So I kinda just realized I didn’t sleep for the past 24 hours. Noy sure if it’s the longest I’ve been awake, but probably of the top 5 longest. I’m dealing with depression so my sleep cycle have been fucked up. Got coffee I think around the 12th hour mark.
I’ve basically just been watching youtube videos, browsing lemmy. Googled random things.
Idk why, I guess I just wanted some dopamine boost from coffee and now I can’t sleep lmao. Maybe a bit of anxiety around certain recent political events.
I honestly am not sure if I’m actually awake or dreaming.
Anyways, what is the longest time you’ve been awake without sleep? When did it happen and why?
24 hours is sadly quite common for me. Max might have been just past 45 hours. I don’t think I ever reached 48.
25h for doing a 100% “speedrun” of Paper Mario: The Origami King 5 years ago.
I was the first one to ever do it so I can say I’m a former world record holder :p
36? 38 hours? Something like that… I kind of lost track around 30.
Gaming. Ultima IV.
The hallucinations were interesting. Hard flat surfaces like table tops and counters started rippling like water.
Dreamhack… I spent around 60 hours awake before I crashed
About 36h. One day, one night and the next day. Party + drugs.
I did this twice actually, but I like sleeping too much to make it a regular thing.The second day always feels soooo strange. Dissociation/derealization is nuts. For me it was always MDMA that kept me up the next day.
I stayed up for over 2 nights but I was on some heavy drugs. Near the end I was hearing voices and there was shadow people in my peripheral vision. I also couldn’t put together a sentence , the words would come out in the wrong order .
50+ hours, when a loved one went into septic shock several years ago (they eventually got better). When they were stabilized and I was finally able to sleep, I just basically said “okay, now is fine” to the darkness creeping in from my peripheral vision every time I closed my eyes and let it finish doing so. I was asleep within a few seconds.
I’m not sure it was the longest, but most recently I was up over 36 hours straight.
Worked then pulled an all nighter driving to Florida to visit my friend. Got there at 7:30 am and then did a whole day with them before passing out after midnight.
"I need to sleep desperately
Brain: “Give it one more hour so it’s forty.”
“What? Why?”
Brain: “You gotta”
40 hours. Mix between working to pay for college and overdue assignments. Then drive 2 hours to Thanksgiving and had Thanksgiving lunch. Then went into a food coma for 14 hours straight
My sophomore year of high school I snuck out of the house one night, my friends and I pushed the car down the driveway and got it going. Hung out all night. Got caught about 5AM by the local police. (I didn’t have a license either, I was 15 I think.) Cop drove me home and dropped me off to my mom. By then I had been awake 22 hours and was exhausted and tried to go to bed. Oh no. My punishment was going to school. So about 4PM when I got home…. 34 hours awake? (I was a pretty good kid in school…. Most of the time…) 😁
About 20 hours. Half it was on a 10 hour flight and no matter how much booze I poured down my throat I just couldn’t fall asleep
Used to be on an odd schedule when I worked overnight.
My work shifts were Thursday to Saturday, 1800 - 0500. So Sunday, when I got off at 0500, I’d stay awake until around 1900 (being up for ~26 hours) and then to go bed. Wake up Monday morning and have a normal Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, then stay up all night Wednesday night until Thursday morning (another 26 hour stint) and the go to bed Thursday morning so I could then go to work at 1800 Thursday night again.
Did that for about a year and it actually worked out reasonably well, but not something I’d entertain now that I’m older.
That schedule is also the reason all my clocks are always set for 24-hour time and I can still fall asleep in broad daylight without any trouble.
Hmm rotating shift work… Was this at prototype, by chance?
Very often almost 3 whole days because I didn’t want to (younger) or because I couldn’t (2 weeks ago). Hard to remember because after like 30 hours, shit gets blurry and I don’t know what was real or what was a dream.
3 days so that I could finish my thesis. It happened because I was a procrastinator (I still am, but not as bad).
