Longest Time Awake

[PeaceKeeper]

i was awakefor 40 hours straight after words i drove around at night because of a bet i've done. the next day i woke up at 5:30 and could not sleep.

STARTED 5:30AM, WHENT TO BED 11:30PM THE NEXT DAY

 

[Hugget Sukker]

I'm not sure. Sometimes I lay down and don't know if I have slept or not. When many hours feel like a few minutes, it's obvious that I must have slept without noticing, but otherwise it may be that I have stayed awake for 4+ days.
Longest I'm aware of is 3+ a few hours. I think it's pretty normal, judging from the amount of people I know who have similar statistics. But I'm usually awake for some time between 25-50 hours. That's how I like it most, average somewhere in the shorter end.
And I don't really have paranoia. It's just something I typed because.

 

[Midnighters]

I have been sleeping less and staying awake longer recently since my grandfathers cancer has come back and he went back in the hospital, I haven't slept for about 48 hours now. But since he has went back in, I have been getting about 2.5 hours of sleep a night.

 

[Boris_Spider]

I have been sleeping less and staying awake longer recently since my grandfathers cancer has come back and he went back in the hospital, I haven't slept for about 48 hours now. But since he has went back in, I have been getting about 2.5 hours of sleep a night.

:

Damn, cancer is bringing us to our knees... I lost my grandfather back in February to cancer. He survived 4 heart attacks and a brain aneurysm, but his stubborness couldn't beat cancer.

As for the sleep, I probably could stay up longer than 40 hours. I just don't want to deal with the consequences of doing that. I can go on 5 hours/night for 2-3 days before it catches up to me. I don't sleep alot though. 7-8 hours straight and then I just lay in bed.

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[Adiktuz]

around 24hrs... after that my eyes shut themselves down...

 

[Midnighters]

My grandfather has made it through cancer and chemo-therapy once, I have faith he will again.

 

[Raven0]

Stayed awake from thursday morning to monday afternoon b/c I was creating a system for an Unreal mod and I didn't feel like sleeping. That's about 4 1/2 days and I drank two packs of 5-hour energies over the course. When I got home from school on monday I passed out and slept for 18 hours straight.

I also went without eating for 6 days once to see what it felt like.

 

[Midnighters]

I only ever eat one meal a day.

 

[fladdermasken]

I also went without eating for 6 days once to see what it felt like.

I see, you bested me then. 5 days is a summit I smashed to pieces against.

 

[Raven0]

I see, you bested me then. 5 days is a summit I smashed to pieces against.

For me the first two or three days were the hardest, after that it was a breeze

 

[DeftheLynn]

4 days, because i had a full one week party in my house

 

[Midnighters]

Have you guys ever done a fourty day fast? Don't know how many of you are christian, but that is hard. I have, you can only eat bread and drink water.

 

[DeftheLynn]

Have you guys ever done a fourty day fast? Don't know how many of you are christian, but that is hard. I have, you can only eat bread and drink water.

I was, 30 days without eating from the sunrise to sunset ...

 

[Midnighters]

Yes, it is a true test or your will power, because your body is telling you to eat, but you are fighting it.

 

[Spet]

Ive never slept, i have Insomnia

 

[Tank-Commander]

well so do I, doesn't mean you never sleep.
also, if insomniacs never slept, then why are they not in the world record book for no sleep? for inftinate duration.

 

[Spet]

well so do I, doesn't mean you never sleep.
also, if insomniacs never slept, then why are they not in the world record book for no sleep? for inftinate duration.

Conscious! may hurt your eyes ~your friendly staff

 

[Zealon]

Have you guys ever done a fourty day fast? Don't know how many of you are christian, but that is hard. I have, you can only eat bread and drink water.

My parents did it a couple months ago, but not me, I could only do it for about 3 days D:

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Jeeze spet, that's a huge pain to look at - that could definitely keep you up a week if you stare at it

 

[PeaceKeeper]

why are we now talking about fast when the question how long can you stay awake.

 

[HQCosTheta]

I am plagued by nightmares, really horrible ones, and as a result sometimes I have a hard time going back to sleep. This one time, my god, I had one that freaked me out so bad I couldn't get back to sleep for another 79 hours.

Do you want to know more? come with me, this way...

So when I was a kid, bear with me, I had an operation to repair a strangulated hernia (when your intestine drops down into your nut sack and wraps around your vas deferens). I don't know how much you know about sedation (two drugs, one paralysis you and one inhibits memory) but the drug they give you that inhibits you from remembering everything that happens to you while you are under the knife...That one didn't work right. Anyways, I have a keen memory for what it feels like to be cut into. This actually intensifies my nightmares or is their cause, one or the other.

Interested yet? Come, follow...

In this dream I had I was falling through a darkness and right when normal people are supposed to wake up I hit a surface HARD. I could feel my bones shatter, the blood running out, my head hurt and I could hear a loud ringing in my ears. When my vision cleared I could see I was on a cold stone table, and there were four fat women sitting around me in different colored dresses. Their eyes had been gouged out and were scabbing over and instead of human teeth they had hundreds of needle like barbs. Out behind them I could see human bones stacked in piles with drying flesh still clinging, the smell of rotting flesh in my nose and the sound of buzzing flies in my ears. I managed to look up out of the corner of my eye and saw that each of the women had a mechanical arm growing out of their backs and at the top of each a cockpit filled with these crazy looking midgets, each hand on a joystick, controlling the girls. The midgets started screaming wildly. The four women then produced a fork and knife and began sawing through my flesh and consuming it. I could hear, over the metallic scraping sound and the sawing of my flesh from my bones, the screaming:

"HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS! HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS!".

That was a pretty cool punch line but make no mistake, it scared the hell out of me. I thought I would share.

 

[Chizume]

Strangely enough I never have nightmares. I, of course, had some before when I was younger, but now I haven't had one for many years. When I am ill and sick I may have dreams that make me somewhat uncomfortable, but never scared in any way, but that probably have as much to do with the effects of the sickness as anything else.

Still I have been bullied, had broken bones, had a biopsy (which was gross but luckily I was drugged twice, yet I do remember fragments), (accidently) cut myself with knives, cheese slicers (worst yet) and I even stabbed myself with two pencils so that both black lead tips got stuck in my hands (twice! don't ask me why. I can still see where the tips entered to this day, which is quite cool).

And that's merely a few examples of the physical part. I simply realized it is strange that I do not have nightmares from time to time. I bet some of you guys have had way worse experiences.

Yours,
Chizume

 

[Spet]

Jeeze spet, that's a huge pain to look at - that could definitely keep you up a week if you stare at it

 

[Jaret]

A whole week? 168 hours? I'm pretty sure without extreme insomnia that is impossible for a human seeing as humans start getting micro sleeps after about 20 hours (unless they have insomnia or something like it) You should've Literally passed out.

Who said I was normal? I'm mentally disordered / disturbed, I don't need much sleep. And well, I did lie about the time for sleeping... When I was a week awake, i did sleep about 12 hours... all other times, 5 or 6 maximum...
I am insane... just like most of other Intelligent people...
Non-sleeping plagued me my whole life... unfortunately.

 

[Midnighters]

"Intelligent"? Intelligence is a matter of perspective, also, sleeping 5-7 hours a day is average for most people, so your "awake 168hours" is not by any means impressive.

 

[HQCosTheta]

Who said I was normal? I'm mentally disordered / disturbed, I don't need much sleep. And well, I did lie about the time for sleeping... When I was a week awake, i did sleep about 12 hours... all other times, 5 or 6 maximum...
I am insane... just like most of other Intelligent people...
Non-sleeping plagued me my whole life... unfortunately.

Tank is right. One week is the maximum time you can go without sleep before irreversible brain damage. That is the average, with little variance. Also, the ability to function becomes that of alcoholic intoxication which sets in long before the full seven days. When you say you are intelligent, what are we talking here, a few lucid thoughts here and there or like the ability to mentally cope with advanced quantum theory? Cause after 3 days without sleep I can barely drive or remember if I left the door open and my IQ is in the 96th percentile after a good night sleep.

Intelligence and Insanity are not compatible as popular culture has, on occasion, suggested. Most highly intelligent people would be considered quirky or eccentric and only because people, who don't reason at their level, find it difficult to relate. Now if you were, for example, autistic...that would make sense as an autistics brain function differs wildly from the norm. You would have to be mildly autistic as I'm sure if you were an advanced case you would be unable to use a keyboard. Madness CAN bring a sort of insight that is difficult to compare with any higher forms of thought, like a perverse form of intuition, i suppose.

These are just theories...take no offence.

 

[Raven0]

Intelligence and Insanity are not compatible as popular culture has, on occasion, suggested. Most highly intelligent people would be considered quirky or eccentric and only because people, who don't reason at their level, find it difficult to relate. Now if you were, for example, autistic...that would make sense as an autistics brain function differs wildly from the norm. You would have to be mildly autistic as I'm sure if you were an advanced case you would be unable to use a keyboard. Madness CAN bring a sort of insight that is difficult to compare with any higher forms of thought, like a perverse form of intuition, i suppose.

These are just theories...take no offence.

Most people of high intelligence disregard or deny social norms and thus are considered crazy by general society. Technically however, this doesn't make them devoid of reason but rather eccentric as you said. The fact is most people of high intelligence view the world logically and we live in civilizations that want people to view the world through ethics and moral guidelines set by their respective societies.

Also I think you guys should know insane doesn't mean crazy (but I understand what you meant ^-^)

 

[ubran]

A whole week? 168 hours? I'm pretty sure without extreme insomnia that is impossible for a human seeing as humans start getting micro sleeps after about 20 hours (unless they have insomnia or something like it) You should've Literally passed out.

I don't do the staying up thing.. I TRY to sleep, I get up, I micro-sleep through school, apparently do my classwork while half-asleep, and kinda chug on infinitely. I'm told that outside of Fall Sports Seasons I look incredibly tired, depressed, and bored. I swear I get a good nights sleep, but maybe it's poor quality and not the quantity of my sleep, right?

personal record: 23 hours, 45 minutes... crawled in bed, 15 minutes later my alarm clock was buzzing >.>

 

[Kimbo]

Who said I was normal? I'm mentally disordered / disturbed, I don't need much sleep. And well, I did lie about the time for sleeping... When I was a week awake, i did sleep about 12 hours... all other times, 5 or 6 maximum...
I am insane... just like most of other Intelligent people...
Non-sleeping plagued me my whole life... unfortunately.

Uhh, you slept...we are talking about longest without sleep (micro naps/sleep cant be helped) :|..thus it cant be a total of so many hours you stated.

I understand what you are saying in regards to mentally disturbed, but you worded it HORRIBLY. No one here is making claims you are mentally unwell or disturbed or normal. No need to state it cause "no one is a special little flower" and no one is "normal". If you have mental issues that interfere with your sleep, fair enough. but to state it like you are some mentally insane genius is just poppycock. Mentally disturbed =/=Intelligent, trust me, I know having seen how people in psych wards make their "smart decisions" in life which put them in there.

If I was to say what you did, I too have been approx a week without sleep but with 2-4? hrs sleep somewhere in there, but I didnt post this one first, as I had sleep somewhere in there and it was due to drugs/medication (Withdrawal).

 

[HQCosTheta]

I don't do the staying up thing.. I TRY to sleep, I get up, I micro-sleep through school, apparently do my classwork while half-asleep, and kinda chug on infinitely. I'm told that outside of Fall Sports Seasons I look incredibly tired, depressed, and bored. I swear I get a good nights sleep, but maybe it's poor quality and not the quantity of my sleep, right?

personal record: 23 hours, 45 minutes... crawled in bed, 15 minutes later my alarm clock was buzzing >.>

It should also be noted that the 8 hour required sleep period is an average. My wife sleeps 10 hours a day (why in god's name, I will never know) while I require only 5. My mother is 61 and sleeps 4, it's creepy, she's always awake and alert.

You'r an insomniac. You do sleep. Just very little. See a doctor.

 

[Midnighters]

I have been awake for about 4 days now, with maybe 2 hours of sleep, has done nothing, and I feel like shit.

 

[ubran]

midnighters: not true, you have talked to us on chat a lot..

HQCos: nah, I don't usually have trouble sleeping (once I get to sleep >.>), but I do think I should live 2 or 3 timezones to the west of where I do so I sleep at a reasonable time and therefore wake up at a reasonable time xD

 

[Midnighters]

What is not true?

 

[takakenji]

midnighters: not true, you have talked to us on chat a lot..

for me ive stayed awake for 3 weeks total

 

[Midnighters]

I am confused... I got a good nights sleep last night though. Finally.

 

[xxdingo93xx]

for me ive stayed awake for 3 weeks total

*PRETENDER DETECTED*

That would be a new world record. As far as I'm concerned, the longest time awake is 11 days.

 

[Miss_Foxy]

are you guys for real?
I can keep my eyes open for only 20 hours without sleep.
but you guys can for more than a day

Same here, I once stayed awake for about 30 hours during a camp and the next thing I knew I woke up sideways on my bed. Apparently I slept the very second I touched the bed.

 

[Midnighters]

Rofl, been there, or you just get so tired, you lay down instantly where ever you are.

 

[Devine]

I am plagued by nightmares, really horrible ones, and as a result sometimes I have a hard time going back to sleep. This one time, my god, I had one that freaked me out so bad I couldn't get back to sleep for another 79 hours.

Do you want to know more? come with me, this way...

So when I was a kid, bear with me, I had an operation to repair a strangulated hernia (when your intestine drops down into your nut sack and wraps around your vas deferens). I don't know how much you know about sedation (two drugs, one paralysis you and one inhibits memory) but the drug they give you that inhibits you from remembering everything that happens to you while you are under the knife...That one didn't work right. Anyways, I have a keen memory for what it feels like to be cut into. This actually intensifies my nightmares or is their cause, one or the other.

Interested yet? Come, follow...

In this dream I had I was falling through a darkness and right when normal people are supposed to wake up I hit a surface HARD. I could feel my bones shatter, the blood running out, my head hurt and I could hear a loud ringing in my ears. When my vision cleared I could see I was on a cold stone table, and there were four fat women sitting around me in different colored dresses. Their eyes had been gouged out and were scabbing over and instead of human teeth they had hundreds of needle like barbs. Out behind them I could see human bones stacked in piles with drying flesh still clinging, the smell of rotting flesh in my nose and the sound of buzzing flies in my ears. I managed to look up out of the corner of my eye and saw that each of the women had a mechanical arm growing out of their backs and at the top of each a cockpit filled with these crazy looking midgets, each hand on a joystick, controlling the girls. The midgets started screaming wildly. The four women then produced a fork and knife and began sawing through my flesh and consuming it. I could hear, over the metallic scraping sound and the sawing of my flesh from my bones, the screaming:

"HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS! HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS!".

That was a pretty cool punch line but make no mistake, it scared the hell out of me. I thought I would share.

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.

 

[fladdermasken]

Most of my dreams are just abstract and really frightning even though I have no idea why they're so scary.

This is the only thing that I could really relate to. Everyone has these meaningful dreams while I dream nonesense. Bums me out.
I can't remember a single dream with any footing in real life.

 

[Devine]

This is the only thing that I could really relate to. Everyone has these meaningful dreams while I dream nonesense. Bums me out.
I can't remember a single dream with any footing in real life.

You just see colors then? Or do you dream about things that could actually happen, just not to you? I don't really understand what you mean

I dream about real life too. Just when I was younger, I had this one dream that kept coming back. It was really abstract (just colors, like I explaned) and because it was the same dream over and over, I don't think the cause was just night terrors. Though, I don't know much about night terrors.

 

[fladdermasken]

You just see colors then? Or do you dream about things that could actually happen, just not to you? I don't really understand what you mean

I dream about real life too. Just when I was younger, I had this one dream that kept coming back. It was really abstract (just colors, like I explaned) and because it was the same dream over and over, I don't think the cause was just night terrors. Though, I don't know much about night terrors.

Not really colors, just really abstract situations with no relation to anything that's ever happened to me. For example, I had a dream where I went outside. I knew I was standing in my backyard, but I didn't recognize it at all. I had a whole bunch of friends there, whom I didn't recognize but I did know who they were in the dream. Suddenly I started growing taller and taller, which caused my dream friends to run away in fear. When I was about the size of my house, I stopped growing and started swaying back and forth.

 

[Devine]

Lol.
Probably because you're afraid people will dislike you because you're WAY better than them.
That says a lot about you.

But yes, I see what you mean. Is that a nightmare to you, though, or just a dream?

 

[fladdermasken]

Lol.
Probably because you're afraid people will dislike you because you're WAY better than them.
That says a lot about you.

Haha, I might have such a fear hidden somewhere inside of me

But yes, I see what you mean. Is that a nightmare to you, though, or just a dream?

Oddly enough, this is a nightmare. I woke up all sweaty, thinking I'm a real fool for finding it creepy.

 

[Devine]

Oddly enough, this is a nightmare. I woke up all sweaty, thinking I'm a real fool for finding it creepy.

Nah, probably not. I used to cry in my sleep (tears and all that) because of some colors. I mean... dude. Compared to me, you're one bad-ass dreamer.

 

[Midnighters]

You guys are talking about your dreams? I have visions of my or a loved ones future every night, at time I have visions of ones I do not even know. It is about something potentially harmful or devastating that will happen, and it always happens, exactly how my vision happens. The only way for it not to, is if something interferes with it, and that something is generally me.

 

[fladdermasken]

Nah, probably not. I used to cry in my sleep (tears and all that) because of some colors. I mean... dude. Compared to me, you're one bad-ass dreamer.

Why thank you. Means alot ;D

 

[takakenji]

im one of the forsaken which allows my prolonged unsleeping

 

[Kimbo]

Guys, arnt we getting off topic?

Back to sleeeeplessness we go!

 

[Midnighters]

hahaha