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

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jackmort:
The longest I ever stayed awake for was about 46 hours. I'd been up all night for no particular reason and then when the sun came up I didn't feel like sleeping. Once I hit 40 hours I wanted to try to get to 48 hours to have it be a round two days. Inanimate objects seemed to be moving of their own accord and I was imagi-hearing 8-bit music and laughing children, but the thing that really made me give in and go to sleep was the FIERCE headache

Butterbeegumdrop:
I honestly have no idea what my record is in straight hours, but I can tell you it was from a Tuesday until a Friday...or maybe Saturday. I didn't pay much attention to the hours, just the amount of times the sun came up/went down. And the occasional glance to see what day/month it was. I honestly don't even really remember going to sleep, so it may have been longer what with waking up late Saturday/early Sunday. So yeah, I probably had a couple micronaps. Maybe.

Me, I'm not really a marathon type. I just tend to stay up 24-36 hours repeatedly (and, yes, I hit 48 WAY more often than I should), sometimes with only four hours or so of sleep in between (I went a little over a week with maybe 9 hours of sleep collectively, once or twice...or three times, but one of those was admittedly deliberate due to WotLK coming out). I have trouble staying asleep with any consistency, too.

It leads to an interesting lack of recollection involving all sorts of things, not to mention mild hallucinations and delirium. And having no idea what day it is without looking. I have not, however, straight up passed out (...that I can recall).

Edit: Also, when you have sudden dizzy spells during which you feel like you've just been dragged under by a monster wave, IT IS TIME TO SLEEP. Not that I listen to myself...

Siorai:
Don't recall exactly what it is for the hour total, But for a while, I was working at Yankee Candle for 48 hours a week, monday-saturday, 2pm to 10pm, then, monday-friday overnight at a hotel here in town, 11pm to 7 am. Took the bus back home, got home around 10:00 am, left for work at 1pm.  Normally I'd only go home to eat/shower then go right back to work.

The first couple of weeks are pretty rough, but after the third/fourth? You don't really notice the lack of concentration, and the surreal reality that everything turns into, just sorta becomes the norm.  You get used to it, slowly but surely, but it doesn't really make it any -less- strange.

Made half decent money, sure, was it worth it? I'm not really too sure, but it was pretty intense, anyone that's worked 6 worked back to back 90+ hours/week, will tell you the same thing.  Not to mention I was boxing candles for half of that time....

Alex C:
Sleep deprivation can indeed kill you. It's demonstrable in lab animals and in the rare case of fatal familial insomnia.

Anyway, yeah, I can't understand why people would regularly extend their sleep patterns to such a ridiculous extent. My own record can basically be explained with a roadtrip, cocaine, dexedrine and horrible, horrible decision making. Wasn't really in a good place back then.

spasysheep:
I can stay awake for a pretty long time, I think it's a genetic trait as my parents both seem to manage with very little sleep.
As long as I get a mug of strong coffee every hour or two I stay fairly coherent and responsive, otherwise I end up in a similar state to being really drunk - vision goes blurry, I slur my words slightly and I perceive reality like a laggy game, I seem to jump from point to point rather than moving smoothly.

I once sat at my computer for 72 hours when my parents went away and left me in the house on my own for a week. I was awake for about 50 hours at which point I ran out of coffee and ended up napping in my computer chair for about 3 hours so I could stay capable of gaming, woke up and carried on to the 72 hour mark. After that I went to bed so I would be in a reasonable state when the holidays ended and I had to go back to school. I'm pretty certain I didn't micronap because I was gaming so I would have been told if I stopped doing anything for a bit.

When I do sleep I sleep for a long time - without any constraints like school to tell me when I can and can't sleep, I sleep for about 11-14 hours, then stay awake for about 20. This is interrupted by waking up for 5-20 mins every 3 hours or so.
Not a healthy sleep cycle I imagine, but it works.

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