretty hellish.

QFT

pmg58

maddogcollins wrote: »

Happens occasionally, especially if I have lots going through my mind. Just cant do anything about it. Im a thinker (of the thinking of information type) and I spend alot of time going too deep into things (prob like this post) and I also find the more frustrated I get with not being able to fall asleep the more it adds to the not being able to fall to sleep and the thoughts running around!

I'm the same. I just can't switch off.

Lia_lia

During this summer I often went 3 nights in a row without sleep due to working insane hours in a hotel (like split shifts where I'd be working in the bar till 4am and then the restaurant at 7am, yuck) Didn't bother me too much, you get used to it.

Longest I went was about 6 days I'd say. When I was a silly druggie. So that's different I guess, whatever.

TheCardHolder

40 hours. Was going to Spain in the morning so didn't sleep that night as I stayed in a mates, then drinking session until 6 in the morning following night!

R0ot

If a LAN counts 72 hours.... (Football Special ftw)

jumpguy

Longest I've stayed up was about 40 hours a few years ago (about...4 or 5, I was 12 or 11 at the time). Slept over at a friends. By the end of it, I felt what can only be described as very, very drunk. Things registering in the head slowly, unable to keep my head up, concentrate on anything.

This New Year's I stayed up all night...just for the heck of it. I didn't last very long though, only around 30 hours. TBH, you need to be constantly occupied to get the most hours, anytime you're not occupied, you'll drift off. When you wake up after even 30 minutes of a snooze, you feel about 50 times more tired than you were when you woke up.

b12mearse

i went over 40 hours without sleep. i took a flight from australia to ireland and had to wait in frankfurt for 14 hours for the connecting flight to dublin. i never slept a wink all that time.
by the time i was getting the connecting flight, i was licking my lips with anxiety and pure paranoid with lack of sleep.
it was an absolute nightmare

Pjays

About thirty six. When I eventually did get to sleep and woke up the next day, I had a sore throat and a cold for the week.:mad: All for a crappy college project.