what’s the longest you went without sleep?
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72 hours to finish a design project for a client. Hard deadline to make it to the printers in time for a trade show. By the end, I couldn't see straight. Slept for 18 hours after handing it in.
Saw the end product at the trade show. Horrified to pick out so many small errors. Customer was happy, though. Got two more projects.
Never did it again, but it was good to know I could.
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Technically, five days, though it was barely over the line.
I was hallucinating by the end of it. It was intentional, one summer during high school, just to see what it would be like.
It be like something I'll never do again. Took me weeks to feel right again
My answer is almost exactly the same as yours. It was me and my friend doing it together.
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3 ish days, it was awful
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Around three days. No drugs, just showers and energy drinks I took sip by sip for a long time. I was somehow productive, but caught my attention stuck a couple of times on something banal like a working microwave buzz. Everything felt dull and I seemingly had no emotions near the end.
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Maybe 2 and a half days, helped by ecstasy and LSD.
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In 1989 I was one of the participants in the (then) Guinness World Record Endurance Computing held at the Hobby Computer Club days (HCC dagen) in the Netherlands.
The record was for 63.5 hours, but I had a two hour or so commute in each direction and the event started (from memory) at noon.
I'm guessing that I was awake in total for about 70 hours. I fell asleep on the way home.
We published a newsletter called "Elephant News" every few hours. Time keeping was managed by official time keepers and it was entered into the Guinness World Records in the 1990 book. I have a copy somewhere.
At some point not long after, Guinness abolished all world records that only had a time component and as far as I know it still stands
Wow neat, wonder if any photos survive
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Maybe 2 and a half days, helped by ecstasy and LSD.
The best and only way for a 48 ride ! Although It can be the best ride ever, or the worst nightmare you will ever experience :/. Either way those experience are the two sides of the same coin !
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I think around 48 hours.
High school LAN parties.
Yeaaah ! Counter-Strike 1.5/1.6 era with Day of Defeat and some Ricchochet for chilling off your nerves !
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3 days. Mostly just eating fruit and water. Caffeine and processed sugar leads to crashes that I'd learned from previously. I could have done 4 days, but I began to notice that I was not paying very good attention to passing traffic when crossing the road, so I stopped.
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Around 2.5-3 days. On a LAN party in 2003 or so. 2 nights without sleep. Lots of caffeine. It was fun at first but really started feeling terrible after the 2nd night.
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3 nights. On the 4th I got 3 hours of sleep.
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With 30 mins naps included, probably 72 hrs during filming a short film.
But if youre asking for a straight awake, it is around 26-27 hours. It was also during that time. The first day of filming until I got my first nap.
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I had insomnia for many years. I slept 30-60 mins a night then crash for five or six hours once a week. It was horrible. I’d rather take these mind altering drugs than go back to that
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3 days and 2 nights in the military.
In the 3rd day I was semi-awake and seeing shit. i.e. familiar home town sceneries behind distant trees, although I was nowhere near.
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The best and only way for a 48 ride ! Although It can be the best ride ever, or the worst nightmare you will ever experience :/. Either way those experience are the two sides of the same coin !
What did it say?
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About 72h going from a scouts camp into a festival. first 2 days included a lot of coffee, last day might have had a little coke sprinkled in.
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3 days and 2 nights in the military.
In the 3rd day I was semi-awake and seeing shit. i.e. familiar home town sceneries behind distant trees, although I was nowhere near.
Gotta love those FTX. I got to the point where I crawled under a humvee for a nap.
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Roughly 37 hours. I went from a party to shopping with friends to a wedding. It was wild and it shows the power of alcohol and drugs
️Probably wouldn’t survive it today, tho.
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3 days during last summer. It was before I got my summer job and after school ended.
It wasn't for any particular reason I just didn't wanna go to sleep and just stayed on my phone
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I think it was about 28h when my first child way born.
Usual day, up at 6am, normal day. Then wife stated around 10pm 'alright, we need to go to the hospital'. Few hours later at around 6am child was born. The aftermath and heading home took a few hours as well and finally got some rest at 10am.
The funny thing is I did not sleep that much then. I think about 4 hours and was good to go.
Oh yeah, and my wife was probably also happy to get some rest lol.
