What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

[NostalgiaSenpi]

[WhiteSteve]

I worked 41 hours in a row once, that was bananas. I don’t usually drink soda, but I drank a Coke on the way home in hopes of catching a sugar buzz, because I was nodding off at the wheel. It was weird, like I had my eyes forced open, I was blasting my music, but my brain would shut off, even with my eyes still open, and then a few seconds later I’d realize I was drifting into the next lane. Then I finally got home and I couldn’t sleep for like 6-8 more hours for some reason, lmao. But when I finally knocked out I was down for about 14 hours.

[Rosexøxø]

Why didn’t you pull over and sleep in your car for the night?

[prensesmishka]

What job were you doing?

[WhiteSteve]

@Rosexøxø I should have, but it was broad daylight and I always worry about having to interact with police, they always run up on me when I’m just sitting in my car. Feel like they’d run me through a whole “what are you, drunk?” ordeal that I just wasn’t up for. Almost everything I do in life is to avoid police interaction lmfao.

[WhiteSteve]

@prensesmishka I worked for a food supplier, basically took orders and stocked shelves at various supermarkets, Walmart, etc where they would give us sections. About once a year, we would get new planograms for what items we would sell in the store, how they would be arranged on the shelves, etc. Typically, this requires you to take down EVERYTHING, put it in boxes or shopping carts, adjust the shelves to their proper heights to accommodate the tallest item on each shelf. This was supposed to be well-planned, but you’d ALWAYS run into problems, like the plan was screwed up somehow by a person in an office with no concept of the actual work, or the shelves or the slots the shelves lock into would be damaged, not the right size, or plain old unavailable (like the store just wouldn’t have additional shelves if you had to add one, and they’d just be like “welp…sucks to be you, good luck, bro”). Yet you’d still be expected by your boss, the company’s corporate people, the store management, the store’s corporate management to just magically get it done. And the best part was it all had to be done the same week, everywhere, across five states. And they’d always make some grand plan to help you, this guy and this gal are going to show up to help you bang it out, but then something would always come up with the others, and you’d get stuck doing it alone.

[WhiteSteve]

@prensesmishka So basically, in one day I had to do three of these “resets” in three stores, as well as pack out a full day’s worth of deliveries. One of the stores, our section was two-thirds of one side of an aisle, absolutely monstrous section. My help flaked on me, I got stuck doing it all myself, and I ended up having to stay overnight to finish it around 9 AM. Then it was time for the next work day, same thing, just without the gigantic section to deal with, but still three regular-sized sections, plus the usual day’s deliveries, and again, I got no help. All on salary too, didn’t even get compensated for the extra time, absolute joke.

[NathanDavis]

around 60 hours... working on a design

damned deadlines, lol

[AviatorTom]

Many years ago, a group of us were working on a computer systems project that required us to work through the middle of the night. The longest I ever went without sleep was from waking up at 7am on Day 1 and going to sleep at 9pm on day 2, that's 38 hours without sleep. I then slept for about 12 hours, waking up at 9am on day 3.

[BeMuse]

like 5 days. It's not a great... I get mild hallucinations after several days. I get elevated heart rate, I run a fever at times, get headaches, and generally feel like crap in situations like that.

[prensesmishka]

I used to go to my work place at 9 in the morning and leave at 10 or 11 in the night. I was waking up at 7 am and going to sleep at 3 am. This routine was really hard.

[DizzyDesii]

May of last year, for about 2-3 weeks i only slept about 2 hours a day. Bt before then i’d say maybe 30 hours without

[exitseven]

I drove for almost 30 hours straight. I was starting to hallucinate towards the end.

[Rosexøxø]

What did you hallucinate?

[Rosexøxø]

And why didn’t though stop?

[exitseven]

@Rosexøxø I was seeing little men out of the corner of my eye. They were by the side of the road.

[exitseven]

@Rosexøxø I was going to see my ex girlfriend that lived halfway across the country. It was about 1500 miles. I drover it straight through going out there but on the way back I stopped at a Holiday Inn at aboit 1AM and slept for about 4 hours in the parking lot.

[Rosexøxø]

🥺 I’m so sorry. What a scary event.

It wasn’t worth it, or was it?

[Rosexøxø]

No, I don’t think anything could be worth that 🥺👐

[exitseven]

@Rosexøxø I don't know. I had a nice week with her but the ride back was brutal.

[WellGreetingsISay]

Around 50 hours, but I'm never doing that again. Even 24 hours isn't worth it.

[Redstang88]

I’ve missed 2 nights straight a couples times

[Rockstarrrrr]

I think it was around 32-33 hours... Slept for more than 12 hours afterwards..

[SnowedIn]

48 hours.

[ChillaxingLove]

2 days

[LiamJHayden]

62 hours.

[QuietRunner]

42 hours