The longest you've slept, the longest you've been awake.

[maninahat]

Awake for Three Fucking Days, writing 24,000 words worth of essays. It turns out you can burn the candle at both ends.

 

[krazykidd]

Sixteen hours asleep, my longest awake was 6 days straight, can't break it into hours though.. I decided to try it just for the hell of it to see how long I would last. I was pretty insane over the last two days, I was simply too tired to fall asleep, shadows start to turn into things.

Damn reading this makes me want to check and see how long i could last . Does it get easier as you go along?

 

[Northern64]

I guess it isn't as impresive as I thought, but, awake 40 hours, asleep 20 hours

 

[snagli]

Sleeping: 17 hours
Awake: 37 hours

Not that much, but I guess I could stay awake for much, much longer, I just enjoy sleeping too much.

 

[bobmus]

Awake for over two days, longest sleep probably around 17 hours after a lot of sleep deprivation

 

[chadachada123]

Longest time awake was over 70 hours. I started having weird flashes, weird hallucinations that can't rightly be explained over the internet. Little things, though, nothing like what you'd see in a movie. Lots of double-takes and seeing things out of the corner of my eyes.

Longest sleep would probably by 16-ish hours. I slept a lot in the summer after graduation, heh.

 

[DSK-]

Two periods of staying 43 and a half hours, divided by about 3/4 hours of sleep in between. It was beyond fucked up. What I used to do to play UT2004.

 

[putowtin]

I was awake once for 7 months 21 days (don't tell me as an insomniac I didn't fall asleep for a few hours, trust me I didn't, the fact I was hooked up to machines to study the affects attest to the fact I didn't sleep)

Longest I've slept? 21 hours (not including that time I was knocked out for three days!

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Man, how do you guys do that...? I've gotta try this sometime, get a couple of vacant days, lots of cash, and just hop from party to party, see how long I can last

Mostly I was young and dumb and had a bunch of caffeine. That was a long time ago. I absolutely can't do that anymore. Now I'm old and have a seizure disorder after a head injury, and sleep deprivation is pretty much the number one way to make it worse. My brain pretty much shuts down automatically out of self defense after 18-20 hours these days, even if I try to stay up longer; I just fall asleep in the middle of whatever I'm doing, even sitting upright. At least I feel a lot better when I wake up on the average day now that I don't do stupid things like that on the weekends anymore. Heh.

 

[Capricious]

6 days to stay awake for a months time and slept for about a week after

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

There's been pretty much no need for me to stay awake or asleep for long amounts of time, and I never have the will to do it.

Awake, I can barely stand being up past midnight. Asleep, ha, my body hates sleeping, always wakes me up at the same times -- eight or ten.

 

[orangeapples]

36 hours asleep. No particular reason, I just lost a Thursday

about 48 hours awake. Finals + cramming - sleep = bad driving I live 10 miles from campus. Luckily my last final was on Wednesday morning, so I went to sleep in my car so I wasn't drowsy on my drive home considering how horrible the drive getting there was.

 

[Xman490]

I'm apparently a wimp; the longest that I've stayed up was 31 hours. I also can't manage to sleep more than 12 hours.

Same here. I guess staying up for days depends on if you have some insanely addictive game like World of Warcraft that you can play for over a day, and sleeping more goes with staying awake more.

 

[Svenparty]

About a week of no sleep because of personal problems it was horrible and couldn't even have a coherent conversation or taste food properly etc. Truly was the worst week of my life and I know if It has continued I would have probably killed myself after a few months if I had the energy.

I can't remember the last time I slept long not even after this occasion^

 

[mbug]

Longest awake 48hours-ish, longest sleep was when i had my first seizure, slept for about 30 hours or something i was told...i cant really remember XD but i still felt sleepy =/ so after a hour of being awake i went back to sleep for 10 hours

 

[SeanTheBlueSheep]

I think the longest I've been awake for is about 60 hours. Nothing hugely special, just got busy doing things and forgot to go to bed two nights in a row, then fell asleep around eight in the evening the next day after dinner.

Longest I've been asleep is probably about eighteen hours I suppose? Not really sure because sleep is rarely something I remember. I don't dream often, and when I do, my dreams are fleetingly remembered and are gone entirely by the time I put on my socks, so I don't have all that much to denote sleeping.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Longest Awake: a bit over 2 hours (I haven't really tried to stay awake for any specific reason.)

Asleep, about 17 hours.

 

[Robert0288]

Longest awake: 5am monday morning to 9pm friday. During basic training. So there wasn't any down time or sitting around. Running everywhere, diggings trenches etc...

Longest asleep: 18 hours. Most glorious sleep ever.