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40+ Hours awake? (how long have you stayed up at one time?)
Yaezakura:
Well, my record is somewhere around 150 hours (or about 6 and a half days). I suffer regular bouts of insomnia, and had a new game to keep me entertained.
After that long, the world becomes a very unusual place...
jonarus_drakus:
chalenge accepted...
Llewellian:
Well, one time in my life i did something very, very stupid together with about 100 people.
We tried to break the world record for Internet Chat at length without breaks (ok, 5 mins every hour for the toilet). Well, i dropped off after 85 hours. The medics who supervised us ended it after 90 hours. Too much people just freaked out. Nice, but very stupid experiment for a radio station...
And this teached me one thing: Never do it again.
After about 40 hours i did not get tired anymore. I was... "over the hill". Then, concentration problems began. We all stopped kinda talking. Then, people around me started hallucinating (which came for me about 20 hours later). Then i began loosing my short time memory... more concentration problems, more and more typos. Eyes sore. And a medic checkup after 80 hours showed that i had the same symptoms like being totally drunk or on a kind of drug... wide eyes, reddened, not able to speak fluently in my own language, not able to walk a straight line... and after 85 hours, i ran into a kind of mind state i dont liked... persecution mania, anxiety state and a kind of "watching myself", like standing next to me.... i mean... i feared the shadows in that Internet Cafe, the plant next to my 'puter and i watched myself and thought: Stupid, Stupid, Stupid....and commented myself...
We started with 100 freaks. Ended with 13.
After that, i went to bed, slept about 8 hours and everything was clear and nice again. Except... i totally lost memory for 3 days. I can remember the first few hours and the last 10 hours before i went to bed. Inbetween.. all gone. I saw the videos of it, i have the pictures... but i cannot remember what happened, except the last 10 hours.
Yaezakura:
Like I said, the world becomes a very unusual place after a while. And the effects get worse the longer you go. Hallucinations are a common symptom of extended periods of time without REM levels of sleep, as fatigue makes it harder for our brains to separate our conscious and unconscious minds. You basically experience a literal "waking nightmare" as thoughts that are normally relegated to dreams start playing out in your awakened state.
People are different, of course, so it'll affect people at different rates and severity. Some start the freakout as early as 40 hours, and some can still function after several days. But honestly, it's best not to find out. So my suggestion to anyone here is to never try and push yourself past what you can comfortably handle.
raoullefere:
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--- Quote from: maddness on 27 Aug 2009, 22:30 ---I had med induced mania once and that shit was not funny. I could not turn off. I could not shut up and I talked so fast people had trouble understanding me. I gave myself shin splint just from walking fast forever. For two days I could not sleep and I could not be still.
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Dude, that sounds kinda like me normaly...
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Try lithium? Worked for my husband for a while.
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Try staying away from caffeine. Seriously, I had problems like this back when they were treating my respiratory problems with theophylline. If you do heavy amounts of caffeine, it can have the same effect if you have the right (or wrong) kind of brain chemistry.
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