Whats the longest you've ever stayed awake?

[Sumguy]

I'm approaching 31 hours right now. Woke up Sunday morning, had to wait for a friend to call me for a ride back to college. Sat around on my ass not wanting to sleep because I'd probably sleep through the ring and be fucked.

Got a call at 5:00AM (lol) saying to meet up near his house and then were set (6 hour drive from his place to school). Got back around 11:15, had class in thirty minutes so figured I'd just go. Remembered I had a quiz at 4PM, crammed (well, what you can call cram after being awake for a day) for that only to find out my teacher isn't a douche and is giving us some time to remember the material.

Can't really sleep now because I don't feel tired, and it would fuck up my schedule (more) if I went to sleep now anyway.


Sidenote: seeing the sun go down then rise again is awkward. Seeing it multiple times is disorienting

 

[Glitchny]

I'm not sure exactly how long it was, but somewhere around 51-53 hours.

 

[eldorado99]

Somewhere around 48 hours I guess, I sure felt like crap but it wasn't as hard as I thought it might be.

 

[Q]

Less than 24 hours, I can't not sleep.

 

[JohnCU]

somewhere around 48 hours without any sleep but probably 65-70 hours with only a couple of hours of sleep.

 

[amdhunter]

between 42 and over 9000.

 

[MoPHo]

55 and some change. Once you hit 48 your mind really starts fucking with you.

 

[TallBill]

Probably around 35 or something, I dunno.

 

[JohnCU]

55 and some change. Once you hit 48 your mind really starts fucking with you.

they had a statistic at work the other day that said going 24 hours without sleep is the same impairment as driving with a 0.08 BAC. or something like that.

 

[TridenT]

Maybe 24? I get bored fast and lose interest in staying up any later. Usually there is nothing to do, but if I was like playing a game with someone and it was just fucking fun the whole time.. 24 would be cake.

 

[Ultralight]

27 hours while in college. I did something I swore I'd never do and pull an all-nighter for a final. The biggest mistake was that I fell asleep for 30 minutes before the test started. Lucky that I had a friend wake me.

Completing the test was an arduous process and somehow I got an A. But ever since then my left eye will get a twitch when I get tired.

 

[Heller]

ultrafest 2008, 4 days of not stop rolling rolling rolling .......

best four days of my fucking life'

 

[Oil]

Probably 36 hours

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

54 hours one summer in middle school. I wanted to see how long I could stay up... and that was the answer. By the end of it, I thought a good method of staying awake would be to rest on a couch with my eyes closed in the dark.

 

[Barfo]

around 40

 

[shortylickens]

In the Navy, on deployment, I put in many 36-hour work days. And sleep in between those days was only an hour at a time.

 

[Friendo]

In the Navy, on deployment, I put in many 36-hour work days. And sleep in between those days was only an hour at a time.

That really hurts the liver.

 

[CrackRabbit]

41 hours. I was starting to hear things near the end of it, the worst part was I knew the sounds I was hearing were not real. Was rather surreal.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Around 95 hours give or take. Used to work an overnight shift 7 days on 7 days off every other week, shift was about 12 hours long. I'd try to adjust my sleep schedule on my "off week" so I could be up during the day, usually by the 2nd day of my off week, my sleep would be totally fvcked up, and I got into the habit of staying up for 2 or 3 days in a row without sleep. A couple of times were really bad, and I didn't sleep for 4 days. That schedule really messed with me. I now sleep every night at least 4 or 5 hours, but usually 6-7 hours. And weekends now I get a solid 8. It's nice.

Edit: addition
Also, I would sometimes sleep for 20+ hours straight during that "year of the fvcked up sleep schedule."

 

[chin311]

adderall will keep you up, probably 48-60 hrs

 

[Praxis1452]

2 1/2 days, or 5 days, 6 hours of sleep.

 

[insect9]

52 hours doing a sleep deprivation experiment in high school years ago.

 

[shortylickens]

That really hurts the liver.

I'm pretty sure all the drinking I did in every port was much worse.

 

[bobsmith1492]

36-42 or so

 

[DrPizza]

Pulled 3 consecutive all-nighters. I started hallucinating toward the end. I still remember having a flashlight in my hand - as I waved it around, a little ball of light circled it like a moon going around the earth.