How long have you gone without sleep?

#90

I’ve broken my record! Stayed up from seven or eight am in the morning, did not go to sleep until 11am next day. That is, what…27 hours! That moves me up a category, doesn’t it? :happy:

And I only slept for two hours, then I was up again.

#91

i was up for 40 hours, i heard feet scampering on the roof and saw rain inside

#92

My record is 2 weeks. I sh*t you not. I ended up having a psychotic episode and having to goto hospital and get some liquid lithium to make me sleep but thats a whole nother story…

#93

wow. erm… congrats?

#94

yeah you start getting pretty delusional around that stage…

my sleeping record is also pretty long… everyday i will sleep for a good 12 hours, but i think the longest i’ve slept is about 36 hours. Thats with a couple of small breaks in between though… i.e. toilet, food, drink, etc.

#95

I find that hard to believe, as the official world record is 11 days.

Also… lithium is a reactive solid at all temperatures up to at least 100’C. Therefore the liquid metal would be very hot and very reactive. Surely you mean something else?

Otherwise, you win.

#96

Until now, it was about 30 hours.

I haven’t been able to truly sleep for the past three days…

Stupid stressful school coming back to haunt me when I want to sleep…

grumble

I’m not one to pull all-nighters (even when pumped full of caffeine)… I get drowsy at 3am and usually pass out around 4am.

I LIKE MY SLEEP.

#97

hah! well i guess i just topped the record…
although i can’t prove it im sure i could do it again (not that i want to)… its honestly not that hard (well for me anyway)… you get to a point where your past being tired… you no longer feel tired its like your mind becomes really switched on, like its been overclocked. I felt like I had mind-over-matter, and i did things that you would call ESP abilities, although it could have been coincidence or just plain delusion/hallucination I truly think it was mind-over-matter becoz thats exactly how i felt by that stage.

sorry i meant Valium… they sound so similar lol.

#98

I knew we had an old one that had a poll :smile: merged them together so you can use the existing poll :moogle:

My record is 38 hours.

As of right now, I’ve been awake for 35 hours. I’m trying to break my record.

#99

essentially 24 - 30 something

twice i have stayed up all night driving about 12 hours, then staying up all the day, arriving at destination in the morning,
:smile: it was fun, and the destination was a meditation retreat so i got to sleep and be refreshed in little spurts, but inevitably i would crash the day after fairly huge !
although i think the first or second time i may have gotten close to 48 without sleep sans meditation

#100

i think my longest was 37 hours…Obama had won the election- I couldnt sleep cuz i was so excited lol. I crashed reeeeally bad after that. Felt like the mother-of-all-hangovers. :sad:

#101

well to be honest with you i have gone through 43 and a half hours and lemme tell ya please dont keep going to the hallucionations start you will be awake for another 5 hours regreting that you have stayed up for the hallucionation. scary stuff even though i still do it some times :wink:

#102

Thanks for the replies, guys. Interesting stuff.

I’m pleased to announce I have broken my record. I’ve now gone without sleep for 39 hours and counting.

I wonder if I’ll be able to make it to 48 hours? :eek:

#103

Well, I made it to 41 hours yesterday, then I gave up.

I experienced drowsiness, inability to concentrate, mild euphoria/giddiness, irritability, and extremely mild occasional visual distortions.

#104

I think I’ve never gone longer than 22 hours or so. I never have the extra day to spare the results so I never try to stay up extremely long amounts. It could be beneficial for lucid dreaming though… much like the WBTB method.

#105

Reading this topic somehow makes me want to stay up.

But my family would probably think I’m on drugs. :tongue:

(They’re already suspicious of me always wanting to take out the trash. I think it’s fun! :grin: )

#106

Ooh, I didnt know this kind of thread did exist :cool_raz:

My longest period without sleep is currently 40 hours, and I really didnt like the vision you get after 30 hours without sleep :no:

#107

I stayed up 4 days straight once. I started avoiding mirrors because I would hallucinate my skin was glowning and falling off. I remember that just before I fell asleep, I hallucinated a man in a top hat in my room, asking me if I had the medicine. I didn’t know what he was reffering to, so I put my head under my covers. then I fell asleep.

#108

I stayed up for a full 3 days after I screwed up my sleep schedule on the fourth of July. On the final day I began to have some minor hallucinations. For instance, the clock ticking sounded more like a song to me, and shadows became dark, three dimensional moving creatures. :bored: I slept for a full 13 hours after that.

#109

About 2,5 days, felt a bit lightheaded for a couple of days afterward but that may have been for different reasons.
Now I’m having trouble staying up even one day… guess I’m getting old.