What's the longest you've ever stayed awake?

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I once met someone at a party who claimed he'd stayed awake for over a month during his senior year of high school. I'm not sure that's actually possible, so I assume he dozed off occasionally and wasn't aware of it.

Anyway, my record is a pathetic 50 hours. How about you?

― Justyn Dillingham, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

probably less than that. a couple days. 1 time i hallucinated a police road block that disappeared as i approached it, & some dinosaur like creatures in a field, & stuff like that, from sleep deprivation, while driving a car. i know that isnt very cool, i mean i shouldnt 've been driving in that state but those were some pretty great hallucinations.

― unknown or illegal user, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Errr... from 8 am on the Friday through to midnight on Sunday. The result of a plane being delayed 22 hours. I managed to read Lolita in one sitting.

― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I took a flight from Perth to London on the pride of Russia "Areoflot Airlines". It took 3 days, the air con was buggered and it was a smoking flight. As an added bonus it went through just about every obscure old communist bloc airport on the globe. Needless to say I didnt sleep much-maybe the odd half an hour, then arrived in London to get a pill shoved down my throat - Id say close to 4 days with very little sleep. You kind of just go past a certain point of tierdness and are able to maintain that level of lucidness for quite a while. Yawn Im off to bed.

― Kiwi, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Earlier answers to this question.

And those from another plain

― N., Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I once met someone at a party who claimed he'd stayed awake for over a month during his senior year of high school."

He's lying unless he was extreme amounts of speed and if he was then you would know about it NOW, because he would be SEVERELY damaged by the experience (and I mean SEVERELY).

I've gone about 3 days on nothing ('cept maybe coffee), maybe 4 days when I was Wellbutrin (7 if you count the fact that I didn't really sleep when I dozed for 2 hours on the previous days--that shit is fucking AWFUL yr better off dying from LUNG CANCER than taking it) and maybe 4-5 days when on crystal before coming to my senses and deciding that I'd rather get fired (which I promptly did) then fuck around with moving my apartment at nite and working two jobs during the daytime.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm crap at staying awake. i stayed awake for ooh probably about 36 hours once, when i stayed up all night and then had lectures/classes the next day, and deliberately didn't go to bed at like 1pm because i didn't want to muck my body clock around. but i'd rather go to bed and according to my mum even when i was a baby was always moaning to go to bed when i should have been running around hyperactively like a normal child.

― katie, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

48 hours. On various occasions. Those hallucinations are great at the end - but sadly I don't have the discipline (nor drugs) to keep much longer than that. hah

― nathalie, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Probably about 36 hours, a few times in the last while. Go out clubbing on Saturday, go to a party and stay dancing for a while then begin drinking on Sunday and come home that evening. I don't like doing it, it's all overkill really.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

85 - 90 hours. I was fully hallucinating and a bit paranoid and really, really cold - even though it was a warm day. I was all fuzzy too. I'm pretty sure I was having second long power-naps without knowing about it though. They didn't stop me from going mad though.

― toraneko, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

12 hours (including some 5 minute cat naps).

― lawrence kansas, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

46 hours. No hallucinations but I was seriously considering hUgGleZing the Pinefox towards the end of it. My parents were out when I got home and I didn't have a key so I managed to fall asleep on the concrete back doorstep in the sun. And felt very, very cold.

― Graham, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh, yes - just recently I had a (trauma-induced) bout in which I got maybe 4 hours of sleep within a three or four day period. I became completely psychotic, paranoid and delusional. I never thought I'd lose my mind - well, now I certainly know what that is like.

― fmr regular, Tuesday, 18 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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