Longest period of time without sleep?

[DivineMist1000 71,359]

The only time I did it is when I was younger and I told myself I was gonna stay awake all day and night playing Skyrim for PS4. A total 26 hour period I without sleep.

I regret nothing!!

[Passion 3,484]

62 hours. Never again. I woke up early, didn't sleep for two nights and finally fallen asleep at the evening of 3rd day. When I woke up after 16 hours of sleep, I was paralyzed for 30 minutes unable to move my insanely aching muscles. It was one of the most terrifying and worst experiences I have ever had. Ever since then I haven't gone longer than ... I'm not sure, 30 hours without sleep I think.

[MangoFoalix 24,957]

Probably around 30 hours. I don't think I could ever go past that though.

[The Recherche 29,968]

I actually set my own record in this field a while back.

To keep this brief, my family and I went on a trip to North Carolina, which is quite a distance away... and we decided to depart at 3AM. Due to my teenage sleep schedule, I decided that a mere hour or two of sleep would be incredibly ungratifying... so  I stayed awake that night until we departed. In short, I woke up at 9:30AM Thursday... and went to sleep at 12:00AM Saturday. Therefore, the longest period of time I have gone without sleep would be 38 1/2 hours.

[SharpWit 2,649]

80 something hours, not quite 4 days. I procrastinated on a final project and ended up having to redo the entire thing. Proudest "A" I ever got though.

[Hachiroku 127]

26 hours, it was pretty nasty

[Misty Shadow 7,874]

I went two days without sleep working at Wal-Mart on overnight shifts once. Another reminder about why I am never working at Wal-Mart again.

[Phosphor 11,529]

I went around 30hrs without sleep. That was 2 years ago, when I drove from Albuquerque, NM to my house. I don't plan on doing that again.

[TBD 17,254]

i want on for 38 months without sleep..okay I lied, 38 hours.

Edited September 28, 2018 by TBD

[Cash In 22,313]

25 hours or so.

One night, it was so hot, I couldn't sleep at all. My house didn't have any form of cooling, so I just had to tough it out. Australian summers are brutal. :/

[Rikifive 24,188]

I had sleepless nights multiple times (from my own choice - being busy and whatever), so in average, that would be around 36 hours, multiple times.

To be honest that amount of time isn't a tragedy if you're at home or something, but going to work the second day... The thought, that after ~26 hours of 'uptime', you won't be able to even sit down for the next 8 hours fills with regrets.

One time I had even special visual effects. My sight was tricking me - kinda like being drunk. 

Doing that science during weekends or something - fine; doing that during the week - never again.  

[Here No Longer 5,276]

Let's see... There was a night I went without sleeping at a hotel... Counting the hours up, it was probably around 50 hours that I ended up going without sleep. It doesn't happen often, though, Most of the time my sleep patterns are messed with, I usually over sleep (happens to me when I get suicidally depressed).

Edited September 28, 2018 by Dusk Noire

[Cherry Bomb 51]

i once went 3 days with out sleep. the first i had finished 3 seasons of a youtube series called 'creepy gaming' all about scary games and creepy pastas games...i couldnt sleep cause every time closed my eyes i kept seeing ...cant believe im saying this. Slenderman, ben drowned, and the freaking tails doll. happened when i look into the dark for to long too. not any more though.

[DivineMist1000 71,359]

1 minute ago, Cherry Bomb said:

i once went 3 days with out sleep. the first i had finished 3 seasons of a youtube series called 'creepy gaming' all about scary games and creepy pastas games...i couldnt sleep cause every time closed my eyes i kept seeing ...cant believe im saying this. Slenderman, ben drowned, and the freaking tails doll. happened when i look into the dark for to long too. not any more though.

Don't forget Luna Game!

[Lord Valtasar 12,690]

didn't really count the hours but about 50 i guess

[SkyPie 261]

I think two days? I stayed up the whole night before I was going to camp (can't remember why, maybe nervous?), so I hadn't any sleep my first day. I couldn't go to sleep until the next night.

[Tacodidra 61,173]

29 hours is my record. I doubt I'll stay awake longer than that anytime soon – 20 hours isn't even difficult but after 24 I start feeling really tired. At that point, just closing my eyes for a second is enough for me to fall asleep!

[Envy 6,163]

I honestly don't even remember. Probably going back into my post history several years closer to when I was trying to balance university with an overnight job would tell me the exact number. I started off working nights on Sunday night and then going straight to commuting to the university and not getting back until probably 9PM. I do not remember my sleeping pattern on Sunday and when exactly I would have got up to go to work. It was at least 24 hours without sleep regularly.

[derpyluver 109]

i think about 144 hours 

[Beached Whale 57]

Back in high school I thought I was super cool when I stayed up all night and bragged to my friends that I pulled all nighters  So Probably around 24ish hours? Realized that wasn't going to fly later on, so this year I haven't gone anything past 20.

[Patty Thundersnow 4,164]

26 hours, due to a nocturnal severe weather outbreak in the late spring 2012.

[Wannabrony 11,640]

I would think it's around 32 hours. Not that long, but enough to make you a bit tired.  That day, I woke up at around 9:00 a.m. and it was a completely normal day until late afternoon, when I would head to the airport and fly to London. That first night on vacation, I came to the hotel and slept at about 10:00 p.m., which translates to about 5:00 p.m. for where I was originally from. So, adding those times together, it adds up to roughly 32 hours of deprivation.

Edited September 28, 2018 by Wannabrony

[octoppai 31]

Somewhere around 24 hours. I'm a lightweight and like my sleep.

[Prometheus 3,038]

I think my longest was roughly 35 hours. I was deliberately staying up to try to get a project finished for school. All I had to do was finish a Design brief, complete a few CAD drawings & write an evaluation. Never consumed as much coffee and Red Bull before in my life. 

Walked away from that class with a D... life well spent! 

Best part? I was working the next day...  

[Dreambiscuit 9,691]

Something like 32-36 hours. Something like that. It was two summers ago when I was helping my brother pick up, load, deliver and unload 200 theater seats to his business. It was a long, miserable day and the hardest I think I ever endured.