10 days. Did over a week several times. Not good memories. I used to be a major insomniac, averaged 2-3 hours of sleep a night for most of my life. The old brain would kick into hyper mode and I just could not wind down enough to sleep.
Geez man. Lack of sleep is generally associated with being crazy .
Yeah, the morning after the 10th night of no sleep, my boss hits me with " you know that people go crazy after two weeks without sleep and they usually have to shoot them". I replied" Well thanks, that's a load off my mind, that should make things a lot easier". I had been trying Nytol to see if it helped, but I think it made it worse. A friend of mine and I stopped by a Pharmacy on the way home that night after work, and went through all the sleep aids, trying to find something that used a different chemical. We found a box of Unisom capsules. I went home, kicked back in the recliner in my bedroom, and took one. I was thinking that as soon as I get sleepy I'll go to bed. That was the last thing I remember until about noon the next day, because those things hit me like a hammer. I have never lasted more than about 5 minutes after taking one of those things, and I really hate to use them because I'm so far out that if the place burned down I'd never know.