As requested by Belphegor, are gamers better at staying awake than the general population?

I'd tried for two all-nighters in a row, but fell asleep at about 2 in the morning on the second night

Stayed awake for about four days playing Unreal Tournament online before. I didn't eat or drink for the third or fourth day.

I am still not quite sure why I did it, but I guess it made sense at the time.

I used to stay awake for 48 hours fairly regularly when I was younger, and even when I had a regular sleeping pattern, I was rarely sleeping for more than 4-5 hours a night, often only about 3-4 hours (though that was mostly because I was reading books than playing games, though sometimes it was game related).

Now I can hardly make it to lunch time without almost falling asleep, so I guess it is catching up with me

I have stayed awake and alert for 72+. But that was during combat operations in Iraq.

Outside of being awake for the military, about 48ish with a group of buddies, playing video games and such.

60+ during boot camp.

72+. I had been working with a friend on self publishing a comic book. It was crunch time, but I also had to work, so no sleep for me!

The worst part is we spent all that time and lack of sleep and money...and the friend I asked to distribute it (it was at a hardcore show) just went up on the stage and dumped the box of books over the crowd. Most of them just got stomped on. I wasn't happy.

I start having mild hallucinations (seeing stuff in the corner of my eye, hearing things that aren't actually there) after about 30 hours or so. The most I think I've actually made it is about 40 hours, but I've found that I'm generally pretty worthless after about the first 20-24.

I stayed up for 4.5 days straight on house arrest when I was 15. Man! things got wierd fast. I beat metal gear sold on game cube on every difficulty to keep myself up.

It was in the holidays while I was at University and a friend and I decided to stay up for as long as we could, since we had nothing better to do and we'd heard things went all weird after a surprisingly short amount of time. We managed about 5 and a half days, through lots of coffee and shouting at each other whenever we looked dopey. We played so much playstation it was ridiculous. We then both finally succumbed to sleep, had about ten hours each and then were fine. In fact the next day I seem to remember we went to an allnighter at the union. I miss those days...

42 hours

Pretty sure it was 3 days when me and some friends did a beginning to end MGS4 party-thing.

Don't know why it took us so long, it was only on normal

Had big problems sleeping as a kid....so often would go 2-3 days with no or VERY little sleep (like an hour). For a sleep deprivation project I max out at 4.5 days without sleep. only time I ever halucinated. don't want to repeat it....as I am older though, i tend to need less sleep, i often get 3-4 hours a night. then i crash every few weeks or so where i sleep from when i get home until i have to go to work.

I've had a very advanced form of Insomia since I was little.

It's been a gift and a curse.

Have made it 36 hours during major incidents at work but by that time the lack of sleep starts to make your brain work funny and I was making mistakes that otherwise would not have been made. I got the next shift in the door and went and slept for 12 hours.

36 hours...

Hanging with friends.

daedalus wrote:I start having mild hallucinations (seeing stuff in the corner of my eye, hearing things that aren't actually there) after about 30 hours or so. The most I think I've actually made it is about 40 hours, but I've found that I'm generally pretty worthless after about the first 20-24.

Don't get me started.

I have done 24+ more than once and try to keep myself down to around five hours on a general basis but it is usually more like maybe 7/ 7.5 hours of sleep a day when you have to take into account excersize.

I mean you SHOULD sleep anyway, right? But if I can maximize my number of three hour sleeps in a week I am a pretty happy guy.

It is true you MAY AS WELL sleep because if you don't you are really going to stuff something up at some point. No sense staying awake if you are going to spend 45 minutes looking for your keys everyday. Or you lose your bag that has your whole life in it.

I've only managed to stay up from 7.00 one morning to 5.30 the next! (I'm hopeless at keeping my eyes open after 15 hours!)
If you can stay up longer than 72 hours, you must be some kinda zombie...

48 hours. at the time it was night-stocking shift, Yu-gi-Oh! Regional all day, another shift, family get-together. Crashing afterward was epic

I have gone for about 145 hs. but it was mostly hyped up time sweeting the next mortar round, during the first wave of iraq none of us got any sleep.

Man I forgot about when Final Fantasy 7 came out. Same friend, sat on his couch for DAYS playing that game (I must have smelled awful). I even called in to work.

I spent better than a year doing weekly 36hr+ Fridays during my younger, dumber years.

College @ 7am, work til 6pm-3am, 2nd job 4:30am-1:00pm- play hockey til dark, drive home, sleep.

My all-timer was right about 72 hours though. I think I slept close to 20hrs on the crash.

Final week of pledging kept me awake, working out, hungry and completely filthy for 4 days straight. however I did pass out in just about every class I attended (if i attended) so i guess that is cheating.

COLLEGE!

Mine must have been 20 hours. Got 6 hours of sleep. Didn't really make any major changes though.

just about 72 hrs I went on a x day adventure that required me and my friends to not sleep.

I've managed about 36 hours I think, but I actually became ill as a result. I'm a person who needs his sleep .

72+ playing Ioncross Freelancer. Best. Game. Ever.

Space Combat, pvp-based, group play reinforced (if you fly into the military combat areas alone, you will die), just a solid game all around.

ioncross is the mod for the game but even without it, it's still a good buy for $5 nowadays imho.

Single player kinda forces you to be a good guy but you can switch allegiances pretty easily in a single sitting.

I'll stop now lol i loved that game so much,

72+. My best friend and I, during a week's holiday from school just when we were starting high school, spent a whole week together at his house and managed 6 hours of sleep total in the 7 day stretch.

Yeah, things got weird. We also went through a couple of boxes of sugar cubes. Definitely not healthy, but makes for a good story.

Ive done 72+ a couple of times.

once was when i was in high school, counter strike beta 1.6 was in full swing, woke up on thursday, went to school, went to my friends house after school, played Unreal Tournament at his house all night long, went to school on friday, right after school went with him to a gaming "lock in" at a computer-cafe, lock in was for 24 hours, played counter-strike the entire time... went home and played some Team fortress before crashing at the computer, just after the 72 hour mark.

the next time was in college, and I wont go into detail with that one....

the last time was for work, had to work a triple shift, then went to a car meet for racing, after all that, got cleaned up, ingested more stimulants, then went to a party... started to hallucinate about halfway through the party so i got a ride home and crashed just before the 72 hour mark.

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD BBBBBBBBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

And 20 hours sleep beforehand........

well over 72 hours, the record stands at 11 days (not me obviously) However brain andmoter functions decrease by upto 75% after a few days lack of sleap

Sleep deprivation training while in the Army, 5 days is far too long to go without any sleep, plus the trees kept jumping in front of my humvee!! Also I kept seeing things that I knew were really not there. Good times

77 Hours at a friends house playing WFRP on a bet.

I WON!

Around the 5 day mark (give or take a few hours).
Like the above posters state, it gets weird and non-functional.

I've gone 72+ hours several times in my youth with accompanying side effects, but not these days. My insomnia is a blessing and a curse and I usually average 4-6 hours of sleep /day/week.

Every once in a while I just can't shut down and go 24-48 hours with no sleep and then "catch up" with a 10-hour isolation sleep binge.

4 full days in a static obs post...


I started to write whole letters on notebook the size of my hand...

roughly 4.75 days here. I was much younger then. I regularly do 48hr days now though.

hmmm...
should around 94 hours, during a military exercise...
worst I ever did.... I remember that on day 3 a buddy of mine that walked in front of me on the road, suddenly walked down in the ditch and the up again. When I asked him why he did that, he responded: "I had to, didnt you see the dead cow lying in the road."....
Just an example what can happen to the human brain when you lack sleep for a long time.

Had to go to the hospital after 7 day, just couldn't sleep. Doctor called it sleep depravity because of chemical imbalance. I am on medication for it but still do 24 hours awake and about 10-14 asleep. Let me tell you, your body is a freakin wreck after the fifth day, nothing functions as it should in the head. I walked outside to pee because it seemed logical and at the seventh day I tried to fall unconscious by slamming my head into the wall. Didn't work but I got a scar between the brows from it... =p

40 hours, when I went from Vancouver, to Freiburg im Breisgau.

About 80 hours +/-

Military. Not fun. Wouldn't suggest it. Potentially dangerous, nothing seemed real that fourth day and a live round made it into the armory and was discharged (not by me) during clearing (thankfully up in the ceiling). Bad day, that one. Caffeine and the occasional 20 minute cat-nap only go so far past the second night. It was weird though. Strangely we would be energetic as hell for hours and then zombies. Back and forth but the fourth day was all zombie.

I've certainly done over 72 hours several times. As a kid during school holidays it was a point of pride whilst LANning with my best mate.

Just shy of 5 days when I was one of Uncle Sugah's Misguided Children. Starting seeing the little mushroom guys from Mario towards the middle of day 4.

One of my friends stayed up 72+ hours at a millitary camp with out food or water (can't remember the name) and he said that he started to have very intense conversations with the bushes lol

72+ - A friend and I stayed awake for about 78 to 80 hours, playing video games and what not. The crash... not so good

36 hours of craziness watching Anime,drinking,and on Zombie Night a few months back I my Wife and my mate and his pregnant Girlfriend up 36 hrs watching every Zombie film we could get our hands on.

Oh and Godzilla night about 4 years ago the memories *sniff*

Once heard that a presidential candidate was going on a 3-day campaign blitz years ago, and determined in my youthful enthusiasm that I would "psychic battle" with him by staying awake for the entire 3 days.

Ran out of steam shortly before the 72 hour mark and had an emotional let down. Didn't realize how much energy I was using just coping with the stuff I was dealing with as a teenager.

But yeah, a good night's sleep and I was all better.

I used to skip a night's sleep all the time when I was younger, just to stay up doing something fun. I'd usually do something physical like walk or run at about 5/6 am if I had to go anywhere, as I found that helped pump me up enough to stay awake through school/work whatever.

I'd much rather go a night entirely without sleep than have my sleep interrupted, though. I used to live on a very noisy corner, and would only get about 2 hours at t a time, before being awakened. Weeks where I was getting a total of 4-5 hours a night with interruptions started to make me very, very grumpy.

I voted 24 hours but i should have clicked 36 'cuz i whas up for 34 and a half ...

Playing DOW 2 , painting(not recomending it after the first 10 hours of night) , played one game but we had to download all the codexes(there were six of us and 5 armies) and finaly we played CoD 4(which i happen to suck donkeyballs at :/

I did just shy of 8 days on a drug fuelled bender, never again!

My friend gets about 8 hrs of sleep a week.

When we were on school camp the other week, he was up both nights just sitting there. I'd wave to him to see if he was awake and he would wave back.

He is as tired as hell during the school week.

I remember there was a story on TV about a guy in the 50's(?) he was a radiohost, and wanted to get some publicity for the radiostation, so he announced he was going to set the Guinness Book of World Records record for longest time stayed awake. He got to a week or 5 days, I can't remember it might have been longer, but it broke him, he was asleep while he was awake, and it broke him, he divorced his wife, was fired from his job, because it had made him a different person, bitter and stuff.

72+. Was in college, working 30 hours a week, running 50 miles a week, and taking a ridiculous enginerring overload. Stayed up for two nights straight, and realized I had so much left to do that I had another couple coming. Went to the gas station at 5 am, got a bottle of mini-thins, read the label, it said do not exceed 6 tabs in 24 hours, I said cool and washed 6 down with a 1 liter mountain dew. Collapsed in a heap after somewhere just over 2 days later, and have never been the same. It takes so much to motivate me to lose sleep like that anymore that it just doesn't happen much.

60 is my best. I used to be able to stay up for 4+ days at a time when i was in high school. Then I figured that if i sleep I can't get yelled at by the numerous people in my life.

nieto666 wrote:Sleep deprivation training while in the Army, 5 days is far too long to go without any sleep, plus the trees kept jumping in front of my humvee!! Also I kept seeing things that I knew were really not there. Good times

yes very bad thing. but it has not effected mdjoihdf jio;a;jdfj olsih;a me. im perfectly normal and those little round pies still tell me so. im sure thats y they let me have a gun. lol

Almost exactly 72 hours is my longest consecutive waking period. I just wanted to see what it did to me. Had a little bit of hallucination at around the 50 hour mark, but it subsided after about 5 hours. Nothing special. I just had to focus on reference points on the wall to make sure my sleeping roommate wasn't rapidly vibrating and occasionally check my neighbor's door to make sure they weren't dropping furniture. I could have gone past the 72 hour mark but, at that point, it was 8 or 9am on a Sunday and all my friends were passed out. I figured I should crash then and recover for Monday.

I've done plenty of weeks with only one or two nights' worth of sleep and I've pulled plenty of all-nighters. I find that if you have even the slightest degree of regularity to your sleep schedule, your normal waking hours are easier to stay awake during. It makes perfect sense. If you're pulling an all-nighter, once you get over that tiring hump and into the next day, it gets easier. Plenty of all-night study sessions have left me dead to the world, more or less, but once I've taken that morning test, I don't go to sleep until the following night. Just don't feel the need.

Ah, college life.

76 hours. I don't know how or why, but I had places to go and things to do, and absolutely no time to sleep.

Basically sleepless flight to asia ( im terrified of height ) , by the time off the plane thats like 24 hours of no sleep already .
Then transfer at Naritta airport , 8 more hours of me running around looking at shops.

Then 4 more hours of flight i believe +2 hour take off/ land / customs and such.

Reaching the destination its usually again , in the morning . atleast 14 more hours of staying awake ...

that adds up to.... wow 52 hours.

My relatives used to call me a battery because i almost only seem to run , that and i fall asleep while standing up .

During the early phase of Tsunami Relief operations in 2004, I spent somewhere between 3-4 days working before I was relieved. With 10 hours to sleep until my next shift, I quickly went to bed, and had a dream that someone came, woke me up, and told me to get back to the site. So I went back to the site, and started working again, until I was found by my SNCO who told me to get the hell to bed.

When work invades your sleep you are truley misserable.

5 days

hawkeye wrote:During the early phase of Tsunami Relief operations in 2004, I spent somewhere between 3-4 days working before I was relieved. With 10 hours to sleep until my next shift, I quickly went to bed, and had a dream that someone came, woke me up, and told me to get back to the site. So I went back to the site, and started working again, until I was found by my SNCO who told me to get the hell to bed.

When work invades your sleep you are truley misserable.

I dont want to freak you out but...

that might be a ghost attempting to contact you to where the burried victims are ><

87 hours... last big hurrah before my buddy left for boot camp... i hallucinated some stuff...

I used to work for a crazuy israili guy's moving company. Me and a buddy were up and driving + loading/unloading trucks for about 5 days whilst twacked out of our gourds on over the counter uppers. By the time we got to sleep on day 5 we were definitelyin "Bat Country".

A mere 36 hours (skipping one night, basically,) but in my defense, I did it without coffee.

My personal record is 75 hours before I litteraly passed out in my dinner, working as a security guard where I wasnt replaced for about 3 days due to an oversight at HQ, I called many times, they just kept saying "thats not possible, get back to work". Got a nice pay cheque off it tho I think by the end of it I was makeing septuple time and a half I think I was making around 150$ an hour. And now when HQ gets a call that someone hasnt been replaced they get right on it.

back in high school a buddy and I did 7 days at least 2 times. 2 days and 3 days were easy just had to keep busy. the second time we were trying to break our 7 day mark but went to a crappy movie and both of us fell asleep watching it. we never tried to break our record again. We didn't know at the time "world" record but we wanted to break it. Now I cheat and let the insomnia do all the work.

while on military service, 36 hours walking around to control a depot. Not much though.

Intresting polls. Put me down for around 48 hours.

Well over 4 days. The army can put you in some situations not conducive to sleeping 8 hours a night...

I think my personal record was about 4 days, but I read an article in a local newspaper about methamphetamine addicts, it interviewed one guy that went on a massive meth bender and stayed awake for a whopping 28 days! Once you have passed the 5 or 6 day mark, halucination sets in and much longer than that, and you become seperated from reality. The weird effects of extreme insomnia were explored in the novel (and movie) "fight club". Anyway, after 28 days awake, this guy was halucinateing so badly that he thought he was witnessing polar bears walking around in traffic on one of the major highways around here, so he pulled his truck over and began chaseing the imaginary bears out of traffic with his hat. He was arrested shortly after...the imaginary polar bears were unharmed.

3+ days in Vegas. 0 sleep until I got on the plane.

Around 72 hours. Crazy camp that really got out of hand in the neck of the woods...

Over 72 hours on military ops

chronic insomnia when i was younger.

went for about 120 hours in the army.

All i could get was 10 minutes here, 15 there, at the end i was sleeping with my eyes open while standing at attention.
sarge noticed that the unit had been worked too hard when half of us where still standing in attention with a blank stare long after the others had left.

The fun part though, was that we took short iq-tests at different intervals, results werent pretty.
we could hardly be classed as human beings when we finally ended the op.



suddenly that stiff, horrible bunk bed was like the carress of a divine godess.

haha going on my third day i was driving and passed out fliped my car and i still drive it its a tank haha

I've never been a big sleeper, but the longest without sleep was just under 5 days due to stress, script deadlines and injuries.
By the 5th day I couldn't remember my own name and eventually passed out through exhaustion.

Nowadays I barely get 4-6 hours of sleep a night and staying awake for deadlines for more than 36 hours doesn't take any effort.

I haven't had a continuous 8 hour sleep in nearly 5 years.

Been up 95 hours, sleep 6, then another 95 hours up.
This was during field-maneuvers, ie, in the army.

It's Guaranteed that you get braindamage in you stay up for more than 96 hours straight, so I'd recomend against that.

@arachnid - I'd file a complaint against your officer in charge. 95 hours straight, is the longest the swedish army is allowed to keep conscripts up, without atleast 6 hours sleep.

//Calle

The longest I stayed up was about 20 hrs.
After I went to bed at 10pm and didn't wake up until
3:30 the next day!

I once went for 96 hours with no sleep, for no reason othere than to see if I could do it.

Suffice to say, being an Old man of 22 now means I am no longer capable of such feats of endurance, though I still regularly manage 32 hour stretches.

I am going to try the Uberman Sleep Schedule though, see how it works out. An Extra 6 hours a day to piss about seems like fun

Jag_Calle wrote:@arachnid - I'd file a complaint against your officer in charge. 95 hours straight, is the longest the swedish army is allowed to keep conscripts up, without atleast 6 hours sleep.

Holy hells? Sweden has Conscripts?

THE IMPERIUM IS HERE MAN THE DEFENSE MULTILAZORS! MAY GOTO PROTECT US!

When BC came out me and my friend pulled 72 hours of fun with no sleep and microwaved burritos! Only got like 20 levels but DAM it was fun with him! Also pulled 27 hours of no sleep with the same guy with slurpies, waffles, and lord of the rings 3!(the game)

Got up for school Friday morning and when I got home I went to my friends house and we started playing FFVII. We didn't stop playing until we went back to school Monday morning. Unfortunately we also didn't bathe in that time. So all told about 80+ hours. This was in middle school, I doubt I could do it nowadays.

Stayed awake with my best friend for 4-5 days. We couldnt even speak or think straight, maybe barley at all. I remember saying "It smells like wet water." and "How do you drown a fish?"


One of the best days with my friend, we went to the same Burger King like 4 miles away every morning and just stayed inside my room talking all day everyday about girls, life, playing games, doing stupid things and watching tons of movies. We got bord one day and took tons of Gel that was in thee bathroom, no idea why, and started doing mohawks and crazy hair styles. We never took a shower though and smelled soooo bad. On the final day we said screw it and fell asleep for only 7 hours and felt perfectly normal.

Did this about 2 years ago in the summer and now that I think about it, we need to do it again hah

Somewhere between 36 and 48 hours. We were packing up and moving out (things were getting shifty at work in the middle east.) as in REAL shifty, with house arrests and death threats going on. We packed up the whole house, moved it into the cargo hold and then proceeded to catch a 12 hour flight home. I was the onyl one who could not sleep at all on that flight. DAMN CAFFEINE!!!

76 hours once. Was during a school trip to the UK. Got up around 6am, had great delays getting to the international airport (a 450km bus trip through the worst flooding in a decade), delayed at the airport by the storm that caused the flood, finally got onto the plane at 1am. 19hrs before leaving the country.

Couple of hours to Singapore, then a wait there. Long haul to Heathrow. I cannot sleep sitting up, so no rest yet. And no caffine or other stimulants, I often don't react well and plane coffee is hardly appealing. Survived by watching a few movies, then listening to music and meditating a few hours. Not sure if they counts as cheating.

Another 2 hours stuffing around in customs and then waiting for the bus to take us to our hotel. It is 8pm local time by now. We get to the hotel and most of the group either call home or crash. My cousin has been calling the hotel, though, and comes and kidnaps me to an english pub for a few hours. By now I've gone through the tiredness and zombiefication and back out the other side. I go and act all chirpy for a while with my second cousin, have good fun, get dumped back at the hotel at around 11pm. Manage to take my shoes off before collapsing on top of the bed fully clothed and passing out.

Sadistic teacher wakes us up at 6am local time to get going on our tour. Apparently I nearly bit the teacher when she tried waking me up.

On the upside, I'd screwed with my bodyclock so much that I didn't get a lick of jetlag.

beef wrote:well over 72 hours, the record stands at 11 days (not me obviously) However brain andmoter functions decrease by upto 75% after a few days lack of sleap

and hallucinations start around the 3 day mark.

Demogerg wrote:

beef wrote:well over 72 hours, the record stands at 11 days (not me obviously) However brain andmoter functions decrease by upto 75% after a few days lack of sleap

and hallucinations start around the 3 day mark.

Says you. You obviously don't know the joys of Psychotropic Narcotics

During my battle with Insomnia I was awake for 6 days straight the once, that was not fun, by day 4 I was a cabbage, by day 6 I was a lower form of life, it was painful.

61 hours. One of my trips to melbourne to go clubbing with mates - when I lived in sydney (1100km away). I took the bus down overnight (streetlights keep me awake, and I had no curtains to obscure them.) on a friday after being awake from 5am that morning. Was awake all saturday - went and did laps to get my 2nd wind. Went clubbing until 6am (8 hours).
Caught the 7am bus back to Sydney. Crashed when I got to my bed.

It was "chemically assisted" though and I was MUCH younger.

At the end, nothing could keep me awake apart from willpower. I crashed and slept for 19 hours straight.

Back in grade school I managed 4 and a half days over a summer. Yoohoo, fishing, magic the gathering, and more video games than any child really needs...

Digging trenches in my SQ. They were trying to get us sleep deprived and then attack us. Luckily i have insomnia.

In the second semester of my first year in University I did not sleep during the weekends, it was clear from friday to Monday. And even then I only slept on weeknights about 3 hrs. for some reason I find it hard to do this sort of thing now, despite the fact that that was just last semester. It sure helped get work done though. I also had no coffee, or videogames to keep me up, just the desperation of getting good grades. i find the more sleep I get the worse my grades become.

Download fetival 2009, 6am on the friday till 10pm on the monday

Went four days without sleep, vomiting every hour or so meant no sleep for me. That was probaly one of the worst things to ever happen to me. When I did get to sleep, only got 5 hours, I was very grumpy for about a week or so.

3 days things got weird after day two

42 hours, but that includes a 7 hour Canada to England time change.

Stayed awake for about4.5 days before.

Ex girlfriend (when we were still together) had me stay up all night talking to her. School the day before, school the day after + work = 40+ hours.

+24hrs. Halo 3, I shall say no more!

I don't know about longest consecutive, but I remember during undergrad I went a 5-day week on about 8 hours of sleep spread across it. Once it was over, I basically passed out for 16 hours straight.

I have been awake for 83 straight hours ONCE.

I will NOT be doing that again.

And this was 15 years ago, when the best you could do for an "energy drink" was measured in cases of Mountain Dew...

72+ thanks to the military.

helped out with youngun's at camp one summer.. thanks to illness, kids being homesick/teasing.. I managed to avoid sleep for 4+ days.. bless caffeine.. and like others, serious wierdness happened about the 60 hour mark.

then when I did fall asleep... I slept for about 30 hours.

-P

9 days, i was in iraq. sure i probably woulda zombie moded longer, but my sarge sent me to medical and they gave me sedatives... ive never had a 12 hour black out feel so good before >.<


After about the 3-4 day mark.. guess the best way to describe it, is I almost felt like my mental state had become detached from my body, so while my body is going through the motions of what ever I was told to do, for the most part my brain was in no way shape or form focused on the task at hand, So guess it was like Auto pilot with the bare amount of mental capacity paying attention to my body, the rest of the brain power was spent day dreaming....

anyone else similar description of lack of sleep?

That is a pretty good definition of sleep deprivation.

I know when I stay up a while it starts to feel that way. For my sleepless marathon is was rotating groups of D&D players at a local Con. They kept showing up, I kept running games. It was a VERY long weekend.

I once stayed up for 57 hrs on end. God, I regretted that for a week....

It was at a youth group campout, and some dumb kid made it a contest. I was in 3rd place. The winner was up the entire campout (72 hrs)

Over 3 days with the help of some...err..."chemical assistance" It's been over 20 years ago. Today making it past midnight is a feat!

God I'm old.

108 hours straight during the Battle of Holy Week, Baghdad, Iraq, April 2004. Your all-nighter better bring six friends, a priest, and a sack lunch, because it's going to need all three if it thinks it stands a chance with me.

3 weeks...

Then I spent 4 days asleep...

did a duel all nighter

72+

Once i when i first started plaing 40k i stayed up all night assembling my guys (it wasnt many guys, but it was my first time so i was clumsy and such) next day and night i spent getting acquainted with my codex and rule book. and that night i stayed up all night gaming. (so thats 2 nights so far) Next day was divided between an 18 hour work day, and my friend's 21st birthday party...then i slept XD

I can stay up for more than 24 hrs but i cant seem to stay awake during school, even with 9hrs of sleep

81 hours...it was not fun...

Between 18-21 hrs for me (write-in).

I don't like it though; it feels really strange for me not getting sleep at night. I can't really explain it (well, I could, but it would take a wall of text).

My personal best (if i could call it that LOL) was just shy of 5 days, which took place years ago during one of my excursions to the city (Toronto). One gathering turned into one big party, which joined another bash, etc!
It seemed to go on forever!

No energy drinks were used at all!

After going for that long without sleep, the brian plays many cruel jokes on you!
Reality starts to get fuzzy, everything becomes funny, and fire hydrants become great conversation partners!

Yeah,last summer i went over to a friends house and stood up for two days,thanks god they had monsters....

Salted Diamond wrote:I have stayed awake and alert for 72+. But that was during combat operations in Iraq.

48.

I'm one of those people, that needs a lot of sleep to function well, and I'm lucky I made it that far. a case of full throttle and and two days of lan can do that.

I'm in the Military as well, I've just been lucky, I've never had to pull some that stuff you other guys have to do!

Lol, 12 hours. I stayed awake 71 hours. I painted for 14 of those, and played pokemon platinum the other 57 hours.


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Skarshak wrote:My personal best (if i could call it that LOL) was just shy of 5 days, which took place years ago during one of my excursions to the city (Toronto). One gathering turned into one big party, which joined another bash, etc!
It seemed to go on forever!

No energy drinks were used at all!

After going for that long without sleep, the brian plays many cruel jokes on you!
Reality starts to get fuzzy, everything becomes funny, and fire hydrants become great conversation partners!

awesome, just awesome. I could last longer in NYC if I really wanted too. I'm sure I could find a free internet cafe to play WoW in for at least a week, lol

I think 4 days is what i got to.
but then i was sorta halucanating by then and attacked a friend thinking he was a goblin come to steal my shoe.

~4 and a half days. Insomnia really really sucks.

72 hours. Left all my end of term essays to the last minute as usual. I had a cup of coffee every 45 minutes, I only stopped working to eat and go to the toilet.

I got my essays in with about 2 minutes to spare, then went straigt to the dentist for the first time in three years, I found out I had to have 4 fillings and a wisdom tooth out. When I stood up I fell on the floor.

Stayed up for a psycology project in high school. Made it 5 days, 3 hours, and 18 minutes. The world record is 11 days. Not a bad run

47 hours roughly, for a friend's sleep deprevation test. The idea was stay up 48 hours, no caffeine and minimal food, then simple cognitive and reaction tests. We scored relitivly well.

If an essay or a paper is due and I haven't put the work into it I can easily pull out 39-40 hours repeatedly. I have a fond, if painful memory of every single sunday for 5 weeks being like this as each separate paper that was a section of a larger paper was put off until the last minute. Funnier still each one increased in length as time went on. Starting at five pages for the first paper, and having the last one end at twelve. This is seventh grade here so for me that is impressive. Mine ended up being total longest in the class at 50 pages, done in five nights and about 3 total hours of editing.

Also have a funny, if creepy story regarding my brother. Now he used to go to Carnegie Mellon University which is one of those colleges known for having science and engineering programs that rival death camps in terms of stress. He spent one night studying for a test, an all nighter. In order to enhance the studying process he takes and entire packet of no doze tablets washed down with jolt. He takes the test, good grade, and spends the rest of the day twitching uncontrollably and phasing in and out of reality. Later in life he tells me "never try to take more then ten no doze tablets in one night, it will #%$^ you up." Good advice.

Best I can do is stay up for about 24 - 30 hours. my friend and I tried to go for 3 days without sleep at one point (cuz we heard that 72 hours without sleep, ur considered clinically insane).
We were out by the end of the first day...

I did 86 hours once with my best friend!

48 hours behind the wheel during the evacuation for Hurricane Rita in 2005; still have nightmares of being trapped on a never-ending highway.

Regards,

V

Two all nighters but it was a hell of a struggle and my conversations consisted more of moans and groans then anything at all.

My unit was TDY in a civilized area know for its open all night bars/dance clubs. We were pulling 12 hour shifts followed by all night excursions to these bars and we had all already been up for 30 hrs when somebody made the challenge of who could go the longest with out rest. There were anout a dozen of us.

I came in third with over 5 days(126-ish) hours

Jerry ****(a Sr Airman) finished 2nd with 6 1/2 days

Our Sgt(A Vietnam Vet) finished in first place with 7 days.

I've only ever stayed up roughly 24 hours. I am anticipating this will change however...

48 for 48 hours of gaming at my GW Battle Bunker.

I've stayed up for 159 hours

Between 98 and 100. Working during that time sucked. Alot

Just reading this thread is makeing me tired, no idea how someone stays up longer the 24 hrs.

The longest i've stayed awake is to about the 72hr mark. at that point, things started getting a little.. weird. I finally went to sleep because shadows were starting to scare me.

I was in the hospital suffering from dehydration. Stayed awake for two days, but I was in a sorta limbo between being asleep and being awake.

a little less than 36 hours when traveling through Germany and Italy. Never slept on the trans-atlantic flight.

Woke up 7a.m. for work on a Friday.
Finished work and went out to the pub.
After the pub went out clubbing until 3 in the morning.
Had a flight to Japan Saturday morning so didn't go to sleep.
Got to the airport at 7a.m (24hrs awake). Our friend already out there told us not to sleep on the plane to make it easier to adjust to the time difference.
After the flight, landed in Japan about 8a.m. Monday morning. Stayed awake until 11p.m.
Had been awake about 50 hours at this point. Fell asleep as soon as my head touched the pillow.

We did a competition at work where we entered a fictional business plan and had to go to a 3 day event about 5 hours drive away. The first night there I got about 6 hours maybe, but the second night I barely got 2. We worked flat out the whole time and that's mentally tiring rather than physical and I didn't get home until past midnight. I recall lying down in bed trying to sleep because I was worn out, but my mind was buzzing with information and all the other crap I'm spent 3 days trying to cram and memorise so I couldn't turn off. When I did though I slept for ages and felt tired for days anyway. I certainly couldn't last 72 hours straight though.

172 hours... a full week of combat exercises where us, "senior" personnel were required to remain awake for the entire duration of the exercise in order to test our abilities to test under extreme stress and conditions... I got back, cleared my kit inspection and ammo dec. and didn't even make it out of the base... passed out in the barrack parking lot. lol, woke up 6 hours later to a commissionaire wondering why I was sleeping in my car.

Over a week.

It's a VERY long story that I won't repeat here... :(


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I know what you went through mate. Not the exercises of course, but the derrangement that ensues is beyond description.

I drove from tennesee to california in 4 days....

no sleep.

dumbest thing I ever did

When Final Fantasy 12 came out on PS2 I had a whole years worth of holiday left to take at work (2 weeks) and only a month left to use them. Although I had a few small naps I pretty much spent the entire first week playing the game. I think the longest between naps was between 50 and 60 hours. I'd clocked up 200+ hours by the time I went back to work.

72+ hours when my son was born. Back and forth to hospital (30 min drive) not recommended after day 2. Feel so out of place, I wasnt gaming, in the military or travelling

I cant imagine being up more then 48, even that was so super stressful on the body, i swear my IQ was around 50% less then normal... also, what happens to your sense or humor? seriously wack

77 hours. Went winter camping, and the temp unexpectedly dropped about 15 degrees lower than forecast. It was too cold to sleep. Sayed up all weekend by the fire. I was hallucinating on the way home. Due to being on rotating shift I routinely see 24-30 hour days though.... Like once every 8-10 days.

For me, 21 hours.

I've been unfortunate enough to see 36 hours, and sleep has never felt better than it did that day.

72+ after a full crate of Monster Khaos. Not pretty.

about 90 hourd after my mother died but when I slept finally it was for nearly 24 hours straight

For about 20-25 or so ho- ....OH! ya,hours or so.....

I see 24-36 hours on a fairly regular basis, once or twice every couple of months. Sometimes I just have higher priority things on my plate Saturday night than sleeping.

Once in high school I managed just a bit over 72 hours (74,75?) before my body forced the issue and I passed out. It was one of the strangest feelings I've ever had in my life.

75 Hours before i passed out

The plane ride. i was awake for well over 72, close to 4 days. lots of connecting flights, coffee, and waiting aimlessly for my flights while being totally uncomfortable on the plane.
I must have smelled terrible and looked like garbage as there was certainly not enough time to shower or sleep!

about 36 hours... not very good at staying awake, though I'm a pro sleeper. 18 hours straight ive done twice, and 15-16 hours is not unusual for me if I don't have anything to do that day.

43 hrs (but voted 36)....and that is attributed to painting minis!

-- I cant believe people out there stay awake for 72 hrs!!! Are you just a vegetable at the end of that run?

Element206 wrote:43 hrs (but voted 36)....and that is attributed to painting minis!

-- I cant believe people out there stay awake for 72 hrs!!! Are you just a vegetable at the end of that run?

Generally hallucinating, and very shaky, with little control over body temperature regulation (Ie you get too warm and too cold very easily)
I know even at the end of a 24-30 hour day, I have a hard time with my body temp. If you get cold when you are that tired, it takes a lot to get warm again.

wolfshadow wrote:
Generally hallucinating, and very shaky, with little control over body temperature regulation (Ie you get too warm and too cold very easily)
I know even at the end of a 24-30 hour day, I have a hard time with my body temp. If you get cold when you are that tired, it takes a lot to get warm again.

Huh. I would not have guessed about the temperature thing. Never really got me, but my body's too stable in its instability to let me go much farther than 30 hours without at least heavy dozing (i.e. this one time I was sitting at my desk a couple of years ago, in school, I literally just passed out for 5 minutes. Then again, this was around the time Monster Energy Drink still gave me the jitters and kept me awake).

48 hours. D&D campaign. Things got strange. It was shared accommodation so other people were living their normal lives around us.

The must that i still awake was over 90 plus hours. I was on a mission in Iraq with my squad outside the wire for over 7 days. Red bull and people shooting at you will keep you wired for hours.

well like most people as far as i know mine was just from being jetlagged on a trans Atlantic flight.... not to mention i was a small child tanked up on coke

beef wrote:well over 72 hours, the record stands at 11 days (not me obviously) However brain andmoter functions decrease by upto 75% after a few days lack of sleap

my god that is insane!

I've been awake for well over 40 hours on a few occasions, but my own personal record is 50 hours. That was on a LAN-party where me and a friend had an endurance contest of who could stay awake the longest. I won by literally two minutes. As soon as I saw that he had fallen asleep, I snapped a picture for proof and then basically passed out.

I stay awake for over 72+ Hours due to a Sleep Dep test, Due to a Migraine.

i was awake for 8 days straight jacked out on Monster, redbull, and other energy drinks, it was when i played WoW, then on the 8th day i passed out and was asleep for 2 days, only waking momentarily to be forcefed by my mom. never again, my body-clock was off for almost a year.

36 hours.

Stayed awake the whole night playing Smash Brothers Melee with my cousin,and had to stay awake the next day.

I had a great big sleep the next night.

21 is my longest but I think I could've stayed up longer

Stayed up for over 72 hours assmbling multiple Defilers, rhinos and a landraider. It ALMOST made me cry.

I have stayed up just under 24 hours before having 8 hours worth of sleep at day time. And normally I can not sleep at day time!

27 hours

I think it was 28-30 hours...it was when MW2 was first released. I actually took vacation days so I could play it...

...I still can't believe I did that lol

About 39 hours, due to a very bad jetlag.

16 hrs :(

I know soldiers are given to tall tales, but who the feth said 145 hours?

I had to stay awake for 4 days during my commando training, and it really fethed me up. The initial surge into Iraq was about as bad, but you didn manage to get SOME sleep, even 30 minutes slumped over your bergan while you waited for a chopper would make you feel a whole lot better.

I got maybe 4 hours sleep in a 5 day period, and my gums were bleeding all the time, my nails seemed to be peeling out of my hand, all my skin was fethed up and I was seeing things and basically I felt like death.

If anyone tells me they went 5 full days without a wink of sleep, I call them a bullshitter.

And if they did it voluntarily playing video games or warhammer, I call them an outright psychopath!

Cruch time as an architectural modelmaker 34 hour shift with three hour long breaks to stuff food down my throat plus a couple of hours travel either side and staying up for a few hours once i got home soo from about 5am Tuesday untill ten PM wednesday... I was totaly ruined physicaly, emotionasly and mentaly by the end of that day at work.... But i had been working 100 hour weeks and in that last week (which lasted three days) I worked over 40 hours... Stupid UCLH model... Stupid deadlines and unreasonable expectations.....

mullet_steve wrote:Cruch time as an architectural modelmaker 34 hour shift with three hour long breaks to stuff food down my throat plus a couple of hours travel either side and staying up for a few hours once i got home soo from about 5am Tuesday untill ten PM wednesday... I was totaly ruined physicaly, emotionasly and mentaly by the end of that day at work.... But i had been working 100 hour weeks and in that last week (which lasted three days) I worked over 40 hours... Stupid UCLH model... Stupid deadlines and unreasonable expectations.....

Oh the wonderful world of models and crunch time! Trying to get stuff glued together without knackering the paintwork or glueing yourself to your model. My worst was over 60 hours without sleep finishing the sculpt and painting this guy for a Uni project. I decided to airbrush him despite having never airbrushed and having already been awake for about 36-odd hours. Never again.

Harry - Warmill

Nice results... yeah all nighters at uni are one thing but out in the big old world of the employed it's even scarrier... It's not just your reputation on the line it's the companies plus is he ever going to want me back to work for him again? can I find another job quick enough to cover the bills this month??

I'm actualy much happier now working as a health care assistant in the mental health industry... Never thought I'd write that as I studies Modelmaking at Uni...

Lol don't say that I'm trying to work up to going self-employed! There's a laser cutter in the UK with my name on it

I've heard stories from friends in the Architecture biz of long weeks and all nighters trying to finish a model only to be told it's going in a cupboard because the architects don't need it any more! Crazy world...

52 hours here me, my brother and a friend stayed up playing BF2 ;D

unfortunately I went without sleep for a little over 14 days straight once. Being a new father with a very fussy sick baby and no family or friends to help watch.

It was not an enjoyable experience. I was hallucinating often after about day 4, and I would sleep for 6 hours a night after the 14 days and it still took a few weeks of sleeping before I didnt see shadow people and my brain started working right again.

Me and my mates went camping, i didnt sleep at all at 11 o'clock the next day we went into swansea just for a subway, went back to campin and stayed up all the next night

stayed up for 42 hours and the sad thing is... I'm not a gamer.

Lint wrote:60+ during boot camp.

Same for me, although I fell asleep for about half an hour during a stakeout, so it doesn't count entirely. Let's just say that my seargent was pissed, but I didn't plan to continue in the army anyway
I also once got a really bad sunburn on my back (in Norway of all places), so I coulden't sleep for over two days although I wanted to.
The longest I have been awake voluntarily would be about 36 hours - sometimes partying through the night, sometimes playing computer with my friends.

48 hours, I had a really bad flu, I was pretty much a zombie after the first 24 due to vomiting and a fever, it sucked

Just under 72 hours. Can't describe it because I'll probably break all the forum rules.

60 hours routinely (1+ times a month) in my mid 20's

When working night shifts for a grocery company, when you got 2 days off in a row, you didn't want to waste them by sleeping during the day. So You would get off work, stay up 24 hours, sleep, then stay up another 24 hours sleep and then go to work.

When you only had one day off, you would still commit to the idea that you wanted to hang with your friends. Well if you had 1 day off, then one day on, then one day off... A lot of times you'll just swing for the full 60 in order to enjoy yourself. with your friends... Usually there was lots of alcohol involved... and often times the crash would cost me an entire day of sleep (12 hours) and then the next day I would get home from work, and sleep until it was time to go to work again (12-14 hours).

Travelling from Germany to the States along with annoying connecting flights and time shift had me stay up something between 36 and 48h.

I feel my age now, though, and lack of sleep hits me much harder than it used to 10 years ago.

62 hours, while serving in the US Navy.

A sleepin' sailor is a lazy sailor.

Dez wrote:72+. I had been working with a friend on self publishing a comic book. It was crunch time, but I also had to work, so no sleep for me!

The worst part is we spent all that time and lack of sleep and money...and the friend I asked to distribute it (it was at a hardcore show) just went up on the stage and dumped the box of books over the crowd. Most of them just got stomped on. I wasn't happy.

Dude! that sucks I would of kick his ass if you had the energy!!

Anyways I've been up for atleast 3 days (last week) . The reason is I've been having nightmares about my school real castlevania kind of stuff (yah noe!). I'v been playing video games, reading and hobbying to spend my time. Have you ever stared so hard at something the outline wiggles? that happens to me if I stay up for 72 hours....

Been deloyed and had to deal with hours and hours of night and day operations.


But when I was younger I would say about 36 hours.

36 or so hours.

I have mild insomnia, so I decided to forgo the 1 hour of sleep I'd likely get and go to work (12 hour shift).

At 32 hours I was nodding off while welding (mig), at regular intervals you'd see ^ in the weld pattern. Decided to go home before I caught myself on fire or lost a finger.

12 hours doing.....erm adult activities.

36 hours at one point doing suicide watch for a best friend. that just sucked.

Only 24 hours , before going to a tournament before.

I went four days without food or sleep, just drinking and paint brush in my hand...but I got that guard army done in time for that tournament....

I'm pulling an all nighter right now.

about 48, trying to do erm adult things then being sick, then suicide watch (not all were related).....last weekend was alot of fun

I've done 5 days before. Vegas + drugs = 3 days crash when I got home. The boss was pissed, but it was one hell of a trip.

I had a friend who stayed awake past 72 hours. I have no idea how he was able to keep his head up, but aparantly, he was in class and started hallucinated that there were tigers running along the wall.. he dicided it was time to sleep.

narcotics were not involved

48hours here, playing an MMO....

Just about 48 hours. I ran out of soda so I passed out on my friends floor. :/

I think my longest was just over 72 hours. Not by much, because by then I literally fell asleep on a beach

I'm pretty sure the days went like this
Up for school, up all night, up for school, on a plane to Fiji (From Australia) at 3 in the morning, 6 hour flight, 4 hour bus ride, awake all day and all night again... Then up until about 4 oclock the next afternoon, which I then pretty much shutdown and fell asleep lying on the beach in the sun.
I woke up about 7 hours later with amazing sunburn.

Stayed up for an entire day on a caffeine fueled gaming binge

Over 72 hours...about four days. Basic training had me up with no/very little sleep (an hour or two nap here and there) for four days.

Besides that, I've done some pretty regular 48 hour stints during paper season at university.

I once went to my friend's house when his father was sent to the hospital. We played videogames all day and spent all night awake watching all Hellsing OVAs. The next day we realized we haven't slept at all and played more videogames! ^^

Only time i actually went 48 hours straight was when i was still addicted to MMORPGs

I have been up 21 hours in a row so not that special.

7 days, ended up in the hospital... I don't suggest it

CageUF wrote:7 days, ended up in the hospital... I don't suggest it

7 days?! But why?? And above all, HOW?

I'm a clinical insomniac, and at the time I would regularly go 3-4 days without sleep. Somewhere between day 4 and 5 everything becomes entirely a blur, but the extent of it was I used to be VERY VERY stressed. It was a little scary because the doctor kind of laid into me about how much damage can actually be caused by this. Even now I'm on sleeping pills and have been up for 23... Blah...

Without micronaps 31 days

CageUF wrote:I'm a clinical insomniac, and at the time I would regularly go 3-4 days without sleep. Somewhere between day 4 and 5 everything becomes entirely a blur, but the extent of it was I used to be VERY VERY stressed. It was a little scary because the doctor kind of laid into me about how much damage can actually be caused by this. Even now I'm on sleeping pills and have been up for 23... Blah...

whats your excercise schedule like? It might be time to consider joining something to burn up your energy if you already don't, and disconnect from as much as you can.

......also...

....I have a buddy who "cured" his insomnia with liquor. Some things would make him sleepy, and, granted, he wouldnt have a good nights sleep, but he would still at least sleep.

2 all nighters straight in a row.
Thank the 5 of chaos for Halo Reach and sugar heavy foods.

as a note i am planning an allnighter this weekend to watch the entire season1 of walking dead.

83 hours Summer of 88. I was in the US Navy when the ship I was on had a catastrophic fire while on a training run. Took 3 days to put it out and the only break I had was enough time to change into dry socks. I think I then slept for about 18 hours.

Outside of that.... 64 hours over a weekend at gaming con.
Getting a bit old for that nonsense now, especially playing Flagons and Dragons.... a drinking version of an old favorite.

In the USAF for a deployment, do try it.

79 hours when I was 13. I started to hallucinate.

48; Finished a 20 page mechanical engineering paper, a 10 page ocean engineer project and two homework assignments.

60 Hours.
I saw some stuff that i thought I never see. I got naturally high off it. I do not recommend.

poda_t wrote:

CageUF wrote:I'm a clinical insomniac, and at the time I would regularly go 3-4 days without sleep. Somewhere between day 4 and 5 everything becomes entirely a blur, but the extent of it was I used to be VERY VERY stressed. It was a little scary because the doctor kind of laid into me about how much damage can actually be caused by this. Even now I'm on sleeping pills and have been up for 23... Blah...

whats your excercise schedule like? It might be time to consider joining something to burn up your energy if you already don't, and disconnect from as much as you can.

......also...

....I have a buddy who "cured" his insomnia with liquor. Some things would make him sleepy, and, granted, he wouldnt have a good nights sleep, but he would still at least sleep.

Exercise isn't the issue, at the time I still did MMA and if that doesn't put you to sleep nothing will. Alcohol is a really, really bad idea... Good way to jack up your liver for the rest of your life (given cirrhosis of the liver that might not be that long). When you start hitting 3 or 4 days regularly its time to be on medication, sucks but it is what it is... Xanax FTW!

A migraine kept me up for 7 days.

If you're in the armed forces you've done it during boot camp. They give you a nap for about 15-30 minutes and then wake you back up and keep you moving and then give you 15-30 minutes the next day and then you get the warrior's breakfast at noon. Then someone has to take fire watch and the rest sleep.

Yeah.. noticing that many of the 72+set are military related.
But boot doesn't get you ready for the adrenalin crash that follows.

A jpb and class in the day time, another job at night. Gets a bit hectic finding time for homework and wargaming!

who the hell clicked on 12h?!

37 hours. Was watching most haunted all that time and then CSI. LOL

24 hours on the road, on airplane and taxi and after reaching destination stayed awake for 15 hours = 39 hours

CageUF wrote:7 days, ended up in the hospital... I don't suggest it

jesus man, were you alright, what actually ended up happening to you?


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18 hours, played 4 games of 40k which lasted about 8 hours, then played 10 hours of WoW lol

Rogueyopants wrote:18 hours, played 4 games of 40k which lasted about 8 hours, then played 10 hours of WoW lol

>18 hours
I stay awake at least 16 hours a day, that's not quite great accomplishment

41?!?!?!? 41 people stay awake for only 12 hours a day?!?!?!?!!?


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TLDR version: Bath Salts are bad mmkay.

Won't go into too many details because it's kind of ridiculous, but I'll just say it was a "learning experience" and all I can do is laugh about it now. When in reality at the time I wasn't laughing at all....
Woke up went to work
Came home....
Decided to try "bath salts" if you don't know what it is I'm not going to explain it. It's not that hard to look up.
Drove out to a port/beach area proceeded to do more.
Did this until like 3am, went home, didn't go to sleep
Went to work again.
Started doing them again.
Went searching for strip clubs in philly all night.
Proceeded to go search for more in camden new jersey.
(ran into some super bad spots, crime etc. didn't cross any of our minds because we where so messed up)
I believe we got directions from someone robbing a church at one point.
Decided at some point in the night to just go home.
Tried to sleep(innefective on this gak)
Drove around for several hours.
Extreme paranoia set in stayed up all day(and the next night)at one point I rearranged my entire room so that I could see out the window while laying on my bed trying to sleep.

I believe it was like 5 days total I was up. the first like 4 hours of it was fun as hell, the other bit was the worst experience of my life.

I stayed awake for 5 days once. I was smoking alot of hard drugs during that time tho. Im not proud of it but hey you asked

6 days. I had a insomnia, and I just could not sleep. On the morning of the seventh day, I saw the Emperor standing in front of me. I decided that was enough, and went to the pharmacy to buy some sleeping pills. I could be qualified as an Emperor's Champion based on that, you know

Did an all nighter... only to fall asleep at 7am. I woke up at 11am to find a small dog licking my face

5 and a half days, and boy, was i on my chinstrap most of that time.

But that was nowt to do with gaming though.

DangerousBeans wrote:79 hours when I was 13. I started to hallucinate.

Same here, well I wasn't 13, I kept seeing things out of the corner of my eye. I knew I had to get to sleep when I was driving back to the lan party after a food run and was startled by the non-existent something in the passenger seat that I would have sworn was there even though I was looking right at nothing.

I'm an insomniac, what more can I say. Was in high school and couldn't sleep for 7 days. The doctors finally knocked me out.

I've done over 72 hrs a few times. I generally sleep maybe an hour or two a night, but if i sit somewhere and put my feet up it's lights out. I stay tired. It sucks.

I stayed awake for 5 days straight once, but I was also addicted to Amphetamines and Dextroamphetamines. Needless to say it didn't end well.

48 hours, i thin i could of done mroe but i didn't see the point, iwas drunk for ost of that too.

Beat my record this week, woke up pretty early (for me) on Tuesday morning, before 9. Was drinking Tuesday night, and didn't go to bed at all, must have been after midnight on wednesday night that I finally went to sleep. So probably about 40 hours, which isn't that long, but I like to sleep....

made it over 72 hrs... I think some where around 86 hr mark then fell asleep during a comical me and the one other guy still in the compition fell asleep at the same time so we called it a tie

72+ hours awake. I was deployed to iraq and we were doing operations. Never a fun time. But on average its 18 hours or so a day.

Seems to be 3 categories of "awake". Got the "Im trying to stay alive awake", the "I love this game awake", and the "Im young and having a blast at whatever Im doing awake".

72+ military related. ORSE workups are no fun. The ORSE it's self is a cakewalk, because I was in Nav department I could usually squeeze 8 to 10 hours in over 3 days. The work ups are definitely worse than the exam, especially since I start to hallucinate at about the 48 hour mark.

I worked in psychiatric nursing before I went into the military and returned to it after I got out. One thing I can say for sure is the military only takes a bronze medal in the sleep deprivation Olympics.

The silver medal goes to tweekers. I've admitted plenty of tweekers into detox after they have been using IV meth to stay up for 7 to 10 days.

The gold medal goes to various forms of insomnia. I'm not talking about I played video games for 2-3 days straight strung up on caffeine or I need a medical marijuana card for my insomnia, I'm talking about people that have not slept in a week or 2. The one I see the most is severe cases with a history of Bi Polar where the person will stay up for 10 to 20 days straight until their brain turns to jello and completely disconnects from reality if they don't take 1200mg or more of lithium a day. The absolute worse though is Fatal Familial Insomnia. It's a rare genetic disease where people stay up for months unable to sleep until they literally die from a lack of sleep. Anybody who has lost sleep due to the military can appreciate how that's a really gakky way to die.

+72 hours. This past halloween weekend, woke up early on friday, attended a halloween party that night, didnt sleep, had the last football game of the season saturday, went over to a teammates house with a bunch of friends to celebrate and didnt sleep that night either. Finally fell asleep sometime Sunday/Monday morning for a few hours before school.

ive done 4 days awake followed by 2 asleep, most of the 4 days were done playing starcraft, beyond that i can not remember. I did this about a year ago but then again it isnt uncommon for me to not sleep for about 2 days followed by an 18 hour sleep. I belive i may be an insomniac

76 Hours, 2 hours of sleep, another 48 hours, 45 min of sleep 38 hours.

Ranger School - Phase 1

72 hours. Roadying at a 2 day rave then going to a after party then a punk show after that. Finally crashed around hour 71 or so woke up in the back seat of my then girlfriends car a half a day later.

around 48 hours. Thank you starcraft 2!

Another ex military for 100+ hours

basically I was promised 2 extra sigs would be arriving later that day when I was setting up the radio station. 4 days later my CO asked me what day it was and I gave my serial number he shut down the station until they received the proper allotment of sigs.

at the end I was not even running on autopilot my autopilot was running on autopilot. Most pet rocks would have been more intelligent than myself at that point.

I did not hallucinate that would have at least left me amused or killed some time.

I think only around 24, I am extremely crabby when I have had no sleep. I'm a bit like a baby in that respect...

legoburner wrote:As requested by Belphegor, are gamers better at staying awake than the general population?

I think so, as long as you rest your eyes from time to time and grab that latte XD

Stayed up the whole weekend once play fallout 3

I've done the 72+ hour thing a couple of times at LAN parties, totally not worth how you start feeling after day 2.

You don't feel right for a couple of days either.

4 days stuck at an Observation Point in the freezing rain and didn't see a damn thing. I probably did get an hour or two's sleep each day in the LUP but not much.

50 hours. Was too busy with work to get sleep. Fell asleep at 4 in the afternoon once I got back to my room.

A little over 24 hours once, all to get an epic staff on my WoW character, did AV for soooooo long.

Stayed awake for 23 and half hours playing wow...

My wife was away on a trip SO I HAD TO!!!!

Art School demands much of animators ... many an all-nighter across 4 years of schooling.

In fact, so much that I think for a while my body was somehow used to a "longer day", of possibly 30-32 hours. Like, I am incredibly used to staying awake longer than I should, and sleep maybe 5 hours one day, 10 the next, instead of a set number each day.

I have not slept in 3 weeks!

36 hours of xbox gaming.

22 hours of Minecraft Freeplay. Changing Servers for the better!

Friday 35 point tier Steam Roller followed by a midnight madness Hardcore, then a 50 point Steam Roller on Saturday. Topped off with about 4 Redbulls. Fell asleep under some gaming tables later that night. Cant wait for the next CON

March 23-29 2003. Nasiriyah.

I slept on top of a gun truck for thirty minutes and got some sleep occasionally whenever we drove around, but not much sleep in total.

65 hours of not sleeping during Rapecon, the yearly convention for miniature gaming in Finland.

72 plus hours is not fun... I assure you

Did anyone have help with Industrial Strenght Stimulants,who managed to stay up for 72 hours. Miltery does not count. unless you had stimulants.You guys had adrenaline.


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I used to know a Tweeker who stayed up for three weeks.After that i think he went to rehab.

I think around 30 hours, can't quite remember.

About 48 hours. Military exercises...gah!

120 hours, Playing Halo Reach when it first came out

Only 24...Xbox gaming with a friend over/ Power leveling in I *think* Runescape.

Somewhere around the 36 hour mark, for me. Back when I was a wee youth at college, that is. Lots of booze and Playstation dance mats

These days I'm tired if I go more than about 12

Voted for 36 hours. Been awake that long a couple of times for quite different reasons.
Though 24 is kinda usual for me, that happends every now and then, while gaming with friends, having long 40k "sessions" or just doing something somewhat important.

4 days during the early 90's. Needed to stay on top of my artist to get the final panel work done on several pages of illustrations so I can send all of the proofs to the printers on time.

Literally was eating/drinking caffeine pills to stay awake. At the end of the third day I started to see things. Almost a bad mental trip.

Then completely crashed for 2 days afterwards.

97 hours.

I had one sick kid, and one coliccy baby.

Not something i plan on EVER doing again..

Technically it was 74 hours, but I know I dozed for some small period in there, so marking it as 72.

Around 48 hours. Curse you Final Fantasy 8!

The 48 hours wasn't even the final run time on that particular save. Getting all the GFs/Magic at high levels and everyone's best weapons meant it ended up at 100 hours total.

48 hours on a bet i fell out early brother stayed up another day.

I stayed up till 4am once and I was a wreck in the morning. I like sleeping and love those weird-ass dreams that make total sense when you are in the dream, but when you wake up, you either forget or are just like wtf?

85 hours as part training, I was more cold than hungry or tired through the bulk of it.

56 hours!

24 hours, hiking all the while, through the thickest fog I've ever seen.

I think I know what Purgatory is like now.

 legoburner wrote:
As requested by Belphegor, are gamers better at staying awake than the general population?

I think gamers are full of crap.

20% have done 72+? Not likely. I suppose intrepretation can be different but I would include dozing off as when it ends. Even 15 minutes of sleep I would count as a reset. But then again, gamers/nerds among the greatest at telling tall tales




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talljosh85 wrote:
85 hours as part training, I was more cold than hungry or tired through the bulk of it.

Similar situation, but we're the guys who had others forcing us to stay awake, and your brain starts to do weird stuff and you just really aren't that alert.

Still doubt 1/5 of dakka dakka has been exposed to this

It happened (especially some years ago) to have to stay awake around 72 hours... but it's never been for gaming reasons (well, it happened once on a vacation, but it was not boardgaming ^^)... most often it happened while studying for some nice exams with less nice professors.
Now... well if I have to stay up and awake, I do it... but for gaming purposes... I don't think I'll ever have to

24+ hours. Senior trip day. Got up around 6 or 7 that morning, went to school, then got all my stuff in the commercial bus with half of my grade (my bus had mostly guys if that's any indicator or unpleasantness). Drove through the night to Orlando, Florida. Got a total of maybe 20 minutes of sleep. I couldn't find a comfortable sleeping position even with having two seats to myself, though the lack of a pillow also didn't help.

Funny thing is that when we got to Florida, we didn't stop at the hotel to drop our stuff off. We went straight to Blizzard Beach and had ourselves a good time there. I strangely didn't feel tired at all while hanging around there enjoying myself, but when we got back in the bus everything went black when I sat down.

Then we had to go back to Pennsylvania four days later.

You cannot convince me to ride a bus out of a city ever again for that reason.

Even casual nights of wargaming that go late result in me getting tired on the drive home. I can't do all nighters.

I've manged to stay awake for like 3 1/2 half days the longest and after that i just crashed like a rock lol.

It was during a LAN that me and my younger brother had with some friends and it was freaking fun but also hard to some times keep your eyes open, of course we bought like 8-12 2 liter coca cola bottles, and then we had Coffee and Tea around as well so that helped out abit.

Prob about 60 hours, maybe more. Funny thing is you don't telly remember th time you woke up an stayed awake through once you've been awake for over a day or two. Still, not a good idea kids!

48 hours, wasn't even trying to do so but because I was going from playing my favourite video games for about 10 hours straight as well as doing some tasks that couldn't be avoided all through the day I didn't sleep for at least 2 days.

I was once forced to pull two all nighters in a row without time for naps to finish a school project because my group was a bunch of lazy sods. By the third day, I had begun to see things and was distracted by rumbles and creaks that only I could hear. In a brilliant stroke of sleep deprived logic, I then decided to stay up the next night to play around because why not.

I the next day I passed out during a literature class debate and had to be sent to the nurse, costing my team several points.

36 hours, after that i fell asleep at 8 30 PM, And woke up at 4.30(PM, need i say )


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It was pretty fun when i went to the restaurant to get myself something to eat, and i kept hearing voices in my head, most of it being hillarious gibberish regarding the guys in my primary school(one line was exactly like this /yourfriend/ has 35 kilos with bed, i got the papers as evidence LOLWUT

I stayed awake for 60+ hrs. once a few years back. It wasn't even on purpose, I was very sick with a bad cold, and my constant coughing and nausea kept me from getting any sleep for two nights plus the days. I was miserable the whole time.

for those of you who stay away longer than 36 - hours and you aren't in the military. Yall are wack.

I've never stayed awake for 24+ hours. Most I've gone is 15, I think. Don't pay attention to things like that.

The longest was right hour the 70 hour mark or so.. I think, maybe a bit more or a bit less. It was when I was when I was in middle school. It was on purpose and purely out of curiosity to see how long I could stay awake. Some pretty crazy hallucinations started in off/on around the 64 hour mark, it was getting weird. While I've certainly had worse experiences I probably wouldn't care to repeat it.

Falling asleep was kind of bizarre too, it's not like I chose to go to sleep or anything I just kind of blacked out. It wasn't like all at once though too maybe a minute. For lack of a better description I could kind of feel my body "Shutting Down" kind of starting at my extremities. I tried to crawl into a chair or something so I wouldn't be sleeping on the floor but I didn't really make it.

I've done the whole 32-ish hour runs pretty regularly, at least a few times every year. There comes a certain point where I feel better just staying up through the night than getting like ~3 hours of sleep, and it's not like you can skip out on obligations just because you wanted to stay up late.

 MrMerlin wrote:
who the hell clicked on 12h?!

Well if you are going to lie, why bother lying and saying 6 days like many of these others folks when you can be different and claim you've never made it 12 hours without a nap.

The longest was just over 72 hours while in the Navy, On board an aircraft carrier are 4 distilling units which turn sea water into delicious drinking water. One of the distilling units went down and I was part of the hand selected group to help fix it. Went from working on it to standing watch back to working on it. If it wasn't a major piece of equipment we would've left it to work on over a period of days but we needed it back ASAP.

 Happyjew wrote:
The longest was just over 72 hours while in the Navy, On board an aircraft carrier are 4 distilling units which turn sea water into delicious drinking water. One of the distilling units went down and I was part of the hand selected group to help fix it. Went from working on it to standing watch back to working on it. If it wasn't a major piece of equipment we would've left it to work on over a period of days but we needed it back ASAP.

"mission" is a heavy load to bear at times.

But not thanking to games. As a Sound Engineer, I get to do gig setups and strikes. Can be really demanding....

My friends and I tried to stay awake for 48 hours.

First night I was fine, we played a lot of Mordheim, Playstaion, and Computer games. Some of my friends were nodding off, but I kept them awake. One friend was repeatedly closing his eyes and drooping his head, but I repeatedly saved him. Mountain Dew helped too (this was before energy drinks were a thing... maybe Red Bull was out).

Some time after 20 hours, we played Risk. Risk is a volatile game at any time, but especially when no one has slept. It was a 4 or 5 player game. I held Asia against all the other players for a full turn and got the bonus troops. It was glorious. I didn't win, but I did finish off a friend first (the same one who nearly fell asleep the first night). Between those two events, I felt great.

Around 30 hours, I was bragging about how I held Asia against everyone. My one friend (who I kept awake the first night) said I didn't hold it for a turn. I yelled at him saying I did. I saw it in his eyes... he remembered I did. He looked me in the face and snarled "No. You. Didn't." I lost it. I slammed him against the wall as hard as I could and held him there. Neither of us said anything. We simmer down or friends split us up.

46 hours. I was feeling it. We stopped playing games that requires us moving things carefully. One friend was playing quake 3 or some single player fps on the cpu. Boring. One friend was playing FF 8 or 9 on the PS. Boring. My other friend was just staring at the Quake game, but I couldn't do it (never liked FPS).

47 hours. I fall asleep. My friends wake me at 48 hours and tell me I failed. I was furious. I grab all my stuff and drive home (not far but definitely dangerous. I was hallucinating a little and laughing for no reason. I slammed on my brakes really hard once because I thought I saw a kid running across the street).

I sleep for about 12 hours.

I wake up and start watching my video camera to see what we recorded. It was all stupid. At the very end of it, it's my friend that I kept awake the first night, my friend I eliminated from Risk, my friend that I threw against the wall... He's taping me... on my own camera.... asleep. Him laughing and showing his watch, confirming it's 47 hours in.

I lose it again and destroy the tape.

So, 47 hours is my longest amount.

I'm confident I could go further if I was playing a video game... this was before WoW was out. Or even Dota. I accidentally did over 24 hours playing the original DoTA on warcraft 3.

Like 8 years later...

That guy is my best man at my wedding. He's giving a speech about my strengths. He says I'm "passionate". He tells the story about Risk and how I threw him against the wall. He of course mentions how I didn't make it 48 hours also...

What an ass.


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Longest time over 120 hours (after that it all went rather fuzzy) when I was sixteen just to see if I could.

But used to do 48-72 hours on a fairly regular basis (when I was younger).

Now with three kids the most I can manage is 24-48.

I have been awake for over 120 hours before. That's 5 days for those who don't feel like doing math. J did not handle the college stress well.

I've been awake for about three days, but the last 12 hours were tough; I thought I was a hummingbird for quite a while and I still get flashbacks....

Roughly 72 hours. Was running my own business, working a night job and going through divorce while living on coffee alone while having no one to watch the kids. LOL

a mix of insomnia, prescribed surgical drugs and gastro-intestinal distress left me up for over 100 hours XD

Most I've went at once was about 48 hours, Then there was a time where I was on anti-depressants and went for about a day without sleep at a time, also when I did sleep it was only for about an hour before I woke up and couldn't sleep again. That was absolute torture.