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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.

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

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.