What is the longest you've stayed awake?

[brainsmile]

I mean without a nap or sleep. Perhaps a brief state of dementia is ok. :D Why did you stay up so long? Mine is about 3 days. Finals in college

[Nija]

3 days... partyin' minus alcohol, but full off Xtc, speed, caffeine and cigs.... i slept for the 4th day....

[jase71]

Somewhere between 70-80 hours. I don't remember how many because I don't recall falling asleep.

I just remember waking up in my car in the driveway, with no recollection of how I got there.

[GraingerGuy]

hmmm...I'm a lightweight compared to you guys....

My longest ever was only around 30 hours.

[cruelpupet]

50+

not sure of the exact amount ti was over 5 years ago

[IrishSS]

the better part of 4 days. Was right at graduation. Camped out the night before, then all night party, then more partys... Was really weird feeling at the end. When I was looking at somethin, I could focus on it for a second or so, then it would slowly fade to gray. Was pretty cool, but I decided I should go to bed then... =)

[oblongmelon]

woodstock 99
stayed 5 days, slept only one..i barely remember the last day of the damn thing i was so exhausted.

[Ladogaboy]

Originally posted by cruelpupet
50+


:stupid:

One of my friends has stayed awake for 8 days without sleep, but he is a freak. He only needs about 2 hours of sleep to be fully functional the next day, and he often goes 3+ days in a row without sleep. And he doesn't really have anything to do. :disa:

[Burzhui]

49 hrs, i was fixing a computer

[hapoo]

2+ days
I can't function at all if i don't sleep.

[jujubees]

~75 hours.

Midterms, international flight, wedding.

I stayed up two days studying for a midterm, took the exam, then hurried home so we could get to the airport on time. Boarded the flight and was ready to sleep, but something was wrong with the circulation, and it was a good 95 degrees in the back of the plane ... way too uncomfortable to sleep. :rolleyes:

Arrived in Europe at 8am the next day, and wanted to avoid jet lag so stayed awake ALLLLL DAY. I finally gave up around 8pm and zonked out for 30 minutes, before the bride and groom showed up to chat until midnight. Boy, was I grumpy. :P

[pagemap]

I have actually never stayed awake a full day. The longest in my guess is probably about 19 hours.

[faither]

3+ days. Buffoonery. Not recommended.

[irwin]

No more than 22 or 23 hours. Geez you guys are freaking insane.

[brain]

I guess I can clock in at 50 hours. I went to prom... was up until the wee hours of the morning, then had to get ready for my sister's wedding... and partied into the wee hours of the morning again.

[brainsmile]

Originally posted by pagemap
I have actually never stayed awake a full day. The longest in my guess is probably about 19 hours. :bonk:

[brain]

Originally posted by passwird
No more than 22 or 23 hours. Geez you guys are freaking insane.

You just wait till you get to college or start taking speed. Whichever comes first.

[brainsmile]

Originally posted by brain


You just wait till you get to college or start taking speed. Whichever comes first. :stupid:

[StonedWheat]

60 hours. I went to 2 raves and went to work 3 times, then went to a family dinner. Nowadays I'm awake for about 12-14 hours a day. How sad is that?

[NuTs62]

Originally posted by Burzhui
49 hrs, i was fixing a computer

heh.. just *one* computer? was this like an XT? or an old mainframe? did you have to crank some shaft to give it power?

[NuTs62]

Originally posted by passwird
No more than 22 or 23 hours. Geez you guys are freaking insane.

you young'un.. :passwird: :P


i'd say the longest i've stayed up is maybe 40-55 hrs.. not sure, it was prolly a few years ago..

one time i stayed up like 2 or 3 straight nights.. Win95 was just being released.. was preparing the store for a huge rush of people.. heh, even remember going to behind Egghead getting their empty boxes to use as displays, so people wouldn't steal the actual products.

[Raider007]

close to 48 hours...alittle too much driving, some school, an airport trip and some sight seeing...i slept for like 2 days after that to catch up i was so friggin tired.

[revil]

Sleep? That's a thing of the past.

[topane]

I can think of one occasion where I was up for around 50 hours. There was a guy in me and hoey's dorm my freshman year in college who tried to stay awake for a week because he wanted to "see what it was like". I think he made it almost 4 days then slept for about 20 hours.

[Burzhui]

Originally posted by NuTs62


heh.. just *one* computer? was this like an XT? or an old mainframe? did you have to crank some shaft to give it power?

nope everything on my computer decided to go ape**** at once, had to peice files bite by bite... had an old backup which didn't contain what i needed, HD was 30 gigs

[mcs328]

1. Hmmm...Prom about 30 hours.
2. Went to work all day, clubbing then drove to go snowboarding and back home again ... 40 hours.

Not that long compared to some of you insomniacs!! :P

[DoPeY5007]

5 Days, when I was in HS... one day we saw 4 movies in the theatre, and only paid for 2 :angel:

[brainsmile]

:eek:

[ApltnHkyMutt]

15 minuts... life is so boring that i must sleep every 5 minuts :eek:

[Lothar]

im gonna hafta say a couple days, those sleepovers where you dont sleep at all for a couple days is the best ive done

[ufcrusher]

My longest time awake had to be 3.75 days. (I didnt quite make it, but was damn close to a full 4 days awake.) I was staying up to cram for a bunch of finals and when it was over I couldnt sleep because I was too wired.

After a bit I decided that I was so close to being awake for 4 straight days that I figured why not go for it. So I sat down on my couch and started watching some TV....thats all she wrote. I must of passed out because the next thing I know is that my roommate is shaking me asking me why I am wasting electricity. It was something like 6 hours later or so, he had been at work. I turned off everything and went upstairs and passed out till the next day.

One of my buddies who went to Swarthmore and is now at Berkeley routinely stays up for 3 days takes a nap for an hour and then goes another couple of days. (He is working in the physics lab and grading papers) I dont know how he does it, he is just an animal.

[molecularfire]

Six and a half day, then passed out. Not for anything useful, just because of a bet. The record is 11 days. Unfortunately, I didn't break it. :(

[gaemul]

48 hrs playing civilization II

[whitak24]

i think my longest consecutive is around 38 hours. it was my last week of college, and i had this insanely complicated advertising group project to do with an insanely stupid group. being a procrastinator, plus having to do most of the heavy lifting for the project myself, we ended up working for about 24 hours straight (from 12:30 pm sunday to 12:30 pm monday. in that time, i took maybe 1.5 hours worth of breaks).

so i was up from about 7 am on a sunday until 9 pm the next night. i worked so hard that when i finally got home the next night, i just sat down on the couch and slept till the next morning.

usually, even if i'm up the whole night, i'll take a 1 hour nap around 2:30 am -- that gives me enough strength to be thinking well enough to work. less sleep then that and i end up being fairly unproductive.

[Jihforce]

48 hrs probably...Gotta thank Leon for coming over to play video games haahaaa.

[tupacboy]

personally mines about 3 days during finals... but my friend (tweek head) stayed up like 12-16 days because of tweek... she only stopped cause she ran out of money... scary part being... the first day was the first time she tried it... loved it... and kept going... i'm too scared of that shizznit to even try...

[hapoo]

:disa:

I don't know what it is but once the sun goes down i get this urge to program, and before i know it the suns out again... AND THE FREAKIN' PROGRAM STILL DOESN'T WORK :angry:

[attgig]

Originally posted by Burzhui
49 hrs, i was fixing a computer

LOL
that made me laugh :)

for me?
eh, too many projects in college and too much just messin around, that I really don't know..
couple days...

but yeah, hearing about all you guys saying how weirdly dimented your mind gets - man, brings back good memories :P

I love that feeling - if you don't get your REM cycles - you start dreaming while you're awake.... - cool stuff :)

[pagemap]

Originally posted by Burzhui


nope everything on my computer decided to go ape**** at once

OMG you are cracking me up

[Ladogaboy]

Originally posted by molecularfire
The record is 11 days.

Hehe, I was going to try and get my friend to break that record, but he said that he started hallucinating after 8 days... :heh:

[molecularfire]

Man... I didn't even last 8 days. However, I didn't start hallucinating. My mind, however, was quite gone. That and I couldn't do anything that required any amount of coordination to save my life. :)

[brainsmile]

:heh: too funny

[ZrEo0]

80+ hours, weekend event