Longest you’ve ever stayed awake?
So I was having coffee with a friend and we were talking about polyphasic sleep. I’ve decided that if I didn’t want to have a real life I’d give it a try.
So my question: What was your longest day and how long (approximately) were you awake? Tell your war story!
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I’d routinely pull a 48 hour awake shift in college, and once or twice went close to 72 hours without any sleep…reaesons varied between cramming for tests/work, not wanting to miss social events (a.k.a. parties), needing to finish an entire season of NHL Hockey on my Playstation without saving, etc…
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 7:02 am
48 hrs for myself.
Combination of all night talk with a friend and then having to do a photo job the next day and not enough time to sleep in between. =P
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 7:36 am
Once in college I went 6 full days without sleep. I knew it was time to get some rest when I started hallucinating that the chairs in the auditorium of one of my survey classes were moving.
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 7:45 am
48 hours…
when i realized the deadline for handing in 3 written essays for a scholarship was two weeks before the date i thought it was. had to write, edit, put together all the other stuff i needed, then drive 2hrs to deliver it in person 5 mins before the deadline.
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 8:13 am
wow. I guess the 30 hours I was up while traveling to europe isn’t all that impressive…
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 9:18 am
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 1/2 days. I remember I was working on final layouts for my college newspaper and the monitor started waving like a flag in the wind. yikes! time for a nap. I semi-routinely go 48 hours these days (10 years later.) An alternative I have found to be more effective when I need to get a ton done is to sprinkle 1-2 hour naps throughout the day and night every 6 or 7 hours. It gets disorienting quickly, though.
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 9:32 am
I’ve gone around 48 hours without sleep. It’s not that bad as long as you have interesting stuff happening.
But if you get into a car. Man. It is sooooooooo hard to keep your eyes open.
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 9:35 am
In college, I did 36 hours straight. Professionally, I’ve done over 40 straight — worked 23 hours, went home and took a shower, came back to work, worked another 12 hours, went home, showered and ate, came back to work for 8 hours.
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 11:08 am
Chris,
I’ve did a 36hr day when i lived in Ecuador- climbed mt. Cotopaxi starting at midnight and got down by 11am and had to go take a final then stay up studying til the next morning to take another exam. I definitely hallucinated and it didn’t help that i was studying in a coffee shop on the corner and a car crashed through the wall 20ft from where I was sitting. it was one of the trippiest days of my life.
sean
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 12:56 pm
75 hours is my longest.
Cramming/designing for my advertising final senior year of college.
I was so out of it when we had a minor earthquake the day of the presentation I could not tell if it was real or if I was hallucinating.
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Actually, it’s funny you should ask this question today. I have been awake for approximately…78 hours. Besides the hillociantions and the constant twitching of my left side I feel pretty darn…………….slump, thud…clunk.
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 4:11 pm
I was up for 3-4 days once, but it became soothing and zombie-like after a while…
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Wow these are amazing stories! Everyone has such an interesting life when you break it down to these basics. Seriously folks, you rock! Thanks for answering my question.
The previous Comment was posted on January 31, 2006 at 1:24 pm
48ish hours. Started off with school, cramming all night for a test and working on a project, then a party and a movie marathon with soem friends. No way near any of your stories
The previous Comment was posted on January 31, 2006 at 5:45 pm
When I was 18, I once started work at 9am on a Friday only to find that my boss had accepted a portal website on my behalf that needed done for Tuesday morning. I finished the portal and went home at 10am on Tuesday with no sleep in that time. The portal worked pretty well, but didn’t really look all that hot, that was tough! I quit not long after that
The previous Comment was posted on February 1, 2006 at 10:07 am
i was up forlike 48 hours…woth like 2 hours of sleep hahahaha+
The previous Comment was posted on February 8, 2006 at 8:57 am
I havent personally thought about me and how long ive been kept awake, but my close friend has been up for 48 hours froma friday 8am to the following sunday at 7am, he wants to brake the world record but ive been on the site and i dont think anyone has broken it, he could look for himself but he is either at work or he is sleeping for working so damn hard!!! how can i get through to this guy he is my homie how hard can it get!
The previous Comment was posted on February 11, 2006 at 9:29 pm
In my class we are doing a project on sleep deprivation.My friend Cassandra and I are going to test in a few days. *groans* That will be interesting LOL I will post my results later
(:
The previous Comment was posted on February 17, 2006 at 2:04 pm
I have only gone about 40 to 46 hours with no sleep and it was at a sleepover.(birthday party)
The previous Comment was posted on February 20, 2006 at 2:08 pm
as of right now almost 55 hrs
The previous Comment was posted on February 21, 2006 at 3:14 pm
As of right now I have been up for 62 hours, and I haven’t finished what I need to finish yet. It’s going to be quite a few more hours.
The previous Comment was posted on March 2, 2006 at 11:50 pm
I was up 84 hours once. Had flashbacks to childhood. Thought I was Jesus. Not recommended.
The previous Comment was posted on March 12, 2006 at 11:05 am
Have been trying to stay up as long as possible with some friends and am currently around 56 hours, with a goal of at least 72 hours. Zombie-like feelings are common and daydreams are becoming more and more frequent.
The previous Comment was posted on March 14, 2006 at 5:00 pm
thanx guys, i feel not so bad about my more than often 36-48 hour gameing sessions.
i just read on a site that you see things after 48 houres, which i know from experince isnt true, but i thought id look it up anyway, seems like maybe 55+ could do it.
The previous Comment was posted on March 28, 2006 at 11:54 am
Most was 52 hours. When my battalion was crossing into Basra, we had more than three wait orders before a push and we were constantly getting shelled and shot at. I tried to fall asleep but it wasn’t easy feeling safe and comfortable. I was fully conscious but it felt like I was watching my life in a movie and had a short memory span of 40 secs. I couldn’t remember converstaions minutes later, etc, and was very weak and clumsy and always hungry.
The previous Comment was posted on May 11, 2006 at 1:50 am
AS OF RIGHT KNOW 82 HOURS AND IM EVEN ON THE COMP. PLAYING GAMES HAHAHAHA I THINK I COULD BEAT THE WORLD RECORD. I HEARD IT WAS 11 DAYS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND I ALWAYS STAY AWAKE FOR LIKE 30 -40 HOURS BEFORE I FALL ASLEEP. I DONT KNOW. I NEED TO BREAK IT OR SOMETHING.!!
The previous Comment was posted on May 17, 2006 at 1:44 am
4 nights… on prednisilone steroids for asthma
The previous Comment was posted on May 22, 2006 at 7:37 am
22 hours because I can!
The previous Comment was posted on May 26, 2006 at 3:15 am
I stayed up for 16 days with no sleep once… It was because I was so worried about my mom… She left me alone with my grandparents which had never happened before and didn’t say when she’d be back. My grandparents would send me to bed and I’d stay up and wait at the window for her, hoping I wouldn’t miss her when she came in for food. I was about to give up when she came home really late. Mom had asked me when I last slept and I said the night before she left… I wound up sleeping 3 days strait after that, and I’ve tried again, but fallen asleep by day 4.
The previous Comment was posted on June 14, 2006 at 8:06 pm
OMG you guys have given me so much of a drive to stay up later than i already have at the moment. It’s been 28hrs w/o sleep for me…. and i’ve this project due in 3 days time.. and party to go to on the night before it’s due.. it’s soo stressing me out.
The previous Comment was posted on June 19, 2006 at 3:03 am
the world record for the longest period of staying awake is about 20 years. he doesn’t sleep anymore after a coma or something. let’s see u guys beat that. i’ll try it also, but i’m only at 23 hours.
The previous Comment was posted on June 23, 2006 at 9:38 am
Well right now Ive been up for 18, yeah not much but I’ll shoot for 36, if I make that I’ll try 48, Better start slaming some Vaults and some coffee
The previous Comment was posted on June 27, 2006 at 6:46 am
well i was with some buds and we were almost caught by the cops for reasons unknown
and then we played some day of defeat and tried to fall asleep but the god dam birds kept on chirping so we tooka paint ball gun and tried shooting em but it didnt work so we wnet for a walk and threw stuff and kicked power boxes sticking out of the road then we lit fires with axe then got lost in the woods found our way back
The previous Comment was posted on July 1, 2006 at 8:17 pm
Well for me it was only 38 hours till I went to sleep:)
At first me and my friend were acting all crazy and laughing at every little stupid thing. She even thought that a car that had drove by was invisible, lol
The previous Comment was posted on July 12, 2006 at 1:52 pm
I once stayed awake for 14 days solid as i tried to level my paladin to level 60 in the forest of eldar. i fell asleep in my own tears as my wow cd burnt out as it had been spinning constantly for 14 days xx
The previous Comment was posted on July 14, 2006 at 5:41 pm
Ok guys.. this shit is SERIOUS with me, as most of you are aware, there’s currently a huge mmorpg out name World Of Warcraft, I got in contact with this game and BOOM.. i’m a different man. I quit my job, girlfriend and social life, i hardly ever sleep, I feel almost fucked to death. I am addicted to hell, FUCK sleep man i love my WoW.Holy shit be right back lads I just levelled up, DING -_-.
The previous Comment was posted on July 14, 2006 at 5:44 pm
IM GOING FOR A WHOLE WEEK OF NO SLEEP
The previous Comment was posted on July 18, 2006 at 7:27 pm
I have been up all of the night time (1pm-10am) for 4 straight days. Right now I am attempting to stay up until school starts. July 31st. (7am).
I am a junior in high school and a couple of buddies are going to try this with me, to keep us busy, wel use our laptops,tv,xbox,cars,parties, and ENERGY DRINKS!
wish us luck!! HOUR COUNT=10 HOURS!lol
supplies-
-TV
-Laptops
-60 BOTTLES OF BAWLS(energy drink)
-GIRLS
The previous Comment was posted on July 22, 2006 at 1:12 am
kenneth, watch less House
not everything in that movie is true 
The previous Comment was posted on July 26, 2006 at 7:22 pm
I stayed awake for 5 nights and after the fifth night when the sun came up i went to sleep.
The previous Comment was posted on July 26, 2006 at 11:37 pm
As of right now 36 hours with no caffeine, my GF came back from a months vacation around hour 24, and was freaked cuz i was actin’ all goofy, now i’m just sad, but i’m resolved to make it to three days.
The previous Comment was posted on July 29, 2006 at 11:32 pm
you guys are joking 5 days , 16 days and so without sleeping. That is a load of bull. The body could not handle more than 70 hours of sleep. I mean by even not nodding off. If you sleep for 10 minutes and than wake than that is not counted as continuos non sleep. So be more realistic with you answers..
The previous Comment was posted on August 2, 2006 at 6:44 am
As of this moment I’ve been awake for 46 hours. I’d like to break 100, but I don’t think I’ll be able to. Two nights ago I just randomly decided not to go to sleep, and see how long I can last before I pass out.
To stay awake, I’ve been playing WoW while talking on Vent with buddies. Or I’ve been watching the seasons of Stargate SG-1 I just downloaded.
The previous Comment was posted on August 3, 2006 at 7:47 am
wait i dont get this. wy do u guys sleep. I have nevr slept b4 in my life. the only time i close my eyes to blink and make out. im not likin this sleepin concept. wutif someone murders. im 17 years old now so the updated record for most time awake is that given interval. thank u for ure time.
The previous Comment was posted on August 13, 2006 at 9:13 am
uhh i stay awake around 20 hrs of the day so thats 140 hrs a week so uhh fuck it im tired – goin 2 bed
The previous Comment was posted on August 17, 2006 at 7:04 pm
its been, 27 hours.
by the time i plan on going to sleep tonight it will be about 36 hours… woo.
The previous Comment was posted on August 21, 2006 at 9:13 am
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The previous Comment was posted on August 23, 2006 at 4:17 am
I’ve been up for 36 hours now… longest I ever stayed up was close to 60 hours. I have fibromyalgia, which is a chronic pain condition, but it also causes major issues with insomnia, sometimes causing a person to feel very energetic and awake when they’re actually in desperate need of sleep.
I want to sleep. I just am not tired at all… I keep bouncing off the walls….
The previous Comment was posted on August 28, 2006 at 10:12 pm
107 hours. for real, and to justin, you dont know what your talking about. The body will hold up for a long time, but the mind starts to slip really bad.
The previous Comment was posted on August 29, 2006 at 12:09 am
i do meth and im on day 9
The previous Comment was posted on September 22, 2006 at 5:23 am
The World Record is 265 hours without sleep. It was accomplished by a 17 year old male in 1959.
For me – the longest has been close to 72 hours. Not by choice either.
The previous Comment was posted on September 23, 2006 at 7:58 am
Longest I’ve ever done was 70ish. I started after I slept in until about three in the afternoon, and three days later I passed out for a day. No rhyme or reason, just didn’t sleep. Video Games are F’ED UP when you are hallucinating because of sleep deprivation.
The previous Comment was posted on October 1, 2006 at 9:07 pm
42-ish? i went through my school day normal, then i was trying to finish an outline for my ap class, but being a hs sophomore i procrastinated and had to definitely finish it
and then i had to go to practice smack dab in the middle of the morning, 6 AM and continue the second school day until i got sleep.
The previous Comment was posted on October 3, 2006 at 2:02 am
Hey guys, just thought i’d join the fun, i’ve been awake as of now for 36 hours, i’m probably going to stay awake forever if i want to becuase i believe it should be possible to condition your brain to disregard sleep as a useless pattern of our day.
Think about it some of us are probably having more fun in our dreams then we can get accomplished in a single day awake.
And If we could all stay awake and never fall asleep, think of all the extra money we could make during the night, when everyone else is sleeping and buisnesses need ppl to work.
The previous Comment was posted on October 5, 2006 at 11:45 pm
hey!.. i guess we’re all wondering the same thing here.. i’ve been up for 18 hours now… im gonna stay up for around 36… i can never fall asleep untill 5 or 6 am. i think im begining to get insomnia… so tonight.. wel.. last night i decided that since im never ever tired.. im gonna make myself tired… im gonna sleep GREAT!!
The previous Comment was posted on October 6, 2006 at 5:06 am
Just 41 hours for me. Fell asleep and slept for 21 hours lol.
The previous Comment was posted on October 9, 2006 at 7:16 am
I did not sleep around seven long days(160 hours)at a stretch. My friends do not believe it, but I know it is possible. I was in my 1st year of my college(NIFT,Kolkata)in the year 2005.I was working about a designing project and even attended college at morning.I hope this is a record.
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The previous Comment was posted on October 14, 2006 at 7:13 am
wow, i love this. seems the only people who come this page are the people who are already sleep deprived. i know that’s why i’m here. 21 hours without sleep and counting. maybe i’ll take a nap for a few hours, but then again i’m worried about missing a class that starts in 4 hours. gotta love college. oh, and longest i think i’ve been awake is about 32 hours.
The previous Comment was posted on October 17, 2006 at 3:43 am
I agree with the only people who come here are those who are sleep deprived. It is 2:20 am right now and I am at work and as of 8:00 am this morning, which is when I should finally get home, I will be at my 48 hour mark. I have been to busy to sleep, my car was broken down so my roomie was shuffling me around for 3 days trying to find a car, so we were always in her car, for like 3 days and she works second and I work third, so while I was at work, she would be sleeping but when I get off work I am with her all day long ago. I am so glad to have a car now, because as soon as I get home today I am crashing until I have to work tonight. I am a hot mess right now!
The previous Comment was posted on October 20, 2006 at 11:22 pm
43 hours now, straight for me. But if you count before that I only had 4 hours of sleep the day before so it comes out to 60 hours with only 4 hours of sleep. Its hella hard to drive! I had to scream the lyrics to my favorite album from SF to Sacramento. Now Im at work and waiting to be able to go home and go to sleep. I just was wondering about the health effects so i stumbled across this website. The only physical symptom is an upset stomache and im kinda hungry but dont want to eat. But the psychological is definently not good: hallucinations, paranoia, confused, disoriented. Funny thing is I dont feel that tired.
The previous Comment was posted on October 25, 2006 at 4:35 am
hey everyone One time I Got up at 4 am on a friday morning then proceeded to drink and party till sunday morning after playing an outdoor punk concert.I felt crummy enough that Sunday afternoon after being up for 2 days only.I proceeded to see how long i could stay up after that.It was not fun.I got extreme hullucinations,out of body feelings and not to mention the nausea ear feeling in my stomache finally folks after going out to my familys camp that sun I managed to stay up till the monday night and i slept for 15 hours.I dont beelive anyone when they say they have stayed up any longer then that without any drugs. hahha peace
The previous Comment was posted on October 28, 2006 at 4:14 pm
i’m on day 6 n feelin pretty good. the hallucinations are gettin pretty crazy. the shadow people are everywhere…lol. i don’t really know when i’m gonna go to bed. i guess when i run outta money. but i’m down to go for that 256 hour record. that dude that stayed awake for 20 years doesn’t count and i don’t really believe it cuz u can actually die if u are awake long enough. but sleep is such a waste of time
The previous Comment was posted on November 4, 2006 at 3:34 am
i stayed up 4 about a week and 3 days casue i gotta take meds 2 go 2 sleep
The previous Comment was posted on November 9, 2006 at 12:54 pm
when i was 18 i went on a speed binge. i managed to stay awake for 10 days and go through 2,ooo dollars worth of speed.
The previous Comment was posted on November 14, 2006 at 9:10 am
wudd up wudd up been up fo 2.5 weekz an styll rollyn. gon go fo a month mayB longa.
The previous Comment was posted on November 14, 2006 at 9:31 pm
The longest i’ve been awake for was 7 days straight, by that time i was having auditory hallucinations and i was experinceing a bit of delirium. The humans only sleep because it is our brains that need it. You cannot die from lack of sleep, maybe go crazy but medically it is impossible. i am submitting an application to guiness records, i’m going to attampt a full 2 weeks lol by the end i’ll most likely be experince symptoms similar to hallucinigens, which i’m very experienced at using so we’ll see how strong my sanioty is lol be tripping like being on drugs without the drugs. I’ll post when i’m going to attempt it. i’m just waiting for guiness to send me a reply back with all the rules and documentation! woot! i challenge anyone to try and beat me if you dare lol
The previous Comment was posted on November 19, 2006 at 10:37 am
oh also i’m doing this naturally not with the use of stimulants, anyone can stay awake for months if they are constantly horking down speed or any other amphetamine/stimulant type drug.
The previous Comment was posted on November 19, 2006 at 10:39 am
i have stayed up for 86 hours at my boscout summer camp
The previous Comment was posted on December 3, 2006 at 12:08 pm
what that was my second awake i have been up for i think 121 hours i think when i was at a 2 week long summer camp that is a lot lol
The previous Comment was posted on December 3, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Bah, currently on my 16th hour of no sleep… 5 hours till school starts… 6 essays left to write (or, well, copy off the net)
will be able to go to sleep in about 17 hours
so what does that make? 33 hours total?
my record is about 39 hours. Woke up around 10am, lived the day through, had a plane to catch at 7am next morning so decided not to go to bed at all. Stayed up on the plane watching movies. Arrived in California, ate dinner, talked to people, watched some more movies, went to bed at 3am Eastern Time.
The previous Comment was posted on December 5, 2006 at 12:20 am
btw, a [DO NOT] in staying awake technology: frequently drinking large doses of caffeine. Last time I tried that I almost passed out at 3am. Unfortunately the shivering kept me half conscious till 4am and I barely got any sleep at all since I had to wake up at 6am that morning. Plus I woke up with a very strong buzz in my head and horrible coffee breath (coffee count: 6mugs)
The previous Comment was posted on December 5, 2006 at 12:26 am
yea, some of the stuff on this site is so not true, the record is 11 days, some people with insomnia claim to have gone years and years, but they have disorders, i highly doubt the accounts from some of these people, as for myself, i don’t exactly remember, but i am going to try and do 72 hours over spring break
The previous Comment was posted on December 8, 2006 at 12:50 am
I’ve stayed awake for about 29 days….i have a nightmare problem =/
The previous Comment was posted on December 11, 2006 at 4:17 pm
I’m up now going on 50 hours. Im just trying to see how long i can go and it sucks when there are periods of like 2 hours when nothing is going on. I pace alot
The previous Comment was posted on December 12, 2006 at 7:42 am
The longest i’ve ever stayed awake I think was 48 hours once. It was such a drag… I was over at my friends house and she refused to let me have a wink of sleep. My partner and I in school are also doing a science fair project on sleep deprivaiton, and we are planning to test ourselves as well. My partners already done it herself, staying awake a night, but I am relutant too. ugh…
The previous Comment was posted on December 12, 2006 at 6:12 pm
I’ve stayed up 48 hours before myself. I don’t know if I was somehow sleeping with my eyes open, but I had moments where I would just stare into the abyss with absolutely nothing on my mind. I’ve also heard the record was eleven hours, by some teen I think, maybe 17. I remember reading his responce, and he said that he had random dizzy moments and short-term memmory loss issues. But I agree strongl that caffiene and energy foods are no substitute for sleep and you will, eventually, die from lack of sleep. Your Body will just shut down completely, maybe slowly. like organ by organ, or maybe quicker than you think. It all really depends on your situation though, so don’t none of you go and kill yourselves, because it would be an aweful waste just to go and die from something so simple as sleeping… Or is it so simple at all.
The previous Comment was posted on December 12, 2006 at 6:19 pm
Eh, “huge typo”, Not ‘eleven hours’; “eleven nights”. Anyways yeah, way to screw up my big exit.
The previous Comment was posted on December 12, 2006 at 6:25 pm
Right now I’m looking at my 68th hour. No idea how I have made it to this point. I’m abroad in Florence, Italy and every night thus far I’ve had a roommate up with me working, so it’s helped to have company. I’ve for sure had some short term memory issues but my stream of thought is real versitile but real calm. I feel like I have total controll of my body. Cigarettes are key and I am for sure seeing things. I have a test in 3 hours then I’m calling it quits…I do recomend this though, you’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
The previous Comment was posted on December 12, 2006 at 9:55 pm
I R NOOB
The previous Comment was posted on December 16, 2006 at 9:35 am
I’ve been awake for three days now. It’s really depressing, because I was actually TRYING to go to sleep these past couple days but couldn’t, so I just ended up lying in bed until I had to get up for school >
The previous Comment was posted on December 22, 2006 at 7:05 pm
While I used to come down from my heroin habit 2 times and having withdrawal symptoms; abt. 5 and 10 years ago I did´nt sleep for 1 week 1st time and second time I was awake in a hospital continously for 2 weeks, because they did´nt give me any medication, it was such a recovery center they dont use meds at all, I remember (and it has been documented, because it happened on such place where´s nurses 24/7), after 2 weeks been awake they sent me to another hospital to get medicine for sleeping, they gave me 5 or 10 mg:s of diazepam and I did almost immediately fall asleep for some 2-3 days, just woke up for toilet visits, after been awake for 3-5 days you get used to that, only nighttimes are very hard to lie on bed, because there was no action anywhere and could´nt do anything, had to lie on a bed so did´nt disturb other patients.. btw. what´s the world record for been awake in quinness, anyone knows ?
The previous Comment was posted on December 31, 2006 at 9:31 am
You guys are Nuts, well maybe not who am i? Longest for me is about 25 hours, but i was drinking all night, so by the time 9am hit from staying up from 7:30am the following day, i was done.
Longest without being drunk is about 23 hours, nothing special, it was nothing out of the ordinary.
The previous Comment was posted on January 5, 2007 at 12:24 pm
like another person on here i have been awake for almost 57 hours due to steroids(prednisilone) for my asthma and its a nightmare ….pardon the pun lol x Oh i soooo want to just fall aslepp x
The previous Comment was posted on January 12, 2007 at 5:38 pm
my record is 20 hours sraight from 6am on friday to 2am on saturday
The previous Comment was posted on January 16, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Well, I was desperately trying polyphasis sleeping for 2 days but it was a complete failure,I have a college project and took me 2 days not sleeping, it quickly gave me insomnia, I use it as my advantage, Now, I only sleep 3 hours straight regularly, everyday, except sunday where my body completely sleep for 20 hours.
The previous Comment was posted on January 21, 2007 at 2:38 am
well i know this is not long but 24 hours. it was because we were having an awakeover at school.but i was only 12
The previous Comment was posted on February 10, 2007 at 5:39 am
I stayed up for 102.5 hours last week. Breaking 70 is entirely possible. Not that hard either. However after about 85 I started having really bad muscle spasms and heart palpitations. I’m actually just looking around the net for a concrete World Record, out of curiosity, and I stumbled upon this thread.
The previous Comment was posted on February 10, 2007 at 11:50 am
Hey guys, for all those of u who said they been up for 16 days or 2 weeks or 29 days or w.e. that’s not true, u’d be famous then. For all those that have records under 4-5 days, NONE of u have any knowledge or idea as to what no sleep is actually about. I’m more interested in talking to the people that did 5,6,7 days. Although I’m only 18, I have pulled about 250 all nighters in my life, plus minus 10 or so. AND no 24 hours is NOTTT an all nighter, that’s garbage, an all nighter is minimum 36 hours! I am at a point where pulling single/double all nighter is simply called pathetic, its like eating peanuts, its a joke. I don’t even THINK about sleep in first 50 hours of no sleep. 3rd consecutive, thats where it gets a LITTLE interesting and the challenge begins, 4, 5 is hard. My record is almost 6, 138 hours, and YES, I MEAN PERFECTLY CONTINUOUS awakeness, NO 5 min naps, no falling asleep in chairs, sofas, thats all bogus, if u fall asleep for more than 30 seconds, u cant call that pulling all nighters anymore, u killed it. I do triple/quad all nighters every few weeks or so, its nothing serious. And yes, u do start hallucinating after 5, put u can keep it under control if u r working on something important. I pull all my 4-5-6 all nighters with my 2 best friends. We are practically gods at this by now, because it IS hard to do more than 4 days by yourself, u just wanna sneak away to bed, lol. The 3 of us have set a plan to beat the great Randy Gardner, who set the world record of 265 hours at age 17 as a HS student. Besides my 2 best friends, he is only one I know of or heard of that I have a great amount of repect for in terms of no sleep. 99.9% of ppl who pull all nighters, r pathetic, don’t know wat they r doing and DISGRACE the WORD ITSELF. An all nighter is like peice of art, its a way to EXTEND life. I cannot comprehend ppl that sleep 8-12 hours a day on avg, thats like throwing away HALF your life on sleep! U must be insane, sleep when you’re DEAD! Yes of course many ppl dont have the WILL to pull all nighters, but IF U CAN, U SHOULD! I have done TONS and TONS of research on no sleep, so if you r someone who KNOWS anything about it, and your record is at least 4-5 days, it would be interesting to talk.
The previous Comment was posted on February 15, 2007 at 11:23 pm
im at about 63 hours right now…no resting and i havnt been nodding off at all..and no caffenne. i feel wide awake.. haha and to the guy who osted above me.. you are exactly right… me and my 3 friends had a conversation at like 5-6 this morning about how it is a waste of half your life if u sleep like 8 hours a night… there would be soooo many awesome memories and great times that i would have missed so far in my life if i slept like most people… i have no intentions of going to sleep tonight. just caus it gets fun after a while and i’m probably going to go out tonight. i think im going continue this and try to go for 100 hours.. il get back on here on friday or saturday to report.
The previous Comment was posted on February 21, 2007 at 11:06 am
the longest i have ever stayed awake was when i was in high school and i was awake for two weeks, as of today i slept for two hours last night before that i hadn’t slept since friday 7 days ago. I seem to have a very low sleep requirement coupled with insomnia. I do not get tired for at least 4 days and do not halucinate or notice any lack in mental performance. I go to work 9 till 6 for 5 days a week doing technical work for a computer repair company,
as of yet i have not met anyone who can stay awake longer me even if they are taking chemicals. I only go to sleep if i am bored ill or upset about something
The previous Comment was posted on February 24, 2007 at 4:35 am
Hey like world record for no sleep is 11 days So like i dunno if you can die from now sleep i suffer from peroiods of insomia and the most ive done is 3 days but like who knows i know after 4 or 5 days you see things but hey who knows Meh
The previous Comment was posted on February 25, 2007 at 1:50 am
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.
I’m On Crack
The previous Comment was posted on February 25, 2007 at 1:52 am
A Couple Of Years Ago, I Managed To Pull 5 days. Coz I’m Hard.
The previous Comment was posted on February 25, 2007 at 1:58 am
Kev, your records are pretty good, I myself have also never met anyone who could come even close to my records. I don’t insomnia or any other sleep disorder, I simply believe that IF I CAN stay up more, I should. Just because I could study or do something PRODUCTIVE instead of wasting life on sleep. It’s not that I don’t like to sleep, I LOVE sleep. In fact, sleep is so much more valuable after staying up for 100-150 hours. I could sleep an easy 36 hours after several all-nighters, but I usually don’t just because I function perfectly with 4-5 hours of sleep every day. Im gonna try to beat Peter Tripp’s record of 8.5 days in June which was obviously beat by Randy Gardner, but first I will try 8.5 days, then I’ll try 11 days, lol. I have so much respect for people that can pull easy all-nighters on regular basis without bitching about it. I’d be nice to meet someone of my level, besides by 2 best friends with whom I usually pull these all-nighters with.
The previous Comment was posted on February 26, 2007 at 10:41 am
As of yet, I’ve only stayed awake through 2 nights at a maximum (so 48 hours plus say… maybe 12 or 14 on top of that: about 60 total) and my friend decided to give up 30 minutes short of 70 once, so 69.5 for him.
We’re doing a documentary together on the hundred hour challenge over Spring Break in two weeks. He’s going to try “grazing” (no meals, just snacking every hour if not more) and a very smooth intake of caffeine or energy drinks or whatever he uses (remembering that however “high” you go up, you always crash back down – so minimal but constant intake of this too) while I myself am going to test… nothing. Standard meals (four a day though; maybe five if I’m hungry from the extra hours daily) and absolutely no stimulants beyond natural will power.
If I remember, I’ll post a link to the final product when we upload it to Google Video and my webhost.
The previous Comment was posted on February 26, 2007 at 8:00 pm
330 hours for me, it was fucking crazy! i couldn’t drive, talk, or reongnize any kind of verbal directive or comment…
Had vivid hallucinations, and thought my friend killed his wife!
Of course… tiny did help me with that one.
Kids don’t do drugs!(Atleast not an ounce of shit in a two week period)
The previous Comment was posted on February 28, 2007 at 7:06 am
i have to agrre with alex in that sleep seems a terrible wast of life when there is so much to do and see, having a full time job and an active social life requires having very little sleep to fit everything in if you sleep too long you miss things. If you live for 65 years and sleep only an hour a day all your life you will have been concious for the same amount of time as someone who has lived to be 100 sleeping 10 hours a night(approx) just think about all those people who sleep for 12-16 hours
Also recently i have heard reports on local radio of people dieng after playing online gaming for 3 or more days on end without sleep. I was wondering if this is something you have to be susceptible to or if it can creep up on you without warning even if you have stayed awake long hours before. I always thought your mind just shut off and forced you to sleep if you stay awake too long, i have a friend who i have seen colapse after he stayed up for a whole week, he just fell asleep when he was walking along.I’ve seen this hapen to him on several occasions usually after 5 or more days.This has recently worried me as i frequently stay awake for 3-4 or more days at a time and i dont seem to have this cut off point i just force myself to sleep if i think ive been awake too long
The previous Comment was posted on March 3, 2007 at 7:33 am
Well i didnt read any posts past the original 4. Which I suppose were posted more than a year ago, but I must say, at this moment I am about to fall asleep after staying awake for 43 hours. Nothing astronomical, but jesus christ, the feelings i am feeling are very similar to those of a variety of disasociated drugs I have experimented with. Gnight all.
The previous Comment was posted on March 6, 2007 at 12:14 am
“Also recently i have heard reports on local radio of people dieng after playing online gaming for 3 or more days on end without sleep.”
Well there’s a difference between physical exhaustion & sleep deprivation, although there’s no doubt that the two can collaborate severely.
The previous Comment was posted on March 7, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Am on here cause like every1 else have been awake f&$#@@ ever and have run out of shit to look up online. Up for 4 days now… w/help…haha. Visual and auditory def. outa wack now but Ive been up so long i feel kinda zombie ish and feel no desire to sleep but i should. Wow
PS ALEX -u sound like a total head case. Please seek therapy to vent your bitchy ranting and let the rest of us have some fun
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The previous Comment was posted on March 7, 2007 at 5:03 pm
I have found that by eating a little before bedtime I can fall asleep better. WBR LeoP
The previous Comment was posted on March 12, 2007 at 3:35 pm
ive been awake for 22 hrs for now. my best is 48-50 hrs i forgot, im goin for 100.. but the world record is 11 days, 264 hours, at that stage you totally break down mentally i know none of u in here have stayed TOTALLY awake for more than that, comeon now.. i hear that the first 3 days are the worst, but after that u get a second wind and feel totally alive and not sleepy at all, but then it is also very hard to fall back asleep.. i dont know but its somthing to try before you die.. yes, sleeping is a waste of time!
The previous Comment was posted on March 14, 2007 at 8:06 am
ctrlstop@hotmail.co.uk
147 hours 15 minutes and im told it was 23 seconds, after 73-74 i started to hulicinate and at 110 i started beocome violent 140 plus it was the oposite i started asking everyone arrond me to put me to sleep
The previous Comment was posted on March 21, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Hey people dunno how many people look at this, but ive been up for 36 hours so far. From four oclock in the afternoon on day one and through till now
Last night i drank about 20 cups of coffee, no joke. Today ive had two energy drinks and can feel the tiredness coming on. I would stay up another couple of days as i now have 3 weeks of from university but i have to be energetic for tomorow nite, gonna celebrate the fact that even without any sleep i still managed to not finish my assignments and not hand them in. Happy days for me
p.s. my room mate said that when he was working he was up for almost 5 days straight, would have been longer but he couldnt keep his body awake, sounds abit wussy to me lol ;D
The previous Comment was posted on March 22, 2007 at 9:03 pm
oh thats british time by the way
The previous Comment was posted on March 22, 2007 at 9:16 pm
i hav had some kind of flu and have slept nearly all week, i even fell asleep in the day after 10 hours of sleep which believe me is a lot of sleep for me. I guess i must need extra sleep to recover. I have noticed that after 5-6 days i do sometimes halucinate but this seems to go away after anout a day, maybe my mind is just to tired to hallucinate. the longest i hav managed this year is about 8 days(friday till the next saturday) due to insomnia. i hav had to start playing guitar to relieve the boredom of being awake to long
The previous Comment was posted on March 25, 2007 at 10:14 am
hav been awake since i made my last comment and am currently at work, not much work to do so posting here due to boredom
The previous Comment was posted on March 26, 2007 at 7:14 am
I’ve been up for about 36 hours at this point and still have a good chunk of my research paper left to do. It’s due in 13 hours. I’ve got this. I never really thought about challenging myself to stay awake…I’m still going really strong and it’s the middle of the night here. If all is well tomorrow night after I get out of class at 9:30, I may just jump on the bandwagon and see how long I can go.
This thread was interesting to read though, some of you guys are insane with how long you can stay awake. I’m jealous. Is it possible to ‘work out’ your brain and build up stamina so you don’t have to sleep as much? That would be awesome, sleep just gets in the way of life. Plus as a college student who has to play catch up all semester because of work over load this seems to be the way to be productive.
The previous Comment was posted on March 26, 2007 at 9:36 pm
whats the limit of how long a 12 year olf kid stayed up for? i usually go on a personal record setting contest with myself over breaks from school and over christmas break i spent 93 hours of no sleep ( i was playing guitar hero and guitar hero 2 to keep myself occupied….
so if anyone knows can they post it????
by the way im 13 now.
[[Jœ¥™]]
The previous Comment was posted on April 8, 2007 at 10:59 pm
i have been awake 4 6 days straight now and im still not tired
The previous Comment was posted on April 11, 2007 at 6:28 pm
longest i’ve stayed awake is 89 hours. i can’t remember what reason this was. Some stupid bet i think. but it really really messed me up.
I’ve been awake now for 36 hours.
The previous Comment was posted on April 11, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I’m currently pulling a 36 hour shift for work. Don’t ask… I know its against a few rules and laws. I belive the longest ever was about 4 to 5 days due to a pill I used to take to keep me focused. Dexomorphodrine will keep you awake forever, but its sadly unhealthy. I think that 260 hours would leave you almost loopy. I was spun after 100 awake, 200 probably would’ve killed me.
The previous Comment was posted on April 13, 2007 at 5:22 am
I’m on 37 right now. I took 2 NeuroBlast pills (London Underground) 1 XXX (also London Underground), and I railed back a line of pFPP powder. I was fricked up beyond all belief for awhile.. but now I’m sitting here feeling completely settled and at peace. I think I’ll go for about 52.. IF I can make it that far.
The previous Comment was posted on April 17, 2007 at 5:23 am
i once stayed awake for 7 million days
The previous Comment was posted on April 20, 2007 at 4:06 am
An update of sorts. I ended up being awake for 58 hours in total.. and then I slept for around 9-11 hours each day following for 3 consecutive days. Not a horrible experience.. but it should be noted that it was all because of the drugs. The after effects felt like hell.. but I don’t blame the lack of sleep for that.
The previous Comment was posted on April 24, 2007 at 4:38 am
One time I was staying awake and I thought how long I could stay awake so I started and I stayed awake for 9 hours till I fell asleep on a commercail!
The previous Comment was posted on April 24, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Tweaekin
You need to lay of the Crack cause your act’in like a BITCH so you fucki’n ass hole u need to quit being a lesabien here is about u and u
your a bitch a fucker a lesabien and definet ly an ass hole
The previous Comment was posted on April 24, 2007 at 5:41 pm
I once stayed awake longest enough to read this entry and all of the comments, so where is my prize?
The previous Comment was posted on May 1, 2007 at 2:24 pm
33 hours until I finally gave in and had to take 2 mg. of xanex! So I don’t know why all of you are willingly staying up for 2 days and so forth…though I have a friend that stayed up for 5 days(after taking acid) and kept flipin out…lol I wanted to kill myself after 30 hours of no sleep… I figured if my mind wouldn’t let me sleep when I wanted I would show it whos boss and take it out!
The previous Comment was posted on May 11, 2007 at 1:53 am
also though I kinda envy those of you that actually stay up for 40+ hours without sleep (or drugs) because in all honesty, you have no choice and all the time in the world to sleep when your in the ground so if you can take it right on!
The previous Comment was posted on May 11, 2007 at 2:04 am
I was up 65 hours, but did take a nap for 2 hours. I was up 26 hours, napped for 2, and was then up for 37. I was working on a deadline for work worth millions of dollars. In hour 36, I had to drive about 1 mile. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced. It was worst than drinking and driving (not that I do that). I was hallucinating. My senses were so heightened…I could hear little noises, I kept seeing lights and shadows, I suddenly noticed how things felt…like my cell phone in my hand. My eyes felt like they were on fire. I was also mumbling a lot and couldn’t complete thoughts. I felt so out of it. It was so strange. I was curious about what was happening to my mind and body and was googling it…that’s how I stumbled onto this page. Anyway…I didn’t like it. I don’t recommend it. I hope I don’t have to do that again!
The previous Comment was posted on May 12, 2007 at 4:54 pm
4 days last summer (2006) when I went on a four day partying binge with my friends in spain. Got there on monday and didnt sleep until thursday on my flight back to the UK.
The previous Comment was posted on May 16, 2007 at 7:19 pm
I have been up for aprox. 29 hours and counting……..I dont believe alot of the people that say they have been up for over 72 hours ( 3 days ) because I have only been awake for not even 2 days , have had at least 6 cups of Coffee lastnight/this morning and I feel like I’m gonna have some sort of a heart attack, or pass out in class
The previous Comment was posted on May 30, 2007 at 8:39 am
I’ve been up about 15 hours so far. I’m trying to fix my biological clock, so I can’t sleep until a normal time tonight, unless I decide to go for another day for fun. I prolly will, though. I’m staying with a friend for 2 days, so.. I prolly will stay up for about 3 days without sleep. I’mma be MAD if I fall asleep sometime today.
The previous Comment was posted on June 7, 2007 at 4:35 am
Hi my personal record is 108 hours And i was all whacked out it was crazy its like i was drunk… right now im running on my 64th hour SO hopefully i can break my personal record
The previous Comment was posted on June 9, 2007 at 1:31 am
about 4-5 days without sleep between parties, work, skool, halo 2 compitions, and gaming marathons but when i started to hallucinate i thought it would be fun to take sleep pill with my friends to see who could stay up longer but add the effect to the 4 days or so with out sleep i woke in the hospitale with stiches in my head from falling down a flight of stairs
The previous Comment was posted on June 12, 2007 at 11:17 pm
I could say 6 days, but 144 hrs sounds longer….
Day 1: got lost in the middle of the ocean
Day 2: Rescued, but had to attend a wedding within 2 hours after
B/w Day 2 and 3, while staring at the bacardi at the club at 3 AM i realized i had research paper due
Day 4 hahahahahah
Day 5: Had sex
Day 6: Made breakfast, lunch, and dinner and had sex !!
The previous Comment was posted on June 16, 2007 at 6:19 am
36 hours! on speed for 18hours. after 20 hours i had a bath and for some strange reason i felt more awake then i did! Usually id have a bath and pass out. by the end my head hurt and id see weird slightly blurry things movin in the corner of my eye. bad!
The previous Comment was posted on June 16, 2007 at 3:20 pm
just slept for 9 hrs for th first time in months was well good after a 126 hour all weeker workin an playin hard,I had to stop 4 the sanity of my friend who was trying to keep up with me and didnt no where he was and kept getting up check out imaginary noises. i only ever sleep properly if is stay awake 4 ages.
The previous Comment was posted on June 21, 2007 at 10:59 am
LIGHTWEIGHTS !!!|CALLING ALL LIGHTWEIGHTS
while your still awake, it makes me laugh how many people think its not possible to stay awake for more than 2 dayso
anything is possible ive seen people who are HARDCORE stay awake entire weeks, me and my friends used 2 hav competitions to see who could stay asake the longest without passing out or talking to inanimate objects while laughing insanely
I have personally seen someone stay awake for 177 hours that just over a week, he slept for 2 hours then went another 4 days,
IF YOUR HARDCORE GO 1 DAY MORE
IF YOUR LIGHTWEIGHT FALL 2 THE FLOOR
I believe that any person can stay awake as long as their power of will permits, ill personally go into work after 3 days of being awake because i hav mental stamina and i know i can do it.
The previous Comment was posted on June 21, 2007 at 11:20 am
ive been awake for 200 hrs as of this minute
The previous Comment was posted on June 26, 2007 at 2:23 am
The longest that I have stayed awake is currently 459 hours. This translates into 19 days and a couple extra hours. It was an experiment I did during my 9th grade year to see how long I could stay awake. I experienced slight deprivation on the 9th day, with dementia following on the 12th day, and on the 15th day, I was unable to speak in English. It was just gibberish.
Thats not the worst, the sleep deprivation was so bad on the 18th day that I went into Cardiac arrest. wanna know the best part? I’d do it again in a heart beat.
The previous Comment was posted on June 26, 2007 at 3:00 am
i’ve stayed up for 192.5 hours wif my friends, it was rele fun, but then at like 100th hour i thought i was god and i could do anything i want, then a little later i thought there were 5 girls in the room even though it was 3 guys so yeah it gets ur mind rele screwed up
The previous Comment was posted on June 27, 2007 at 9:07 am
I once stayed up a whole day…lol…i still cant go longer than that…w/e im still cool!!!
The previous Comment was posted on July 8, 2007 at 5:09 am
When I was 12 my mum died and after that I went from Tuesday 2am to Thurday 9pm without sleep, i was trying to get back to normal hours. I just couldn’t sleep and by Thursday afternoon I felt so dizzy and my mind was so fcked up lol.
Its 8.30 am now, and I fell asleep yesterday at 2pm and woke up at 2 am early this morning. My sleep cycle is fcked up for the 100000th time so I might sleep now and wake up at 11.30 or something…
The previous Comment was posted on July 8, 2007 at 3:15 pm
When I was 12 my mum died and after that I went from Tuesday 2am to Thurday 9pm without sleep, i was trying to get back to normal hours. I just couldn’t sleep and by Thursday afternoon I felt so dizzy and my mind was so fcked up lol. Ever since then I’ve never slept normally for a long period of time and its years later…
Its 8.30 am now, and I fell asleep yesterday at 2pm and woke up at 2 am early this morning. My sleep cycle is fcked up for the 100000th time so I might sleep now and wake up at 11.30 or something…
The previous Comment was posted on July 8, 2007 at 3:16 pm
My record is about 52 hours. Was going for 72 with a couple friends but we were forced to go to sleep. XDDD
Currently at 24 hours at the moment, shooting for at least 48.
Rawr.
I NNNEEEEEDDD CAFFFEEEIIINNNEEE.
The previous Comment was posted on July 9, 2007 at 10:46 am
its 6:30am on Thurs. morning right now and ive been up since noon Mon…and im still goin… so about 66 hours(please correct me if i am wrong..im not so “bright” at this moment)
(Yes i am aware that depriving your body of sleep is dangerous..)
The previous Comment was posted on July 12, 2007 at 4:34 am
so far, its been about 24 hours, i think i need to go for 33 to beat my friends.
The previous Comment was posted on July 17, 2007 at 12:43 am
i’ve have not slept since i turned 21 i am now 27
The previous Comment was posted on July 22, 2007 at 2:53 am
i am working on my 72nd hour, and im trippn hard core my eyes are all blury but yet i feel toatly normal i can feel the blood circulating through my arms and im haveing a hard time finding enough enery to do ANYTHING even tho im a very active person.lol
I feel like a ZoMbIe!
so thats my “war” story
thanks for shareing everyone!
The previous Comment was posted on July 23, 2007 at 11:09 am
Well…about 40 hours and this only two times in my life really. Reasons were cramming for exam/report writing. The first time was artificial since i believe I was “high” on caffeine tablets. I believe i took three and did not once in about 40 hours feel sleepy. The second time was in university a few years ago. It started at 10am and the next day a 80page report was due at 12am. I worked throughout the night with the rest of my team. We delivered a good report. And i was not really tired. No drugs this time. Went to bed at 6 pm the next day i remember – perhaps only 32 hours in total.
The previous Comment was posted on July 26, 2007 at 9:46 am
4 days…but I guess it is more impressive concidering that i am 13 years old. Ok i stayed up all night before the flight out to mexico. Then i stayed up on the plane..then we get there lost our luggage..I was holusonating in the strees with my friend and then we finnaly rented a car and drove back to the airport in Cancun’ and flew home..when i hit the sheets i was dead for 2 days. Couldn’t move
!!
The previous Comment was posted on August 1, 2007 at 5:29 am
Alright, so, right now I am on 30 hours and 13 minutes. To be honest I don’t know why I stay awake.. I know I need to sleep and do stuff the next day, but i do like to see ho wlong i can stay awake. Energy suppliments used in this past time period = 4 excedrine, 1 large full throttle, 1 chi tea, 1 1/2 gallons of Arizona Green Tea, and myself. My previous record from 2 years ago was approximatly 126 hours 45 minutes. In that I used = 1/2 bottle of no-doze, 6 or so phentetermine (diet pill), aprox 12 energy drinks, and self. My expiriences though the days 5 days I was awake were not clear but not hazey, kind of like, as used above, zombie like. What I did during those days was played on my computer, went to one club (at the begining), watched tv, drew, and talked to my friend Matt. I would like to see how far i can get without any energy suppliments and agian, how long with. I do not recomend anyone do this in concecutive months, take a few months inbetween and let yourself re-register. Personaly I don’t use no-doze anymore because one day I took 2 and drank a vault and ended up shaking really bad and being being paranoid. Anyways, that’s my story and I give kudos and good luck to anyone trying to be a ghost that doesn’t sleep, lol.
The previous Comment was posted on August 19, 2007 at 2:26 am
P.S. I do not take illigal drugs when I stay up, just so things are clear for the future.
The previous Comment was posted on August 19, 2007 at 2:29 am
P.S.S. If you’d like to contact me, get a myspace and message me at http://www.myspace.com/adflictus_pupe
The previous Comment was posted on August 19, 2007 at 2:30 am
started 10am Sunday and it’s now 3:42pm Monday so roughly 30 hours. felt the worst i have ever felt at school today, have the worst headache and feel like i am intoxicated
i’ll try make it to 48, if so i might keep going but lordy do i feel horrible.
The previous Comment was posted on September 10, 2007 at 12:46 am
You guys really want to make this fun? No i havnt been up continous i have takin 2 15 minute naps in after only 5 hours of sleep i woke up and went to work. Construction work, after work i had to go home and clean up becuase i also help a model scout out by going to clubs and finding women, well this trip lasted a lot longer than expected laid down at 545 and up at 6 shower coffee and work got home not even tired at this time so i decided like the rest of yall to see if it could be done so after another 24 hours i had to rest my eyes and yes i did sleep another 15 minutes and caught a new wind but with the work i do it feels nearly imposible but from the tiem i woke up from my last nap is 72 hours and before that about 36 to 40 cant quit get my math right but im fuctioning ok and working normaly and even somewhat fast cuz i enjoy being able to do something but im goin for 100 straight as of now but we will see and i will be back
The previous Comment was posted on September 10, 2007 at 4:46 am
I’m Chuck Norris.
I’ve never slept.
The previous Comment was posted on October 1, 2007 at 6:47 am
I’m Michael Jackson.
All I do is sleep.
… With little boys.
The previous Comment was posted on October 1, 2007 at 6:50 am
i stay 3 days straight w/o any naps every week(im a model so we don’t have a fixed work sched). It’s good to spend sleepless days w/ some friends. Me and my friends mostly models, we party all night and watch movies during the day… just having fun, enjoying life to the fullest… sleeping is boring… –we don’t take drugs… drugs + no sleep = zombie looking mofo!lol
The previous Comment was posted on October 2, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I stay 3 days straight w/o any naps every week(im a model so we don’t have a fixed work sched). It’s good to spend sleepless days w/ some friends. Me and my friends mostly models, we party all night and watch movies during the day… just having fun, enjoying life to the fullest… sleeping is boring… –we don’t take drugs… drugs + no sleep = zombie looking mofo!lol
The previous Comment was posted on October 2, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Lol wut?
The previous Comment was posted on October 3, 2007 at 6:42 am
woke up Sunday at 10…
its now Tuesday at 3:15….
im too tired to do the math
The previous Comment was posted on October 9, 2007 at 1:15 pm
I want to got to sleep so bad, but can’t! I’m at 45 or so right now. If I don’t catch an hour or so right now, I have to get up and do laundry and pack for a business trip in Nashville. That’ll stretch it to about 60. Wish me luck! Scratch that, on second thought. Pray for me!
The previous Comment was posted on October 9, 2007 at 10:47 pm
The longest i ever stayed up was 4 days because i took 9 hits of LSD. It really freaked me out because I thought i forgot how to sleep and that it was never gonna end. It really seemed like a month because time was moving really really slow. Its wierd because ive taken 5 and even 7 hits before and never got this kind of reaction. I thought i was gonna end up in a padded room with a strait jacket for the rest of my life. But when I started to come down from it I felt relieved. I felt like a newborn. Looking back at the experince I dont regret it. Every time you take acid it kinda changes your thought pattern to the better I think in my situation. But the side effects are different for everybody.
The previous Comment was posted on October 14, 2007 at 4:00 am
i think im gonna take a crack a tthis record for real!!!!!!!!!
i might need some mountain dew,monster,tv,xbox, stuff like that but i think im really gonna try it
The previous Comment was posted on November 5, 2007 at 5:45 pm
i think im gonna take a crack at this record for real!!!!!!!!!
i might need some mountain dew,monster,tv,xbox, stuff like that but i think im really gonna try it!
sorry 4 the last comment it said a tthis
The previous Comment was posted on November 5, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I couldn’t really say for certain but close to about four days maybe a little into four days. I use to do this a lot when I was younger and gave myself a serious case of insomnia – to which I still have to this day. The result? I had barely ten hours sleep in the course of an entire week. The recommended is 56 hours for that period of time… so yeah, that was interesting.
The previous Comment was posted on November 10, 2007 at 4:19 am
i havebeen up for 58 hours almost 59 and i feel.. my eyes ..well they arent doing so well but.. oh yeah i saw so e things that are not there but i am in control of bac body functions. I cant sse that well to type. i want to sleep but feel i cant due to help with a certain leagal medicine.and with the help of mountain dew amp . the past 24 hours i feel like its trippy… idont feel normal ..feelslie sorta a dream . i will be fine i am offto bed. for those of yu that say yu can onli stay up 20 hr?? are yu kidding… that is nothing. so i am clocking out this time with almost 59 hours awake. i am 30 yr female
The previous Comment was posted on November 19, 2007 at 11:41 pm
wow im about to pass out here, its 7:17am november 24 2007, i started this on tuesday the 20th at 9:10am when i started home from virgina tech to biltmore airzona, its been almost 4 days now 2 hours away from 4 days, and im going to bed as soon as i can submit this.lol peace and stay awake!!
The previous Comment was posted on November 24, 2007 at 5:21 am
well i guess im not going to bed, haha i need to eat first just thought i would throw that out there ..
The previous Comment was posted on November 24, 2007 at 5:25 am
The longest i had without sleep is 34 hours. non stop just for the fun of it..i kept shaking alot from the amount of coffee and caffine tablets.
The previous Comment was posted on November 27, 2007 at 7:40 am
the longest ive ever stayed awake is somewhere around 957 hours. i cant remember exactly because i had amnesia when i woke up
The previous Comment was posted on November 29, 2007 at 7:10 am
Itmay be hard to belive but I stayed up 1,098 day long
The previous Comment was posted on December 13, 2007 at 3:59 pm
umm, about 3 days maybe a little less. i did that when i was about 13 because my friend dared me. a since i was young a felt like i was going crazy.
it was fun though!
The previous Comment was posted on December 16, 2007 at 4:36 pm
I stayed awake for 7 and a half days straight bck in college! By day 6 I started hallucinating and seeing eople that weren’t there and ending up talkingto myself! I finally just collapsed on my bed in the middle of a phone conversation and didnt wake up for 16 hours.
The previous Comment was posted on December 16, 2007 at 9:48 pm
56 hours . .
I’m 15 and one month ago i had to do a project with questionnaires – which i filled it my own! about saving water; in technology lesson and it tooked me up to two days. I wake up at 6 o’clock for school every day and i return back at 2 o’clock. When i returned from the school i was studying my homework and after hours i was doing the project with many hours surfing, writing, and doing charts.
The previous Comment was posted on December 28, 2007 at 4:20 pm
about 2 days. i felt ok though+i am 13yr old
The previous Comment was posted on December 31, 2007 at 1:16 pm
The longest i have ever been awake i have to say has been 3 days why because first it started as a contest with my friend who could stay up the longest well after a hole day my friend past out and i just sat up on her computer for like 8 hours than next thing i no i stayed up for 24 hours puls the 8 hours then after i went home and watch movies for another 4 hours after that i started get really tried but i wanted to beat the 3 day thing we had going so i called up another friend and asked to go party so there some more time i killed boom what do u no still up the next morning not feel asleep yet so im on my third day tried as fuck but still i have to accomipish my goal lol so after 2 hole days on my 3ed i had to find something to keep me awake so i thought coffe so i drank about 4 cups than felt really sick lol but anyways so still awake so i thought i go back to my friends where the hole thing started about who could stay up the longest and we sat there and played viedo games like for 5 hours than tryed to do something esle and all that stuff than it hit minight and i was have to bascillay pull my eyes open lol but i made though it and next thing i no it 5 pm i woke up i fell asleep not sure what time but all i no is that sleep felt like the best sleep i’v had in my hole life lol and that the longest i’v ever stayed up.
The previous Comment was posted on January 6, 2008 at 4:39 pm
hey, started looking on the internet for the record of being awake without sleep. Ran into this site. I am at 84 hours at the moment. I was so angry at myself that i woke up at 18 pm whensday evening that I decided to not go to sleep as log as possible. Only had 1 difficult time at the moment of feeling tired. Was on Friday around 14 pm. Don’t know if it is possible to beat the 11 day strike, but I will try to get to sundayevening 12pm . Wil be 102 hours without no sleep. hope to get there.
Sven
The previous Comment was posted on January 12, 2008 at 8:19 am
Well everyone, I plan on embarking upon my sleep deprivation quest sometime soon. I’m intrigued as to the effects of it after hearing that shamans from Polynesian tribes use fasting and sleep deprivation as a way to ignore and resist pain. I’m gonna try it without caffeine stimulants for the first 2 days at least.
Just a note to everyone out there, if you do plan on using caffeine or energy drinks to stimulate your sleep deprivation, do so with caution. Caffeinated beverages actually dehydrate you and enough dehydration could cause the caffeine to crystallize inside of you and kill you. Also caffeine addiction leads to withdrawal which will make you sleepy
The previous Comment was posted on January 30, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I’m on 31 hours right now…with no caffiene/stimulants or anything. I just have horrible insomnia.
The previous Comment was posted on February 5, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Mine is pathetic compared to some here. Around 32-36 hours for me. I was on a trip with friends, it was our lastnight there, so we chugged some energy drinks and pulled an all-nighter. We regetted it on the plane in the morning, and have some funny pictures to show for it…never been so tired in my life!
The previous Comment was posted on February 17, 2008 at 11:53 am
The longest I’ve gone is 55 hours. I had the house to myself for a few days, so decided to stay awake as an experiment. It was pretty boring and difficult not to drift off, but I stayed fully conscious throughout. After about fifty hours I watched Doctor Who and Daleks were flying out of the TV screen, which amused me, and I was convinced that there were people following me around my house.
The previous Comment was posted on March 26, 2008 at 9:43 am
help som1 plz write bak iv been awake 4 Em/ wng shit im being attacked by somthings and i am finding it hard to breath mbfz plz help ,. how do u make them go away ?????????????///
The previous Comment was posted on April 9, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Go to sleep…seems to do the trick…lol
The previous Comment was posted on April 10, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I’ve been up for… 92 hours as of right now. No naps. No drugs or coffee to help me stay awake. >_> god am i bored…. lol
The previous Comment was posted on April 25, 2008 at 1:30 pm
ive been awake for about 29 hours and ive been just playing runescape and watching youtube videos which really helps ive not drinked or ate anything in like the last 12 hours sinece dinner but im gonna try to stay up till saturday night and today is thursday=)
The previous Comment was posted on July 3, 2008 at 4:50 am
I stayed up for 8 or nine days, dont do drugs.
The previous Comment was posted on July 6, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Ive only stayed up for 40 Hours but im 13, i was so tired from 4 AM Till 7 AM but then for some reason i wasnt tired anymore./
The previous Comment was posted on December 22, 2008 at 9:24 am
93 hours baby
The previous Comment was posted on January 5, 2009 at 6:51 pm
alright i read all these postings..some are really quite dumb..its 9:40am here in RI and i havent slept and i dont plan on it…now thats approx 24 hours..i know its not huge but i do this easily everyday if i dont take a sleep aid..
its annoying reading all these people talking about 24 hours with coffee and energy drinks and theyre dying… PLEASE..your all wusses..
now my record was 4 straight days fell asleep for 5 hours and then stayed up the entire 5th until 3am on the 6th day…i dont know how many hours that is..but when my friend had heard about how long i was staying up she told me about the 11 day record and it got me a little scared but now i wanna beat it
The previous Comment was posted on January 13, 2009 at 7:47 am
I was doing weekends in jail was up all night sunday(clean) went home monday and started to pop ‘vitamins’(XTC) went back to do my weekend on friday and i feel asleep on saturday so 5 or 6 days but usually every week i stay up for 2-3 days but it is my own doin i don’t understand why you people would want to be up for 2-9 days playing video games i stay awake cuz of chemicals for example 5:30AM tuesday last i slept was saturday. haven’t eaten since then either need advice or help or someone to talk to e-mail me at bhd654@yahoo.com thank you alls and good bye
The previous Comment was posted on February 17, 2009 at 3:15 am
I don’t sleep ..period… without huge amounts of drugs….once I tried to sleep without medication I stayed awake 7 days I was alert went to work but felt I was going to die just from the fear of no sleep ..went back on medication which takes dangerously amounts just to feel relaxed to fall asleep and then sometimes I don’t I walk around in a fog from the medications ……I took myself of all medications and for a month I was in bed laying wake awake at the end of that month I fell asleep for a few minutes….I’m losing my mind…I have not found a doctor who takes the time to study my problem
The previous Comment was posted on February 22, 2009 at 2:03 am
Some of you are such liars! Anyone who claims anything longer than 7 days is most likely lying, or suffers from some kind of sleep disorder.
Then again, even with a sleep disorder, once your body reaches a certain level of exhaustion, you are basically forced into sleep mode. Weeks? Months? Puh-leeze!
If by some miracle your body didn’t force you into sleep, you’d just go into cardiac arrest and die due to exhaustion.
The previous Comment was posted on March 9, 2009 at 1:51 am
Staying up for long hours is easy. For me the first night is the hardest till about the 5th or 6th then shit really gets crazy
It’s definitely a partner game tho if you want to go long amounts of time… I’d say 96 hours is okay by yourself but its much mch easier to go longer than that without out company.
The previous Comment was posted on November 30, 2009 at 5:04 pm
ive been awake for 12 days and nights and im stiil not tired i think it is because i am Very stressed but im not sure what to do?
The previous Comment was posted on December 30, 2009 at 11:45 am
I am currently on hour 50 and was looking for some helpful hints to get me through the day. I had to do this because we are currently in the Hell week before finals and I have a bunch of projects due and some of my teachers are actually making the final test this week as well. It almost becomes easier to not sleep just to get stuff done. wish me luck I have to go until 7 tonight. So I guess my total will be 58. Do I get a cookie?
The previous Comment was posted on April 29, 2010 at 8:19 am
In seven minutes I will hit the 3 day mark. 72 hours.I have never gone this long,but I know that I like it eventhough my eyes are fucking with me really bad.Gonna try…..85????
The previous Comment was posted on May 12, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Went for 110 hours in buenos aires. had been awake for 2 days so just decided to carry on, could have gone longer to be honest i was just getting a bit bored of the whole thing. was hallucinating in a friends house and saw what i can only describe as the lights from a slot machine constantly flashing up whereever i decided to stare for longer than 2 seconds. at around the 80 hour mark i was laughing at everything, and proceeded to make a pot of tea with no tea and drank boiling water with nothing in it,but seemed fairly normal,. was confused, walking down the streets of buenos aires asking people for empanadas (a foodstuff there) and whether they were selling them. effectively this is like wandering through london and asking passers-by if they have sandwiches for sale.finally ended when my friend slammed on the brakes in the car just as i was dropping off, i thought we were being murdered so went home and just slumped off .
The previous Comment was posted on June 14, 2010 at 12:42 am
This is my story i work graveyard shift and it started out with a night of work then i stayed up the whole day to hang with friends then back to work with no sleep. the next day i was planning to head to bed and right when i get into bed exhausted the fire alarm rang in the house i was so tired that i forgot to turn the oven off so the fire trucks had to put the fire out and i did not get any sleep that day due to having to replace the oven then back to work, so the next morning i was realived i could finally sleep and guess what i could’nt sleep so i shower and get ready for work thats four days off sleep deprivison in an unlucky state and never ever again will i stay up for one day.
The previous Comment was posted on June 21, 2010 at 8:12 am
Yesterday I managed to last 38 hours haha…not that good compared to the rest of you, but dude it was really hard! I would be really tired and struggling to keep my eyes open and then that would fade away and next thing I knew I felt wide awake!Its such an awesome feeling!
The previous Comment was posted on June 27, 2010 at 3:11 pm
i think maybe a good 30-36 hours. but im usually awake for 20+ hours when i dont have school. as a matter of a fact i ve been awake for almost 16 hours. im about to crash pretty soon tho.
The previous Comment was posted on June 30, 2010 at 1:43 am
i stayed up for about 16 days it was bad
The previous Comment was posted on July 8, 2010 at 1:54 pm