Longest you ever stayed awake

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  1. opethfan

    opethfan Dauntless Member

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    Quite a while. Over 24 hours, but how much over, I forget.

    Weed makes a good sleeping pill :p
     
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  2. Twimfy

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    Absolutely true, the guiness book of records refuses to publish records based on little sleep due to the health risk.

    Taucias: Believe what you want, but I'm not a lying for the sake of applause, it was not a pleasant experience.
     
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  3. sven666

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    bout 60 hours give or take an hour.. over half of it was spent driving a van and the rest carrying around arcadecabs.. dont think ive ever crashed as hard in my life as after that :nod:
     
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  4. babu

    babu Mamihlapinatapai

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    Well.. I'm not dead afaik.
    Btw. if you belive the press, you can die of most things these days.. I remember an article (in one of swedens largest news mags.) stating that every kitchen tool that was black could give you cancer :eek:h:
     
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  5. ASSEMbler

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    I was awake that long because I have sleeping problems.

    Anything over 24-48 hours reduces your life by about a year per 24 additional hours. Basically the mitochondria in your cells are taxed, begin to die.

    Anything over 24 hours is bad. I tried to rest, have a low mental state.
    No music, dark room, etc. Finally, some days in, I took a large dose
    of histamine blockers.

    It's far safer to use benadryl than a sleeping pill.

    People who use methamphetamine stay away over a week, but that's
    why they look so bad and die so fast.
     
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    babu Mamihlapinatapai

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    That sounds pretty crazy, got any links for further reading?
     
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  8. ASSEMbler

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    I have had sleep problems since a child. So I've done a lot of
    research on how to sleep... I usually just work myself to extreme
    fatigue and pass out. That is how I manage to sleep. It takes
    about 24-28 hours.

    I read that a while back in some natural remedy materials. I tend to take such things with a grain of
    salt, but basically what happens is the stress permanently affects your heart
    and brain. The body is made of cells that die. What you are doing is literally
    swapping time awake for time alive.

    The article went sort of like this:

    <24h needs 7 hr of sleep>

    Each sleepless day costs you about a day and a half,
    after that something like a week per four hours.
    After 72 hours, each 4 hours was equal to about month, reaching a year an hour and around 84 hours. After 72-84 hours, people just die. Your brain loses the ability to control the heart.

    Some people have been sleepless longer, but they have brain conditions
    that involve the need for rest, the brain being able to operate at capacity and
    so on. They aren't awake all that time with a "normal" brain. They have states of lowered consciousness.

    ANYTIME AFTER 4 DAYS CREATES PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE

    http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=133

    # After missing 2 to 3 nights, one will also suffer poor coordination, muscle twitches, marked loss of concentration, impaired judgment, blurred vision, nausea, and slurring of speech. Often one will experience episodes of microsleep (briefly sleeping for a few seconds at a time, without being aware of it).
    # At about 4 to 5 days without sleep, expect extreme irritability, hallucinations, and delusional episodes.
    # After about 6 to 8 missed nights, add slowed speech, tremors in limb extremities, memory lapse, confusion concerning one's own identity, unusual behavior, and paranoia to the list.
    # After 9 to 11 nights without sleep, fragmented thinking occurs (beginning sentences without completing them), and prolonged episodes of unresponsive "conscious stupor."
    The longest a normal person without disorder lived without sleep was 11 days or so.

    You need 7-8 hours of restful sleep (or more correctly inducing the proper
    brain state, once per 24 hour cycle). Some people like Einstein were able to
    enter this state easily, and he slept in 15 minute -20 minute naps.

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-02-22-longevity-usat_x.htm

    It's not a medically proven thing, but there was a lifespan check on truckers and cab drivers a while back. I mean, who would volunteer to not sleep
    to show you die early?

    Seven reported hours of sleep a night correlates with longer life spans in humans.

    Basically after 48 hours, the risk of heart attack, stroke and other problems
    ramp up substantially.

    In the long term, the clinical consequences of untreated sleep disorders are large indeed. They are associated with numerous, serious medical illnesses, including:

    Menopause
    Gastroesophageal reflux disease
    Benign prostatic hyperplasia
    Incontinence
    Congestive heart failure
    Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
    Peptic ulcer disease
    Allergic rhinitis (nasal obstruction)
    Seizure disorder
    Medical conditions that cause pain, such as arthritis, bursitis, fibromyalgia and reflex sympathetic dystrophy

    Studies show an increased mortality risk for those reporting less than either six or seven hours per night. One study found that reduced sleep time is a greater mortality risk than smoking, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Sleep disturbance is also one of the leading predictors of institutionalization in the elderly, and severe insomnia triples the mortality risk in elderly men.
     
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  9. fisheye

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    4 hours. I take allot of naps, but i once had a job and manage to stay up for 4 hours. Never got one again. I need my beuty sleep.
     
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    Huh? You mean if you stay up over 24 hours you lose a year off your life? If this were true, I'd be dead... or very close to it. I stayed up over 24 hours every weekend for pretty much a year straight. That's 32 + 52 = 84. I don't feel 84 now. I will totally agree... it ain't healthy. Your body needs sleep.
     
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  11. Mr. Casual

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    Can't remember. The longest I gamed was 21 hours straight on Wild Arms Alter Code F. Lots of grinding for skills involved in that game, but I was also going along with the story.

    The longest I had ever stayed up would have had to have been either at one of my Birthday parties, or the day in question where I played Wild Arms Alter Code F 21 hours straight.
     
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    Oh wonderful....I was already freaked out at my lack of sleep lately, now I have more reasons too. I've had major problems falling asleep lately, but I do eventually crash. I think my longest time was near a whole day. But lately I just can't get to sleep, but eventually crash around when the sun is already out, but I don't get a full 7 hours because I eventually gotta go to work. I wish there was some kind of magical way not to sleep, I think my problem is that I feel like I have too much to do.
     
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  13. Taemos

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    April 19-20th of this year was probably my record. I think I was up around 35 hours. Between lack of sleep and copious amounts of illicit substances, I was a sight to behold.

    Also, sorry to that redhead that tried to ask me out that day. I was kind of messed up and didn't know any better :\
     
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  14. Unorthodox

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    I tend to get way more than 7-8 hours, my normal sleep patern is around 10 hours but can stretch to 12 at times...is that better or worse? :p
     
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    3 or 4 days. no drugs. for once in my life i had a little trouble changing my sleep schedule. went from up during the day and sleeping at night to working all night and sleeping all day. other than that i also did a couple 3 or 4 day stretches in high school.

    and now i sleep 3-5 hours a day most days. otherwise i can't get anything done. and anymore than 7 hours and i get a horrible sinus headache, stiff neck and sick feeling
     
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    My chicka sleeps almost 10-12 hours a day, I don't see how.
     
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    You're not snoring loudly enough!

    I've done a few 3 day sessions in my time. If I made it through the first 24 hours, I seemed to get a burst of second wind that made the second 24 hours easier than the first. By the end of the last 24, I was normally ready to crash, big-time. Gets harder to pull off such things as you get older, though. I also periodically get bouts of insomnia - just find it hard to turn off the brain sometimes - I can normally fix this by fixing something/working on a problem until my brain decides it's satisified & lets me shut down.
     
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    I'm not sure if sleep deprivation is as bad for your physical health as you're all saying, but it's certainly bad for mental health. Supposedly, after 72 hours without sleeping you temporarily turn schizophrenic. Probably the longest time for me is about 30 hours.
     
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    stayed up for 2 days during finals, then my tired mind convinced me to move out of the dorm and take off for home all before sleeping. I fell asleep on the interstate and could have died.

    So i make sure to get plenty of sleep each night now.
     
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  20. graciano1337

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    No longer than 24 hrs. If I stayed up any later, I'd probably piss my pants and forget who I was for an hour.
     
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