See topic.

note: you are allowed to have microsleeps. (as in a sleep that is < 5-10 seconds)

For me, I have gone without sleep for a little more than about 30 hours mabye? I am not sure. However, I have definatly been awake for more than 24 hours straight at least twice.

43 hours

Well, one time I went for 72 hours with only 9 hours of sleep between the 3 days. Worst headache I've ever had in my life. One of those week-long ones. Made me worry I had a tumor.

But straight? 48 hours.

80+ hours.

I stopped counting after day three.

48 hours or so, at MML. I once went close to 72 hours without eating as well, which was far more difficult.

54 hours

2 days and 2 nights, working night shifts in the middle of July in an aluminum plant.

maybe 30?

I went 40 hours or so with only 1 hour of sleep. Happened this last summer when my parents moved from Colorado to Utah. We started loading everything into the moving van around 7 in the morning, left that evening for Utah, drove all night with only 1 hour of sleep, and then unloaded the moving vans (yes, vans. We had two 25 foot U-hauls each with an 8 foot by 6 foot trailer, as well as our two cars loaded up) the next day. Its a lot harder to stay awake when your exausted from loading and unloading a freaking moving van. :p

38 hours, without caffeine or any other stay-awake means.

Something like 28-30 hours during my flight to Thailand. I am unable to fall asleep while in a sitting position.

24.

Little over or a little under 24.

Close to 48 hours. Did it with lots of coffee and Mt. Dew.

24 hours.

My record is around 36 hours.

Straight?

26 hours.

69 hours over three days with only three hours of sleep between the first forty-eight and last twenty-one, so that's only forty-eight hours straight. Nothing spectacular.

I feel like some kind of freak insomniac. O_o

40-ish hours. Stayed up working on a paper, went past the point of no return where I'd just have been more tired from sleeping for a few hours than just staying awake. Started nodding off at the afternoon lectures in the packed large lecture halls where there's never enough fresh air. Must've looked mildly undead. Tanked up on strongly brewed Persian Earl Grey. Resorted to pricking my arm with a mechnical pen to keep me alert.

Either that or the surreal first 45 hours of the Roskilde Festival trip. Left home at six, couldn't get any sleep in the ferry or bus due to inebriated Ålanders singing and playing guitar into the small hours of the night, arrived 5-ish in the morning, couldn't sleep in the morning once we'd set up camp, didn't help that the rain made a cacophonous noise on the tent. Once I crawled back into the sleeping bag at night I couldn't get any sleep until around 3 when the mad Dutch party bus stopped blasting us with crap music from sizeable roof-mounted speakers that were pointed directly at us and I no longer noticed the noisy diesel trains rumbling past every ten minutes.

I've found that the most relaxing sounds in the world, that knock me straight to sleep are:
-the sound of rain gently rattling on the roof and window.
-someone next to you, breathing, fast asleep.
- when camping: soft muted voices from tents or around campfires, tents gently rustling, banners flapping.

apprx. 36 hours or 1.5 days. Man was I tired. I couldn't imagine going for 48 or over. Some of you people are crazy (I don't mean that literally :p ).

This site supposedly claims the world record for going without sleep. don't ask me if it's credible though - seems awfully high, and the guy didn't post a source.

See this for more info on the sleeplessness world record.

My personal record is probably around 22 hours. I just can't stand having any sort of sleep debt.

Phht. If I had a minifrige, 10 cases of monster, a tin of penguin mints, 5 cases of bawls and my bed was full of ice (to prevent sleepage) I could beat that.


Longest: 3 days straight. Two all nighters in a row at a LAN place. Didn't get to sleep the next day. Lots of monster.

About 48 hours. Strangely enough, after a normal night's sleep (about 9-10 hours) I was pretty much recovered.

About 38 hours. Had nausea the next day.

36 hours. mmm good times

27 hours, the weekend of my now exgf graduation. Worst 27 hours ever.

96 hours. It was summer and I had a nasty habit of waking up at around 4pm. That very same day I had a big LAN party. I went to my friends house and set up my computer, and we were supposed to sleep that night and wait for the other people in the morning, but I didn't get any sleep at all (insomnia) . So the next day everybody arrived and we set up the computers. The actual lan lasted two days and I didn't sleep at all (bawls and hypes!).

There was a couch next to my chair, and someone put their coat on it. Towards the end, I kept hallucinating and thought it was a man staring at me, and everytime I turned around a bit, all I saw was a couch. :p

About 25 hours, but I had to be truly awake (not 'yeah..I'm awake, but don't ask me to drive anywhere :p)...worked 6am-3pm, then had a ridealong with the city police department from 5pm to 3am, then I had to drive home (20 miles..maybe a little more)..

37

somewhere between 48 and 52 . . . that last part was pretty hazy so I can't remeber exactly when I was overtaken by sleep.

A couple seconds.

same here. especially the rain. songs that have rain sounds in the background put me right to bed. I Monster - Heaven does this the fastest. fun stuff. the camping thing also might be that its fresh air, and you're outside. i always sleep better outside.

but yeah as for longest time... that'd have to be around 5 days.

I've never managed more than 21 hours before I literally fall asleep wherever I am. The only reason I managed to go that long was because it was the release day of SWG and I was up all night until 6 am.

And with no caffine, coffee, or other drugs!

Probably around 21-24 hours on a couple of occasions.
One holiday trip, we started driving at 6am ( prob got up at 4:30) and took a half hour nap at 7am the next day.
Another time, got up for work at 6:30am, worked from 8am-4:30pm, then did overtime from 7pm til around 4am. I drank 8 cups of coffee during the overtime hours, so when I got home and tried to sleep, I couldn't... was buzzing. So I got up again at 6:30am and did another full days work, then went to sleep around 9:30pm.

A lovely 48 - 49. I don't quite remember exactly...

30-odd hours.

4 Days, 3 Nights. No caffine, and I still didn't have to go to sleep that 3 night, I wasn't really too tired, just thought it was good for my health.

Other than that , most of the time I don't stay awake for more than ~22 hours, I have no idea what happened in that time period.

You know, I bet staying awake for these long hours does more harm to your body then you guys think.

~ 1 day.

My cousin gets some of his friends together and they all stay up for a weekend. I want to see if I can do that with him one day.