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52 hours....this past weekend. a special thanks goes out to andy moor and steve lawler for that.
around 42...... it involved work, x-mas party, guvernment, then comfort zone, and a commute back to dundas in a snow storm..... i'll see if i can dig up my post that explains it all in detail.
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| Originally posted by nadezhda you're lucky! although i'm by no means a chronic insomniac, i cannot turn off my brain at night, therefore i rarely get enough sleep until the weekend. then i can't sleep on sunday night cos i overslept on the weekend. and i walk TONS. it's just not fair... |
im an ex-insomniac... my longest before i passed out was 159 hours...
and its true... you do begin to hallucinate after being awake for 5 days
Wow...it took 4 fucking pages for someone to top me.
THANK YOU newr!!!
LOOOLLLLLLLL
newr: I am kinds in the same area as you....
Most of the time I can't go more than 24 hours, but the last time I was in Miami, I can't remember sleeping AT ALL....and the funny thing was that I wasn't even tired and I took no drugs what so ever....weird thing....Great times tho 
second longest: at a music fetival when i was 16 for 4 days...I was faking tired then!
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| Originally posted by kabelicious 72 hours - one time only affair. NEVER again |
53 hours, playing an online MUD. Lots and lots of red bull and coke.
48-58hrs - too many things to do.
are we talking sober here? or .. anything?
did a litte over 60 hours this weekend. not a good idea at alll hahaha i think my body is fully destroyed.
edit: my record would probably be last new years in Montreal. From the Dec30th at around 2pm to early morning on the Jan3rd. I will never do this again, by the end nothing really made sence. I definately started to hear/see things.
around 2 days while backpacking through Europe partying all night and being late for my flight home that I forgot I had. Had to get my ass to Frankfurt from Dubrovnik with very little funds so took the least expensive means of transportation- 24hr bus ride - aboard few diff buses- could not sleep cuz my things would be most likely gone
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| why are you staying up so late? for a job? |
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| Originally posted by The Highroller This may sound sadistic, but there is almost a certain enjoyment I get out of the insanity that comes from a lack of sleep. |
48 hours and I went to school like that. I was hyper all day but I actually learned something 
this weekend just past was the longest I've been up since highschool. 7:30 friday morning to 1 pm sunday afternoon. 53 and a half. Good times were had and probably won't do that again.
97 hours during a very crazy party weekend back in 2002.
Thats not human. lol. I'd need to be checked in by guys with lab coats after something like that.
i had insomnia last summer and couldnt sleep no matter how hard i tried so i was up for about 5 days then i started drinking heavily and partying as much as possible and i was cured
about 40 hours maybe on my exam weeks.
30 minutes.
one week and let me tell you it's not fun at all. took me a month to recover fully
I got this from some ask a question site...
I love the last line...
A good book to read about this is Sleep Thieves by Stanley Coren. He tells a few stories of people who tried to sustain wakefulness.
One famous case is the disc jockey Peter Tripp who in 1959 stayed up for more than eight days as a promotional stunt. After a few days, he began to hallucinate, seeing kittens, mice, and cobwebs. He also became paranoid, insisting that an electrician had dropped a hot electrode into his shoe.
In 1964 high school student Randy Gardner (17) attempted to break the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest time awake -- 260 hours. And after 11 days without sleep he suffered no hallucinations or paranoia and no psychotic symptoms. But Coren challenges this often repeated fact in his book. Coren describes the day-by-day impact on Randy, as documented by John Ross of the US Navy Medical europsychiatric Research Unit in San Diego. Randy had trouble focusing his eyes on day 2, hallucinations on day 4, and slurred speech and a short attention span by the last day.
Certainly there are drugs such as caffeine, cocaine and amphetamines that keep you awake, but these cannot sustain you for very long.
Something else with the DJ Peter Tripp...
Mr. Tripp attracted just as much national attention, though, for his sleepless promotional gimmick a year earlier.
He spent 201 hours and 10 minutes awake, much of it sitting in a glass booth in Times Square, spinning records and bantering into his microphone three hours a day.
When Mr. Tripp began to fall asleep, nurses shook him; doctors joked with him, played games with him and gave him tests to take. After a few days, he began to hallucinate, seeing cobwebs, mice, kittens; looking through drawers for money that wasn't there; insisting that a technician had dropped a hot electrode into his shoe.
His last 66 hours awake were spent under the influence of drugs administered by the doctors and scientists observing him. Asked at the end of his stunt what he wanted the most, Mr. Tripp said, not surprisingly, that he wanted to sleep, which he then did for 13 hours and 13 minutes.
Some guy named Micheal Corke stayed awake from insomnia for six months and then he died...
This happened in 1991...
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The man who went six months without sleep Michael Corke suffered from the rare genetic disease �fatal familial insomnia�, thought to affect just 25 families throughout the world. What happens is that if you have the gene, one day you wake up and never sleep again. Sleeping pills don�t help; even being in a coma will not send you to sleep � People with �fatal familial insomnia� suffer serious mental and physical decline until they die and are finally able to rest. From �Altered States�, part of the documentary series, The secrets of sleep, prod. and dir. Joseph Bullman of Twenty Twenty Television for Channel 4, England (1998) Owls and larks: Are you a �party animal or party pooper?� Science writer Lisa Melton writes that: If you wake every morning at the crack of dawn, ready to tackle an exam or a marathon, then you�re probably a lark. If you crawl out of bed after battling with the snooze button, on the other hand, you�re probably an owl. But why do morning and evening types naturally wake at different times? Is it your circadian rhythm? One factor may be the cycle length of their circadian rhythm, says Jeanne Duffy of Harvard Medical School in Boston. Duffy has estimated the cycle length in moderate owls and larks by isolating them in an artificial environment, where all time cues have been removed. Measuring their temperature and levels of melatonin and cortisol in their blood, she has found that owls� cycles are longer than 24 hours. Larks, on the other hand, have cycles that closely follow a 24-hour pattern. Early birds and night-lovers Yet stereotypical early-birds and night-lovers are in the minority, warns Simon Folkard. Only between five and ten per cent of the population falls at either end of the spectrum, most lie in the middle. But extreme types are easy to spot. Look out for the poor lark who nods off at a dinner party or the owl who clumsily gravitates towards the coffee machine in the morning. Lisa Melton is science writer in-residence at the Novartis Foundation. From New Scientist magazine, vol. 166 issue 2241, 3 July 2000. See: www.newscientist.com Sleep laboratories in Australia The University of Adelaide has a sleep laboratory. To find out more of what they do, visit their website at: www.unisa.edu.au/sleep/main/tcsr_home.html |
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