Union 5-3992 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Mega bump. Last summer I went 36 hours just to see if I could. Near hour 30, I was in "I don't give a f**k" mode. I was very delirious around then too. I couldn't think straight, I repeated myself a lot, had little appetite, & had trouble balancing. I was down on a lake with a friend visiting his grandparents. We went out in the middle of the lake on the paddle boat & while my two friends kept jumping out, I stayed in the boat because I thought I had forgotten how to swim or that I was to tired to bother. I also kept saying,"I'm really out of it". I'll see if I can break that record this weekend doing art projects on the computer. Anybody else have any sleep deprivation stories? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Enemy Without Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 I plan to have some this coming summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColdFireYYZ Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Went 24 hours 2 summers ago. Last summer when my family and I were going away, I woke up at 12pm on a Friday. We left at 2 in the morning that night and I went to bed at 11 on Saturday night. I think I dozed off of an hour or so but I was awake for most of the trip. I tried to fall asleep in the car but I just couldn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missionman Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Can we talk about the distant past (on this one)? 4, maybe 5 days?????? That was years ago.....back when I was a young, fit, chap! Now, just a chap... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 something like 55 hours...a party that never seemed to end led into an early morning flight: Japan to Singapore (6 hour layover there) to France (another layover) to Spain...then a few-hour train ride from Madrid to Malaga (met up & picked up an old friend) then drove to Marbella. I wanted to sleep but for various reasons I couldn't Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babycat Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Last time I tried that was about 25 years ago - totally excited about Christmas! Literally stayed awake all Christmas Eve, all night into Christmas morning and pretty much passed out about 11pm that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union 5-3992 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 Damn, I fell around 3. I'll try again next weekend Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metaldad Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 On Drugs in the 80's ? 3 Days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarkus406 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 One time when I was in 10th grade I had a horrible reaction to something on my face. Itchy burning rash of some kind that felt like fire if I didn't have a cold compress pressed onto it at all times. Well I had that for about 5 days and didn't sleep a wink. Missed the whole week of school. Tried taking prescription antihistamines to either help the rash or to help me sleep. Neither happened. Then some miracle dermatologist gave me some kind of ointment that made everything feel better. I was able to sleep that night and the next morning, the rash was completely gone . Then there was a less severe deprivation of sleep a couple of summers ago. I was working two jobs as a countertop fabricator and a parking lot striper. Well, I worked 8 hours building tops in Danbury, then worked for 17 hours painting lines in Southington. That was 25 hours of straight work. The guy I worked with was nice enough to drive us home from Southington, but I don't remember that ride home. He said I was awake and talking to him though I remember being home, staying up for a couple of hours thinking I'd just go to bed normal time and everything would be fine, but it was like "nope. not happening" and I hit the pillows harder than a dumptruck blasting through a brick wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micgtr71 Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 According to the results of my CPAP study, a few years...Now that I am used to the Oxygen mask, I know that they weren't kidding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 (edited) Four years ago in the summer I had eaten at Applebees and then went to the nearby Barnes and Noble and bought R30, watched it then went to bed. Woke up at the middle of the night and my throat was completely sore to the point it was almost painful to even talk, and when I had to spit out phlegm, it had a bit of blood in it. I went at least 40 hours (maybe over a day and a half) non-stop without sleeping and I think most of that time was spent on trying everything to help remedy it. Nothing worked. I went to my normal sleeping patterns after that bout with insomnia, but I still had the sore throat for about two weeks, and then when that was gone, I had another 2 weeks of just coughing periodically. During my high school orientation, the coughing stopped and I felt normal all of a sudden. Looking back at it, I might have had an allergic reaction to something I ate, but I didn't really consider it at the time because I had long thought that I was allergen free (my whole family suffers from allergies of some sort) since I didn't show many symptoms of it at the time. Edited March 25, 2012 by PolarizeMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Enemy Without Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 QUOTE (Tarkus406 @ Mar 24 2012, 10:48 AM) I was working two jobs as a countertop fabricator and a parking lot stripper. A what??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union 5-3992 Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 QUOTE (An Enemy Without @ Mar 24 2012, 09:59 PM) QUOTE (Tarkus406 @ Mar 24 2012, 10:48 AM) I was working two jobs as a countertop fabricator and a parking lot stripper. A what??? lol, that caught my eye as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbirdsong Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Back in the distant 1980s we had this thing called the Libyan crisis. I was in the US Navy and a lot of guys were on leave and we left without them. I was mostly awake for 5 days. I was so wired and delirious at the end that we started messing with the marines. We would walk out of our secured space with sunglasses on (there were no windows) and the marines guards would look at us like we were crazy. We were the men in blue, losing sleep to keep the free world safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowItIs Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 Thank you, Dr. B About 2 1/2 days. I used to work the graveyard shift and would sometimes stay up for 2+ shifts.... But I was much younger then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invisible airwave Posted March 25, 2012 Share Posted March 25, 2012 I went on an overnight camping trip with some friend of mine near the Joshua Tree desert in CA a decade ago this Summer and didn't get to sleep until around maybe 3 or 4 AM because some of the group decided to hike around some rock areas at midnight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 QUOTE (Union 5-3992 @ Mar 25 2012, 11:01 AM)QUOTE (An Enemy Without @ Mar 24 2012, 09:59 PM) QUOTE (Tarkus406 @ Mar 24 2012, 10:48 AM) I was working two jobs as a countertop fabricator and a parking lot stripper. A what??? lol, that caught my eye as well. Right before parking a customer's car, Tark would rest his package on their dashboard. 10 bucks for the parking, and a 5er to see his goods. He's not a porn star for nuthin' 'ya know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
go2wrk@95974 Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 For about 6 months, from 11-89 to 4-90, I had 2 jobs. my regular job during the day, and another one starting at 1am...it was flippin' brutal.and it completely messed up the sleep pattern.It got so bad by april, I was seriously worn out and exhausted..so much that I spent the last 2 weeks on the couch, unable to move. I had serious thoughts that I wasn't gonna make it. Sleep deprivation really messes with your head.You can literally have big time hallucinations. Never been so tired in all my life, before or since. ....Needless to say, I'll NEVER do that again. ..and the extra $$$ wasn't worth it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILSnwdog Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 When I was in the Air Force, we went on an "Operations Readiness Inspection". Our logistics team screwed up and didn't have our cots ready when we got to our deployment, so I had no where I could get a couple of hours of sleep before I had to start my 12 hour shift. I went 36 hours before I finally got some sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USB Connector Posted March 26, 2012 Share Posted March 26, 2012 About 36 hours. That night my pillow felt more comfortable that it had ever been for the 5 seconds it took me to fall asleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 of the 7 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 A couple days, maybe into three. I've had a few experiences of flights being delayed until the next morning and spending the night in the airport with no sleep. One time, I got the flight home, went right to work, and went to bed at the normal time that night. I'm fine the day after the night of no sleep; it's the day AFTER that (AFTER I've slept) that I'm sluggish and don't function well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbirdsong Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 QUOTE (HowItIs @ Mar 25 2012, 01:30 AM) Thank you, Dr. B About 2 1/2 days. I used to work the graveyard shift and would sometimes stay up for 2+ shifts.... But I was much younger then I was happy to serve. It was a great time in my life. I'm with you. It is easier when you are young. These days at the ripe old age of 46 I can hang late for a while, but the sleep demon will get me faster than it used to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Union 5-3992 Posted May 28, 2012 Share Posted May 28, 2012 I've hit my 26th hour as I write this. Let's see how much further I can go today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Aubrey Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 QUOTE (drbirdsong @ Mar 24 2012, 11:57 PM) Back in the distant 1980s we had this thing called the Libyan crisis. I was in the US Navy and a lot of guys were on leave and we left without them. I was mostly awake for 5 days. I was so wired and delirious at the end that we started messing with the marines. We would walk out of our secured space with sunglasses on (there were no windows) and the marines guards would look at us like we were crazy. We were the men in blue, losing sleep to keep the free world safe. It's a pleasure to meet a fellow Vet! :virtual handshake: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbirdsong Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ May 29 2012, 04:23 PM) QUOTE (drbirdsong @ Mar 24 2012, 11:57 PM) Back in the distant 1980s we had this thing called the Libyan crisis. I was in the US Navy and a lot of guys were on leave and we left without them. I was mostly awake for 5 days. I was so wired and delirious at the end that we started messing with the marines. We would walk out of our secured space with sunglasses on (there were no windows) and the marines guards would look at us like we were crazy. We were the men in blue, losing sleep to keep the free world safe. It's a pleasure to meet a fellow Vet! :virtual handshake: Back at ya. Everybody try to get some sleep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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