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How many hours have you ever gone without sleep.

38 replies · 6,776 views · Started 22 July 2005

28 hours. I woke up Saturday morning and went to sleep Sunday afternoon. I could've made it longer, but I fell asleep on the way home.

During my USA trip, i did a pretty good run on the way up and back... I don't sleep on planes.

Way up

Wake - 4:00am local time
Board plane to Melbourne - 7:00am (3h)
Board plane to Los Angeles - 11:15am (7.25h)
Arrive in LA - 11:00am local time, 17 hours later (24 hours)
Arrive in Chicago from LA - 7:30pm local time (29 hours)
Sleep at Midnight, after meeting up with several friends, and Artex <3 (33.5 hours)

Way back
Wake up at 5am local time
Leave for airport for 4pm flight to LA from Chicago (11 hours)
Arrive at LA at 7pm (15 hours)
Leave for Sydney at midnight (20 hours)
Arrive at Sydney at 6:30am local time (34.5 hours)
Get stranded in Sydney for 9 hours due to fogging in Melbourne, leaving at 3:20pm (43.5 hours)
Arrive in Melbourne at 4:30pm, leaving airport at 5pm (45 hours)
Take drive home, arrive at 9pm (49 hours)
Sleep at 1am (53 hours).

Now that i add it up, that's a new record. Wow, can't believe i was awake for that long.

Maybe 2 days for me, but I was also younger, if that effects anything. Then later my mom wanted me to work outside and help her in the yard which didn't help.

I've been up as much as around 80 hours, last spring. I was quite ill, and it was difficult sleeping(I need medication to aid the sleep process), as I was out of medication. By the end of it, I simply passed out due to exhaustion, and wound up waking up 2 hours later as my lungs became filled with mucus and I had to sit up and expel it. I did not feel rested in the slightest, and continuing exhaustion ensured that I would not go more than 30 hours without simply falling asleep, even as I sat up.

Ive gone 36 or so hours when ive done huge assignments for school the day before theyre due and didnt sleep that night at all, but ive never really pushed myself. I reckon I could go 3 or four days.

After DigiPen 2d graphics class, I would regularily go 40-50 hours without sleep every week. I never really kept track of the longest, because it's ridiculous to think that people are intentionally disrupting theirselves physically.

My longest? 144 hours or so. I was like 15 and my breathing problems and anxiety were preventing me from sleeping. About the 6th day I simply collapsed and was sent to the hospital. My lack of sleep weakend my immune system and I got pnuemonia. -_-