Longest Time Awake

[HQCosTheta]

When I was younger, I had a lot of nightmares. I don't remember anything happening. All I remember is seeing a haze of grey and really desaturated blue and brown-red-ish tints as if they were horizontally smeared over my eyesight. I don't remember what made it so horrible, really. Frankly I don't want to know either but I had those dreams for a long time paired with sleepwalking. One time my parents found me in the hall, crying, holding 2 of my favorite toys as if they were my best friends and they had died (I was sleepwalking). Another time I was crying in my bed and when my parents came in to see what was wrong and my dad tried to comfort me, I started to cry even louder because I was really afraid of him and I don't know why (again, I was sleepwalking). I really don't know what caused those dreams but I think I've been traumatized by something. I don't know what it was but I know it (if anything happened at all) must have happened in a really early stage of my life. I used to stay up as long as I could so I wouldn't have these horrible dreams. That horrible feeling I got when I had them...

I had other nightmares too, later in my life, that were paired with sleepwalking. None of those nightmares made sense at all. (One time I only saw darkness (background) and like the pointers of an old-fashion clock and every time the long pointer passed the short one in my dream, I contracted all of my muscles in real life. It was awful and I don't know what caused it.
Thinking about those experiences makes me really anxious, so I'm going to stop now. I still have a lot of nightmares, but they're usually less abstract and it's not paired with sleepwalking anymore. Though, I remember that a lot of the sleepwalking later in my life found place in my grandma's house.

Anyways, what I was going to say is that, even though it's horrible what you're going through, obviously, at least you know why you have those dreams because they have elements in them which relate to your past. Most of my dreams are just abstract and really frightning even though I have no idea why they're so scary.

Some one should seriously post a thread asking people to describe their dreams. I would read that.

 

[Ironside]

Feel free to do so...

 

[fladdermasken]

Some one should seriously post a thread asking people to describe their dreams. I would read that.

Done: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/off-topic-478/discuss-your-dreams-184199/
Now back on topic. I believe the longest I've gone without sleeping is slightly more than 48 hours straight. I don't have any interesting backstory, I simply couldn't sleep.

 

[PROXY]

I think it was.... 20 hours. not more. I was at a friends house then. While I was awake at 6 am in the morning, they fell asleep. Then I played computer to keep me awake till the breakfast. After it, I fell asleep again ^^

 

[Nestharus]

7 days or so (about 176 hours)

was no longer feeling tired at all after 3 days

only went to sleep because I started to hallucinate.

 

[Tank-Commander]

I swear delirium takes effect soon after/around 100 hours of no sleep, how on earth you went on for another 70 hours without it I don't know, also I repeat my questioning on how that is possible without drugs/withdrawl/etc.

 

[Disasterpiece512]

Oh my god I DON'T WANT TO REMEMBER. But I totally will anyway.

3 days straight. I was to two parties in two consecutive nights and the other one I just wasted with my friends. I slept for the next 16 hours after that.