What's the longest period of time you have gone without sleep?

[JoeKing]

3 or 4 days. Final college finals, with papers and moving out....stress is a good sleep reliever.

 

[MystikMango]

~78 hours straight.

About 4 months with >4 hours sleep in any given 24hr period. That doesn't sound that bad until you do it. The hardest thing was the 4 hours I did get to sleep were never the same time during the day, it rotated. Thank you USN.

 

[RaymondY]

around 48 hrs

 

[Bassyhead]

maybe ~40 hours

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Couple of weeks, started hallucinating while I was driving, pulled over and finally was able to sleep for an hour or two.

you saying you were awake for weeks without any sort of sleep? I call BS because supposedly your body will die from lack of rest once you reach a certain point going without sleep...sort of like running a laptop's batteries dry with out plugging in to recharge from time to time...

 

[slackerinabox]

Four days and I collapsed on the forth day and slept in for around 18 hours... Not fun.. Not fun at all...

 

~96 hours.

 

[slpaulson]

Something like 40 hours when I went to Germany.

 

[beer]

About 30 hours. I don't like getting out of my sleep routine because it makes it hard to be productive for a few days.

 

[amcdonald]

Almost 7 days.
Accomplished with heavy usage of speed and acid.
Not recommended.

 

[brentman]

Several days. Insomnia is a real biatch. Oh well, whatcha gonna do.

 

only about 48ish at a lan before i took a nap. Alot of folks here are BS' ing and should mention naps.....

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Couple of weeks, started hallucinating while I was driving, pulled over and finally was able to sleep for an hour or two.

you saying you were awake for weeks without any sort of sleep? I call BS because supposedly your body will die from lack of rest once you reach a certain point going without sleep...sort of like running a laptop's batteries dry with out plugging in to recharge from time to time...

yea, after a week or two rats that are forced to stay awake die. humans dont cuz u sleep eventually against your will, as long as no ones drugging/torturing or whatever to force you awake forcefully. microsleeps you don't notice...which is why they are so dangerous.

 

[eplebnista]

~30 hours

 

[SaturnX]

Somewhere arond 72 or so...

--Mark

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteve
Couple of weeks, started hallucinating while I was driving, pulled over and finally was able to sleep for an hour or two.

you saying you were awake for weeks without any sort of sleep? I call BS because supposedly your body will die from lack of rest once you reach a certain point going without sleep...sort of like running a laptop's batteries dry with out plugging in to recharge from time to time...

yea, after a week or two rats that are forced to stay awake die. humans dont cuz u sleep eventually against your will, as long as no ones drugging/torturing or whatever to force you awake forcefully. microsleeps you don't notice...which is why they are so dangerous.

i went 2 weeks without sleep. no drugs, just urgency. i handed in over 200 pages of research papers (7 papers all total 200+ pages) and took 6 finals.

ended up that term with all B's.

i guess that's what i get for procrastinating.

 

[kage69]

Just shy of 3 days I believe. Started hearing and seeing things (got really dehydrated) and decided to take a 20hr. nap.

 

[stormbv]

sweetness, I got about 6 hours...I'm good to go.

 

[ManSnake]

16 hrs

 

[cressida]

Haven't gone too long without sleep, more like 3 days with a total of 6 hours of sleep.

 

[Kyteland]

72 hours.

I have no reason to attemp to break that record.

 

[SinnerWolf]

90ish, for wilderness survival training.

 

[prvteye2003]

probably close to 80 while pulling a 72 hour shift on the ambulance

 

[imported_Tomato]

3 days in college

 

[nan0bug]

9 and a half days. Methamphetamines are bad for you.