How long have you gone w/o sleep? Tell me your stories.

[iCeCuBEz v2]

Originally Posted by darkshark

Just under 5 days. I actually ended up going to the doctor about it because I just didn't feel tired ever. My body just kept going and rarely felt sleepy. I was prescribed some sleeping meds that knocked me out for a day and a half.

4 days for me for the exact same reason

and ofc anytime i go to a music festival i am awake the entire time

[rushyrulz]

I have never been awake for 24 consecutive hours before.

[kommisar]

most i've stayed up is 40 hours. I had insomnia when I was younger and I'd often pull all-nighters even during school days, just to play counter-strike and drink bawls.


I'd feel all twitchy and paranoid haha.

[Jerry DB]

a little over 100 hours. I was in 4th grade and my friends parents lived in this tight ass house by the country. His parents left for a 4 days for a vacation and were cool with me staying with my buddy zach the whole time. We decided to stay up the whole time they were gone. I remember at one point we were playing hide and seek and I went in his parents closet and there were a bunch of sex toys and videos and stuff. Towards the end we also convinced ourselves there was a werewolf under the house, we definitely got delirious haha

[Tristana]

staying up for 100 hours in 4th grade is the manliest thing i've in the past 4 years

congrats jerry wow



should've taken photos of the werewolf btw

e: around 75 hours now, after i submit my paper i'm gonna sleep til tomorrow morning n take a midterm/work on a paper after

[Jerry DB]

haha thanks, I certainly wouldn't have been able to do it if it wasn't for the competition and having a friend there. We were literally too scared to go outside even if we had a camera though.

[Crazyjayde]

In the last year or so I've been pulling a ton of all-nighters because of my art projects. Normally, when I stay a whole night awake, it's for friends or something. (Friends include: staying awake watching funny cat videos alone)

Thing is, the only times I've gone farther than 2 days occurs at random, normally when I venture into the night. Last time I believe was at the local LAN party (which sucked badly). I hadn't slept the previous day and decided to head there without any sort of preparation. Quite the adventure I must say.

When I'm in need for sleep (Need For Sleep 2: Most Wanted), I often experience distortion in perception and visual hallucinations. The slow-motion or sped-up sensation is the worst, happens every time. And I'd like to have some lucid dreaming one day, seems cool.

I don't like sleeping. It feels like I overlap on my awake life.

[lumphoboextreme]

Most for me would probably be about 2 days for some college paper I put off for way too long... Bad decision. Would not do again.

[i heart candy]

2 days for me. I blame the internet.

[Hakulyte]

68 hours, lan party(at school with 50+ people) nearly nonstop. Won 3 tournaments(Red Alert 3, Trackmania and Unreal Tournament) and improved scores on stepmania after 48 hours mark (apparently I'm a lot more consistent when I'm tired because my hands are all jello. It makes me not tense up or overthinking while seeing patterns). I remember at the end thinking all the time that there was people behind me, having serious tunnel vision, being numb and trying all the time to not move too much to avoid wasting energy. I also didn't eat during the 2nd and 3rd day somehow. Not exactly the wisest thing to do, but I don't regret it 'cause the people at that place were really cool, everything was fun and I didn't really want to miss anything. I slept like 16 hours after it and it took me 3 days to completely recover, but whatever.

[Cavernio]

I stayed up all night for prom, but even then I don't think I quite reached 24 hours.
During school once or twice I'd sleep for an hour or 2 in the middle of the night and get up at 5 or 6, but that doesn't count.

[G.S.M]

Two days a long time ago...

nothing special just couldn't sleep that one time.

[A2P]

~85 hours

I also crashed and slept for 15, then 11 the next day

EDIT: on a side note though, you really should try sleeping right now, as 5 days (120 hours) without sleep is nearing the danger territory, which iirc is 7 days. dont worry about being a man. SLEEP NOW! then lie about staying up on the internet later

[Spenner]

Originally Posted by MrPopadopalis25

Dude, you should tell me these things. >__>

I know, I've been a dumb secluded hermit for the whole summer basically, I think I just have to readjust after being sick and diseased for so long x__x ~ or perhaps embarrassed, for some reason, which has held me back from telling people :I lame.

Originally Posted by MrPopadopalis25

Best part though is finally laying down after it's all over and thinking "ahh, I can sleep now" and then passing out and entering a dreamless sleep that when you awake it's now the next day and you can eat leftover chinese food.

Yessssss~~~

[Choofers]

I think the longest I've gone was a week or so, I feel into a pretty heavy depression during a field training exercise when I was in the Army and had crazy insomnia because of it.

[Cavernio]

"I've been working hard to try to fix it since the massive panic attack I had; it really made me start to associate the feeling of falling unconscious/sleeping with the feeling of dying/passing out beyond my control."

A friend of mine managed to keep himself conscious while falling asleep (he'd been trying to do it for awhile), and he said it felt like he was dying and it freaked him out a ton. Pretty sure he hasn't tried doing it again because it was such a horrible experience. Perhaps it will help to think that all sleep might in fact feel like death?
At the very least it shows that obtaining control over your mind at the moment of sleep is possible, so maybe you can work that to your advantage somehow.

[awein999]

I haven't stayed up more than like 44 hours at one time but I have stayed up between 24-40 hours too many times. Mostly poker sessions somewhere. Sometimes just gaming in general. I'm the marathon type. I played Super Mario Rpg for the first time when I was like 15 and beat that all in one sitting without leaving the chair which was about 23 hours. Right after I beat it I realized I REALLY REALLY needed to pee and I was extremely thirsty.

PS I do remember I did the VROFL challenge too haha.

[jprox445]

Shit just remembered I had stayed up for almost 5 days a couple weeks ago after drinking almost 40oz of Vodka, Couldn't sleep because I got alcohol Poisoning and I had a mild case of insomnia.

I slept for 16 hours after I finally fell asleep.

[Bluearrowll]

About 30 hours. Woke up at 6pm to do night shift until 8am, and then went straight to the airshow last year until 4pm, didn't come home until around 7, made dinner, and then crashed around midnight.

[PrawnSkunk]

48 Hours. not too exciting - I aim to fix that soon.

Woke up, snowboarded with a friend from first chair through until the mountain closed, pulled an all nighter and then played Vidya Games together for 24 hours straight the next day.

Even though it was only 48 hours ... oh god, that feel ;_;