I can only go 1 day without sleep. An all nighter will make me exhausted.

No matter how much I've slept or how little I've slept, I always hit a brick wall at 2 AM. Egregious amounts of caffeine do not prevent this.

I think the most was 72 hours.

The record is like 11 days or something, without caffeine.

That's intentional.

Some man, Thai Ngoc, has stayed awake for 33 years, unable to sleep.
I wish I had the ability to not need to sleep.

What? I never heard that before. Surely there are dangerous effects from not sleeping over a large period of time. Or atleast something to mentally stop you.

That's humanly impossible.

Anyways, I can stay awake ~3 days, proof of which is when KOTOR and KOTOR2 came out.

>.>

I can stay up all night, but in the morning feel like crap and tired, but then late in the afternoon I won't feel tired at all and will have a bunch of energy.

It's weird.


Also sleep deprivation makes everything funnier.

My record is about 35 hours. And I'm happy to say I hope I never surpass that.

94 hours. I wasn't feeling very good after that though.

Around 40ish hours. Although the more impressive thing was around 6 hours of sleep over the span of 96 hours, but that was a crazy weekend.

Also, I did start hallucinating :\

There must have been a translation error.



It's humanly impossible.

The longest I ever stayed up was 57 hours. Energy drinks and masturbation help a lot.

about 40 hours is my limit.

I can have 3 hours sleep and feel fine the next day.. but then after 9 hours of sleep that night I feel really tired. It's weird :-\

It took you 3 days to finish KOTOR? It's only got like 15 hours of gameplay. And KOTOR2 is even shorter.

I didn't play it straight...but I did every possible quest, explored every corner, didn't use help guides, and did my regular human activities of going to school/eating/pooing/etc.

This is most likely BS.

I can only stay up long when I don't know I'm staying up long.
I remember I was awake for 36 hours last year in the Summer without realizing it.
I remember when I tried to force myself. I fell asleep while walking down stairs.

I used to have insomnia a long time ago from taking sleeping pills at night so I could go to sleep at 7pm and then caffeine pills at 3am so I could go to work. Eventually, that messed me up, and I went a LONG time with very little sleep.

I hated it.

Roughly 40, I think. I pay for it though.

i think i made 50 at one of the last JSMs

The past 48 hours I've got a total of round 3 or 4 hours of sleep. I'm still chugging. Not like I want to make this a consistent thing lol

I still haven't slept since Saturday night. Damn it.

2 days.

4 hours is the minimum amount of sleep I need to actually feel good, anything under that makes me hallucinate nuclear wars and stuff. Normally I go to sleep at midnight and usually sleep for 8-9 hours, it keeps me up and running properly.

The most I've ever done is a bit over 24 hours. I went and slept a long time after that. I like sleep.

Probably around 40 hours. I've done it a few times. I hate it though. I really like sleeping.

About 40 hours... it sucked.

Also about 40 hours, and it also made me feel terrible.

It's hard to say that lack of sleep is fatal, because keeping subjects awake introduce a great deal of confounding factors.

There were some mice models that were used a few years back to say that without sleep you'd die. The study however depended on the mouse constantly trying to do an activity (exactly what eludes me), but when they failed, they would be dunked into water, thus arousing them. Long story short, putting an animal under acute stress, which you have to in order to keep them awake, causes a whole host of other problems. It's hard to study; hell, the exact purpose of sleep is always under debate. A few things like growth/hormone cycles are pretty much proven, but you wouldn't die from being acyclic. Anyhow, this is an interesting read regardless.

You *can* stay awake for a lot longer than a month, under special circumstances of course. Common sense dictates that sleep must be pretty damned important as it is evolutionary conserved, and you are more vulnerable when you are sleeping. Must be quite a few reasons indeed. However as far as anything definitive, nothing is solid at all, no matter what anyone may say.

I once went 4 days without sleeping or eating. I was rather depressed over a stupid ***** that left me. I was a bit younger then and may not be able to do that now. A former friend of mine eventually came over and abducted me and forced me to down a burger and some fries.

The longest I've stayed awake was before, during, and after an all-night party. I was awake for about 40-ish hours, and was seeing things out of the corner of my eye for the last couple (I think that's what persuaded me to finally get to bed). No idea how long I could purposefully keep myself awake, and I don't intend to try any time soon.

I've pulled 40-hour stints when playing FFXI, but I tended to doze in lectures afterwards. I did three days at a LAN party in Sheffield, though.

Usually if I'm awake for 30+ hours (and especially if I've been doing some drinking during the night) I start getting audio hallucinations that sound very, very real. Like for example I suddenly begin to "hear" Hungarian in Russian, "understanding" everything people say. Or I start hearing people's thoughts. I mean, it's probably not really their thoughts, but still. It's pretty surreal.

It was about 45 hours. Was knackered.

Someone broke that 11 day world record the other week I think.

I thought it was widely accepted as a healing process, letting the body focus less on daily tasks and more on mending wounds and dispelling illness.

friggin ages.

e binge.

Oh dude I hear ya.

When I bought it last summer, I'd look at the clock and it would be 4 am, and it wouldn't even feel like it.

PS what did you start hallucinating?

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