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

[loc978]

Awake... hmm... I once pulled a 24-hour staff duty followed by a night of drinking, a day and evening of debauchery... I think I went to bed at 0200ish and was in formation for 0630 PT the following day, so... 45 hours?

...I don't know if it counts, but I was once wounded and unconscious on morphine for 6 days. That would be my longest sleep ever, if so.
If not, there are a number of times that I've been sick and slept for over 24 hours. Couldn't put a solid number on any of 'em, though.

Lately though, I have a healthy, boring sleep cycle.

 

[dedem1315]

3 days awake, 17 hours asleep

 

[Xannieros]

Longest I've stayed up, a little over 3 days.
Longest I've slept, about 16 hours.

Not all that bad after seeing some of these replies.

 

[Axyun]

'Bout 40ish hours awake. Longest sleeping would be about half that after a 30ish hour work day.

 

[Instinct Blues]

The longest I've ever been awake is about 33 hours spent playing video games and drinking lots of soda. The longest I've ever slept is about 15-19 hours which was totally by accident.

 

[Karhukonna]

If I recall correctly, I went maybe three or four days without sleep in the military. First couple of nights it was just me making sure my squad got enough rest, and the last were due to some addition training alerts. Good times.

I've slept for maybe 12-14 hours at once. Never was too much into that whole "days at a time" thing.

 

[FFHAuthor]

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?

Yes and No.

To give some background, I'd just graduated High School, was 18, and didn't have a job and decided to give it a shot. Medically, I had rather severe ADHD and wasn't on medications at the time.

I started on a Saturday and just didn't sleep. On days three and four I was doing heavy yard work for several hours a day. I wanted to stop on the fourth day, but I was to tired to sleep. The next day I was trying to 'crash' myself with caffeine and sugar rushes, but it wasn't working, I'd get hyper but wouldn't have the crash. My brain was simply refusing to sleep, and my body was becoming tense to the point I couldn't relax, most nights I was stalking the house and couldn't sit still. The Hallucinations weren't anything overt, I would walk past a darkened room and the darkness in the doorway would seem to become an amorphous mass trying to get me.

I wouldn't say that it gets easier, I'd say that it came to the point where I simply tried to give up and my body was in a place where it wouldn't. I can't go into the why of it (I dunno, and as a medical professional, I know I shouldn't have reacted like that), but I can tell you that throughout the last three days I wasn't even drowsy, no blinking away sleep or heavy eyes, I was just awake and outwardly I was alert and reactive. Thinking was getting kind of difficult, but not impossible...somewhat sluggish and dazed. As to why I reacted the way I did? I dunno, maybe it was the ADHD, maybe it was my youth, or maybe it's just the fact that my mind is a bit...differently wired than most normal people.

If you want to try it, do it when you're young and have no responsibilities, because I know that if I'd tried driving towards the end of that, or even tried to operate as a person in public, it would have been messy. But, in the end, it was an interesting experience, and the kind of person that I am...I saw it as an intriguing challenge.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

Longest I've been awake, hell, Im breaking my personal record right now. So far I've been awake for 4 days! I've been drinking a lot of Venom, JESUS, that stuff makes me feel like a cheetah made out of jet-fighters!!!

Longest I've slept is about 22 hours I guess, I did wake up a few times but always went back to sleep because I didn't get out of bed.

 

[Obvious Ninja]

Less than 24 for awake, somewhere slightly above 8 for sleeping.

What a boring, scheduled automaton I am.

 

[FoolKiller]

For me, it was 118 hours awake... which had its own crazy incentive. This is followed by another 97 hour awake stint. Both were while I was in university.

As for sleep, I think the most I've slept (as an adult as babies sleep longer) is about 10 hours. I was very sick. I don't really require as much sleep as most people do.

Oh... and as an aside. After I was awake 118 hours, I went to sleep for my usual 6 hours a night and was fine the next morning.

 

[Combustion Kevin]

longest awake: 60 hours.
I was working together with some people on a large school project, where we eventually became so ambitious we bunkered down at my place and worked for 60 hours straight, keeping eachother awake.

longest sleep: +-23 hours.
this was kinda messed up since it was an ordinary night like any other, but when I woke up, I was somewhat confused that it was now one hour earlier than when I went to bed.

"Uhm...wha...how?"

went to the doctor, could'nt find anything.

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

Longest Time Awake: 90 hours. I was a kid and I had ADHD medication, aka Adderal, AKA Speed. It was Christmas vacation I played video games for 22 hours each day and 2 hours for showering, eating, etc. But after a while I just started to crash. By hour 85 I could barely stand up and my parents made me go to see my sister sing Christmas carols at her school. I was hallucinating in the church and I kept almost falling out of my chair. (course I kept it all a secret from my parents, they would take away video games if they knew.) When I got home my parents said we could open our presents, but I, a boy on Christmas eve, went to bed. Fell asleep with shoes on and all.

Longest Time Asleep: 20 hours. It was a day I had off from the university. I spent the last week in 4 hour lectures, followed by 4 hour labs, followed by a 14 hour work for free film gigs where I spent my time running around with 300lb cables and lights. Followed by 2 hours of sleep.

Needless to say after 7 days of that I was beyond destroyed. Tired and worn I climbed into bed just as it was getting light outside and when I woke up it was getting light outside. I thought I only slept a few hours turns out I almost missed a whole day.

 

[sunthaiduc]

awake-@200
asleep-24

 

[Sun Flash]

Longest I've been awake was for a day and a bit, so 30 hours? It was the first time I ever got exam results through the post and was nervous as hell and gave up trying to sleep by 4 in the morning/

Longest I've slept is about 12 hours. Went straight from working full day Friday (so getting up at 6 am) to a night out and coming home pissed as a fart at 7 AM on the Saturday. I woke up and Doctor Who was just coming on. Pretty sweet.

Although if I have no schedule to keep, I can usually stay up 20 hours at a time and sleep for about 8. This I don't mind but it screws up my internal clock something awful.

 

[rayen020]

during my summer breaks in high school my sleep schedule went all wonky... when i got GTA san andreas, i stayed up for at least 50 hours, just playing that game and eating. the longest i've slept, was that same summer though unrelated. When my girlfriend broke up with me i went into a depression and slept (barring a couple of wake up, hate life, roll over, go back to sleep) for something like 36 hours. although once that was over i was pretty much over it.

 

[babinro]

Awake: Roughly 26 hours. I hate staying up late and have only done that once for the experience. It wasn't fun and took several days to recover to my routine.

Sleep: I don't remember ever going more than 11 hours. These days it's extremely rare for me to go beyond 9.

 

[Betancore]

Been awake for a little under three days or so. And because of the medication I was on last year, I've slept up to 18 hours. And then spent the remaining six hours of the day feeling like a zombie. Thanks, Seroquel. If I oversleep, I tend to feel exhausted and groggy, whereas if I don't get enough sleep, I usually end up feeling awake enough after a shower and some caffeine.

 

[Kreett]

around 17 hours of sleep.

47 hours awake, damn you WoW

 

[DavidtheGreat]

I've been awake for around 55 hours I think. Work, then more work, then I get called into my other job and push snow for 10 hours or so. I can sleep for 15 hours no sweat. I just can't seem to sleep for fewer than 8 unless it's really important that i be up.

 

[OneCatch]

About 80 hours awake for me. I didn't sleep for 3 nights and then most of the next day (apart from one 10 minute micronap when both me and my friend fell asleep mid conversation around the 70 hour mark). The reason? A stupid bet

Longest asleep was about 40 hours when I had horrible flu, but I was kind of half awake half asleep for most of that with a raging temperature, so I'm not sure if that counts.