Longest period of time without sleep?

[Twiggy 2,966]

About 72 hours, give or take. It was when I shipped for basic. Was super nervous so I couldn't sleep the night before, and once you get there, they have to go through a lot of shit to get you processed. It was a good 36 hours after we got there before they let us sleep.

[Methuselah 291]

About 45 hours. I simply had really bad insomnia.

On 9/28/2018 at 12:49 PM, derpyluver said:

i think about 144 hours 

How did that happen? Did you start hallucinating?

Edited September 29, 2018 by Methuselah

[derpyluver 109]

i was moveing here all the way from californya by car

[Will Guide 21,360]

Hmm...outside the two times I went to Disneyland when both parks are open for a full 24 hours, there had been at least 3 nights I remember staying awake all night until after the sun rose the next day. So yeah, a few times I've stayed awake for more than 24 hours.

[Methuselah 291]

22 minutes ago, derpyluver said:

i was moveing here all the way from californya by car

Geez. That sounds as bad or worse than drunk driving. Glad you're still alive.

[Tropical Melody 6,198]

Six days!

Line of unrelated context demarcation.

"We visited this town, I’ll remember it’s name later."

[derpyluver 109]

31 minutes ago, Methuselah said:

Geez. That sounds as bad or worse than drunk driving. Glad you're still alive.

i was not driving im 8

[Methuselah 291]

2 hours ago, derpyluver said:

i was not driving im 8

Wait, you're only 8?  And you went six days without sleeping?

[derpyluver 109]

no it was three nights and three days 

[Methuselah 291]

...That would make it 72 hours, not 144.

[Tropical Melody 6,198]

More doable - but only somewhat!

 

[BronyTrucker 14]

My record is about 60 hours of WoW and that was quite bad. But almost every week I have to do 24h+, which is actually getting pretty easy after some time.

[Guest]

Somewhere around 3 days.

Edited March 4, 2020 by Guest

[Fluttershutter 2,457]

Around forty hours. Two days and one night when I was on a camping trip.

[Alex2002ita 60]

The whole New Year's night (2018), awake from the day before.
Damn if I did not feel bad lol.

[Appley Hooves 136]

83 hour Mount & Blade marathon, back when I was still addicted to the original game and active on the TaleWorlds forums. Nowadays nobody there knows who I am and most of the people I knew are long gone or oddly enough dead - didn't know so many of them were older guys as most acted pretty young.

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

I have never been able to stay awake for longer than a day. I don't have enough willpower to stay awake for longer periods of time.

[Handsome Changeling 1,851]

About 5 WHOLE minutes.

[RiseofSpectrum 359]

Yeeesh. As of this very moment, I've been through 20 hours without sleeping. Quite ironic I saw this topic.

Anyway, about 40 to 45 hours is my record. Something I've done on several occasions, I might add. When I was younger, it was a tradition for me to wake up early in the morning and not sleeping during New Year's Eve. I've done this about 4 or 5 times, and that's not counting the times I partied and ended up not sleeping that night either.

[AJ2489 2,855]

23.5 hours. Was trying to stay awake for a full day, didn't work...

[FizzyBubbleTea 41]

I think I went about 72 hours without sleep. and that was the worst 3 days of my life and I will never repeat it ever again. no con is worth the lack of sleep i felt.

[Crimson storm 1,837]

 The longest I’ve stayed awake without sleep was three whole days and on the fourth day I was out

Edited November 8, 2018 by Crimson storm

[Hardway Bet 96]

From morning on day one, to early afternoon on day three. I had a lot of money and zero obligations, oversight or companionship for the first time in my life, so I did all sorts of dumb crap just because there was no one to stop me. After the second sleepless night, I kinda stopped feeling anything at all, so I gave up and went to sleep.

[Cynthia Mintwing 2,216]

Longest period without sleep was about 3 days. To me, it doesn’t feel like much.

[Thuja 3,659]

I think for me it was around 2 and a half days?  I don't know why I stayed up for so long, I think I was having some pretty bad nightmares??  It was when I was younger.