What's the longest you have slept?

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Red Dawn

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Originally posted by: guyver01
about a year ago... i went to Florida on vacation.... plane left NY at 8am.... had to be at the airport by 6am.... and i worked that night... 3p-midnight. i usually dont go to sleep till 3am.... so i decided to stay up... didn't go to sleep that night in florida until 2am... so i was up from 9am on friday.. till 2am on sunday... went to sleep at 2am... and woke up at 6pm.... so... 18hrs sleeping straight.
Just trying... to read this post... nearly put me... to sleep!
 

MichaelD

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About 7 years ago, I had a bad case of Gastroenternitis (sp?) basically, it's the ultimate stomach flu. 102+ fever, stuff coming out of both ends :)P) dizziness, complete inability to eat or drink ANYTHING. I mean, so bad that I was retching so hard that I....well, lost control of the other end. As hard as I tried, I couldn't control it. As soon as I'd go to lay down to try to sleep, I'd feel it try to come out of eithe end....didn't sleep for two days. :(

So, yes, I did go the hospital.

They gave me IV fluids and sent me home with some Promethazine (Phenergan) to help control the nausea. After another day of being THAT sick, I popped about 3-4 of those things. I slept for somewhere b/t 22-24 hours straight. What woke me was my housemate banging on the door. He thought I'd died! The smell+no sound for a whole day straight. Anyway, that's the longest I've slept. I guess it was a combination of exhaustion and drug-induced sleep. Whatever.


That's my story. Sorry for the gory detail, but it was necessary...gotta keep it all in context, you know. :p
 

majewski9

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Once I tried to stay up for 3 days in the dorms. Finally on the third day I passed out for 20 hours.
 

RaynorWolfcastle

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After a trip on which I got precious little sleep, when I got home I went to sleep. It was about 2:30 when I got to sleep, I woke up around 3:00... I thought it was weird that I had only got 30 mins of sleep since I felt so refreshed and it felt longer than half an hour. I then realized I had been sleeping for 24 hours and 30 mins :eek:
 

Glitchny

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Originally posted by: TheEvil1
i slept for 23 hours the summer between my junior and senior year in HS

i witnessed this so i can verify it. and nothing short of a bomb in his room was gonna wake him up either

glitch
 

no0b

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24 hous after a 24 hour lan party.

It was my first all night lan party and I had just gotten over an ear infection.
 

MustangSVT

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15hrs.

i forgot if this was from a movie or some documentary,,, but i hear those navyseal guys sleep for few days after hellweek:confused:
 

Bignate603

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Originally posted by: no0b
24 hous after a 24 hour lan party.

It was my first all night lan party and I had just gotten over an ear infection.

I slept for 19 hours after a 24 hour lan party but I had been up for maybe 12 hours before that. After I slept for 19 hours I got up, was awake for about 4 hours and went to bed for a full 8 hours again. My parents were convinced something was seriously wrong with me.
 

MazerRackham

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I stayed up all night on a NYE a few years ago (Rose Parade route in Pasadena), and I went to bed around noon on the 1st. I woke up on Jan 2nd at 2pm!!! I slept for 26 hours straight, really! That was SOOOO weird, since when I woke up I initially thought that I had only slept 2 hours :) Needless to say it took a whole other day and a half before I felt normal again
 

Vinny N

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25 hours after 72 hours awake (was on 33.6k dial-up connection monitoring downloads from an FTP site).
 

Evadman

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I once lost a day after working 38 hours straight ( with 3 hour long power naps in my truck )
 

The Dancing Peacock

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I think it was 16-18 hours, but I don't remember the reason. I slept 13 hours a couple weeks, ago, but that wasn't for anything special either, except that I had been sick. .