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Decrepit Dakkanaut






London, UK

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

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Guard Heavy Weapon Crewman




Rochdale, England

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

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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God






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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

   
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Storm Trooper with Maglight






New Hampshire

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.

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Maddening Mutant Boss of Chaos





NorCal

60+ during boot camp.

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Monstrous Master Moulder





Longmeadow MA 25+ Trade Rep

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.

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Kid_Kyoto






Probably work

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.

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Raging Rat Ogre




USA, Waaaghshington

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.

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Battlefortress Driver with Krusha Wheel







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...

 
   
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Spawn of Chaos



Holly Springs, NC

42 hours

   
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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

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Ferocious Blood Claw




Midland, MI

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.
   
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Excellent Exalted Champion of Chaos






Grim Forgotten Nihilist Forest.

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

It's been a gift and a curse.

I've sold so many armies. :(
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Longtime Dakkanaut






The land of cotton.

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.
   
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Fanatic with Madcap Mushrooms






Chino Hills, CA

36 hours...

Hanging with friends.

Some people play to win, some people play for fun. Me? I play to kill toy soldiers.
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Morally-Flexible Malleus Hearing Whispers






Well I kind of moved near Toronto, actually.

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.

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Sneaky Striking Scorpion






Deep in the Webway

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...
   
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Fixture of Dakka






Arlington, Texas

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

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Average Orc Boy




Here nor their. USA

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.
   
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Monstrous Master Moulder





Longmeadow MA 25+ Trade Rep

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.

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I dig how in a setting where giant, muscled fungus men ride Mad Max cars and use their own teeth as currency, the concept of little engineering dudes with beards was considered a step too far down the aisle of silliness.
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Fresh-Faced New User




South Jersey

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.

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Eternally-Stimulated Slaanesh Dreadnought






New York, NY

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.

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Been Around the Block





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




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






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

   
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Jovial Plaguebearer of Nurgle




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,

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Calgary, AB

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.

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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.


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

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The drinking halls of Fenris or South London as its sometimes called

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

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