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Very often almost 3 whole days because I didn't want to (younger) or because I couldn't (2 weeks ago). Hard to remember because after like 30 hours, shit gets blurry and I don't know what was real or what was a dream.
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My sophomore year of high school I snuck out of the house one night, my friends and I pushed the car down the driveway and got it going. Hung out all night. Got caught about 5AM by the local police. (I didn’t have a license either, I was 15 I think.) Cop drove me home and dropped me off to my mom. By then I had been awake 22 hours and was exhausted and tried to go to bed. Oh no. My punishment was going to school. So about 4PM when I got home…. 34 hours awake? (I was a pretty good kid in school…. Most of the time..) 😁
More than three days. 78-80?
Bad reasons, not my own choice the second time.
I'm not entirely sure, but it took place over a week long military exercise. We setup SHORAD missile defenses at night too act as OPFOR for the Air Force, and then moved positions during the day. It was my first long distance extended training mission as an NCO so I was making sure I did everything I was instructed to do. Stay in constant radio contact, scan the skies, id targets, shoot move and communicate. My gunner started hallucinating by the 3rd or maybe 4th day. I don't have any memories of sleeping that entire week, but I assume I must have been dozing off constantly. We rarely saw anyone else that week and just spent the days wandering the desert alone in some sort hazy dreamlike state. I should have made sure we slept more. It was a good lesson..."Hey Srgt., did you just see a Puerto Rican woman with a red balloon? Wait, did you just say yes!?"
Used to be on an odd schedule when I worked overnight.
My work shifts were Thursday to Saturday, 1800 - 0500. So Sunday, when I got off at 0500, I’d stay awake until around 1900 (being up for ~26 hours) and then to go bed. Wake up Monday morning and have a normal Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, then stay up all night Wednesday night until Thursday morning (another 26 hour stint) and the go to bed Thursday morning so I could then go to work at 1800 Thursday night again.
Did that for about a year and it actually worked out reasonably well, but not something I’d entertain now that I’m older.
That schedule is also the reason all my clocks are always set for 24-hour time and I can still fall asleep in broad daylight without any trouble.
Hmm rotating shift work... Was this at prototype, by chance?
56 hours was my longest stint. Was in late high school and just had back to back to back events non-stop including a 24h film festival planning production and submission after a day of classes followed by a big blowout senior party by which point it was just a challenge to see how far to take it. Was a pretty fun roller coaster all told. Plenty of 30-36 hour days since then too, but it’s getting more difficult to go past 24h as I age.
I can't sleep on planes. Or trains. Or buses. Or really anywhere there's stuff going by, people all around me, and not enough space to lay flat.
This makes international travel problematic. The last time I went to Europe I was up for about 27 hours straight, from the time I woke up in my house to the time I went to sleep in the hotel.
About 20 hours. Half it was on a 10 hour flight and no matter how much booze I poured down my throat I just couldn't fall asleep
After a night long drug binge, I stayed awake for five days. It was interspersed with small naps, and by the third day I was getting some healthy sleep again (perhaps 30mn or so at a time), but it never felt long enough. I was only back to a normal sleep schedule on the fifth night. It was terrible. I phoned a friend at some point to help me because I was in shambles and absolutely panicked I would never settle again. Don't do cathinones
72 hours, uni final exams
Close to 72hrs. I work in the entertainment industry and we had a project that was poorly lead. Overpromises were made, not enough time and people. It was two of us working from Friday into Sunday. The issue with the place with worked at (besides the company itself) was that the heat would shut off at night and the weekends. We both worked in a little small office, that used to be a closet. An electric space heater kept us warm while we worked, but once you opened the door into the main office space it was freezing, because it was the dead of winter. I tried to catch a nap a few times, but it was way too cold to actually sleep on the couch. The other issue was the noise being created by the city that was building a park across the street and breaking through the foundation. We eventually finished the project, and when they were thanking the people involved for all the great work, the two of us were not mentioned. Lovely place.
67 hours. After a full day of work, my wife and I hopped an international flight to Europe. There were two layovers, including a 6-hour one in Dubai. I tried to sleep on the longest leg of the flight, but with my restless wife on one side and a restless stranger on the other, I couldn't. Once we landed and reached our AirBnB, I announced I was going to take a desperately needed nap. My wife stood at the bedside staring at me until I gave up and we went for a walk to see Prague.
Dreamed of seeing that city for half my life, but it was a couple of days before I was capable of enjoying it.
Not very long. About one and a half nights. Went to a rave where I stayed up all night and day then went straight to a metal festival next night. Tried to drive after to go back to my far away home but couldn't drive safely because my eyes couldn't see the road very well. I was exhausted and had to nap for a few hours mid trip.
A couple of months ago I didn't sleep all weekend. Got up Friday and didn't go to bed until about 10:00 p.m. the following Monday.
No drugs, no caffeine just didn't feel like sleeping. It was kind of refreshing.
But that's not the worst one for me. There was a time period where I didn't actually sleep for about a week maybe two. However, I can't be certain of how long it was because towards the end I started taking micronaps where I would be in the middle of a conversation and pause for like 20 seconds and it was obvious to other people that I had fallen asleep mid-sentence but then I would invariably wake back up again.
When that spell finally broke, I had just finished work and I got that little signal that says I'm about to fall asleep and I was so excited.
However, I was catching a ride with friends and I had to wait for them to bring me home and they had to go to the grocery store and I have vague staticky memories of fondling chicken breasts in an inappropriate manner and following behind other people way too close like the kind of close that would get me maced, and then running through the store telling every single person that I met that this bottle of beary bear brand syrup was my friend and he would protect us.
Entertaining after the fact, not fun to go through, 1/10 do not recommend.
When I was a student I wrote a piece of software. Originally an assignment to be done within 6 months, I decided to go for it at once. I started programming on Thursday, and finished it on Saturday, while living on snacks, pizza, soft drinks, and tea. No time for sleep while being 100% in the zone.
About 36 hours. Borded on the plane for Mauritius (afternoon) , after 12 hours of flight, landed there, was told I need a visa to get in. Borded on exactly the same plane , flew 12 hours back. 2/10 wouldn't recommend. Still gets 2 points for psychodelic effects of tiredness
Something approaching 48 hours, during college, to finish some assignments. It never works.
I don't think I've gone longer than 48 hours. There was a very stressful period of my life where I couldn't sleep (and if I did I'd only get a hour or so) and I'd only get sleep every other night from how exhausted I was.
Approximately 36 hours. Got on a serious roll with some friends to beat Super Mario World 3, realized when we finished that it was about 4:30am, just went with it. I ended the day after throwing up a shrimp burrito from Taco Del Mar when the guy behind the counter misheard “shredded beef” and I had already got home (I don’t eat seafood, so it was already tough to get down). Never again.
Dreamhack… I spent around 60 hours awake before I crashed
I can't even do a proper night-out so I have nothing to say about your question. I just hope you get better from your depression OP. Here, enjoy my upvote and comment notification dopamine!
About 24 hours. I'll almost fall asleep standing up at that point and whatever reason I've got to stay awake just is not worth it.
40 hours. Mix between working to pay for college and overdue assignments. Then drive 2 hours to Thanksgiving and had Thanksgiving lunch. Then went into a food coma for 14 hours straight
30 hours. Electrical substation upgrades. Back in the '80's, when I was young.
72 hours, insomnia. They first put me on benzos, then trazodone, then finally Lunesta was able to get my brain working fully again. The benzos were interesting because I didn't really feel like I slept when I was on it? Like it just erased my memory of the sleepless night
78 hours. I was 18, and anxious af about the situation my life was in. I don't remember getting tired or anything other than frantically cleaning the house and finally passing out in front of a ProActiv infomercial after scrubbing the hell out of the fridge. I was unconscious for about 10 hours (sleep is not the word for that state) after.
Multiple times, a few because of partying (it was the 80's ... what can I say) and three due to work (system crashes).
The work ones were 2@24 hrs and 1@36 hrs -- partying I can't remember how long. Definitely wouldn't be able to do that now.
Army.
Because basic training.
Like 3x3 and close to none for 4. It was insane and I'm surprised I lived.
(They'll tell you the DS isn't allowed to mess with your sleep, and they told us that on day one as well. Just so we knew that they weren't messing with it. )
Apparently a not insignificant portion of the electorate has been asleep for 8 years
Edit: actually on topic, I’ve done a few 36 to 40 hour stints over the years, but i don’t make a habit of it