Longest amount of sleep deprivation?

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Sleep deprivation, don't you just hate it? Being disabled for allowing yourself to get any sleep what-so-ever? It's great, isn't it? Well, unfortunately the creativity fairy has casted one of her little "spells" on me and it seems to had worked as I have now been awake for almost a total of around 25 hours, counting on the extra few hours from early in the morning (I awoke at 1am to the sound of dustbins being kicked across the street, talk about a not so good distruptance, heh heh.)

But yeah, I just thought it might as well be a good idea to let my curiousity to flow and wonder on about many of the people who had too been experiencing the same sort of midnight madness during the late hours of the night and the early hours of the day.

So, what's the longest period of time you've spent up? My longest sleep deprivation period I could ever recall was spending a mere 72 hours, on the computer, non-stop. I swear, just looking at the way I'm acting here, it would be funny to think of myself as one of those little night-mice, who scurry around in the dead of night with their tiny, silver feet and their long whiskers feeling the cool mist as it gently soothes them...

Thoughts like that do tend to make me smile...it's just so nice to lay back and picture that one scene...such bliss.

But yeah, enough of my rambling.

I would hope to hear the many sleep-related stories you guys may have lingering way out there.
But only if you want to, don't let me be the one to take force on you.

(And please do ignore my grammatical mistakes. It's not easy typing when you're finding yourself in situation like this.)

Have a pleasant night/day ~!

- SilentDaydreamer.

This has been some time ago, so I hope I have it accurate.

I was in school at the time, and it was a Friday. I had gotten up around 6 AM to get ready for school. That night I attended and all night bowling event. The following morning (Saturday) after returning home from bowling, I went with my parents on an all day shopping trip two hours from home. I went to bed that night around 10:00. That would mean I was without sleep for approximately 40 hours.

When I was touring on the road with my music, the bus driver claimed he never slept because he would strangle (or something like that). I can attest to the fact that anytime I ever woke up in the night, he was in the rear lounge sitting up reading. I never saw him sleep once during those years. His wife also said he never slept.

36 hours. The interface engine* at work crashed and I was the only one around to fix it.

* an interface engine receives electronic message from one computer program and then routes them to one or more other programs, sometimes altering the format or remapping codes to match what is on the destination program. Just in case you did not know and was wondering.

Around 36 hours. I was intentionally trying to deprive myself of sleep but I was deterred by my parents disapproval. They kept catching me and I couldn't do it while they knew I was doing it.

Sleep deprivation can have some very pleasant effects on me. One time after a little over 24 hours without sleep it was like I was on some kind of stimulant. I'm normally hyposensitive but the lack of sleep seemed to amplify all my senses. It also destroyed my attention span though. My mom and I went to get our nails done. During the pedicure I put my feet into the water and it was a lot hotter than what I was used to. It actually hurt. Then came the part where lotion gets rubbed on my feet and calves and it was heaven. It was so much more enjoyable than usual.

The attention problems caused by it were embarrassing for my mom though. I was practically a zombie. Even though everything was so intense I just couldn't pay attention. People would start talking to me and I wouldn't respond. They'd repeat themselves several times and eventually I'd notice it and respond but I was clearly out of it.

Sleep deprivation can elevate my mood and make everything more intense. It doesn't always create the dramatic sensory amplifying effects that it did in the example I've mentioned but it usually does something to make me feel good. It also impairs me cognitively in a very severe way but overall I like it.

As to the original question I've only ever gone 36 hours without sleep. If I were living alone I would've stayed awake longer.

I have had several stints of 48 hours without sleep.

About 55 hours, when I was working in a lab. By the end of it, I had trouble keeping my eyes open, I couldn't write properly and I looked (and smelled) like a right mess – so I made myself go home. Made overnight sessions in the lab a piece of cake, afterwards.

I'd say 36 hours. I was on a road trip to Florida to see my aunt and I discovered that trying to sleep in the back of a van can be very difficult when it is moving.

Two and a half days, mainly because I felt like doing it.

After two days, I started seeing things and becoming paranoid. And if I sat too long in one place, I would start drifting off, which I would always make my self snap out of.

But I did let myself sleep after that time, as the paranoia was getting to be a pain.

When I was eleven I had a problem with fainting. To discover the source of the malfunction, my doctor prescribed an EEG test. This required that I refrain from sleeping the night preceding the test, so that I would sleep during the test. My mom and dad took turns making sure I stayed awake. But having a bunch of electrodes hooked up to my head was too unnerving and I was unable to fall asleep when I was supposed to. Compounding my fears were my classmates, some of who had been telling me that if I failed this test, I would be sent to an Obamacare Death Panel, because I was not worth all this high maintenance.

About four days once. By that time I had started seeing "shadow people" out of the corner of my eye and was entirely too tired to sleep. I eventually took some Xanax or something and it knocked me out.

I believe that the longest recorded time of someone going without sleep is 11 days.

Last month, around my period, I couldn't sleep. I was up for 3 days. By the third day everything around me felt weird. I remember hanging out my laundry and wondering if I would just pass out and fall asleep at the clothesline. That sort of thing happens to me during hormonal times. I can go days without being able to sleep. My mother has sleeping pills she will give me if I absolutely cannot get to sleep after a couple of days though.

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When my babies were little, I went several months sleeping less than 3 hours a night. I didn't see shadow people, but I did keep thinking I saw a cat out of the corner of my eye.

Just a little over 4 days once. Back when I was in the military. Post military I would have to guess around 50-60 hours. I don't sleep for very long at any one time. Sometimes I just forget to sleep, especially on weekends. I just keep doing what I'm doing until it's done, and then I might realize I can't remember the last time I slept or ate.

A few years ago I went about 3 days with no sleep. I was on a steroidal medicin pack for skin exzema flare up; they work by taking a bunch the 1st day & they gradually get reduced. It became harder for me to sleep & after a few days I couldn't get any for about 3 days. By then the daily dose was a lot lower & it took a few days after I was off it before I could get my normal amount of sleep. It cleared my skin up which was really bad butI was really tired & weak during my second day till I was off the med.

Five and a half days when I was in primary school.