So I kinda just realized I didn’t sleep for the past 24 hours. Noy sure if it’s the longest I’ve been awake, but probably of the top 5 longest. I’m dealing with depression so my sleep cycle have been fucked up. Got coffee I think around the 12th hour mark.
I’ve basically just been watching youtube videos, browsing lemmy. Googled random things.
Idk why, I guess I just wanted some dopamine boost from coffee and now I can’t sleep lmao. Maybe a bit of anxiety around certain recent political events.
I honestly am not sure if I’m actually awake or dreaming.
Anyways, what is the longest time you’ve been awake without sleep? When did it happen and why?
5 days
Was mostly partying and doing stuff on the computerMore often I did 2-3 days, when I got hooked at something that interests me - usually something computer related
40 hours. Mix between working to pay for college and overdue assignments. Then drive 2 hours to Thanksgiving and had Thanksgiving lunch. Then went into a food coma for 14 hours straight
I’m not sure it was the longest, but most recently I was up over 36 hours straight.
Worked then pulled an all nighter driving to Florida to visit my friend. Got there at 7:30 am and then did a whole day with them before passing out after midnight.
Used to be on an odd schedule when I worked overnight.
My work shifts were Thursday to Saturday, 1800 - 0500. So Sunday, when I got off at 0500, I’d stay awake until around 1900 (being up for ~26 hours) and then to go bed. Wake up Monday morning and have a normal Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, then stay up all night Wednesday night until Thursday morning (another 26 hour stint) and the go to bed Thursday morning so I could then go to work at 1800 Thursday night again.
Did that for about a year and it actually worked out reasonably well, but not something I’d entertain now that I’m older.
That schedule is also the reason all my clocks are always set for 24-hour time and I can still fall asleep in broad daylight without any trouble.
Hmm rotating shift work… Was this at prototype, by chance?
Dreamhack… I spent around 60 hours awake before I crashed
About 36h. One day, one night and the next day. Party + drugs.
I did this twice actually, but I like sleeping too much to make it a regular thing.The second day always feels soooo strange. Dissociation/derealization is nuts. For me it was always MDMA that kept me up the next day.
40 hours for me. Work related waste of my life in hindsight. Could have been only 39, but I powered through the last hour to hit the round number.
"I need to sleep desperately
Brain: “Give it one more hour so it’s forty.”
“What? Why?”
Brain: “You gotta”
50+ hours, when a loved one went into septic shock several years ago (they eventually got better). When they were stabilized and I was finally able to sleep, I just basically said “okay, now is fine” to the darkness creeping in from my peripheral vision every time I closed my eyes and let it finish doing so. I was asleep within a few seconds.
Very often almost 3 whole days because I didn’t want to (younger) or because I couldn’t (2 weeks ago). Hard to remember because after like 30 hours, shit gets blurry and I don’t know what was real or what was a dream.
My sophomore year of high school I snuck out of the house one night, my friends and I pushed the car down the driveway and got it going. Hung out all night. Got caught about 5AM by the local police. (I didn’t have a license either, I was 15 I think.) Cop drove me home and dropped me off to my mom. By then I had been awake 22 hours and was exhausted and tried to go to bed. Oh no. My punishment was going to school. So about 4PM when I got home…. 34 hours awake? (I was a pretty good kid in school…. Most of the time…) 😁
I stayed up for over 2 nights but I was on some heavy drugs. Near the end I was hearing voices and there was shadow people in my peripheral vision. I also couldn’t put together a sentence , the words would come out in the wrong order .
25h for doing a 100% “speedrun” of Paper Mario: The Origami King 5 years ago.
I was the first one to ever do it so I can say I’m a former world record holder :p
36? 38 hours? Something like that… I kind of lost track around 30.
Gaming. Ultima IV.
The hallucinations were interesting. Hard flat surfaces like table tops and counters started rippling like water.
A couple of months ago I didn’t sleep all weekend. Got up Friday and didn’t go to bed until about 10:00 p.m. the following Monday.
No drugs, no caffeine just didn’t feel like sleeping. It was kind of refreshing.
But that’s not the worst one for me. There was a time period where I didn’t actually sleep for about a week maybe two. However, I can’t be certain of how long it was because towards the end I started taking micronaps where I would be in the middle of a conversation and pause for like 20 seconds and it was obvious to other people that I had fallen asleep mid-sentence but then I would invariably wake back up again.
When that spell finally broke, I had just finished work and I got that little signal that says I’m about to fall asleep and I was so excited.
However, I was catching a ride with friends and I had to wait for them to bring me home and they had to go to the grocery store and I have vague staticky memories of fondling chicken breasts in an inappropriate manner and following behind other people way too close like the kind of close that would get me maced, and then running through the store telling every single person that I met that this bottle of beary bear brand syrup was my friend and he would protect us.
Entertaining after the fact, not fun to go through, 1/10 do not recommend.
67 hours. After a full day of work, my wife and I hopped an international flight to Europe. There were two layovers, including a 6-hour one in Dubai. I tried to sleep on the longest leg of the flight, but with my restless wife on one side and a restless stranger on the other, I couldn’t. Once we landed and reached our AirBnB, I announced I was going to take a desperately needed nap. My wife stood at the bedside staring at me until I gave up and we went for a walk to see Prague.
Dreamed of seeing that city for half my life, but it was a couple of days before I was capable of enjoying it.
