Longest You've Gone Without Sleep?

[Felisity]

72+ (no idea of the exact number) I slept for almost 18 hour straight after it was over.

Was finishing my third year product design prototypes / presentation and probably took maybe 2-3 fifteen minute power naps during that time-frame. A number of college majors have courses that end up forcing a student to pull multiple all-nighters, because the projects are massive and have so little time for completion.

This particular project was a camcorder re-design sponsored by Hitachi. Good stuff, almost the whole class got A's we all did so well.

 

[AVAFREAK182]

52 hours. I slept for a whole day.

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: MixMasterTang

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Less than 20 hours. All nighters are overrated and stupid.

If you've never pulled an all nighter then how can you definately say they are overrated and stupid?

I've pulled quite a few 40+ hour stretches with no sleep.

That's absolutely horrible logic. In your logic, if you've never committed suicide, how can you be against it?

Anyways ~48 hours, back when I was young and had my first gf, stayed up all night on the phone and ended up with a 6000+ minute cell phone bill.

 

[cirrhosis]

Over three days, I know that much. Not sure of the exact hours because it all blended together. I remember by the end of the third day I was hearing sounds and voices that weren't there.

I was cramming two 15 page papers into five days - I was taking two classes by the same professor during a summer session. I had done all of the research earlier in the class, I just had to pull my notes and my addled brain together to formulate two readable and well-thought-out papers. One was on the Temples of Love at Khajuraho for a Love and World Religions course, and the other was a muse and an extrapolation on Kant and a priori forms of knowledge. I ended up getting them both done, earning an A on both papers. No idea of when I exactly went to bed, I certainly don't remember laying down and closing my eyes - I think I just zonked out.

 

[CptCrunch]

about 36-40 hours... lan party

 

[davestar]

i haven't slept for 10 days... because that would be too long.

 

[oddyager]

maybe 30-36 hours while in college.

 

[Quasmo]

I didn't sleep for 4 days once. by the end I felt like I had alzheimers, I'd doze off for 1-2 seconds, wake up, and have no idea where I was, or what I was doing.

 

[Kanalua]

Went on a Vegas trip and didn't sleep for at least two and a half days...we had complementary full access SPA passes at the Luxor. So me and couple of my friends would just hit the SPA every morning around 3-6 in the morning...felt like we had got a full 8 hours of sleep both time we went...

For graduation from High School, I stayed up at least 48 hours...prepping for graduation and then project graduation afterwards...that was nuts...slept for 24 hours straight after that...

 

[compman25]

8 days. doing drugs.

 

[Modelworks]

About 50 hours.
Had a project deadline to make.
Although it didn't help much because towards the end I was making so many mistakes it was counterproductive . I was working from home and doing things like, putting the tv remote in the refrigerator and almost throwing the cat in the dryer on permanent press

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
First day of Marine Corps boot camp. Got up at 0400, took the ride there, didnt sleep that night, not until the following night did we hit the rack, at 2100. And I had the first hour of firewatch, ugh sucked so bad. So I guess around 40. I was pretty exhausted, which is exactly what they want at that time.

Ive had watch a few times, for over 30 hours in a row, but generally got a few hours sleep with the buddy system.

I know that feeling.
I was in the navy and standing watch after a hard days training is one of the worst experiences I remember.
Especially if your near barracks and people are sleeping behind you and you have to stand there listening to them and stay awake.

 

[sdifox]

74 hours... Take long showers, eat large amount of food. You are good as new. This was like 10 years ago though, so I am not sure I can pull it off again.

 

[lupi]

Around 60. You'll feel the I need to sleep wall hit ya around the 30's, but can go on a good bit longer once it passes. Of course at that time your body chemicals start to go out of whack and you can feel yourself no longer being quite lucid.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: Squisher
Cocaine is ah helluva drug!

Took the ASCII out of my fingers.

 

[Kadarin]

About 35 hours.

 

[Vidda]

51 hours at the end of last semester for 4 tests + 18 pages worth of papers.

 

[Eos]

I used to work nights. Mon through Fri, 5p - 5a.
I would wake up around 1-2 pm on Friday, work all night, then not go to bed and stay up late on Saturday.
This was done 2-3 weeks per month.

So, 34-38 hours of awake time multiple times per month.

No more.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

I have some pretty harsh insomnia. I was going for well over a year on less than 3 hours of sleep a night. I still have trouble getting more than one REM cycle at a time (ie I wake up about every hour, every night). I can't even remember how long I went without sleep. For a while there, I was in a daze, not awake, not asleep. It was really frustrating. I've probably gone a couple days without any sleep, but I've gone years without good/much sleep.