What's the longest you slept for?

beks101 · 03-02-2014 09:00AM #1

Yesterday I came off a long stint of night shifts. Added to that I've been on antibiotics for a throat infection, hadn't eaten properly in a few days because of that, and was emotionally exhausted because of other life-related stuff.

Met a friend for breakfast yesterday morning, went to bed at about 1pm Sunday afternoon and woke a few wee hours ago at 6am.

I'm hugely confused, Ted.

That's a solid 17 hours' kip. A personal best for me.

What's the longest you've slept?

FURET · 03-02-2014 09:05AM

Also 17 hours after a week of 12-hr night shifts way back when I was 20. No medication though - just exhaustion!

sovereign121 · 03-02-2014 09:06AM

You lucky lucky b*stard. Im still looking at the ceiling waiting for last night's sleep to arrive

dancrowley · 03-02-2014 09:10AM

26 hours!

I had a number of days' traveling under my belt, after a prolonged period on a busy project. I don't recall waking up for even a minute during that snooze, but I did wake up juuuust in time for dinner on Christmas day! :pac:

Skatedude · 03-02-2014 09:13AM

No fair, I work shifts and i'm lucky to average 2 hours sleep a night. Dont remember the last time i got 8 hours or more.

Gyalist · 03-02-2014 09:15AM

"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death." - Nas (New York State of Mind)

Drexel · 03-02-2014 09:19AM

Got back from oxegen a few years ago, and slept from around 1pm Monday right through until 5-6am Wednesday. I hadn't slept for nearly 4 days tho. I got up for a piss at some stage so I dunno does it count

BanzaiBk · 03-02-2014 09:21AM

16 hours straight also after a few days of 12 hour overnights. So satisfying.

beks101 · 03-02-2014 09:26AM

26 hours!!! That's amazing, well done you.
It was completely dead sleep too, which is so rare for me, usually a gust of wind will wake me.
Had my phone up to the loudest volume and missed 5 work calls, a few from my boyfriend and the mammy.
Like a lump of dead wood.
Bizarre!

Ronster29 · 03-02-2014 09:29AM

30 hours after a week of beering, college life you are missed.... :'(

Meangadh · 03-02-2014 09:29AM

Gyalist wrote: »

"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death." - Nas (New York State of Mind)

I'm pretty sure no sleep is the cousin of death, at least that's what it feels like when you regularly can't sleep. Which for me is a lot recently

Penny Tration · 03-02-2014 09:30AM

16 hours after being put on some medication that fcuking knocked me out.

Unmedicated - about 10 hours. Average - 4,maybe 5.

Umekichi · 03-02-2014 09:31AM

14 hours while having a horrendous migraine(I find sleep is always the best cure, with mine anyway).

FairytaleGirl · 03-02-2014 09:32AM

Once I took 4 Uni Flu and slept for 28hours.

Woke up with no flu though!

greenbicycle · 03-02-2014 09:32AM

Does a medically induced coma count? If so, eleven days! mad dreams during that "sleep"!

Other than that, nothing of significance really

Musefan · 03-02-2014 09:35AM

17 hours after my last leaving cert exam!

Mint Sauce · 03-02-2014 09:59AM

Remember once as a teenager sleeping for about 16 hrs, after what was only planned as a nap after an 18-20 journey envolving a few coaches and a ferry crossing.

Occasionally now I might sleep for about 12-14 hrs if I have been on nights. Generally though a nights sleep would be a maximum of 7-8.

dd972 · 03-02-2014 10:21AM

Gyalist wrote: »

"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death." - Nas (New York State of Mind)

Quoted just before he dropped dead of exhaustion at 26 :pac:

playedalive · 03-02-2014 10:30AM

I have slept for about 14-15 hours in one go. If I'm really tired, I tend to take short sleeps on the coach for about an hour and nap.

osarusan · 03-02-2014 10:59AM

I used to ask this question to my students as it opend up the topic of sleeping and health for a more general discussion/vocabulary building exercise.

One time, I asked it, and got the usual answers - 12 hours, 13, 15 hours after travel ('Do you know the word "jetlag"?'). Then one guy said '36 hours', and we all just kind of went quiet, wondering if anybody would call him on what we assumed was bullsh!t.

Then he told a story about an incident when he was a member of the Japanese Self Defence Force, and his helicopter had crashed into the ocean. He'd bailed out on a lifeboat, but had to wait something like 7 days to be rescued, and didn't sleep at all for that time (understandably).

03-02-2014 11:03AM

About 20 hours I think, when had swine flu. Horrible mental dreams were had.

meoklmrk91 · 03-02-2014 11:07AM

I believe somewhere around 16 or 17 hours was my record.

Cupcake_Crisis · 03-02-2014 12:12PM

About 14 hours after a particularly traumatic flight to Canada. Had been awake for the guts of 2 days. Zero craic. Or once when I had a particularly bad bout of the flu I crawled into bed on a Monday and emerged some time on the Thursday.

saintsaltynuts · 03-02-2014 12:15PM

24 Hours solid after a trip to Vegas.

NTMK · 03-02-2014 12:16PM

36hrs hadnt slept in about a week prior to that though

What's the longest you slept for?

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