Whilst it is early in the morning!!!

The most was aboiut 38 hours. After coming from the night club I spent the next 24 hours playing a board game called talisman for children in need and managed to raise £120 for them.

What is the longest you have stayed awake for? and why?

3 days and nights with no sleep

I was sitting up with someone very dear to me who was terminally ill, and time meant nothing to me, and compared to what they had given me previously 3 days was nothing.

In my first year at university I seem to remember about 48 hours at the end of my first term. There is a story behind it, but this ain't the place!!

I also had a 60 hour stint with the odd cat nap when my mum was terminally ill.

Joe

Due to a relationship going wrong... causing me several sleepness nights it would have to be well over 48hrs...

Yeah it hit me hard!... But happy again now tho :D ;)

Probably be around 30 ish hours.

When i'm tired, or drunk i can fall asleep just about anywhere.

probably about 38hours, when went to LA, the time difference n that! was hard, slept like a baby when finally got in bed. 8)

46 hours.

Just couldnt sleep cos it was too hot!

Forty eight hours due to heat, hay fever and general discomfort. I became a possible threat to world peace towards the end. Thank God I eventually got some sleep.

I did a 60-hour sponsored stay-awake once. However I was awake for about 2-3 hours before I started and about another hour after I finished, so the total was probably about 64 hours.

I would think it's pretty impossible to do much more than this, as there comes a point where your body just shuts down automatically. I did it all without any sleep at all. Unlike the contestants on C4's 'Shattered' who were actually allowed two hours sleep every night. Even with just two hours sleep, it's possible to last a lot longer. I had a job a while back where I got betwwen 3 & 4 hours sleep a night and survived for months like that.

As a good friend of mine once said, 'There's plenty of time for sleeping when you're dead!'

two stints at 40+ hours.

one was holiday related, left Ibiza at midnight, dont sleep on planes, got home at 8am had a fry up and spent a normal post holiday day. slept like a baby that night tho.

the other was after a charity walk that went thru the night, again had a fry up and spent the next day sorting my blisters

3 days and nights. I started having some very strange visions
The most I have slept is 25 hours without waking. Did my head in that did. I convinced myself that I had only been asleep for an hour so i went to the paper shop and got very confused about seeing the news of the world on sale on a Saturday.

...........17 hours..........and I was glad to fall asleep when I did

Probably about 55 hours! Then I slept for about 15hours straight!

I don't think I've ever been awake for more than 20 hours, but I'm regularly up until 4/5 in the morning.

At University. Went into the Terminal Room on Sunday morning, and handed in final printout at 8:30 Tuesday morning for a 9:00 deadline. A little under 48 hours, I think, and it probably shows in the quality of the work (http://www.mdfs.net/Software/PDP11/Assembler). I went back home, made a cup of tea, and passed out in the armchair, not waking up until Wednesday evening.

I still occasionally do all-nighters, but once the birds are tweeting the first time, I tend to go to bed. I must be getting old... ;)

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Probably about 48 hours due to getting work done (i can only do work at night for some reason)

What are peoples symptoms for staying up this long?
Mine were dizziness , feeling of tightness around the head - but other than that not much really!

About 60 hours when i used to be an fisherman!:D

Beat everyone!
The longest I have ever stayed awake was 4 days and 4 nights in Kos, you know what it's like when your on holiday, too hot, too much to do to go to sleep. I am also regularly up all night as I hate the fact that I have to sleep, and an usually having too much fun to go to sleep :)

35 hours was the most ever I have stayed awake with even a small nap. i think any more then that and I would have just fallen asleep anywhere!

My other half stayed awake for 9 days !!!

I wouldn't advise it though as it had catastrophic consiquences.

Most I've been awake for is 72 hours (maybe more).. thats only because I was high on medication due to a back injury :(

Long live Diazepam :hihi:

A 48 hour stint when the baby I looked after in the US was ill with Bronchial Pneumonia.

Then a just over 3 days when I was in labour with my son!

Haven't managed a full nights sleep since :( but he's worth it!

I've currently been awake for 42 hours, I still can't sleep as I have to drive to Heathrow and back in about an hours time, when i was in my 20's i found staying awake easy, but bizarrely now in my 30's it does seem more difficult for me to saty awake even though now on the whole have less sleep?

3 nights 3 days when I stopped taking sleeping tablets 15 years ago.

Thursday night .. Then awake till Monday 1am. But that was many moons ago.

I've currently been awake for 42 hours, I still can't sleep as I have to drive to Heathrow and back in about an hours time

Have you ever heard of Gary Hart?

I've currently been awake for 42 hours, I still can't sleep as I have to drive to Heathrow and back in about an hours time, when i was in my 20's i found staying awake easy, but bizarrely now in my 30's it does seem more difficult for me to saty awake even though now on the whole have less sleep?

That is as dangerous as driving drunk or drugged, and you come on a Forum to mention it? Glad I don't have to be anywhere on the roads today with idiots like you on them.

Probably about 36 hours i.e. A day and a half. I overdid it on red bull once and didn't sleep a wink... or maybe I've been foolish enough to do that several times. :suspect:

3 days with out proper sleep, I was in the army and we were on a training exercise I think I might have shut my eyes while I was stood up but I think it was about 3 days and nights with out sleep my head was buzzing like mad and my legs were like jelly, not something I would like to do again in a rush.

3 days and nights on Stanford Training Area 1990. By the the end of it there were tortoises everywhere I looked and I remember thinking "blimey, I didn't know tortoises were native to Norfolk ... never mind, though, where are those bleedin' Ghurkas gonna come from".

Three days at work in the bad old days when they still allowed that. These days safety regulations say that after 16 hours work you are entitled to 8 hours sleep.

about 120 hours (5 days) straight, without sleep...

That is as dangerous as driving drunk or drugged, and you come on a Forum to mention it? Glad I don't have to be anywhere on the roads today with idiots like you on them.

No it isn't, you don't stay tired and you get a second burst which is natural, we're capable of staying awake and been alert for long periods of time, it's been with us since caveman times when we had to be alert for long periods of time hunting.

Well was awake for aprox total of 53 hours, fell asleep and woke up around 6 hours later.

A number of days with chemicals.

Why do you ask?

Its an internet forum!

Quite normal for people to ask questions!

It is indeed normal for people to ask questions, but when the people who ask are asking questions which are well beyond their remit, it's hardly usual.

As a matter of interest (and I've no intention of staying awake beyond 'normal bedtime')

Why on earth would you be remotely interested? - Are you a sexual predator?

Around 39 hours. It was when I was in labour with my daughter (27 hours) and gave birth just before 7 in the morning. I was so excited to see her that I couldn't sleep til that evening - just laid there watching her sleep :D Once it caught up with me I slept for about 12 hours, minus some feeds and changes.

the impulse to sleep is strong. You will only usually stay awake for a period of 36 hours under conditions of extreme stress and lots of loud noises and even then, you will probably be asleep for short periods. Going without sleep for longer than about 36 hours, you're on the way to a mental hospital. Get sleep.

Five days with only a short cat nap now and again

74 hours whilst in labour with my 3rd son, n almost soon as i had him i was falling asleep!, same here, dnt think ive had 1 full nights sleep in the past 2 1/2 years!! x

67 hours because my housemate had gone on a cocaine paranoia induced coke binge.... I stayed awake mainly for my own safety and that of the other housemate.

It is indeed normal for people to ask questions, but when the people who ask are asking questions which are well beyond their remit, it's hardly usual.

As a matter of interest (and I've no intention of staying awake beyond 'normal bedtime')

Why on earth would you be remotely interested? - Are you a sexual predator?

Chillax Rupert and try and get some sleep, how you conclude that asking about sleep = sexual predator is something you need to address, I suggest you get to sleep asap and stop embarrassing yourself.

the impulse to sleep is strong. You will only usually stay awake for a period of 36 hours under conditions of extreme stress and lots of loud noises and even then, you will probably be asleep for short periods. Going without sleep for longer than about 36 hours, you're on the way to a mental hospital. Get sleep.

It depends on the person, some folk are more well adjusted, stable and can handle it better than others, other folk are less capable and therfore more prone to suffer mental health problems.

I once did 22 hours labouring for a steel fixer on the Leeds shopping centre after something on a job done by others was deemed to be wrong, and we had to pick up on it and correct it before the next lot came in.

The money was good, but the money that would have been wasted had I not agreed to work through would have been boat loads more.

Some times the need is greater and you just wade through. I had hardly any breaks.

The developer and contractor I worked for benefited way more that I did I may add.

I've done three consecutive nights without a wink. Simply insomnia.



....yes, I did say wink

Around 40 hours.

Which is far too long for me.

Whilst doing the final exercise in my RAF Regiment training, by the fourth night of non sleeping, most of us were hallucinating, we were barely coherent as our speech was severely affected, and our bodies were gradually shutting down, even simple tasks like buttoning a jacket up were almost impossible due to the lack of hand eye co-ordination. i personally remember seeing a section of enemy advancing towards our trench, i shouted "stand to" so as to make all our guys know that we were coming under an imminent attack, by the time i had refocused on the supposed enemy, it transpired to be 8 trees that were silhouetted on the hill top, i was adamant that i had seen the enemy, lol, it was an awful feeling (hallucinating) as you never knew what you could trust and what you could trust, even if you got it right you couldn't do that much due to the severe tiredness and lack of co-ordination, lol. if i remember correctly we eventually stayed awake for 4 nights and five days.
06.00hrs Mon morn
18.00hrs Fri eve
total 108hrs, buggered would be putting it politely, lol

the longest i have stayed awake is probably when i was in labour with my first...was very scared, excited and apprehensive so sleep was impossible the night before being induced, then i had a 30 hour labour and finally slept that night for about an hour, and since having another child i probably havent had a solid nights sleep for 6 1/2 years!!!! but i aint complaining xxxx

4 days... was off my chops :gag:

I'm not sure,but a few times i've travelled overnight and unlike the person i was with i never managed to sleep.
Guess who was the grumpiest.

12 hours, on a Boat trip to France about 16 years ago, the sea was a bit rough, usually I can sleep through anything,but it was my first time abroad and I was a bit excited.