A paltry 36 hours here. No reason other than plain old insomnia.

Does anyone here have any insane lengths of uninterrupted awake time?

i'd say 48 hours, though last summer i worked a graveyard shift for a month and a half and slept an average of 2 - 3 hours per day. i was real pretty lookin' at the end of that little stint.

There was a 68 hour period a couple of months ago where I only slept for about three hours in total. I didn't feel just worn-out, I felt like puking. And of course, I just happened to run into the most attractive woman I have ever met at the end of it. Should have asked her to join me for a cup of coffee, but I couldn't even walk straight anymore.

woke up at 6am one morning and didnt go to bed til after midnight the next night. that'd be....over 36 hours. i've only done that twice. once just for the heck of it. once to paint my sisters apartment. THAT was fun.... drinking beer... getting high on paint fumes.... lack of sleep..... woo hoo!!! we were some crazy girls that night...

I did it all throughout high school and college. Going weeks with only 2-3 hours of sleep a night. Even though I've now graduated, sometimes I find myself pulling all nighters due to work. Last weekend I got maybe 5 hours of sleep on Friday night, then woke up and worked straight through Saturday and went to a volunteer/fundraiser on Sunday morning. All without sleep. I was at the fundraiser all day (outside, while it was POURING rain, and trying to be friendly to loads of important Japanese businesspeople... not to mention most of them don't speak English, I don't speak Japanese, and they're all acquaintences of my dad's so I have to be even more impressive).

By the end of Sunday I was fucking delerious as SHIT. Factor in Sunday dinner with my boyfriend's family, a few glasses of wine, and I was dead as shit, too.

Natsume said:

:10minnap:

2 weeks it was hell.

Sweeny79 said:

!!11

2 weeks? too much pepsi? lol

Christopher said:

Too much fucking stress! Felt like my eyeballs were all dried up and about to fallout.

72 hours with no sleep at all in 1997, and it was difficult to fall asleep after that.

probably 24 hours in a row



But I went weeks where I wasn't sleeping enough. Like 2 or 3 hours at a time in a day. Maybe sometimes I'd sleep for 2 hours. And 12 hour slater take an hour nap. This went on for weeks.

48 hours

ufoclub said:

I hate that feeling. I don't remember how long it was. I think I skipped two nights and I remember lying in bed, eyes drier than sandpaper, just shaking and feeling like vomiting.

Dunno.

Maybe 48 or so when I was doing speed when I was young and crazy.
In the last several years it's been no more than 24, and that's pretty exceptional.

5 days.

Imago said:

LOOK AT MY BALLS!!! DO IT!! NOW!!!!

get yourself some kids and a 3rd shift job and you'll feel like a sleep-deprived Marine in no time

but I wouldn't change it

Probably about 50hrs ~ Ibiza '98

I once worked straight from Sunday morning till Wednesday afternoon. So that's about ummm...80 hours.

I had a full night's sleep on a Friday night, then went into labour the following evening, had the c-section midnight sunday night and fell asleep for the first time on Thursday afternoon for a minute until my roomate's deaf grandma came shouting into the room. I escaped from the hospital that night and slept 2 hour episodes between feeds for the next few weeks. That was an awful time, I couldn't sleep even morphined up to my eyeballs.

a month..a experiment with speed...uh...i lost ten pounds on the light side..

Probably 48 hours back in college, I'm really worthless w/o my sleep...

Not sure..proberly between 36 and 48hrs

I try to get at at least 8 hours of sleep per.
So, I usuaslly go about 16 hours without sleep.

But there was that one time,
when my girlfriend & I rented that movie "2 Days In The Valley".
Because of that catfight scene with Teri Hatcher & Charlize Theron, I went a full 16 hours & 11 minutes with sleep.

Let's just say, for that night, my girlfriend referred to me as Mr. "2 Times in The Valley".....

weepingwall said:

oh that sounds like a face age-er...

weepingwall said:

interesting, i thought lack of sleep caused weight gain? anyways, you had to be seeing some interesting shit, like dreaming while you awake. please tell us more about you adventure.

weepingwall said:

I am sorry but if you were doing speed for a month straight you would of lost more then 10 pounds.

sinisterpentatonic said:

The Methamphetamines speeds your body up



Stimulants mimic the action of adrenaline and dopamine which increase heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, release sugar and fat into the blood stream . Feelings of increased alertness, angers or fear, or agitation, exhilaration come from using crystal.

After to much meth and you get to the point that you are too high, it can make you feel like you are paranoid, having a panic or anxiety attack. A person can also feel large amounts of rage, depression, hallucinations.

People who use meth often lose weight because the drug turns off the want or need to eat. The drug produces a feeling of satisfaction with regard to food, even though no food was eaten. Tolerance to this effect develops. When the person stops using , there is usually a rebound increase in appetite as the body discovers it has been literally feeding off itself and wasting tissue.

about 48 hours, and drugs were NOT involved.