Longest period you have gone without sleep?

travelledpengy · 15-01-2012 10:27PM

about 54 hours... you see crazy stuff when sleep deprived

Fart · 15-01-2012 10:28PM

I saw a documentary about this: Fatal Familial Insomnia.

It's rare and only runs through a long bloodline of families, but it must be a terrible thing to have and live with.

The most I've gone for is probably 24 - 30 hours, so not that much.

ImpossibleDuck · 15-01-2012 10:31PM

Uhm 3 and a half days, tbh I was going for the world record :pac:

I was severely disappointed with that too. Think I could manage 5ish.

This is pretty coincidental though, as I'm planning on not going to bed tonight and just working on a LC project the whole way through 'til morning and then going to school.

I don't need much sleep. Can function pretty well on 3-5 hours a night

holystungun9 · 15-01-2012 10:31PM

two or three classes is my limit.

im invisible · 15-01-2012 10:31PM

'bout 80 hours once on a holiday in the Canaries, paranoid hallucinations are some craic!
vodka and sleeping tablets sorted me out for a few hours, i was still on edge a bit when i woke up, but a few beers did the trick

bwatson · 15-01-2012 10:31PM

2 days and nights, so around the 48 hour mark I think. Surprisingly while active and out in the cold, wet conditions I felt exhausted but not too bad. As soon as I was back in a building doing administration before going home, I felt worse than I ever had before.

Slept for about 16 hours after.

Bishop_Donal · 15-01-2012 10:32PM

One time I remember staying awake for 14 hours in a row! fcuking mental. I wouldn't recommend it (and only did it cos I was on the lash).

Normally I try to get at least 2 or 3 power naps every day. The jacks in work is very comfortable.

FouxDaFaFa · 15-01-2012 10:34PM

45 hours. In airports for most of it. Freezing, paranoid, seeing things. Horrible. At one stage we were on the tunnel thing that brings you on to the plane and the ground started shaking. I thought it was vibrations from the plane. Turns out the ground wasn't moving, it was just me swaying with the tiredness.

Nyan Cat · 15-01-2012 10:35PM

I call bull on 3 weeks (not on the poster. On the girl that told him that!) because the longest scientifically recorded was 11-11.5 days.

That sounds horrible! Even 2 is draining

Skuxx · 15-01-2012 10:44PM

About 40 hours I think, I remember getting to a point around the 30 ish hour mark where I wasn't feeling tired anymore!!

IcedOut · 15-01-2012 10:55PM

60 hours

I was like a zombie
Slept a full day after that

Autosport · 15-01-2012 11:00PM

3-4 days, wouldnt recommend it

Means Of Escape · 15-01-2012 11:01PM

10 minutes

Socialist_Pig · 15-01-2012 11:03PM

I've hit 3 days+ after doing some animal speed...wasnt very enjoyable....

havent done speed since.

ICANN · 15-01-2012 11:19PM

It was about 39 hours, stressing over work made me not sleep and I suppose adrenaline gets ya through it.

Sykk · 15-01-2012 11:22PM

People saying longer than 48 hours are full of ****.

Socialist_Pig · 15-01-2012 11:29PM

Sykk wrote: »

People saying longer than 48 hours are full of ****.

people saying less than 48 hrs are amateurs:rolleyes:

Jesus Wept · 15-01-2012 11:35PM

where do i go from here wrote: »

Does being in a coma count?

This makes so little sense it's hard to know where to begin.

Socialist_Pig · 15-01-2012 11:40PM

The-Rigger wrote: »

This makes so little sense it's hard to know where to begin.

i think it's called an oxymoron:D

Capt'n Midnight · 15-01-2012 11:58PM

When her period was late .

questionmark? · 15-01-2012 11:58PM

60+hours once when on a training exercise in my RDF days. Did a joint excercise with a PDF unit. Man was that hard but after the 24 period you do tend to go into auto mood and forget about sleep a little. The scariest thing was the officer in charge didnt sleep the entire week. That man was a machine/rambo :eek:

starlit · 16-01-2012 12:02AM

22-24 hours.

JJayoo · 16-01-2012 12:06AM

28-30 hours, usually do this once a week

0O7 · 16-01-2012 12:07AM

iv done between 36 - 38.... (the 2 unknown hours was when i got into bed not knowing if i was asleep of awake....

anything after about 28 is serious (and probably dangerous) imo....

0O7 · 16-01-2012 12:09AM

Sykk wrote: »

People saying longer than 48 hours are full of ****.

i actually agree unless its an illness...

cocalolaman · 16-01-2012 12:15AM

Fart wrote: »

I saw a documentary about this: Fatal Familial Insomnia.

It's rare and only runs through a long bloodline of families, but it must be a terrible thing to have and live with.

The most I've gone for is probably 24 - 30 hours, so not that much.

Just had a read of that. This is what got my attention.

Corke died in 1992 a month before his 41st birthday, by which time he had gone without sleep for six months

Holy crap. What a horrible way to go.

Cool_CM · 16-01-2012 12:17AM

Managed just over 68 hours during my last week in college, the last few hours of which were spent at our end of year night out drinking. Then slept for about 4 hours and had to get up to Belfast for the day. Got back and slept for about 20 hours.

Stayed awake with help from coffee, red bull, cigarettes, chocolate milk, toasted sandwiches, regular showers and the fear of missing final deadlines and failing. Wasn't healthy or fun at all, but I got everything done and it all worked out.

I don't think I could or would want to ever do it again.

ringadingding · 16-01-2012 12:27AM

3 nights and 4 days without a Sniff of sleep in Vegas, it was mental, the state of me afterwards though..........
Was there for the Hatton mayweather fight with 7 mates, we had a ' party like ozzy osbourne' challenge, on the 4th day I got 2nd place after pouring my coke remnants away and giving up, apparently less than 5 minutes later the winner was snoring beside me too.
Never again

Underground · 16-01-2012 12:36AM

where do i go from here wrote: »

Does being in a coma count?

Your username is quite apt.

Have you just woken up from one?

Randy Anders · 16-01-2012 12:44AM

About 70 hours. I lost my mind around the 48 hour mark when psychosis kicked in

It was when they sold that bzp **** in the headshops, that stuff was really really awful. Now mephedrone, there's a good headshop drug!

Longest period you have gone without sleep?

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