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

[Cavernio]

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

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]

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Two days a long time ago...

nothing special just couldn't sleep that one time.

[A2P]

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~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]

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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.

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]

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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]

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"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]

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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]

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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]

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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]

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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 ;_;

[Syhto]

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i never wake up O_O

[leonid]

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About 40 hours while cramming for a final exam. Took a litre of redbull (almost threw up. not recommended)

On an extremely busy week I went awake for like four days with a total of 5 hours of sleep. I almost killed myself.. Passed out for 18 hours straight right after I'm done.

[8 Hour Whore]

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184 hours which is 7 days and 16 hours. I did it while in FFR MP when it was alive. Probably the most ignorant thing I did. Thinking if I showed my determination I would become an MP mod. Loss of motor skills made it impossible to go any further. Not to mention the crazy shit I was seeing.

[EzExZeRo7497]

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39 hours. Had to stay up all night because of some school overnight program, it felt terrible going to sleep though, had to shake off all of the restlessness.

[Evascythe]

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40 hours

never tried to beat it