Longest you ever stayed awake

I swore I read somewhere that there was some Korean / Chinese guy who suddenly stopped sleeping altogether. And no, he isn't addicted to Starcraft, he's a farmer or something.

 

I saw this, too. He's supposedly been awake for 20something years. I showed the article to my psychology teacher; she said it's possible he just has short black-outs and doesn't remember them.

I really don't know what to think of it, to be honest. Staying awake past 24 hours has me feeling like a zombie. I would hate to think of anything long-term like that. Apparently he gets along just fine, though (assuming it's a legitimate case).

 

yeah, I posted a link to it some posts back in this thread

 

longest I have stayed up for would be 2 days, I been going to be by 12am, I always seems to stay up late when I'm too lazy to do anything.

I'm basically a late nighter

 

Almost 5 days, taking care of my ailing father.

I didn't sleep until after the wake and the burial.

 

About 38 hours is my max too, back when I was addicted to star wars galaxies. I can't seem to last longer than about 24 hours anymore.

 

My "record" is about 3 days, and I've done it twice.
At some random LAN-party when I was young, and when I was in the army.

 

Never attempted a record as such. 3 days is probably the most casually.

 

The longest i've stayed awake would probably be 48 hours when i was younger, can't remember where it was some camp trip i went on and me and my friends wanted to do an all nighter which i did two nights in a row.

I guess it was mainly because unless i'm in my own bed or somewhere familiar like at my sisters then i find it hard to get to sleep easily so i tend to stay awake longer.

 

I got a serious bout of insomnia from some medication I was taking. I only stuck it a few weeks but during that time I was getting maybe 3-4 hours per 48 hour stretch. It was absolutely brutal, and it fucked with my head in ways no illegal drug has ever come close to.

 

24 hours

i could not slepp,was propaply becausei played too much games

 

Somewhere around the 36 hours when I was heavily jetlagged after a 10 hour flight. I normally can't stay awake too long but jetlags are never nice on me.

 

I'd say 45 or so hours at the least.

 

Hmmm, 24~32 hours or so, in the good ole N64 days. Playing a whole weekend with friends and melting the step-down converter along the way, oh such good memories :nod: