Staying Awake

[brocktonblockbust]

What is the longest you have stayed awake for and why did you do it?

Stayed up for Saturday nights boxing which started at 7pm, I woke up at 7am and stayed awake until the B Hopkins v Dawson debacle 5.30am. that is over 22 hours being awake. Shattered but oddly enough had a good nights sleep, probably will feel it later in the week.

Excellent topic. 22 hours is def quite a spell for sure. I'd be pretty trashed. How I hate that feeling. I actually went 32 hours back in 1984 at college trying to finish a paper. 8am Day 1 until 4pm Day 2. The last few hours of wakefulness was like some kind of religious epiphany---all the colors and sounds around me were very strange and intensified like a mushroom trip or something. I sank into a deep feverish kind of sleep the minute I laid down. Think I slept about 11 hours, waking up about 330 am next day.

[Mattyhitman]

WOW, longest was 6-7 days, done 4-5 days a couple of times.
Ya dont need to know what kept me awake, needless to say something did

[0james0]

WOW, longest was 6-7 days, done 4-5 days a couple of times.
Ya dont need to know what kept me awake, needless to say something did

Was it the Klitchko brothers fight compilation?

[Master]

Drugs do not count for staying awake.

[Mattyhitman]

Drugs do not count for staying awake.

Spoil sport, that's me ruled out of this thread then

[Gandalf]

About 48 hours is my maximum, but chemically strung out. Without that I have had plenty of sleepless nights though, sleeping isn't one of my strong points.

I really regiment myself so that I minimise excessive 'staying awake'. I force myself to go to bed before 10:30pm on worknights. Even if there is an hour of sleeplessness I am at least comforted in knowing there is no pressure to sleep. Sometimes I just can't drop off though and occasionally it can be a night with the bare minimum of sleep. You feel like shit the next day.

I would much prefer it if there were more than 24 hours in a day. 30 would be ideal for someone like me.

[Kev]

My sleeping is terrible. I regulary go 30 hours and have gone over 40 a couple times this year.

I'm still up from yesterday midday now so 22 hours

Don't know why, but I have sleep anxiety. I literally cannot stay in bed sometimes, it's torturous for me. That's why I'm usually posting here at all hours.

Tablets don't help as they can't make me sleep at night, I still lay awake for hours but when I do I then sleep for over 15 hours and wake up in late evening and the cycle carries on.

I'm just staying up now so that I hopefully fall asleep this evening. Trouble is if I'm once it gets dark I won't sleep tonight either, I somehow stop being tired and can't get into bed.

The longest for me was well over 50 hours..

[Andre]

WOW, longest was 6-7 days, done 4-5 days a couple of times.
Ya dont need to know what kept me awake, needless to say something did

I bet you had to cut your fingernails after that one.

[0james0]

WOW, longest was 6-7 days, done 4-5 days a couple of times.
Ya dont need to know what kept me awake, needless to say something did

I bet you had to cut your fingernails after that one.

While "staying awake" I once chewed my finger nails so bad I chewed the nail and the ends of all my fingers. Actually bit the tips of my fingers off, had blood everywhere in the morning.

Not one of my smartest momments!

[brocktonblockbust]

WOW, longest was 6-7 days, done 4-5 days a couple of times.
Ya dont need to know what kept me awake, needless to say something did

I bet you had to cut your fingernails after that one.

While "staying awake" I once chewed my finger nails so bad I chewed the nail and the ends of all my fingers. Actually bit the tips of my fingers off, had blood everywhere in the morning.

Not one of my smartest momments!

..........an honest person, give him credit........Jesus!

[Master]

Regular exercise, hot bath, Warm Milk before you sleep, dark room, no noise, calm 30 minutes before and you will sleep.

[superheavyrhun]

Dammit....four days...you guys are crazy. I think I managed 36 hours when I went to uni, when I watched some NFL with the boys, then kept going and pushed through till it ways time to go to lectures.

Needless to say, my notes on that subject were not the best for revision, as I'm almost certain that Brett Favre was NOT involved in the cuban missile crisis.