What is the longest you have gone without sleep?

[Kevnool (Kev)]

I used to drive trucks 15 yrs ago and drove for 27 hrs, that was the first and that was the last, so i quit that hectic life and joined the public service.......cheers kev

[sheeny (Al)]

Back when I was a teenager I went for a week with <8 hours sleep while on holidays with a cousin... we had a ball!

In the early '90s I had a rough week on call for work and worked >100 hours in the week, very much sleep deprived. That episode started me on many years of migraines - triggered by any reasonable sort of sleep interruption. I think (hope!) I'm getting over that these days!

There have been several times when doing search and rescue in the Kanangra Boyd National Park that I've gone 2-3 days without sleep (often followed up within the next week by a migraine!)

When I went to Canada last November, I didn't sleep on the plane and then went on a buck's night on arrival... I think that was 37 hours, but I didn't notice any problem with jet lag!

Al.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I was so excited on my first trip overseas that I went for approx 56 hrs without sleep.
I had to go to work on the day I left, so I was up at 5am, I spent the afternoon packing and repacking my bags, my flight left at 11pm, I think it was an 8hr flight to Seoul, where we had a 5 hr break before the next leg of the journey, flying to the UK via Siberia.
It was morning when I got into Heathrow, and I was buzzing with excitement. It wasn't until quite late that night, after partying with cousins, that I made myself drink a few fingers of neat scotch to knock myself out, otherwise I reckon I'd have stayed up till morning.
I was up bright and early the next day, ready to start exploring London.
Jetlag? what Jetlag.

[MrB (Simon)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

I was so excited on my first trip overseas that I went for approx 56 hrs without sleep.
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Same has happened to me on three trips to Europe, I just can't sleep in planes, too much activity and noise. Strange though 'cos as a kid, the hum of those old pedestal evaporative airconditioners would knock me out cold. (Oops, bad pun!)

I kinda remember seeing something on Catalyst about links between sleep(or lack of) and aging?
Afterall, our body repairs itself while we sleep.

[ving (David)]

crickey! i worry bout you lot!

i used to get by on 3hrs sleep every day for years. cant do that any more tho.