I recently watched my friends documentary on what staying up to long can do to you. I'll give you the jist of it.

The documentary was made by him about him staying up for 2 weeks in the summer. I could tell it was lagitament because of the time stamp. He relied on coca cola to keep him awake.
This is the day by day story.

Day 1. Normal day goes about his regular
activties video tapeing everything he does.

Day 2. Similar to day 1 only he moved around less.

Day 3. Moves around a lot less and spends most of his time drinking coca cola and playing video games.

Day 4. Atempts to ride a bycicle down the road and fails. Makes his way inside and plays more games.

Day 5. His cousin falls a sleep. Andrew (guy who made movie) thinks there is something un-naturel in his house but plays some rented games.

Day 6. Andrew discovers that the un-known object is something evil. Spends day drinking jolt and listening to metalica.

Day 7. Andrew has made the analasyes that the evil unknown object is a vampire. Spends day doing various activities that require no energy.

Day 8. Andrew has gone outside and brought a wooden stake inside with which to slay the vampire. Spends day wandering around house looking for vampire.

Day 9. Spends 1 hour filming a clock and as soon as it reaches 12:34 am he starts to laugh sorta chaotically. Searches for vampire.

Day 10. Andrew admits that the only thing keeping him awake is the vampire in his house. Plays more games and searches for vampire.

Day 11. Come to the plan that he will wait for the vampire to come to him. Spends day filming a door and muttering to himself.

Day 12. Spends day drinking jolt and setting off fire works.

Day 13. Looks in the phone book for "vampire rats" and tries to explain to others about the vampire.

Day 14. His mother convinces him to go to sleep and assures him she will protect him of the vampire.

Anybody else got some perrty funny stories about sleep deprived people.

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To see a world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.

i once stayed up for 10 days straight... day 10 i was starting to see stuff that wasn't there... like i thought i saw a kid run across the road in front of my bike... and there was no kid there....

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LONG LIVE DREAMCAST!!!

That can't be healthy.

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Snail racing: (500 posts per line)
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Yeah, 11 days has been my record. Somewhat like DrkJedi82 said, I saw people moving past my door out of the corner of my eye and such. But after day 4 I didn't really feel all that tired anymore.

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Roach - It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

The mental patient sits and stares.

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1 day and I'm out like a light.

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Massassian since: March 12, 2001

[=-"The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does;
Even if you murdered or robbed, years wrong, but God loves;
Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you;
Even when all else fail, God supports you." - Nas-=]

3 days I think, I don't have the guts to stay up more then one day straight usually.. First time I ever stayed up all night, I felt so sick..then after that I stayed up one night, couldn't sleep the next then went for three. on the third day I fell asleep the only way i can, laying down on my couch with a blankey and fluffy pillow watching a movie...works like a charm when i want to sleep.

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I once knew a man from Nantucket....isn't that just dandy?

1 day, pfft! I can hardly stay awake for 6 hours...

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Do you have stairs in your house?

yeah by 2 or 3 A.M. I'm out like a light

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If there is a 50% chance that you are going to be right, there is a 90% chance that you will choose the wrong one ~SithNazgul, the 50-50-90 rule

I have larangitis today. Probably me staying up until 1:30 AM for the last two nights.

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<scribbly handwriting barely resembling name>

In the summer I stay up till 6am then sleep till 2pm..It sucks though when you have to go back to school and yer body is all messed up.

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I once knew a man from Nantucket....isn't that just dandy?

So far it's just been around 36 hours or so that I've been able to stay up. Mostly because there's NOTHING to do around here on times when I can stay up like that.

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"We came, we saw, we conquered, we...woke up!"

Being awake two weeks straight can kill you... your friend must have used a hell of a lot of caffeine.

But anyways, I've never purposely tried to stay awake for that long before. Two days is about my record.

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"I'm more neutrally charged than YOU are" - BV

~70 hours was my record. Ive never tried to beat it.

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Fight the future.

5-6 days is my record. Never tried more.

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Look for my current project, The Force in Your Soul.
Last week I cudn't evn spel grajuat, but now I is one.

*Takes out his blaster and fires shots at the wall, the blastmarks leave the words "S-TROOPER WUZ 'ERE!!!"

I'd say about 30-35. It was at a party at Fishstickz house in 6th grade. I still hold to the theory that we all fell asleep similtaniously, (s?) and woke up at the same instant, because it didn't seem like all night.. Then I was up the whole next day.

Oh, and I find it funny how Andrew never found me.. those stupid stakes hurt.

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MadQuack on Military school: Pro's: I get to shoot a gun. Con's: Everything else.
"I'm going to beat you until the laws of physics are violated!!" ! Maeve's Warcry

RIP -MaDaVentor-. You will be missed.

[This message has been edited by happydud (edited December 22, 2003).]

I'm surprised there wasn't any extensive heart damage. That much ingested caffeine compounded without a single bit of rest for the heart is...wow.

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"LC Tusken: the idiot is the person who follows the idiot and your not following me your insulting me your following the path of a idiot so that makes you the idiot"
Jack Chick preaches it
NMGOH

Stayed up ~ 48 hours last weekend and then took a flying lesson... it was a little bumpy that day.

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<kyle90> i got my SAT scores back
<kyle90> according to the sheet i got sent in the mail, I did "better than 99% of all college-bound seniors"
<kyle90> of course, thats comparing me to americans
<kyle90> so its not really a fair assessment

My record is about 3 days. After the first night everything seemed to have an unreal quality to it, and I started hearing things. Needless to say, I'm not gonna be breaking it any time soon.

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"I'm significant!.... Screamed the speck of dust."
-Calvin

Mass murder.

Zzzzz...

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It's Peanut Butter Jelly Time!
/Banana starts dancing

I get tired too much, I probably couldn't be awake for more than 36 hours before I passed out. Plus I love to sleep.

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Please frame your insults in the form of a question.

3 days when i was 13 or so, i dont think i'm gonna try and beat it.

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Something like 36 hours I think. I also like sleep too much.

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The last week of school, I got about two hours of sleep (over 5 days) because I had a shot load of work due at the end of the week. I was working on a lab report with my two lab partners in the library one of the nights and I was talking about something related to the report and stopped talking mid sentence. Didn't remember that I was even talking or what the conversation was about

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

I'm normally out like a light the moment I lie down. I did manage 24hrs with no sleep and 9 hours of hiking in the middle of that. When I finally got back I didn't have time to hallucinate, I kinda collapsed to the floor and slept intermittently cos my legs were cramping all the time. And to think I did it for fun.
What does bring out the funny dark shapes is dehydration. I got so dehydrated once I saw these wierd dark shapes in my peripheral vision, like little critters scurrying along the walls and floor, but when I looked at them, it was as if they could hide real fast and I could never directly see them. When I got up to get away I was dizzy and my legs were weak so I fell over, which scared me more cos I was convinced there were critters on the floor! So remember kids always drink plenty of water.

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Jagged Conscience: No maeve, don't stand up for Rob, he needs to learn.
Maeve:that's Rob?
Jagged Conscience: He's a Rob

I expended two weeks on between one and three hours of sleep each night. Every time I closed my eyes I would start dreaming the oddest things. It was rather disconcerting to blink and see a friend in a straight jacket being wheeled down the hallways of an old rusting mental hospital covered in peeling green paint by two orderlies in lab coats.

About once every month I see demonic shadows walking around my room or on my walls or standing over my head (I sleep on the floor) or they reach out and the shadows grab me, but then I turn the lights on and they're gone. Am I...crazy? It's a very terrifying experience. They're voices are haunting....

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"The Oracle told me I would die with my boots on. I've worn tennis shoes ever since." - Axis

Sounds like sleep paralysis. I've experienced this too.

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MadQuack has a signature.

That happened to me once, on Christmas Eve a few years ago... I thought Santa was coming to kill me.


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"I'm more neutrally charged than YOU are" - BV

I don't like staying up all night. I end up feeling like crap the next day, and it's unfun.

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All you need is love.

Indeed. What he did was pretty dangerous. My own reccord is 96 hours or so during the summer of 2002. And even that is very unhealthy.

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When bread becomes toast, it can never go back to being bread again.

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Have a good one,
Freelancer

I used to have sleep paralysis a lot when I was a child.

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<< start the revolution >>

This one time I decided to stay up for a month. It was crazy, but I had to do it. Kept exercising to keep the adrenaline pumping. Kept the caffeine to an acceptable level. On the last night, I decided to celebrate so I chugged 2 gallons of Everclear. Hoo-boy, that was great. And to top it off, I didn't throw up or even have a hang-over.

Good times, good times.

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Baby Mama's Drama

A month? Dear God... What are you?

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Massassian since: March 12, 2001

[=-"The hardest thing is to forgive, but God does;
Even if you murdered or robbed, years wrong, but God loves;
Take one step toward him, he takes two toward you;
Even when all else fail, God supports you." - Nas-=]

Some people here are lying. I won't bother naming names, because I've already forgotten who posted the trite garbage, and don't feel like looking it up, but they know, and you should all know too. Sleep isn't an optional thing, people. Some of the claims made in this thread would change the way science looks at insomnia and sleep deprivation in general.

And 2 weeks, there's just absolutely no physical way. 336 hours, your brain would be absolute slag.

Zully however, is telling the truth. Zully is gold, and would never lie.

[This message has been edited by Slug (edited December 23, 2003).]

People have fallen into deep comas and some have even died after only 4 days without sleep. 2 weeks? Give me a break. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go do 14 kilos of crack.

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S51

'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.' 'How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice. 'You must be,' said the Cat, 'or you wouldn't have come here.'

Zully, Slug, and S51 win.

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4 days for me, my goal was 5, but I just got too bored. It was a pretty cool expierence though, a cross between a Damiana/Weed stoned out experience, very aware, but very not caring.

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[This message has been edited by matrixhacker (edited December 23, 2003).]

"Victims of the very rare condition chronic colestites (total insomnia) have been known to go without defineable sleep for many years" Guinness Book of World Records 1992, page 75.

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Roach - It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

The mental patient sits and stares.

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