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27 hours is a long time to be awake, RA. I've had a few marathons like that--not sleeping due to work, stress, anxiety, etc. I've noticed that the problem can feed on itself so that it becomes increasingly difficult to get any rest but also difficult to accomplish anything productive. Anyway, hope you snap out of it.
No way, Canadian. This is kind of fun and hallucinatory. But I'm getting that insomnia paranoia. And I'm gonna sleep great tonight.
I can only give you an answer if you clarify the question:
Most hours awake while on drugs? Or without drugs?
Most hours awake while on drugs? Or without drugs?
Excellent question, Gus. Apparently one of the drugs I'm on now acts as a stimulant. So I've got an unfair advantage.
Which drug, RA?
Speed used to keep me up for about 36 hours. Then I'd sleep for 18 hours.
Speed used to keep me up for about 36 hours. Then I'd sleep for 18 hours.
I think it was roughly 202 but can't be too sure... used alcohol and other... ahem... stimulants while constantly partying for eight days and then had to make a three hour trip home...
Back in '98. I'm pretty sure my record is 78 hours. I was over-the-top jittery and loopy by then & seriously hallucinating. I misread the directions on my oral steroids that I was taking for an ear infection.
Probably about 40 or so. That's really not that unusual for me.
I used to stay up for 48-52 hours when I was working. Then thankfully, I'd have a few days off and crash for 2 days. I get a bad headache if I stay up too long. It's not healthy for you anyway.
There is an event at the Microsoft main campus each year where groups of employees spend a weekend solving all sorts of puzzles in a competition. The winning team gets to create the puzzles for the next year.I participated in this several times and would generally be awake from Friday morning until late Sunday afternoon. Tons of fun, except when teammates would fall asleep under a conference room table and snore loudly (I'm looking at you, Scott).
ETA: I just found out there's a wikipedia entry about this! It also mentions the Intern Puzzle Day, which my friend Scott (the snorer) was in charge of for several years.
I used to work two jobs- I worked day shift on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays... I’d work a twelve hour night shift each of those nights as well. I normally didn’t go to sleep until Monday morning. Sometimes I’d catch an hour or two in between the end of my night shift and beginning of my day shift (one ended at 6am the next started at either 8 or 9 am). When I finish working nights, I generally stay up afterwards until about 10 or 11 pm the next day- so I’m up for about 30 hours every two weeks when I switch back to a day schedule.
When I was a K9 Officer, part of our training required us to stay awake and on exercises for 48 to 72 hours about three times a year.
I once made it through to the closing credits on a Pixar movie. That's my record.
About 50, and that's during my wedding. In India, we have this tradition of about 2-3 days of wedding celebrations minimum, can even go up to a week!
I still stay up all night on the occasional friday or saturday because I'm absorbed in what I'm doing and want to get something done, and I can keep going until bedtime the following night. But I have to keep moving! Unlike when I was young and did this, sitting down is not a good idea. And driving is an even worse one!
i crashed after 36 hours. i like sleeping.
I stayed up for a full 48 hours a couple months ago. I was trying to make it to 53, but I feel asleep in the locker room before practice.
The most ever was 48, and by the time I did sleep, I was so tired I hallucinated that my blanket turned into a wave of little white spiders. *shudder*
about 30 hours, during a roleplaying convention. When I'm really tired, half of my field of vision gets stripes...
I crashed around 4PM yesterday, topping out at, oh, 35. I slept about thirteen, fourteen hours and feel much better today.
Glad that you finally 
Sheesh RA! That's dangerous!I took some speed in college maybe 2x - I was speedy enough already, and as a chronic insomniac why would I deliberately lose more sleep?
But I spent a straight 24 hours watching the first seasons of BSG, so I could be caught up when new episodes aired. That was so much fun! It was during the holidays and the boys were gone so I had no obligations. One of the best times of my life.
When I was about 5 or 6 I stayed up all 24 just to see how the sky changed colors and what colors they changed into. I was a curious child.
While not on drugs? Close to 48 when I needed to do an EEG and it required me not to sleep. I remember crying with exhaustion because I wanted to sleep so bad.
About 48. I do that from time to time when travelling for work.
Stacia *lollipopping like a mofo wrote: "While not on drugs? Close to 48 when I needed to do an EEG and it required me not to sleep. I remember crying with exhaustion because I wanted to sleep so bad."i had to do something similar when i was 5, don't remember much about it.
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