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

Of course, now I'm a lightweight. 19 hours and I'm starting to get droopy. Damn it all.

I'm an anaemiac. Without drink and drugs, I have trouble staying awake for more than 18 hours at a time. I think 36 hours was the most I managed. I was travelling at the time.

Oh, wait! unless you count manic episodes! I've had some manic episodes where I stay up for 2 or 3 days at a time. No one would believe I *wasn't* on drugs. No, mom, just get me a pepsi, I'm not on drugs. Just gimmee a pepsi. Next thing I know I'm at the local psychiatric clinic explaining how all I wanted was a pepsi, just one pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me.

bill

so the longest is about 40 hours i think, 2 weeks ago.
or maybe when i've flown abroad (13+ hour flights), but time gets a bit messy after that

up to 37 hours now. record is 40. will not be beating my record unless extraordinary things happen

i despise staying awake for a long time and start to hallucinate after about 24 hours. Longest is probably 7am one Friday morning to 3am on the Saturday. So 44? With the aid of about 6 ecstasy tablets.

are you writing about Oceansize or something, lj?

pulled an all-nighter last night while finishing this term's MA project; had dinner w/ friend tonight so couldn't get an early night; now on the cusp of oblivion

During a period of extreme distress and slight mania in 2007 I think I went through a few sessions of 24-30 hours without sleep: ie, i'd be up all day then stay up the entire night and some of the next morning, til I just crashed. But my mind was not right (drinking and smoking a shit ton helped. Or didnt. )

ok i'm out

wonder how long i sleep for

i've done about 40 quite a few times--getting up at a normal time one day, skipping a night of sleep, and going to bed at a normal time the next night. the day after is sometimes even worse if i don't sleep long enough.

About 4 days, maybe 5 (it gets really hard to remember days by that point) when giving up alcohol. Got to a stage where I didn't really feel tired, actually. Finally fell asleep and woke up kinda panicky, like "wtf was THAT state? Oh, sleep!"

Yeah and Ally was full of shit, big surprise

who the fuck are you?

eh, 2 weeks awake is a lie. Whoever Niles is.

What does it matter, horseshoe? It's not as if I have any idea who you are.

eh one needlessly aggressive post deserves another, i guess

i don't think i've made more than 40 hours. my thing is chronic undersleeping more than no-sleeping. the thing i hate most about sleep deprivation is that it fucks with my stomach. i feel like i can deal with the lightheadedness and weird mental things, but the enteric nervous system is the one that really gets me. it doesn't exactly get "upset," it just enters a prolonged stage of not really feeling right with the world.

I wasn't being aggressive, just exasperated. xp

not sleeping enough really makes me feel completely unwell, my heartbeat is fast and and really strong. Horrible.

Agreed about 2 weeks bullshit. From my time of normal 8am day 1, go to club that night, get home 8am day 2, hang with friends til midnight day 2 (standard club thing), it's 40 hrs. Feels so good to fall asleep that night *but* so shitty at 8am on the morning of day 3 when you realize that you're not fixed.

you ppl are all fucked up--i've done 20 hours maybe tops

yeah i did 23 once, was falling asleep while walking. the most i've done since then is like 19. it just feels so bad.

Approx 84 hours w/ plenty of Adderall. I am a graphic designer & occasionally work-binge to get projects out of the way when I want to clear a block of time for something else.

84 hours and you're still alive?! That's insane. Mine's probably about a day.

Wait, I think I added an extra day to that equation by accident. It would have been more like 60 hours. 2.5 full day cycles.

lol, erica, I think I've actually chatted w/ you once or twice during such marathons. Usually they are in the 24-48 hour range. Things start getting pretty weird for me around the 36 hour mark.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh shit. One time you kept typing lyrics to something but I can't remember what it was now. It was pretty amusing iirc though.

iirc thought? I just worked a thirteen hour shift. I'm a little delirious myself right now.

One time you kept typing lyrics to something but I can't remember what it was now - I'm pretty sure you had left the room for a while or something & I was using the chat box to test my memory of "Mind Playing Tricks on Me" by Geto Boys, the lyrics to which I had once memorized in their entirety. I'm pretty sure there was some alcohol involved in that situation as well. I felt pretty silly about it the next day iirc.

Yeah, that sounds about right. You had no reason to feel silly tbh. It was entertaining. At least it was at first. ;-)

I sit alone in my four-cornered room staring at candles..

ha we discussed all nighters on the writing thread and i mentioned pulling more than my fair share in my first two years of school. most of the time, i'd just be super tired and questionably functional the next day. the worst episode was last year when i had a test from 8-10am, a class at 12 and a class at 6. in retrospect i shoulda just skipped my relatively unimportant 12pm class and napped during the day, but i decided to toughen up and go for it. i had to excuse myself from my night class around 7 becuase i was trembling uncontrollably and felt really sick. slept from 8pm to 11 the next morning, and was as good as new

Funny this thread came up as tonight I'm going on my first all-nighter since college... and I'm one of the cool people who gets sleepy at like 9:30 at night so this should be interesting.

50 something the summer is was 16 iirc but i really dont sleep that much

when i was a teenager i used to like to do this as a feat of endurance - also used to regularly go long periods w/o eating - god im pretty retarded

at a festival once i didn't sleep from saturday morning till monday morning. i guess it was close to 48 hours, i was on lots of drugs, and towards the end of it i became convinced my mind had been separated from my body. i can laugh about it now but at the time it was terrible.

Ohhh mama, let me sleep.

i've gone nearly 48 hours, might not have been so bad if not for the ridiculous amount of booze i put on top of all that wizz

i still don't believe ally

Oh she was totally lying! She was so into that whole sadass Ramosi/LeCoq type crap... btw I wasn't exaggerating w my own 4-5 days thing. It was horrible. Towards the end I was genuinely terrified I'd lost the ability to sleep and couldn't leave the house, etc.

i know she was lying

i did 36 hours once. i bought Zelda: Link to the Past on about hour 30. Totally backwards, on reflection.

"i despise staying awake for a long time and start to hallucinate after about 24 hours"

That's the great thing about it! I still remember (fondly) standing on the platform, watching the train move slower than the people on the platform. It was just plain awesome. That whole fuckedupness.

Probably about 48 hrs (two dEUS gigs and one Fugazi concert were "consumed" during that weekend). Also worked during the day.

With little sleep: about five days or so? Ten Days Off dance festival.

My ex claims he once stayed up for I think it was 4 day/nights at least? Fuelled by coffee and a lot of sugar. He and a friend were trying to start their own games company and doing a crapload of coding...

Basically he now can't tolerate caffiene because of whatever it did to him that week.

I managed about 40 hours once, hitch-hiking to Glastonbury, then actually being at Glastonbury at the end of it. Despite being Glasto, no illegal substances were used at at any time to keep me awake.

when i was a teenager i used to like to do this as a feat of endurance - also used to regularly go long periods w/o eating - god im pretty retarded

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^^ this, for me. the longest i made it during one of these periods was about 4 days.

How's that retarded? It's pretty clever (if you plan to have kids). I don't think I have had one uninterrupted night's sleep in like two years? I'm exaggerating but 80 procent of the time one/two of the kids wake up.

When you're 16 and you continue *enduring* despite adverse affects on your school life, family life, social life & overall life outlook it's pretty retarded imo.

I went for almost four days when I was 19, first year of college- not because of any overwhelming assignment or anything, just lifelong sleep problems, severe social anxiety and depression all coming together while trying to adjust to living in a new city. Toward the end of it I was having auditory hallucinations and difficulty processing speech. No drugs involved, not even caffeine. Once I finally hit the point where I could barely move of my own volition anymore I just crashed on the floor with a pillow and a long winter coat and slept for about 20 hours.

I still have problems sleeping normally and will pull the occasional unintentional all-nighter once or twice a week, but nothing as awful as the college experience.

I used to work long graveyard shifts & go to school full time so there'd be stretches of not sleeping for 24 hours sometimes. That schedule messes with you. Once I'd put my mind in 'stay awake' mode it was sometimes hard to go back to normal. One time I worked from 6 p.m.-7 a.m. (having had a few hour nap the afternoon before work) and felt really compelled to go see the pet store at the mall. The building itself was open but the pet store didn't open until 9 a.m. so I paced in front of it for a long time, petted the puppies, and went home unable to sleep. Of course, once I got to sleep it took an act of god to get me back up.

Hoos, I was kidding. Of course it's a bit retarded. :-) I rarely stay up later than one am these days.

About 70 hours I think? I used to work late and go to school early so it wasn't all that unusual.

36

Fuck I've just realised I completely also forgot about the 2006 stint I did of double shifts at work. I'd work from 3-11 then come home and be "on call" from 11-6am, except it wasnt "on call", it was "work from home and be called every half an hour by bastards in baghdad". So I guess I was doing 24+ hours for 5 days in a row, every 3 weeks, for about 4 months? No oncall or bonus pay either. Almost killed me, what a shit job.

Man, it is amazing what difference sleep makes. I am like maybe one or two hours sleep deprived and I am a freaking grumpy bear today. I am giving a presentation Tuesday on getting enough sleep and I should just show footage of myself from today, I swear. I shed tears over a trailer for a CGI movie about a dragon, which I was baffled by even as it happened.

I'll prolly miss one sleep cycle once a year - around 40 hours of wakefulness, usually due to work stuff.

it's normal behavior for me, used to do it regularly in high school/college & after, but it kicks my ass now. not the day after oddly enough, but the day after that.

don't remember my record, maybe somewhere in the 50-60 hour range? have experienced the "omigod I've forgotten how to sleep" phenomenon.

also many times spent writing/recording all night long, sun comes up and it's like, why bother now, might as well stick it out, I'll sleep when I'm dead

this is standard stuff for a lot of creative types I think?

So I guess I was doing 24+ hours for 5 days in a row

I have just realised this sentence is retarded.

about 25 hours (6:00 am to 7:00 am the next day). i am a total wuss.

Around 48 hours; went 3 days once but had a "lie down" for an hour or two in the middle which at the time I didn't think involved sleeping but must've done. Friend stayed up another day or two and went a bit nuts, being convinced it was raining inside and there were rats crawling everywhere (don't think any substances except caffeine and alcohol were involved). Both when I was a student - nowadays I can't even make 20h. OLD.

Though I'm a nightowl and if I get up early I feel shattered all day until about 11pm when I feel totally awake again, so I could probably make 24+ that way, but when I accidentally became nocturnal one winter and tried to go a day and a half to right my sleep schedule I felt like I was dying by early evening.