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How long is the longest you've stayed awake?

randomuser
edited March 2009 in General
I took a four hour nap last night, but I think I'm going to pull an all nighter tonight.

I'm wondering how well the human body works without sleep.

I remember one time I stayed awake 36 hours and I ended up passing out and falling over.
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  • Peter
    edited February 2009
    I'd say you have an idea as to how well the human body works without sleep if you ended up passing out.

    The longest I've ever stayed awake was something like 22 hours. It was due to a assignment.
  • schmoey
    edited February 2009
    *sees front page of TalkSFU*
    How long is the longest...
    by Peter
    Today 08:25 PM
    *sees the rest of the title and is disappointed*

    Anyway, on topic, longest I've stayed awake was ~44 hours. Was at band camp and tried to pull a double-nighter but couldn't quite make it.
  • imelting
    edited February 2009
    prob in the 20s, dont really recall exactly
  • hikin
    edited February 2009
    stayed up something like 2 and a half days. was an interesting experience.
  • randomuser
    edited February 2009
    schmoey;48624 said:
    *sees front page of TalkSFU*
    How long is the longest...
    by Peter
    Today 08:25 PM
    *sees the rest of the title and is disappointed*

    Anyway, on topic, longest I've stayed awake was ~44 hours. Was at band camp and tried to pull a double-nighter but couldn't quite make it.
    *sees the rest of the post and is disappointed*
  • mrbubbles
    edited February 2009
    48+ hours camping, then I slept for 12 hours. Refreshing.
  • EricJ
    edited February 2009
    ~25
  • Student0667
    edited February 2009
    About 50 hours during my high school's 24 hour Wake-a-Thon + normal school days.
  • Agentbob
    edited February 2009
    25 hours until I start hallucinating and go insane or become very mentally unstable. I don't drink coffee or energy drinks so I don't think I can last above 30+ hours.

    Why are you always pulling an all nighter randomuser? Exams? Assignments?
  • siuying
    edited February 2009
    i think it was 2.5 maybe 3 days.. couldn't remember if it was back to back exams or essays or a combination of the 2.. i lived on coffee and by the last day my heart felt like it was about to pump itself to death.. and the hand shaking made handwriting quite difficult.. =.="

    and that was that.. since then i've never attempted push my body that far again.. for school work that is.. =P
  • randomuser
    edited February 2009
    I'm on a private scholarship that requires me to work full time, and go to school full time. There simply isn't enough time in my days to get everything done.
  • online predatoronline predator
    edited February 2009
    too lazy to count the hours but it was from 3:30pm on a wednesday afternoon until I dozed off friday night waiting for the tonight show. i worked two jobs plus school then. feels shitty the longer you stay awake but timmies helped me through.

    best sleep ever though.
  • hikin
    edited February 2009
    mrbubbles;48631 said:
    48+ hours camping, then I slept for 12 hours. Refreshing.
    same as me.
  • mrbubbles
    edited February 2009
    Agentbob;48637 said:
    25 hours until I start hallucinating and go insane or become very mentally unstable. I don't drink coffee or energy drinks so I don't think I can last above 30+ hours.

    Why are you always pulling an all nighter randomuser? Exams? Assignments?
    I don't drink any caffeinated beverages either, when I'm determined, it isn't difficult staying awake for 30 hours.

    Humans can adapt to 36 hour days, it'll take some time.
    randomuser;48641 said:
    I'm on a private scholarship that requires me to work full time, and go to school full time. There simply isn't enough time in my days to get everything done.
    That's excellent, coming from someone with the most post on TSFU.
  • icerider
    edited February 2009
    Latest I've stayed up was around 21, 22 hours for some high school project.
  • Ether
    edited February 2009
    I'm perfectly fine with doing ~36 hour days once in a while. Any later than that and I crash.

    The hardest part is making it past 3 or 4AM in the morning.
  • schmoey
    edited February 2009
    I find that if I'm staying up (usually for some assignment), I have this time period that I'm really really tired (maybe 1-2am), but once I get past that without sleeping, I hit a stage of wiredness. I lose sense of a lot of things and just work, work, work.. sometimes my mind even clears up a little, it's kind of weird. Then the entire next day (or at least morning/afternoon), no matter how hard I try, it still becomes very hard for me to fall asleep.
    randomuser;48630 said:
    *sees the rest of the post and is disappointed*
    fry-see-what-you-did-there.jpg
  • Agentbob
    edited February 2009
    mrbubbles;48665 said:
    I don't drink any caffeinated beverages either, when I'm determined, it isn't difficult staying awake for 30 hours.

    Humans can adapt to 36 hour days, it'll take some time.
    Yeah I find it much easier to stay awake when I'm programming for some project or assignment. If it's studying for midterms or doing math assignments, then it becomes really hard and my mind starts to wander.
  • online predatoronline predator
    edited February 2009
    Agentbob;48686 said:
    If it's studying for midterms or doing math assignments, then it becomes really hard and my mind starts to wander.
    omg math assignments turn me on too!
  • Agentbob
    edited February 2009
    online predator;48694 said:
    omg math assignments turn me on too!
    I'd say we have a math orgy. My sine curves are so smooth, so well elevated, and just waiting for you to come and make it integrated. You can derivate and agitate until I'd reach acceleration.

    Bow chika bow wow.
  • Nikolai
    edited February 2009
    Oh baby, I'd like to chart your open manifold.
  • schmoey
    edited February 2009
    Agentbob;48696 said:
    You can derivate and agitate until I'd reach acceleration.
    Only? Nothing less than jerking for me.
  • buflibufli
    edited February 2009
    hmm i think my record is something like 5 days ~120+hours back in gr11
    i went from Thurs. night to Tues. night without sleep

    thus- fri i didn't sleep i dono why
    fri - sat i went to a 12h overnight relay
    sat - sun house party at my place
    sun - monday did my hw for the weekend
    monday - tues at this point i didnt even feel the need to sleep anymore and i just stayed up cuz i didnt feel tired

    after the 2-3rd days of not sleeping i lose that feeling of tiredness and i just do what i gotta do :)
    in university the longest was a weekend fri-moday for cmpt275 lol
  • online predatoronline predator
    edited February 2009
    ^ shit. i'm surprised you could still do hw on the fourth night
  • buflibufli
    edited February 2009
    haha ya i doubt the quality of the work done was very good :P
  • JayDub
    edited February 2009
    Ether said:
    The hardest part is making it past 3 or 4AM in the morning.
    Definitely, your circadian rhythm is saying, "dude, it's fucking four in the morning, if you aren't sleeping now I am going to make you!"

    My longest stint begin awake was this last summer for my Basic Officer Training Course. We woke up Monday morning at our normal time of 4:30 am, went out to the field where we did exercises non stop for a week. We stopped at noon on the Friday and then proceded to head back to the base where we unpacked and since it was a Friday, our platoon went to the base bistro where we drank and relaxed till 3 am when they closed.

    So pushing well past the 120 hours.
  • online predatoronline predator
    edited February 2009
    last time i checked world record was ~12 days or something
  • randomuser
    edited February 2009
    i dont feel right inside

    these drinks mess with your body, im as twitchy as a coke head hurting for their next fix
  • buflibufli
    edited February 2009
    randomuser;48752 said:
    i dont feel right inside

    these drinks mess with your body, im as twitchy as a coke head hurting for their next fix
    have u tried eating?

    for me when i dont sleep for over 48h i get a fucked up feelin but thats just cuz i need to eat (when i don't sleep i usually eat x4 times as much if not more)
  • buflibufli
    edited February 2009
    JayDub;48739 said:
    Definitely, your circadian rhythm is saying, "dude, it's fucking four in the morning, if you aren't sleeping now I am going to make you!"

    My longest stint begin awake was this last summer for my Basic Officer Training Course. We woke up Monday morning at our normal time of 4:30 am, went out to the field where we did exercises non stop for a week. We stopped at noon on the Friday and then proceded to head back to the base where we unpacked and since it was a Friday, our platoon went to the base bistro where we drank and relaxed till 3 am when they closed.

    So pushing well past the 120 hours.
    thats intense since ur actually active lol

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