I've been awake for 38 hours

[BoomStronk]

Studying. I'm done now but I can't just pop out of gear and go to bed, so I'm re-watching Hendrix-Koschek.

I seem to be having visual disturbances. At the periphery of my field of vision, I keep seeing movement, like a moth flitting by or something.

What's the longest you've stayed up, sans drugs?
- anybody ever experience minor hallucinations/visual disturbances?

 

[BAM]

about 72 hours working on a paper, felt like I was drunk. No hallucinations, just sluggish and had an inability to focus.

 

[Chernabog]

Haven't stayed up that long, but I am staying up now for my last final. I have been to the point where walking across campus to my class I'm almost blacking out but I get there through sheer will.

 

[Blood Python]

I pulled an all nighter last night studying too. When I did finally get home I was in a weird mood and started cleaning out my freezer and talking to my roommate about random shit. I did take an awesome nap though.

I don't exactly how long I've stayed up but I do start seeing weird things with my eyes too. I had to take care of a speeding ticket after class today and I kept just staring at the lady and forgot my address when she was verifying info.

 

[Nonsense]

For about two weeks in 2007, I got a max of an hour of sleep each day. Medical cause.

How did I feel? By week 2 I wanted to die.

 

[Iroh]

So you didn't drink any drinks with caffeine in them? I'd classify that as.a PED.

Probably also something like 38-42 hours. As a kid I sometimes skipped a night because I couldn't sleep.

 

[SafyreSchool**]

I don't think I've ever made it over a day and a half..although I never really tried.

Usually after 24 hours, you kind of hit a stride, and you think to yourself, wow, I can do this forever, I may never have to sleep again! And then you crash and sleep through thanksgiving.

 

[destructive]

2 almost 3 days, I didn't have an appetite throughout

 

[Jae Gibbz]

I feel you. I had 3 finals yesterday and had to come home and write two 4 page papers. I took a 3 hour nap after being up for so long and had a horrible dream, which is weird since I never dream.

 

[Lead]

2 1/2 days. Started seeing shit that wasn't there.

 

[KeepEmComing]

After 48 hours I start to hallucinate hard.

Don't know any grand total of time - there was a three day coke binge
2.5 days of writing code (wrote a compiler)
heroin detox will make you go quite some time without sleep

Mostly school or drug related.

 

[PalharesIsHulk**]

About 35 hours.

I didn't have any hallucinations or hear any voices.

 

[PhantomNugget**]

I've stayed up probably about 4-5 days once, and it gets really weird. Can't think straight at all and I started seeing "shadow people" in my peripheral vision.

 

[RoryFan]

3 or 4 days, but that was drug assisted so I didn't really feel any of the normal symptoms of sleep deprivation. The longest without was probably the first time I played Battlefield 1942 I was awake for around 36 hours playing BF, I fell asleep with my head on the keyboard and woke up like 5 hours later with a soar neck and the pattern of keyboard keys imprinted onto my face.

 

[Fraz]

2 almost 3 years.

 

[raptorjesus29]

50 hours. I went to my orgo lab and just told my TA I hadn't slept in 3 days and left. Luckily he was a nice guy and just told the director that I was sick and I got to make up the lab. I don't know how you guys can go for 4-5 days. I pretty much went insane by the end.

 

[LEWIS540]

I played poker from friday lunchtime to sunday night once. I was alternating between beer and coffee throughout and barely ate anything.

By the end just felt really empty. Sleeping patterns didn't recover for several weeks.

 

[naked duck]

i start seeing shit after being awake for 20 hours. longest though was about 36-40 hours, something like that. worked 3 shifts between 2 jobs. good times.

 

[gryphonart]

This past summer, 90 hours or so, drinking the whole time.

 

[Hurricane Brad]

Studying. I'm done now but I can't just pop out of gear and go to bed, so I'm re-watching Hendrix-Koschek.

I seem to be having visual disturbances. At the periphery of my field of vision, I keep seeing movement, like a moth flitting by or something.

What's the longest you've stayed up, sans drugs?
- anybody ever experience minor hallucinations/visual disturbances?

I've stayed up over 24 hours many times, and once went just shy of 48 hours without sleep. There were drugs involved-pot, to be specific-but that doesn't really help a person stay awake in my experience. Minor hallucinations are pretty much par for the course when you've gone that long without sleep.