Longest that you've gone without sleep?

[Muse]

About 72 Hours.

It really sucked after the 48 hour mark.

72 on speed. Had no need to sleep at all. It was a great great high! I've never done speed since, though. I saw what it did to some people.

 

[blankslate]

Near 48 hours on a weekend trip. I'm not wired for that. The group I was with told me to go to sleep or I'd get knocked out.


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[Iron Woode]

36 to 40 hrs when I was 22.

I wasn't working, just goofing around with friends and didn't bother to sleep.

Around midnight the next day I started acting really strange. I decided to drive home and go to bed. On the way home I started hallucinating and saw things on the side of the road that I knew weren't there.

I made it home safely and then slept for about 18 hrs.

I never want to do that again.

 

[Captante]

About 4 days *(with chemical-assistance :sneaky: )

I then proceeded to sleep for 2 more almost without interruption.


This was back in my late teens btw.

 

[Carson Dyle]

36 to 40 hrs when I was 22.

I wasn't working, just goofing around with friends and didn't bother to sleep.

Around midnight the next day I started acting really strange. I decided to drive home and go to bed. On the way home I started hallucinating and saw things on the side of the road that I knew weren't there.

I've experienced that after 18 or so hours of coding without a break. Bushes look like people. You swear they're moving. You think that bag in the middle of the road is an animal. I'm not sure it quite it qualifies as an hallucination, but I've been there many times, and without going much more than 30 hours without sleep.

 

[John Connor]

17 years. From March 8, 1994 until June 5, 2011.

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[biostud]

53h, at a LAN party in high school. When I finally fell asleep I was on the phone with my mom.

 

[Muse]

Historically, soldiers at war often went long periods without sleep. It was "accepted." Studies relatively recently have revealed that sleep-deprived soldiers (and others, obviously) are very inefficient and can make really bad decisions, often resulting in "friendly fire" tragedies, killing of innocents, etc.

I read a very good book recently about sleep: Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

 

[John Connor]

For me personally, when I haven't slept in two days my brain seems to kick into overdrive. I'm the exact opposite. When I was in my twenties and became sleep deprived I'd get the shits. Not so anymore. LOL!

 

[Charmonium]

Is this the sleep or sheep thread? I confuse ed.

 

[John Connor]

Some people count 'em, I think about shooting 'em.

Baaaa.

 

[QueBert]

About 49 hours, was at a poker table at a card club, outside of getting up to go use the restroom a few times I didn't even get out of my seat. At the end I went big with what I thought was an Ace high flush on the flop, turns out I just had Ace high. Lost $400 on that hand and went home. What cemented me leaving was I stood up and slammed my hand down yelled out I got the nuts baby! then did a celebration dance. Followed by the dealer politely pointing out my hand was an Ace high and I lost. I had to look at my hand and the board 4 times before I saw it. Was too tired to drive so I got a room and slept it off. I was playing poker for about 46 of that 49 hours.

playing Hold Em for almost 2 straight days is never a good idea lol.

 

[Ns1]

Currently 32 hours. Probably another 8 to go before I really go to sleep.

 

[brianmanahan]

I've experienced that after 18 or so hours of coding without a break. Bushes look like people. You swear they're moving. You think that bag in the middle of the road is an animal. I'm not sure it quite it qualifies as an hallucination, but I've been there many times, and without going much more than 30 hours without sleep.

that's what made me scared to drive home after 30 hours of writing code. i really thought about getting a hotel room instead of driving the 45 minutes.

but other than some dizziness, i don't think i saw any hallucinatory bears along the highway.

 

[Charmonium]

The peripheral vision hallucinations are real bitch if you happen to have a cat or cats.

 

[Jaskalas]

30-36 hours. Nothing special, just a single night without sleep.

 

[DrPizza]

Stayed up 3 nights in a row while in college. So, 80ish hours or so. I still vividly remember some of the hallucinations I was having that 3rd night. I was swirling a can in the air and asking people if they could see the light that was orbiting it - like a little ball of light, a planet, going around the can, matching my motion. I could not be convinced that it wasn't there.

 

[Fenixgoon]

40 hours. that was rough.

 

[Howard]

Less than 30 hours, I believe. Sleep deprivation is extremely distressing for me.

 

[shimpster]

143 hourz

 

[Ns1]

Capped out at 40 hours of no sleep for my Vegas weekend.

 

[RPD]

2 full days, 3rd or 4th year in college during finals week. Finally feel asleep (not on purpose, just finally crashed when I closed my eyes) on the couch after eating lunch.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

close to 3 days and I cannot recall ever feeling worse. sleep deprivation is a motherfucker, not only mentally, but physically.

 

[rh71]

I've only ever pulled 1 all-nighter, cramming for a test, and that didn't prove helpful.

 

[vi edit]

I did a 40 hour stint once getting a server recovered from a raid controller that freaked out and nuked the array. It involved a 4 hour drive, an emergency plane flight from Des Moines Iowa to Tucson, Arizona. Then a whole pile of work discovering that the tape backups weren't viable and going to data recovery software to pull data off of what it could read read off the drives and then ultimately rebuilding a database to get a business working again.

Do not recommend.