Comments on: Longest you’ve ever stayed awake?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:09:03 +0000

I am currently at 43 hrs 55 minutes. I currently am working on a take home exam for one 300-level English courses on ancient Greek drama, which so far has taken up 12 pages of Microsoft Word, and I have yet to get to the two 600-word essay questions. I then have a six page paper to write for another 300-level English course on the twentieth-century novel (which I also have a page single-spaced, creative writing assignment for based on a Holocaust book we’re reading) then I have to read Alcestis by Euripides which is approximately 80 pages of dialogue. This is all being done before and after hockey practice at 6:00AM, work on campus from 8:30-10:30AM, and class from 10:30AM-2:20PM then another practice from 4:00-5:00PM. Oh and during awake hours 8-14 I was in the emergency room for a wrist-shot to the ear which cut a 30-stitch worth gash through my skin and cartilidge. You just have to love university life! HOPEFULLY around hour 58 I will finally be done and be able to sleep for awhile.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:03:25 +0000

One time I got up at normal time (8am-ish), and had to go to Hong Kong at 10pm to extend a visa (i was in Taiwan). The hong kong minitrip was 10pm to 7am, and I didn’t sleep that whole time. I came back, went home, and immediately went to work. After that I somehow ended up at a friends house.

So by the time I went to bed it was around 10pm the next day… Not quite 48 hours, but a ROUGH 40-ish hours. I mean… I was at another country and back, + I had to go to work. Sucked!

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:16:43 +0000

I have recently been up for the past 20 days, about 3 weeks ago I was given the news that I was in the late stages of lung cancer and wasn’t expected to live much longer. Since then I’ve been marking things off and on my bucket list, if I’m gonna go I’m gonna go out knowing I lived my last moments happy.

By: haha

haha — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:26:48 +0000

haha funyy… im on hour 25, just made 1 day… lol

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:16:17 +0000

Somewhere around 52 hours. I was drinking the whole time too. went through 2 or 3 cases.

By: Endlessnameless

Endlessnameless — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:20:08 +0000

Oh and by the way the longest documented case of sleep deprivation documented is 11 days (264 hours) so anyone claiming anything close to or more than this number are obviously full out lying at an attempt to sound hardcore or something. like if you’re gonna lie, at least make it believable and achievable 0_o

By: Endlessnameless

Endlessnameless — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:01:16 +0000

I remember once while i was in high school, woke up friday 7am, stayed up until sunday 2:30am. Roughly around 43/44 hours, never hallucinated or anything but i remember becoming shaky and very nervous, i actually found it hard to fall asleep after staying up so long. As of right now i’m on hour 22 and have no reason why i have yet to sleep, it’s not even really anything to brag about, i know it’s not good for the mind or body

By: Starky

Starky — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:22:33 +0000

Seriously guys?..How many days? 15? 11 is the world record. I’m an insomniac and I have gone a max of 70 hours without sleep, at which point you start microsleeping, you don’t even know you are asleep, its like being asleep with your eyes open. Don’t even joke about that, after all these years of staying awake it is destroying my body.

By: Welder

Welder — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:42:55 +0000

Wow some of u people are crazy. Iv got so much homework due. tomorrow and some of your stories motivated me to stay up all night and complete them. Thanks for the motivation

By: bob

bob — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:54:36 +0000

i stayed up for about 16 days it was bad

By: noah

noah — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:43:16 +0000

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.

By: Ally

Ally — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:11:06 +0000

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!

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:12:07 +0000

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.

By: bert

bert — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:42:02 +0000

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 .

By: warchild

warchild — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:55:04 +0000

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????

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:19:25 +0000

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?

By: julie

julie — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:45:13 +0000

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?

By: Possible

Possible — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:04:47 +0000

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.

By: Grottesca

Grottesca — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:51:45 +0000

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.

By: Debra

Debra — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 09:03:49 +0000

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

By: Moses

Moses — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:15:12 +0000

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

By: adam from RI

adam from RI — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:47:57 +0000

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

By: axel

axel — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:51:45 +0000

93 hours baby

By: Trenton

Trenton — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:24:12 +0000

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./

By: Martyman

Martyman — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:43:53 +0000

I stayed up for 8 or nine days, dont do drugs.

By: fatboyluca

fatboyluca — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:50:59 +0000

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=)

By: michiko

michiko — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:30:55 +0000

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

By: David R

David R — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:46:26 +0000

Go to sleep…seems to do the trick…lol

By: micheal h

micheal h — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:03:38 +0000

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 ?????????????///

By: M

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:43:51 +0000

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.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:53:13 +0000

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!

By: Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:28:39 +0000

I’m on 31 hours right now…with no caffiene/stimulants or anything. I just have horrible insomnia.

By: Kevo

Kevo — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:34:48 +0000

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

By: Sven

Sven — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:19:51 +0000

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

By: kelly

kelly — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:39:07 +0000

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.