Poll: How long have you stayed awake for?

[mad825]

I cannot say for sure how long I've stayed awake however I do remember staying awake nearing 3 days at least, I had a tooth infection which meant my anxiety levels when sky high and it was end of the weekday so I couldn't go to the dentist till Tuesday because it was booked.

it was rather nasty as well, I didn't eat and drank little fluids.....yea it wasn't pleasant.

 

[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.

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

Sleep gives your body a rest
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?

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.



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.

Hey, I know you have a lack of being able to live and react and respond in an ideal manner since you state you are less than normal....

My point was that 5 hours of resting/laying in a bed while relaxing ones mind is good enough to pass for "sleep" for 2.5 hours of sleep.

The people that claim to have a problem of "not being able to sleep" is a lame excuse for not being able to relax and control ones thoughts.

If you can't sleep, but lay on a bed for eight hours while relaxing, you can have sufficient energy the next day to work in a productive manner. If not, then you failed to meet the prerequisite that I previously described.

If you fail to relax while attempting to rest on a bed for more than ..... I don't know, lets say 3 days..... than you are obviously in need of immediate mental care that I cannot prescribe.

The point I have proven for myself and that I have been told by others that have 'trouble' sleeping is that : when you can't rest, your mind is doing things other than resting, what is your mind doing? If you have so little control over what you are thinking, then your lack of self control is a sure sign that you need professional help. There is no argument for this. You have to face reality here. You need help if you can't even control what your mind is doing. That is a red flag for severe need of professional help.

Would you like to explain to me how not FUCTIONING properly some of the time makes me less than normal? You need to start providing something to back up your theories and the theories of others (apparently), because at the point in time nothing you have said is proven. And as another has already pointed out to you, what works for some doesn't necessarily work for others. What you have heard from others is not the be all end all and through this dicussion the only conclusion I can come to is that you are too ignorant to the ways of others to even think that what you are suggesting is in fact WRONG for them. My defense this entire time is that:

A. Sleep is not a sufficient answer to Insomnia and that long periods of rest only works for some who's bodies have simply no doubt become accustomed that way of life.

B. Your theory(s) will not work for everyone and in trying to prove otherwise only brings the conclusion that you are ignorant and refuse to see it any other way. Unless you are a doctor you have no basis to diagnose the problems of others.

Unless you provide a source for me to read on your theories then I doubt you will hear from me again.

http://www.healthexcel.com/docs/_insom1.html

 

[PixieFace]

It was somewhere around 42 hours. It was during finals week, natch.

I could not handle staying awake for that long. Maybe I'm just not EXXXTREME enough but by the end of it my chest felt like it was caving in on itself so I could barely breathe, my muscles were screaming in pain and doing this thing where they kept clenching and unclenching, my throat was constricting like crazy and I was getting a migraine. It was baaad. I couldn't even get myself to eat or drink anything because my throat and stomach hurt so much. My entire body was in spasms by the end of it, part of that muscle clenching problem I had.

Almost had to go to the hospital to get fluids into myself intravenously. I did manage to go to sleep eventually, happily enough, it just took me a while to recover. I guess I'm just not cut out for the stress. I like my sleep, thanks very much.

 

[MelziGurl]

Roughly 40 hours is my max with absolutely no sleep.

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.

I didn't refuse to sleep at all, I couldn't sleep, even if I wanted to. That's what insomnia is. I haven't heard of anyone outright refusing to sleep for 5 days, unless it was for an experiment or something. I would have loved to sleep, but I couldn't.

It is easy to say you didn't sleep for x amount of days....

My point is that if you rest for 5-6 hours, you can get the equivalent of sleep.

If you lay in a bed and do nothing, and control your thoughts enough to not twitch, you can get enough of the rest you need to live a productive life. It is possible to not sleep and allow your body enough rest to work the next day.

Actually, no. Your body might rest well enough if you just lay still for a while, but your mind needs sleep. Actual sleep, not just resting. If you go without sleep long enough it starts to have serious effects on your mental abilities, and your brain starts 'shutting down' for short periods (aka microsleeps). As far as I know, it's not humanly possible to go completely without sleep.

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.

Since I didn't read this until after I got my message and replied I can now happily agree with you and you can ignore the last post.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

48 hours once. Believe it or not, it was when genre wars came out on the escapist. (God was it addicting)

 

[MortalForNow]

Probably somewhere around 72 hours at most. I stayed awake for about three days straight, each day for a different reason. First day was a large amount of homework that took me all night, second day was an inability to sleep due to the events of the previous night, third day was for lack of time-telling skills before I passed out at around 4 am.

Total time awake: Roughly 69, maybe 70 hours

 

[Stu1701]

I once stayed up for 4 days straight in high school. I don't remember any of it, but my friends told me that about half way through day 2 I started walking into things like doors and walls, twitching at random moments, and things like that. By day 4 I'm told I was like a zombie, like an actual Ramero style zombie. I slowly shuffled when I walked and even tried to bite a chunk out of my friend's hand.

 

[Shirokurou]

48. Two days in a row. After that I think I slept a whole day.

 

[FinalHeart95]

Around 36 hours with the help of a lot of soda. LOTS AND LOTS OF SODA.

 

[cormacdffy]

I know its lame, but just under 20 hours. I decided to pull an all-nighter and stayed up playing Batman: Arkham Asylum and eventually fell asleep. The bad part was, when I woke up I realised that I left the xbox on and it red-ringed while I was asleep...

 

[DustyDrB]

I did around 84 once. Not only that, but it was a freaking busy 84 hours of chaperoning a lock-in, touring colleges, and of baseball practice. I didn't even drink coffee back then. Oh, to be young.

 

[Vitor Goncalves]

Well I had this college exam, so I woke up the day before very early to study for it. Then I skipped sleep next night and keot me awake with coffee and studying. I did the exam and got 14.6 out of 20 and then drove from the place where I was studying back to my parents home. Vacations were starting and we were supposed to drive next day to my sister's (2000 km, from Lisbon to Geneva). When I arrive my father decided we should set off right way, so one more night without sleep, driving, me and my father alternating, me drinking a double coffee on every gas station and having a piece of fruit. We managed to arrive after 18 hours driving on the third day morning, but then my plans to sleep were sabotaged because my sister had more visits at home and so the day was a long day lasting till almost 2 am. In the end I was awake around 66 hours, and I slept from that 2 am till next 11 pm.

 

[Stone Wera]

If I had an energy drink...
I would be screaming at my dog for days.
YOU'RE A DOOOOOOOOOG!!
OH MY GOD, YOU'RE A DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG!!!!

 

[Chechosaurus]

Probably near 40 hours. It was party time!

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Just shy of 6 days. 3 of them were at a LAN. The remaining time was just to see how long I could last. Day 4 is when the auditory hallucinations kicked in. Only stimulants I used was caffinated soft drinks and loud music. The hallucinations weren't even that good, the chimes from the old chat program ICQ would sound off every now and again. Often during the most innapropriate times.

 

[Plurralbles]

100 hours is four days guys, an da little bit more. Surely you were hurting.

 

[Jamieson 90]

Around 72 hours, sounds really hard and at times it is, you kind of hit a wall where you feel to tired and just want to shut your eyes, once you get past it though you feel fine and can go another 24 hours.

However by the end of it I was pritty much dead. Was some fun games of Necromunda though.

Longest asleep was 48hours was I was 9, that was due to medication though, my parents were pritty scared when I didn't wake up.

When I woke up I was like nice, its the weekend only to be told no its Monday and your going to school, although my parents were relieved I was finally awake, I was like what the hell just happened.

 

[airwolfe591]

Roughly 72 hours for me, I had just got Dragon Age and every night out of habit or being on 'auto-pilot' I would buy a NOS and return to playing, for three nights i think. Longest I've ever stayed up and I for one will never do that again, it's just not worth the mental and physical fatigue that builds up.

 

[Doctor VonSexMachine]

3 days. Caffeine is a hell of a drug.