What is the longest amount of time you have been awake?
The film project I'm working on right now is set in '94 as it happens. It'll be my first feature (that I write and direct, I've worked on other features).
The answer to your question is.. just about 24 hours really. It was after a long night shoot just after a long day with an early start. The interesting thing is I had my first, and only (thus far) seizure when I slept after the night shoot. Basically I woke up shortly after sleeping after the night shoot, having a seizure. It was weird. I felt calm. I was shaking a heck of a lot, like crazy shaking and my vision was shaking, and I couldn't control my body, but I was just laying there watching my body shaking and was thinking "Hmmm... I think I'm having a seizure.. I wonder if I'm dying" but I was really calm, thinking this very calmly. I'm not generally a calm person, I have anxiety, am very cautious and have a fair few fears, so I find it very interesting how I felt when this was happening, especially that I calmly wondered if I was dying. I was amazed that I wondered such a thing so calmly.
Anyway afterwards I did some research, and came upon something called 'first time seizures' which apparently is fairly normal for people to experience, more commonly men. They are often triggered by immense stress, sleep deprivation, and poor health. I was suffering very much with acid reflux and medication issues at the time too. So yeah, I had my first time seizure. Never had one since.
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56 hours, without any caffeine or other energy boosters. I was 21 and it was absolute horror. During the last 3-4 hours of the ordeal, I went into some kind of weird altered state of mind. I had been traveling for a very long time, including spending a sleepless night on a cold airport concrete floor because my connecting flight had been cancelled. At my final destination, I was picked up by friends I hadn't seen in a very long time. I still remember this feeling of being asked questions but being unable to process them. Even the simplest of remarks didn't make sense to me anymore and it took a lot of energy to figure out what was said. The closest I can compare it to is some kind of weird drug trip. I also remember feeling slightly disconnected from my body. It was a bit like in those movies when a character just gives a blank stare and all the noise around him/her goes quiet. It was almost a bit like an out-of-body hallucination.
However, the worst part of it was that when we arrived at those people's place and they showed me my bed, I couldn't fall asleep for a pretty long time although I was extremely tired. I think my brain felt so stressed from all the stuff I had to go through during those 56 hours that it needed a lot of time to calm down and feel ready to rest.
The longest I've gone without sleeping is 1 day and 8 hours haha, that was because I was gaming ☆*:.｡. o (≧▽≦) o.｡.:*☆
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24 hrs maybe. I’m to much of a fan of sleep to go any further. And I’m the type who could fall asleep anywhere.
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Around 28 hours. My art folio was due so I stayed up all day and actually went out for a drink afterwards.
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48 hours... It was during exams at University...
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At least 3 nights plus some hours multiple times, not sure I've ever been awake a fourth night, I might have..
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I've pulled a few all-nighters in my life, all of which with either a obscene amount of caffeine or just a lot of amphetamine. I can't handle little sleep though so I fell asleep constantly during the day and went straight back to bed the next morning/afternoon.
Strangely I've functioned perfectly fine on days with less than 2 hours of sleep and felt like shit on days I've slept 8 or more hours. My body is funky when it comes to sleep -
When I was younger I'd get up on a Friday morning and do my news paper round, I wouldn't sleep until Sunday night. I'd either be on my pc/PS or out with mates doing all nighter roaming the canals/dosing over the parks or just getting into mischief. Couldn't do it today.
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I've gone 1 week and 2 days without sleeping. I have insomnia. I game through the night and sometimes just go for a walk. Nothing really to do since everybody's sleeping. 7/11 is my hero. 24/7. People usually memorize me walking at 4am with a 7/11 bag haha :)
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33 hours. I am sure there were people in an average ER in better shape than I was at that time.
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About 2+ days, 52 hours in overall. Then I slept for almost one day.
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I lost 2 nights sleep in a row on 2 different occasions. Was in boot camp the first time and was hallucinating.
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3 days. Got back from a summer away for work and went on a 3 day bender with my friends
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28 hours. Didn’t sleep well the day prior with my ex fiancée so was on a red eye from fla back to nyc and went to work the moment I landed
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4 days I think when growing up. Now I can barely go 36 hours.
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I don't remember but if I go even 1 day without sleep I might die
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Am very lazy person. I can be awake for maximum 24 hours..
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I've gone about 90 hours without sleep before, was interesting
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three days and two nights with a screaming baby.
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I went four days without sleep
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40+ hours, no coffee or anything.
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I think 3 days, when I was 10
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I went like 11-14 hours with no sleep.
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I think 4- 5 days, using drugs
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2 and a half days. With a lot of caffeine 😃
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