Poll: How long have you stayed awake for?

[Milo Windby]

I kept my self up for about 72 hours once for a weekend of anime. Not sure why I did stay up for that long though, my friends went to bed =p. Kept my self up by playing ES:Morrowind and then games on the ps2, then anime of course and then I made the mistake of watching the second Matrix movie and fell asleep XD

 

[Beartrucci]

Roughly 39 hours for me when I didn't sleep for a night so I could finish Mass Effect. Good times.

 

[TheBlackWaterMan]

Well I normally wake up anywhere from four to six in the morning but anyway I it was more of a sleeping problem and I sleep for three months and in those months I mybe if I was lucky got an hour of sleep and between a two week period I didnt sleep at all and (lucky for me that was the last two weeks because I was so tired I fell a sleep while I was standing up)oh my god it was horrible and from that and the me waking up early all the time has given me premenent bags under my eyes and to go with what to argue with wat Sober Thal said those last two weeks I just didnt even try to use the bed.


- The Black Water Man a.k.a Doug

 

[Socius]

I once was on a 4day LAN/party, yeah I didn't sleep at all.
coffee, redbull and various other drinks hehe.

 

[the_tramp]

The instance that comes to mind is from Sunday morning to Tuesday evening due to writing coursework, so 8AM to 11PM Tuesday so... ~63 hours?

I had to start and finish a piece of coursework for Monday at 2PM, to then go straight back into the library and start another piece that had to be in for Tuesday 2PM. I thought that if I went to sleep then I would wake up at about 2-3AM so made myself stay awake until a *normal* sleeping time.

In those 2.5 days I ate 4 scotch eggs and drank 5 cans of relentless.

 

[MelziGurl]

Any who claim to not being able to sleep for more than 72 hours is full of ****. People choose to do such silly things, and if hey claim otherwise, they are just fooling themselves.

Erm, as I said, I went without sleep for almost 5 days, due to severe insomnia. I'm pretty sure that I'm not full of ****, as you say.

You are full of something that is not healthy if you refused to sleep for 5 days.

My point is that even if you don't sleep, you can rest for 5 hours and be able to continue on to working a full day.

Insomnia is a symptom,

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/insomnia/article_em.htm

It is not a refusal to sleep, I suffer from Insomnia from time to time and even when you try to sleep, you are inevitably awake every couple of hours or so.

You have a symptom, so I would guess you can research a means to an end.

If not, then I would guess you are accepting a result instead of attempting a solution.

You don't need to sleep. That is a fact. You need to rest and relax, also a fact. If you can't relax, you might have some sort of mental disorder. That isn't something to be ashamed of, it is something you can mentally work your way through.

The human body needs to rest a certain amount of time per day. You don't need to sleep, just relax.

I relax quite well actually, I'm generally a laid back person. I haven't been able to sleep well since I worked in fast food. 21 days of work straight once (granted they were half days, but the work was stressful) 14 hr days that happened sometimes up to 3 days a week giving me a total of what 82 a week sometimes. Being up at 6am in the morning for work at 8am until sometimes 11pm at night, getting home close to midnight and starting it all again. I have not been able to hold a decent sleep pattern since then and when I do get to bed at a decent hour, I sometimes end up laying there for hours for no reason. I am completely relaxed, nothing at all on my mind that could keep me awake I just do

http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/sleep.html

Sleep gives your body a rest and allows it to prepare for the next day. It's like giving your body a mini-vacation. Sleep also gives your brain a chance to sort things out. Scientists aren't exactly sure what kinds of organizing your brain does while you sleep, but they think that sleep may be the time when the brain sorts and stores information, replaces chemicals, and solves problems.

The amount of sleep a person needs depends a lot on his or her age. Babies sleep a lot - about 14 to 15 hours a day! But many older people only need about 7 or 8 hours of sleep each night. Most kids between the ages of 5 and 12 years old are somewhere in between, needing 10 to 11 hours of sleep. Some kids might need more and some need less. It depends on the kid.

I hope you do not feed people that same information, that your body doesn't need sleep because quite frankly and matter of factly it's a crock of shit...forgive the bluntness, I cannot help myself.

Right now I feel like I should be in bed, I would be in bed if my fiancee was not putting away his clothes which are covering the bed at the moment. But, I can almost guarantee you that as soon as I do, once the light goes off, I am wide awake and will be until sleep finally takes me. You are trying to suggest that you know my body and the bodies of others such as myself better than we know it when honestly you don't. You do not need to tell us what needs to be done, we already know what needs to be done and you do not know our bodies well enough to diagnose what you think is best.

 

[dfphetteplace]

I work 24 hours shifts on my job, and sometimes work for 2 or 3 days straight. If I'm busy, then I don't get any sleep. Sucks sometimes, but that is the nature of the job.

 

[Sakuji]

Lets see, math... get up friday about 8 am, go to bed monday night about 11 pm, that would be.... fri-sat 24, sat-sun 48, sun-mon 72, then mon 8am - 11 pm, 72+15 = 87 hours. Wow... never really thought about it, but I do that fairly regularly, at least once a month.

?Sleep, those little slices of death; Oh how I loathe them.? ?Edgar Allen Poe

 

[HandfulofWolf]

Stayed up a little more than 60 hours for an experiment. It's funny how you always get creative just before you go to sleep. So I decided to write a set of short stories while trying to stay awake for as long as I could.

 

[VanityGirl]

48 solid hours, then I passed out for a good 18 hours to compensate for loss of sleep.

I did this with my friends, they came over to my house after school and we stayed up all night, drive to school at 4am for a field trip, and stayed up the whole time. It was awful.

 

[El Poncho]

Probably around 48hours, no more than that, and that was for a sleep over;P

 

[Queen Michael]

About 36 hours. I was at a Japan-nerd convetnion, and I didn't want to miss a second.

 

[Sampsa]

28 hours or so while returning from abroad.

 

[ChaoticLegion]

Probably around 60...... gaming xD

 

[icaritos]

3 days and a few hours. By hour 60 i believe i was clinically retarded.

 

[era81]

Operation Anaconda went for about 20 days I slept for about six hours in that 20.Just the other day I pulled a marathon 53 hours on guard.

 

[MelziGurl]

Any who claim to not being able to sleep for more than 72 hours is full of ****. People choose to do such silly things, and if hey claim otherwise, they are just fooling themselves.

Erm, as I said, I went without sleep for almost 5 days, due to severe insomnia. I'm pretty sure that I'm not full of ****, as you say.

You are full of something that is not healthy if you refused to sleep for 5 days.

My point is that even if you don't sleep, you can rest for 5 hours and be able to continue on to working a full day.

Insomnia is a symptom,

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/insomnia/article_em.htm

It is not a refusal to sleep, I suffer from Insomnia from time to time and even when you try to sleep, you are inevitably awake every couple of hours or so.

You have a symptom, so I would guess you can research a means to an end.

If not, then I would guess you are accepting a result instead of attempting a solution.

You don't need to sleep. That is a fact. You need to rest and relax, also a fact. If you can't relax, you might have some sort of mental disorder. That isn't something to be ashamed of, it is something you can mentally work your way through.

The human body needs to rest a certain amount of time per day. You don't need to sleep, just relax.

I relax quite well actually, I'm generally a laid back person. I haven't been able to sleep well since I worked in fast food. 21 days of work straight once (granted they were half days, but the work was stressful) 14 hr days that happened sometimes up to 3 days a week giving me a total of what 82 a week sometimes. Being up at 6am in the morning for work at 8am until sometimes 11pm at night, getting home close to midnight and starting it all again. I have not been able to hold a decent sleep pattern since then and when I do get to bed at a decent hour, I sometimes end up laying there for hours for no reason. I am completely relaxed, nothing at all on my mind that could keep me awake I just do

http://kidshealth.org/kid/talk/qa/sleep.html

Sleep gives your body a rest and allows it to prepare for the next day. It's like giving your body a mini-vacation. Sleep also gives your brain a chance to sort things out. Scientists aren't exactly sure what kinds of organizing your brain does while you sleep, but they think that sleep may be the time when the brain sorts and stores information, replaces chemicals, and solves problems.

The amount of sleep a person needs depends a lot on his or her age. Babies sleep a lot - about 14 to 15 hours a day! But many older people only need about 7 or 8 hours of sleep each night. Most kids between the ages of 5 and 12 years old are somewhere in between, needing 10 to 11 hours of sleep. Some kids might need more and some need less. It depends on the kid.

I hope you do not feed people that same information, that your body doesn't need sleep because quite frankly and matter of factly it's a crock of shit...forgive the bluntness, I cannot help myself.

Are you saying that you don't sleep and yet you still exist and function properly? And by saying so prove my point? Or are you saying that you fail to live, because you don't sleep at all? I don't get what your point is.

If you rest X amount of hours, it's equivalent to x amount of sleep. Rest is not equal to, but equivalent, to a portion of time you don't sleep.

If you can't sleep for 1000000000000 days, but you rest for 100 days, it is better than not resting/sleeping at all. That is my simple point explained in an obtuse way.

Factly isn't a word, that's what the squiggly red lines mean.

Judging by your response I'm going to assume that you just ignored the point of my post considering it's there in plain sight. Rest is not equal to sleep, it is not adequate enough to sustain a full day whereas sleep allows the body to 'shut down' for a period of time so as to rejuvenate and repair itself.

Where did you get the idea, from any of my posts that I function properly? Where did I show any sign or indication of such? I can answer that for you, I did not. I most certainly do not function properly 100% of the time, some days are worse than others. My body has become accustomed to at least 7 hrs to function at a normal level required of myself. Anything less and I don't. Where did I say that I 'did not sleep at all'? Are you pulling these ideas from your arse? You must be, considering that in not one of my posts did I insinuate the idea.

As for the word 'factly' I couldn't care whether it was a real word and to call me on something so trivial to the discussion at hand is to me quite juvenile.

As for the bolded part of your post, it wouldn't be better than nothing as it would basically DO NOTHING to help relieve the sleeplessness of those ridiculously over-top-days of sleep in your example. There are three definitions down the bottom of the post, read them carefully, sleep and rest DO NOT equal each other at any point at any time. There is a very clear difference between them and if you still find some reason to think otherwise then I'm going to then assume that you are just deliberately acting stupid.


rest1   /rɛst/ Show Spelled[rest] Show IPA
?noun
1.the refreshing quiet or repose of sleep: a good night's rest.
2.refreshing ease or inactivity after exertion or labor: to allow an hour for rest.
3.relief or freedom, esp. from anything that wearies, troubles, or disturbs.
4.a period or interval of inactivity, repose, solitude, or tranquillity: to go away for a rest.
5.mental or spiritual calm; tranquillity.
6.the repose of death: eternal rest.
7.cessation or absence of motion: to bring a machine to rest.
8.Music.
a.an interval of silence between tones.
b.a mark or sign indicating it.
9.Prosody. a short pause within a line; caesura.
10.a place that provides shelter or lodging for travelers, as an inn.
11.any stopping or resting place: a roadside rest for weary hikers.
12.a piece or thing for something to rest on: a hand rest.
13.a supporting device; support.
14.Billiards, Pool. bridge1 (def. 14

sleep   /slip/ Show Spelled [sleep] Show IPA verb,slept, sleep·ing, noun
?verb (used without object)
1.to take the rest afforded by a suspension of voluntary bodily functions and the natural suspension, complete or partial, of consciousness; cease being awake.
2.Botany. to assume, esp. at night, a state similar to the sleep of animals, marked by closing of petals, leaves, etc.
3.to be dormant, quiescent, or inactive, as faculties.
4.to be careless or unalert; allow one's alertness, vigilance, or attentiveness to lie dormant: While England slept, Germany prepared for war.
5.to lie in death: They are sleeping in their tombs.
?verb (used with object)
6.to take rest in (a specified kind of sleep): He slept the sleep of the innocent.
7.to accommodate for sleeping; have sleeping accommodations for: This trailer sleeps three people.
8.to spend or pass in sleep (usually fol. by away or out): to sleep the day away.
9.to recover from the effects of (a headache, hangover, etc.) by sleeping (usually fol. by off or away).


Read the first definition carefully...you are suggesting that rest and sleep are EQUAL!

e·quiv·a·lent   /ɪˈkwɪvələnt or, for 5, ˌikwəˈveɪlənt/ Show Spelled[ih-kwiv-uh-luhnt or, for 5, ee-kwuh-vey-luhnt] Show IPA
?adjective
1.equal in value, measure, force, effect, significance, etc.: His silence is equivalent to an admission of guilt.
2.corresponding in position, function, etc.: In some ways their prime minister is equivalent to our president.
3.Geometry. having the same extent, as a triangle and a square of equal area.
4.Mathematics. (of two sets) able to be placed in one-to-one correspondence.
5.Chemistry. having the same capacity to combine or react chemically.