When I was a kid I used to read under the blankets at night with a torch as I didn't ever feel sleepy. As a teenager I used to go out clubbing on a Thursday night and not get to bed (sleep) until Sunday night. Now that I'm in my fourties I hung a Sunday morning through to Thursday night without getting any ZZZ's has anyone gone longer?
On a different tangent I used to jog at 3 am in the morning until the local police used to harrass me whenever they could. I was always asked" why are you running away from us?" I would say "because I like to run." Then I would be asked for some ID and seeing I was running I didn't have any and more than once was escorted back home to prove who I was. Now I jog during the day and play backgammon at night. : )
I worked from 7:30am until 3pm the following day once to manage a process trial , I was home by 4pm and was too tied to get to sleep so hung out intil about 10pm before hitting the pillows.
I wouldn't recommend it.
I don't know my longest period with no sleep , gotta be 2 or 3 days .
about 64 hours.
but that was when i was finishing a thesis.
i remember almost throwing up at about 58 hours when the "fireworks" screensaver on the Windows 3.1 PC started- watching those colours arc across the screen...
sorry, maths wrong- it was 60 hours (2.5 days- obviously not a maths thesis...).
sure, but i was 22 at the time, had a deadline to meet, experiments to finish, too many illustrations/diagrams, etc. to caption, and chapter/section headings to compile into Contents and index. plus get all of the references in order.
now I have a 19 year old bloke in my team who can go 48 hours no problem when he is out clubbing. i am pretty sure that's drug free and he does not drink, so...
about 3 days when i was working dogwatch over the weekends when i was slighly younger, now proabably a tad over 24 hours. At astrofest i have to have a kip from 5am until 11 - then i am up the rest of the day
Longest I have gone is about 48hrs and it was fairly recent too. Wrecked me for a good few days. I find if I don't get a solid 7hrs every night I suffer for it.
If I'm on a STARG team with the RFS we will be on the go for around 72 hours, you do get a couple of 4 hour breaks but there is usually too much noise and you are too hyped up to really have a good kip.
Longest I can remember without sleep is about 63 hrs
7am Friday to Sunday 10pm
Used to be a wall & floor tiler in my younger days
Worked half a day on the friday
Went and got materials on the Friday afternoon then starting tiling 3 shoe shops in the city from 5pm onwards
Slept all day on the Monday
A few days was the norm when I was younger, now I can only go 48hours max, knocks me around too much.
Note that sleep deprivation has apparently been confirmed to have similar effects as being mildly drunk, I know I feel kinda tipsy after a long stretch, even micro-sleep where I just kinda stare at nothing for a few mins, so... no driving if you haven't slept for 24 hours or more.
Once on the fairstar funship i did 9 days without sleep, well 2x 4hr naps but the second one I was so wired i couldn't sleep at all. I was 17 at the time and very very drunk the whole time.
48 hours is the longest I've been - flying to London screwed up my sleep pattern for ages. I usually only sleep between 3 and 4.5 hours a night anyway. I can go for weeks before I crash for a night and then I'm ready to go again. I don't think I could last 60 hours though DJDD. That's pretty impressive.
My wife has commented quite a number of times that the amount of sleep I get (or don't get) is directly proportionate to how grumpy I am.
..shiftwork and 48hours of no sleep used to wreck me .
and he does not drink, so...
