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Whats the longest period of time you have gone without sleep?

How long have you gone without sleep with no naps or assistance from drugs/medicine.

I’ll allow caffeine as we all indulge in tea/coffee to keep us going.

Me personally, I’ve probably stayed awake for about 2-3 days straight without sleep. I tend to have a lot of late nights, especially now that I am unemployed.
I think I made it 24 hours once, but I could hardly stand up at that point. I was camping with some friends and we thought it would be fun to try and stay up all night, ended up being not that fun, lol.

I definitely need my sleep to function my best, but I admire people who are able to function well on little sleep.
It was over 48 hours, I was an idiot indeed.
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I think probably 1 day max. 2-3 days you are crazy I thought a person would die of heart attack if it goes over 2-3 days damn man.
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(Oct 22, 2024 08:21 AM)Epic Wrote:  I think I made it 24 hours once, but I could hardly stand up at that point. I was camping with some friends and we thought it would be fun to try and stay up all night, ended up being not that fun, lol.

I definitely need my sleep to function my best, but I admire people who are able to function well on little sleep.

Yeah I can function quite well without sleep if I have something to do that I enjoy doing. As soon as I’m presented with something boring that I don’t enjoy, I become a zombie.

Every few days I’ll do a little 24-48 hours awake. I try to catch up when I can though.

(Oct 22, 2024 08:26 AM)Money- Wrote:  I think probably 1 day max. 2-3 days you are crazy I thought a person would die of heart attack if it goes over 2-3 days damn man.

I think I’ll need to look into this as I do it regularly. I’m not working so my sleep pattern is crazy and I feel like sleep is a waste of my time as I’m doing everything I can to make money while unemployed.

I will definitely try to find some more balance though as I have been getting what feels like palpitations… eek…
(Oct 22, 2024 08:26 AM)Money- Wrote:  I think probably 1 day max. 2-3 days you are crazy I thought a person would die of heart attack if it goes over 2-3 days damn man.

The world record is 11 days and 24 minutes.
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(Oct 22, 2024 08:28 AM)Chrome Wrote:  The world record is 11 days and 24 minutes.

Honestly, that’s insane. Once I reach 48 hours I become a narcoleptic zombie. If I get bored or sit still for too long without a stimulant, I’m snoring.

I play a lot of video games to stay stimulated, and get adrenaline.
(Oct 22, 2024 08:30 AM)Game Wrote:  Honestly, that’s insane. Once I reach 48 hours I become a narcoleptic zombie. If I get bored or sit still for too long without a stimulant, I’m snoring.

I play a lot of video games to stay stimulated, and get adrenaline.

Yeah I recall having some weird shit happen to my body, just odd aches and stuff.
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40ish hours; did a full shift at work before driving 7hrs at night to a beach. Once that sun came back up it kinda kept me awake for the rest of the day. Also hard to sleep on mushrooms and having beers with friends. Only slept 7 or so hours after and went right back to it next day haha.
I'd say about 60 hours. Needless to say stimulants were involved. Glad I'm not in that period anymore.
(Oct 22, 2024 08:18 AM)Game Wrote:  How long have you gone without sleep with no naps or assistance from drugs/medicine.

I’ll allow caffeine as we all indulge in tea/coffee to keep us going.

Me personally, I’ve probably stayed awake for about 2-3 days straight without sleep. I tend to have a lot of late nights, especially now that I am unemployed.

When I was younger, it would be a whole night and the next day until night, that's the longest I've ever been awake
More than two weeks, of course, not "dry" 😅
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Around 33 hours as I worked a 26 hour shift and was up prior to that, got to the point where I was almost too tired to sleep had to smoke a ton and KO.
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Somewhere between 24 and 48 hours I believe.
Probably during USMC receiving.
The longest I have gone without sleep was around 40 hours during a stressful work deadline.
I have no intention of doing it again.


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