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And so I carry on this great experiment of mine. Ok, so it started off as just not going to sleep because of Rome : Total war, but since I don't have to worry about college this week...I can mess about.

Basically, I have decided to see how long I can go without sleep, and how it will affect me. I realised, that I have actually gone relatively short periods of time without sleep...just a couple of days. So now, I'm going to try and go for a week.

Any of you tried this? I've read about its effects, but what about your personal experience?

*Heh, after missing just one night, I'm already feeling the effects...my spelling has just gone out of the window. In some cases, I'm even writing whole words backwards. Not just words like "and" either, but words like..."backwards" actually :)
 
Yadsendew tsal ecnis peels yna tog t'nevah...haey.
Taerg sleef ti!
 
Longest time I can remember staying up for is 32 hours. I don't recommend it. It felt awful, really.

I loves my bed, I do.

\/ CH knows what I mean and describes it better than I can \/
 
I've done this a few times, and the effects are pretty much all painful.

Your eyes hurt, you get pissed off at everything, when I'm watching TV it's like I fall asleep and wake up every 5th minute, you can't taste properly, your body doesn't respond correctly to what you want it to do. My mind doesn't really mess up, I think all normally but my body gets all f*cked up. I've clearly noticed that you get frustrated at life itself, you think it's boring and sucks ass, you don't want to do anything but go to sleep.
 
JimmehH said:
Longest time I can remember staying up for is 32 hours. I don't recommend it. It felt awful, really.
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I dunno, when I worked in the cafe, there would be times when I stayed up all night, went into work (I started at about 4AM most of the time) and it was almost like a dream because I was so tired.
 
Longest I stayed up was this summer. I had just bought 5 new xbox games, and some pc games. I was up 32 hours straight doing nothing but gaming, and small snacks. However by around 20-22 hours I didn't feel like my self and by 32 hours I felt like a zombie. Probably something I won't be doing again.
 
I don't think I've ever made it to even 30 hours before. :P
 
But really...I honestly believe that I won't be able to sleep for more than 24 hours once Half-Life 2 is in my DVD-ROM. Playing it all night and all day long! :O :bounce:
 
IrishPunk said:
Longest I stayed up was this summer. I had just bought 5 new xbox games, and some pc games. I was up 32 hours straight doing nothing but gaming, and small snacks. However by around 20-22 hours I didn't feel like my self and by 32 hours I felt like a zombie. Probably something I won't be doing again.
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thats definetly gonna happen to me come xmas.. i get my new FX-53. x800xt and about 10 games.

Im gonna go crazy.
 
Umm...22 hours possibly? I was about 8 I think, I never stay up late. I like to sleep, a lot.
 
wow... a week? Longest i've stayed awake is 24 hours. Someones gonna be braindead for awhile hehe.

How long it been so far?
 
I've stayed up around 32 hours straight. I've done it several times mostly because of lan parties or I was sick and was throwing up to much to sleep :x .
 
You should start writing a medical journal.

Day 6 -I started seeing hallucinations of hot a girl. Proceeded to wank off furiously.

:D
 
24 hours a few times. After that I am way too out of it to be functioning. I would propose that it is impossible to make it through a day of school without sleeping after staying up for 24 hours straight.
 
outpost233 said:
You should start writing a medical journal.

Day 6 -I started seeing hallucinations of hot a girl. Proceeded to wank off furiously.

:D
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Haha, I don't care who you are, that's funny! /ltcg :o


If HL2 comes out right in time for my Thanksgiving break or something, then, yeah, I don't think I'm sleeping. :P
 
3.5 days. i didn't feel too bad towards the end.. i didn't feel much at all. the sleep cycles are hard (so whenever you normally go to sleep) for the first 3 hours or so, but then you're ok with your second wind. then it's hard again at ~ the 6-hour post-sleep mark (so like 5 or 6 am if you usually go to sleep around 11pm). well, that was my experience anyway. it's very hard to actually stay awake though. unless you are engaged in something that really requires you to pay attention to it non-stop, you'll take little naps here and there w/o actually realizing it.
 
Longest up: 38 hrs.

Get up 5am for a 7am flight.
Fly to vancouver 1hr, wait for a 5PM flight to Calgary
Fly to Calgary, 2hrs, wait 2hrs for a 7pm flight to Heathrow.
Fly to Heathrow, 9.5hrs, land at about 11 am. Go to hotel.
Stay up another 15hrs to immediatly get my body adjusted to London time.

Three flights, one day, 38hrs of awake time.

The strange thing is, I didnt feel any different from the jet lag, all that happened is that I had a slight headache for three days.

However, all the Aussies on the tour had me beat. Australia is 26hrs flying time from pretty much anywhere. I only spent 11.5hrs flying time to get there.
 
24+ hours, it sucks, it's like being doped.
Never again.
 
24 hours.

I was really hyper and sleepy at the same time... :|
 
I agree on the journal, would be interesting to see what you're feeling.

Missing a night of sleep is fine (~40 hours awake).
I dont usually do it if I get tired, if I am tired I may aswell sleep, no use in forcing yourself to stay awake, I love sleeping and hate the feeling of being tired.

If you plan on staying up for like a whole week, look into medical stuff on the internet as it can be dangerous.

Anyone remember that UK Big Brother like show where they had to stay awake for prize money? Well they made them sleep for like 2 hours for medical reasons, which would make it really easy for someone like me.

That reminds me..back to bed.
 
Around 68-70 hours. Friend stayed over for 3 days and we decided to play games rather than sleep for two nights in a row.

Sometime at the end I was getting fed up with the bastard. I got the last laugh when on a car ride back from some 4th of July fireworks he started to drool on himself while sleeping.

I just felt like I always do in the morning. Able to hold a conversation with someone, but might trail off on how a transformer just destroyed the High School so there is no need to get ready for school.
 
my best was 52 hours.

I went through spurts where i didn't feel tired, then i'd hit a wall and want to go to sleep right away. It basically feels like being drunk, you're goofy, you're tired, and you have terrible balance.
 
I stayed up for 24 once, I was at a friends house. When I got home I went to sleep and woke up somtime around 7:00 PM and started to yell at my mom for not waking me up so see The Simpsons, and then I feel asleep again until the next morning when I somehow woke up in my bed. It is pretty cool, like time travel.
 
it was about 40 hours for me, LAN party then house chores, selpt for almost 20 hours after that
 
I've had sleep deprivation before to take an EEG. It's not so bad that you have to stay up for a long time, it's that they put you in a pitch black room and flash an insanely bright light in your eyes (that are shut) and you get dizzy as hell and you see shapes all over the place and you think you are going to have a siezure.
 
I know an insomniac. He has to take pills to go to sleep. He always, and I mean always has to keep moving. When he's sitting, he'll tap his foot. When he's standing, he'll keep pacing around. He's a real jerk too; totally egotistical. Don't know if that's pertinent to him being an insomniac, but it's annoying.

I heard from research they found that people who didn't sleep for a week started having hallucinations, like full-on fantasies while awake. Tell us if that starts happening Farrow. :P
 
The most i've stayed up for is about 65 hours, I was bored and thought it was something fun to do. Most times i'm up like this: Friday - up at 7 AM, go to bed about 6 AM Sunday.
 
I think I've gotten close to 48 hours.

Be sure to tell us all about your hallucinations!
 
:dozey: Longest I've stayed up was for about 48 hours, something around that time. It was summer, me and a couple of my buds wanted to try to stay up and do nothing but gaming. After about 14 hours of straight gaming, we got bored. So the rest of the time we just did whatever, including some moments of gaming. The effects WERE horrid and awful... I was like dizzy, I would shut my eyes for like a minute, wake up thinkin' I slept for ages. I had the most humongous headache ever, coffee didn't help that much, in fact it probably worsened the side effects. When I couldn't take it anymore, I can swear I lied on my bed and fell asleep in like less than a minute.
 
One thing I've noticed. You certainly don't need to miss a few zzz's to start hallucinating.
 
Haha one time when i was up for like 3 days and was walking home one morning i saw a couch on the road, then it disapeared.
 
My record is 48 hours. But bear in mind that that was during a summer camp. Which means I wasn't sitting inside by the computer wasting NO energy. I was outside all the time, burning over 5000 kalories per day.
 
:eek: 5000, this guy is like buff!! Lately I been having weird stuff happen to me in my sleep. It's like some weird feeling, it aint painful, nor pleasureful, it's like a gut feeling when you're feeling fear, like it's being pressed onto, then I wake up.
 
Okey, this will happen.
The mayor difference is that you won't get any REM-sleep, and your brain is not going to like that. There is other ways to sleep if you're past puberty (so you don't grow anymore), and that is 1 hour every 12 hours.
If you only sleep one hour each 12 hours, you will get tired the first days.
On the third day, you will be ready to kill yourself. On the fourth, you will feel better, and on the end of the week you will be high as hell, and it will last as long as you do it, it does for me anyway.

There are some things that you should know though, the body will miss the deep-sleep state, and will not produce some of the regeneration hormones, so you should consult your doctor. I got the advice to eat mangos, since they contain this.
And don't oversleep. NEVER. You will be so tired for the next day, and you could pass some "sleeps", but then you will be tired for the next 2-3.

Da Vinci slept like this. :)
 
ive gone 3 weeks with out sleep at one point. everything is a dream. and crazy people actualy make sence. the first few days of the second week are hell but beyound that its like bliss. to me anyways. but that was a few years back. i can go more than 3 days now without sleep
 
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