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How long have you stayed awake?
- Thread starter Druidus
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Druidus
Keeper of the Grove
People do stupid things when they are desperate for money and someone offers up a good, seemingly easy, bet. I lost the money though. I was supposed to stay up seven days, but I didn't even really get a full six. There were hallucinations, however, by the fourth day, which scared the crap out of me, but are funny to think about now. There was a pink elephant with a teacup and an english accent, whom I thought was trying to kill me :biglaugh:.
BUDDY
User of Aspercreme
When I was in the Marine Corps I stayed up for four days and it sucked. I think it would have been harder to do if I were at home and near my comfortable bed. Since I was out in the woods though, there wasn't a whole lot around to tempt me into a quick nap. I was told later that four days is considered the maximum amount of time to stay awake. Anything beyond that can be very unhealthy.
Saw11_2000
Well-Known Member
Maybe a day for me.
However, I'm insomniac, so I usually get 4-5 hours of sleep every day.
However, I'm insomniac, so I usually get 4-5 hours of sleep every day.
Saw11_2000
Well-Known Member
Lookingformeaning
Active Member
Probably about 10 hours for me.
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Majikthise
Guest
Three days on alert status in the Air Force.A bunch of us had a marathon D&D game to stay awake.I slept for almost two days straight afterwards.
Green Gaia
Veteran Member
It was probably when I had my second child and was in the hospital, I just couldn't sleep between the pain (I had a C-section) and the nurses coming in every hour or so to check my vitals. I also had a mild reaction to the anesthesia which made me itch horribly for 2 days. It was about 48 hours in all I was awake. I was never so glad to get home!
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Majikthise
Guest
I don't remember any hallucinations but after a couple of days I felt like my head was open at the top and my brain was sticking out.Also ,I rememeber my hands feeling like lead weights.:areyoucraDruidus said:
Andra130
Member
I was awake for almost three days straight when I went into boot camp for the Navy. Only two of those days were imposed on me, the first day I was awake most of the night (except for an hour or two) because I was so scared about going and leaving every thing I had ever known. I felt sick on the second day and on the third day I wept like a little kid in the head (bathroom for all you land lubbers) to some of my shipmates, it took them a while to convince me that I would make it and be ok. Before that the longest I had gone was 24 hours and I tell you what, I NEVER want to repeat that 3 day experience. I have friends in the Marines who have had to stay awake for 4 days while in Iraq, and I can only say Marines are machines!!! I couldn't do it in a hundred years....
Yerda
Veteran Member
Any longer than eight hours and I'm irritable.
I went three days without sleep when I was around 15, I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. I stayed up drinking and smoking weed with friends the first night (it was a school night and my mother almost hit the roof when I sauntered in at 9:15 am stinking drunk on Friday morning, school was hell that day). I then decided I need not sleep the remainder of the weekend.
On the Sunday I sat in a chair in my room sweating like a marathon runner, listening to Radiohead's The Bends over and over, convinced my family hated me and contemplating suicide. I started drinking again and passed out.
I never repeated that stunt.
Half of my school friends refused to speak to me for weeks on account of insulting them, the school decided I had to carry a sheet with me which my teachers could sign approving my conduct because I had called my maths teacher an "incompetent stuttering f**k", and Mother Dear gave me earache for ages.
Some people can handle excessive alcohol and sleep deprivation, I can handle neither.
I went three days without sleep when I was around 15, I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. I stayed up drinking and smoking weed with friends the first night (it was a school night and my mother almost hit the roof when I sauntered in at 9:15 am stinking drunk on Friday morning, school was hell that day). I then decided I need not sleep the remainder of the weekend.
On the Sunday I sat in a chair in my room sweating like a marathon runner, listening to Radiohead's The Bends over and over, convinced my family hated me and contemplating suicide. I started drinking again and passed out.
I never repeated that stunt.
Half of my school friends refused to speak to me for weeks on account of insulting them, the school decided I had to carry a sheet with me which my teachers could sign approving my conduct because I had called my maths teacher an "incompetent stuttering f**k", and Mother Dear gave me earache for ages.
Some people can handle excessive alcohol and sleep deprivation, I can handle neither.
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Majikthise
Guest
How the hell did you stay awake after all that weed!!??truthseekingsoul said:
