Poll: How long have you stayed awake for?

[Hurr Durr Derp]

Yeah, I came off like an ass (not the first nor last time) with my first few posts about this. I would like to say I was speaking to people complaining about not being able to sleep. The first thing they should do is attempt rest, the sleep will eventually come, and/or you might be better off for your next day of activity.

I failed at explaining what I meant. It is still better to rest than not sleep at all. In a convoluted way, I wanted to express that, even though I said nothing of that sort at first.

You are 100% correct that humans have to sleep eventually. I was 100% wrong in my first few posts. In my silly head I was skipping ahead and trying to prescribe a method to battle insomnia that has been recommended to me and others.

Ah, ok. That makes sense.

My fault for not reading past the first page, I guess.

 

[gred]

72 hours.
Why? video games.

 

[Bonecrusher]

Around 36 hours, I like sleep to much to deprive myself of it for longer then that.

very same.

 

[Eldarion]

Me and one of my mates decided set up both our xbox's in my room and spend a weekend gaming. We got around 72hours without sleep, although we were kept awake by the ungodly amount of energy juice we bought

';

Did the same thing, was a train wreck on monday.

 

[rokkolpo]

4-5 days.

i can deal with it pretty good.
a friend of mine had a bad period of not sleeping 3 YEARS.
(his body repelled melatonine, and he does not suffer trauma. i never thought it was possible though)

Sir, anything you order is free of charge, sir ;-)

nice fight club reference.
but really i wasn't referring to fight club, this was for real.

 

[Legendsmith]

4-5 days.

i can deal with it pretty good.
a friend of mine had a bad period of not sleeping 3 YEARS.
(his body repelled melatonine, and he does not suffer trauma. i never thought it was possible though)

I wish I didn't have to sleep. Your friend is a lucky one. (If I'm reading that right that is. You're saying that he suffers no adverse effects from not sleeping?)

 

[the_maestro_sartori]

Umm... what did you do when you got to disk 2?

er.. changed disks, selected "no, dont want to save now" and carried on playing?

 

[Nerples]

Quick note to all chronic insomniacs. I watched a programme (about insomnia) and one method was to keep out of the bedroom entirely until it is time to go to bed. It is thought that if the only time you go into your bedroom is to sleep then your brain will associate your bedroom with sleep and sleep only. Well it worked for this guy after about a week of this. So stay out of your bedroom until it is time to go to bed. It will not work immediately, but it will eventually.

 

[rokkolpo]

4-5 days.

i can deal with it pretty good.
a friend of mine had a bad period of not sleeping 3 YEARS.
(his body repelled melatonine, and he does not suffer trauma. i never thought it was possible though)

I wish I didn't have to sleep. Your friend is a lucky one. (If I'm reading that right that is. You're saying that he suffers no adverse effects from not sleeping?)

no not really. except his back couldn't stand lying down anymore, his body got used to sitting and standing 24/7.

after therapy and heavy medication he can lie down now. and even sleep.
took them 3 years to get that far though.

 

[DarthVanitas]

I gone without sleep for about 36-40 hours. I wish I didn't have to sleep....so much time wasted.

 

[InnerRebellion]

About 5 days. Relationship worries were the cause.

 

[ironmace2.0]

102 hours only because the people next door had work being done on their house through the night.

 

[JBGigas]

48 hours. Me and my buddy were playing HoMM 5.

 

[Curious Georgie]

3 days. I could've stayed awake longer but I didn't see the point since I was getting bored of gaming.

These days I couldn't last 24 hours though, I've become such an old man...

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

About a year ago, I had insomnia that lasted for a week. Solid. By the end, I had trouble walking, I was hallucinating, and I'm not entirely sure I should have lived through it. When I finally fell asleep, on a Friday night, I woke up on Saturday night.
Never again do I hope to stay awake that long.

 

[Hussmann54]

4-5 days.

i can deal with it pretty good.
a friend of mine had a bad period of not sleeping 3 YEARS.
(his body repelled melatonine, and he does not suffer trauma. i never thought it was possible though)

Sir, anything you order is free of charge, sir ;-)

nice fight club reference.
but really i wasn't referring to fight club, this was for real.

I know, I just found some of the similarities being post by various people on this thread interesting. You were just the one I read that reminded me of it in the first place. If you read the actual book, it turns out the events span three years roughly.

 

[MajorKris]

I had bad insomnia a few months ago, and managed to stay awake for a whole two days before the exhaustion got to me. I loooove sleep way to much to avoid it purposely.

 

[luclin92]

i passed out after about 29 hours

 

[Zannah]

~80 hours probably

We got up all early, to make it to a three days larp-event, which turned out to be a rather ridiculous battle-fest, with the npcs working in THREE FUCKING SHIFTS, keeping the player base under almost constant attack.

So at the end of the con, half the people had somewhat collapsed, and the other half was literally sleeping inside their armor - good thing, the nscs ultimately where as tired as we were (My boyfriend and I decided not to drive the ~60 miles back home after that though, and slept a while on some parking space, in the car :X)

 

[Jark212]

3 days...

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