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40+ Hours awake? (how long have you stayed up at one time?)

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Gammagooey:
The longest I've stayed awake was last year (freshman in college then) when I was up for around 36-38 hours straight, if i remember correctly I had insomnia until about the 20th hour awake, then had to finish an English paper with no sleep, and then went to a friend's party and fell asleep on his bed about 3 hours in.

Stupid Human:
I don't normally sleep that much (typical night is about 5 hours (usually 7am-12).  When I worked nights and had morning classes I would routinely go for 2-3 days at a time without sleep (although I would nap midday sometimes).  I'm not sure if it's just me or if you can get used to it but 50 hours of no sleep doesn't affect me too much.  Although past your limit you can start having some strange things happen like, as someone before, mini-sleeps.  I've had dream/hallucinations of my room mates coming and talking to me and then when I talk to them later they say that never happened.  : /

Alex C:
I went about 4 days once, but amphetamines took the edge off of at one point.

Kilonum:
I did ~66 once.

I was a teenage runaway and my options were either A) sleep in the Logan Airport terminal C bathrooms or B) not sleep

I went with B first


A happened at the 66 hour mark.


I was soon found by the fine officers of the Massachusetts State Police.

Exar_Kun:
I've only stayed up about 30 hours without the aid of caffine. I feel compelled to inform everyone that the record for staying awake without the use of drugs is somewhere around 11 days (264 hours). The guy who did it was being studied by doctors the whole time. On the fourth day, he started having hallucenations. On the last day, the guy had to give a speech on his ordeal and he did it with no slurring of his words or slowing of his speech.  Apparently, this dude hit his sweet spot around the 8th day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)

makes for an interesting read.

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