I heard on a TV program on PBS a couple years ago that anything more than 10 days would be fatal. Over Christmas break, I went the first 7 days (plus a few more hours) I was in Wilmington without any sleep (not even napping). It wasn't by choice, though. My asthma goes haywire when I go to my parents house because of the dogs, dust, and whatnot.

It's not really a big deal for the muscles because I had plenty of time when I wasn't doing anything physical for them to rest. After a while the mind shows a bit of fatigue. It's a really weird experience mentally... hard to describe.

So for me... about 170 hours.

How long have you stayed awake (consecutive hours, absolutely no sleep)? How would you describe the experience, mentally and physically?

I know this seems like a thread for chitchat, but I doubt I'd get any honest answers there.

1/18/2006 3:06:01 PM

i haven't slept for a week

cos man, that's just too long to sleep

1/18/2006 3:06:31 PM

50 hours

1/18/2006 3:11:04 PM

72 hours

1/18/2006 3:11:07 PM

96.

....wouldn't recommend it. After about 80, you feel like you're tripping.....


sleep is good.

1/18/2006 3:22:03 PM

probably only 48 hours. <3 sleep.

but i rarely sleep over 6-7 hours, too.

1/18/2006 3:26:54 PM

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"After about 80, you feel like you're tripping"

I've never tripped out on anything before so I didn't really know if the 2 were comparable. Intuitively, that's what I thought to compare it to though.

1/18/2006 3:29:58 PM

I'm a lightweight.... I've only been able to stay awake for 39 hrs. straight. I stayed awake studying all night long and then when I finally had time to sleep I couldn't....

1/18/2006 3:32:38 PM

80 hours, during the fall 2003 exam time hell that I went through

1/18/2006 3:33:17 PM

Pretty sure you are lying about being awake for 7 days.

1/18/2006 3:34:05 PM

^no I'm not. If it weren't a serious post I would have put it in chitchat. It's pretty much impossible to sleep while having an asthma attack and the medication I use for asthma (albuterol sulfate) raises your heart rate and oxygen flow through your body, essentially waking you up.

1/18/2006 3:49:52 PM

75 hours.

<3 Parris Island

1/18/2006 3:57:54 PM

You had an asthma attack and were on the inhalers for 170 hrs straight? You aren't impressing anyone.

1/18/2006 4:01:52 PM

^ God I admire you

1/18/2006 4:07:56 PM

^^more than one actually and I wasn't on any inhaler. I was on a freakin nebulizer twice a day.

1/18/2006 4:23:04 PM

46 hours

and during that time, i took 3 final exams (on 2 days) during my senior year

the world record is 18 days according to the guinness book

but yeah, for most people, over 10 days would be seriously damaging, if not fatal

1/18/2006 5:24:36 PM

18 days is insane. I was reading a little on sleep deprivation and found a study that says while motor and language skills are seriously impaired after prolonged lack of sleep, math skills actually improve with ~36 hours of sleep deprivation. (That doesn't include critical thinking like figuring out how to solve a problem.. just solving problems you know how to solve.)

1/18/2006 5:52:25 PM

i havent slept for ten days

because that would be too long

1/18/2006 5:59:12 PM

its amazing what drugs will do to you

1/19/2006 3:43:03 AM

like 63 hours

1/19/2006 3:46:58 AM

90 hours, which isn't good when you're on the job and your job is blowing shit up, but thats what second checks are for. I had a friend who's rucksack turned into a TV at Ranger school . . . he said Dr. Spock was performing surgery on ER. I think that would qualify as tripping.

1/19/2006 4:02:15 AM

23 hours.

1/19/2006 4:15:33 AM

about 2 days

1/19/2006 4:29:51 AM

well i wont be going to sleep 2today( or 2nite? ), anyway you get it.

1/19/2006 5:19:04 AM

21hrs

1/19/2006 7:52:27 AM

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"I heard on a TV program on PBS a couple years ago that anything more than 10 days would be fatal."

I just want to say that this is bullshit. Personally, I don't think you can actually die from sleep deprivation.

I read that after about 72 hours you do start to experience some hallucinations, especially if you use stimulants. I don't think I've ever gone more than 50 hours, though. Maybe college will bless me with such an experience.

1/19/2006 8:37:51 AM

~96

at 72 i start hallucinating (auditory starts earlier than the visual)

1/19/2006 5:51:04 PM

~170 hours. i kinda blacked out at the end there.... after about 3 days the gremlins start coming out. and you can hear AM radio in your head. kinda what he said ^ i guess fucking gremlins

and every time you move you feel like your muscles are tearing

[Edited on January 19, 2006 at 6:06 PM. Reason : GET SOME SLEEP]

1/19/2006 6:05:58 PM

19 hrs.

1/19/2006 6:26:43 PM

^^^^

So it's your gut feeling versus scientific investigation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_deprivation

1/19/2006 6:30:56 PM

1/19/2006 6:33:14 PM

socrates doesnt sleep. he waits

1/19/2006 6:49:45 PM

62 days at Ranger school.

1/20/2006 4:29:06 PM

no more than two days.

1/20/2006 9:54:13 PM

170 hours....that's crazy i felt so sleep deprived after like 48 haha

1/20/2006 10:05:13 PM

i've heard you can go pretty long on a cocane benge...

1/20/2006 10:14:40 PM

3 days

1/20/2006 10:15:23 PM

I don't think i've gone more than about 24 hours without sleep. After about 18 though, i would think I hear things that aren't there.

1/21/2006 12:26:34 AM

some of you guys are badasses...36 hours was my max, before i involutarily passed out

1/21/2006 12:33:50 AM

3 days... complete blame falls on Halo 2

[Edited on January 21, 2006 at 12:59 AM. Reason : and poker]

1/21/2006 12:59:42 AM

i beat x-men legends in 1 sitting one time (a little over 24 hours).

on another occasion i watched the entire naruto series (only took breaks to go to class)... that was like 3 days...

1/21/2006 1:28:14 AM

30 hours

1/21/2006 1:29:51 AM

i cant imagine going for more than 2 days, but id wanna try it just to see what its like

1/21/2006 1:30:50 AM

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"on another occasion i watched the entire naruto series (only took breaks to go to class)... that was like 3 days..."

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"on another occasion i watched the entire naruto series (only took breaks to go to class)... that was like 3 days..."

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"on another occasion i watched the entire naruto series (only took breaks to go to class)... that was like 3 days..."

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"on another occasion i watched the entire naruto series (only took breaks to go to class)... that was like 3 days..."

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"on another occasion i watched the entire naruto series (only took breaks to go to class)... that was like 3 days..."

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"on another occasion i watched the entire naruto series (only took breaks to go to class)... that was like 3 days..."

1/21/2006 1:43:56 AM

Limpynuts-If you have asthma that bad, you should get some cash for it!
http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=379335

1/21/2006 2:04:46 AM

before going to college the longest time for me was probably taking most of one weekend playing final fantasy 7.

But since being here, i've gone at least 48 hours, though i usually try to take 2 hour naps or something to combat delerium. And how can you start hearing things after just 18 hours. I mean, come on...

1/21/2006 8:34:07 AM

36 hrs.

1/21/2006 9:48:36 AM

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"So it's your gut feeling versus scientific investigation"

Oh wikipedia... nice. Let's take a look. I say that dying after 10 days of sleep deprivation is bullshit. A link from your link says

"In 1964, as a 17-year-old high school student, Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days) with the help of friends, TV reporters, and games of pinball. On his final day without sleep, Gardner presided over a press conference where he spoke without slurring or stumbling his words and in general appeared to be in excellent health."

Your link:

"Several months of no sleep at all, as in fatal familial insomnia, causes death..."

Hmm... a disease that causes death. Interesting, I'm sure that having the goddamn disease itself effects you in no other ways than insomnia.

1/21/2006 11:08:36 AM

9:00 AM Wednesday to 4 AM Saturday.... so 67 hours.... that was rough

1/21/2006 11:20:49 AM

56 hrs

1/21/2006 11:49:56 AM