What's the longest you've stayed awake and what was it like?

>>8803546
I once slept 4 hours a day for a whole week
Boy oh boy let me tell you. I learn my lesson the hard way. Never, ever again for as long as I live

>>8803546
6 hours

>>8803578
t. Koala

>>8803546
in the military some shithead of a lieutenant made do stuff from 6 o clock in the morning until 6 o clock in the evening next day

Bi polar disorder. I've gone 55 hours during manic episodes. No drugs. My life is a living hell and I hope one day the government is compassionate enough to go back to euthanizing the mentally ill en masse.

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>>8803583

>>8803617
this sounds horrible. I always thought the manic episodes were the... well... fun part of this disease

>>8803648
Well they are. What follows them is the bad part.

>>8803617
Why no drugs? Not available at the time or a willfull choice?

when i get to sleep two or three hours a night shit gets pretty freaky, i started hallucinating during lectures and i had to walk for a solid hour but when my feet started to hurt they didn't hurt but started feeling cold when there was supposed to be pain

i think taking lsd has probably done some rewiring in my brain desu

i think i stayed up for like 26 hours when i watched the election cause i had some seminars to go to, i was pretty much on auto-pilot, like really deep 'my conscience is stuck in some corner in my brain and the rest is just going around existing' kind of stuff

>>8803652
I think he meant he stayed awake without any drugs

>>8803617
> hope one day the government is compassionate enough to go back to euthanizing the mentally ill en masse

Move to Belgium, we've been doing it for over a decade.

40 hours or so. It wasn't fun. No hallucinations, just really tired

>>8803546
IT dude on a solo mission, no sleep 120 hrs right before deadline. horrible experience. body and mind went psycho, no drugs involved. got 1000 bucks per day, won the pitch, totally not worth it. do not recommend, wouldn't do it again. took days of sleep to recover, had probs w concentration for weeks, ran low on motivation for weeks. had probs afterwards: body switched to auto sleep mode every now and then: gf opened locked bathroom door, found me sleeping on WC, woke up below table, just wanted to check cables, woke up while having a bath, water was cold and body shaking... your xp may differ, but 4 me: never again

>>8803680
whew not bad

120 hours is insane.

2 and a half days, so about 55 hours. Intense programming for about 15 hours non-stop during that, some math afterwards

I think that that specific stunt fucked my brain in a way since after I did it I'm having anxieties that I never had before - like an arbitrary panic attack that I might go crazy, which feeds back on itself because anxiety is technically considered a state of "craziness", which then amplifies and keeps triggering me because I might be going crazy.

What a fun ride to be honest my dudes

maybe 40-30 hours, cant remember. what was cool were the hallucinations, whenever id look at the ground people were running and jumping at me. there were dinosaurs too

>>8803546
I could stay up 3 days in my teens, but if I try it now (25) I feel like utter shit after 25 hours. Heart racing, headache and nausea.

42 hours, I had hallucinations

2 days
had hypnagogic hallucinations within 28 hours but they only happened when i wasn't doing anything

I can't get more than 5 hours sleep a night, it feels like my iq has halved and I just can't function 100% when I'm getting my head down for programming or maths. It's been like this for months and I can't break out of this pattern... Does anyone have the same problem? How can I get to sleep earlier?

>>8803815
Sounds like a medical issue (not a horrible one, but insomnia sucks donkey balls).
Working shifts for only 3 years ruined my sleep

>>8803655
Not a doctor but maybe some kind of sleep deprivation and/or HPPD?

>>8803700
Wow, that sounds insane.

>>8803546
42 hours

just tired

Over time my sleep schedule drifted, and I started going to bed at 5 AM and waking up at 1 PM. To fix it, I stayed up from like 2 PM to 10 PM the next day, and was awake for a total of 32 hours. I was really tired after about 20 hours of staying awake, using my muscles felt kind of weird, like I didn't get very strong sensory feedback, felt kind of dampened, like I'm moving a remote controlled body. I went for a 5 km run in the 26th hour, and I performed very badly, but wasn't too bad or anything. I could also focus better than usual when I didn't feel extremely tired, because the feeling of tiredness came in waves, like I felt like dying for half an hour, and then felt pretty normal for the next 30 minutes. Btw, it did fix my sleep schedule (have done it on two separate occasions, actually), so if yours is fucked up too, this is the easiest way to unfuck it, just don't give in to the temptation to go to sleep at 5 pm or something.

>>8803920
Yeah, the random panic attacks that get triggered by absolute bullshit were the worst - like some guy walking down the street in front of my house and saying something, triggering the entire range of "was that a hallucination? do I have schizophrenia now????" anxieties, which leads to "why am I getting illogical panic attacks, that's a sign of schizophrenia, maybe I have schizophrenia??". It was a never ending loop.

Good thing is that I got that under control after autistically obsessing with observing how my brain works, which lead to me proving to myself that there's actually nothing wrong with me. Once you defeat one anxiety you build resistance to it, which is great because that shit was terrible and I never want to experience it again (and thankfully, never will). Sorry for the blog.

>>8803546
The longest ive stayed awake was when skyrim first was released to the ps3, was awake for atleast 70 hours.

>>8803967
No you weren't

>>8803546
You guys are all fucking pussies, acting like you have PTSD from staying awake for 50 hrs. I regularly stay awake for 48. You get tired and concentration decreases, that's it. STFU with your pussy hallucinations and shit

>>8803637
How do you even attain something like uberman?

>>8804011
Most normal people are done and dusted by the 30 hour mark for a reason anon, regularly allowing yourself to be up for 48 hours is not healthy or something you should brag about.

>>8803889
Sure, I'm trying to become a doctor, I think it's both. Knowing why it happens doesn't change the fact that we're only human, sadly.

>>8803576
You are a faggot.

>>8804023
It's probably not optimally healthy, but it's not that horrible.

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>>8804011
but I do

>>8803546
four days studying orgo for final exam. Passed out for day and a half.
I was delirious, didn't understand what was real or fake, couldn't use one eye cause how shot it was. Light in general gave me a massive headache, and I would tear up from it.

>>8804042
Why would you consider that optimal for studying?

80 hours because of insomnia. Being at work on the final day was kind of like a dream; I didn't have auditory or visual hallucinations, but I did see weird color patterns forming as I looked around. I was spacing out a lot and had slow reactions to coworkers talking to me and events going on. I think I mostly lost my appetite and everything seemed confusing. Would not recommend.

54 hours after pulling an all nighter for an exam and then going on a bender, was absolutely fine to be honest, probably could have stayed up for a while longer but i was too drunk. i also failed that exam

Once I was up for 48 hours because I was travelling a different country and didn't want to waste time on the last couple days
By the end of the 48 hours I still felt normal, except I was tired
That's the only time I've ever been awake more than 24 hours
I've only travelled in one country other than my own
I can't believe all the people itt feel like they're dying and have hallucinations when they are awake more than 24 hours
I was awake for 48 as a teenager travelling and still felt perfectly fine

>>8804042
>delirious
Yeah great studying. Fucking normie brainlets and their all nighters

>>8804052
dumbass undergrad. To be young and dumb.

>>8803576
>Boy oh boy let me tell you. I learn my lesson the hard way. Never, ever again for as long as I live
What happened?
Don't leave us hanging boi.

36 hours (skipping sleep one night) because I was curious.
Honestly I don't understand healthy people who go multiple days without sleeping.
Eat something, take a nap and your productivity will increase.

approximately 36 hours. This is lot for me. I sleep over 8 hours a day. The last hours I noticed I was functioning in ticks. Like I could have a new thought only every 3 seconds or so. Also it affected my judgment. I was completely task oriented with no mental blocks or filters. I did things on autopilot, I was aware of where I was and what I was doing for a few moments every hour, those last few hours. This was done in an attempt to stay awake longer for reasons. In those last hours I wanted to go to sleep, It was early morning where I was, It was like I could not take on the task of going to sleep, before I had finished what I was doing. I was so 'focused' on whatever one thing I was doing the moment the thought of sleeping occurred to me, that I could not interrupt it.

>>8803546
One time I stayed up for like 36 hours watching various premieres and posting about them on 4chan and 8ch. Shit was cash.

>>8804038
No dude that's super unhealthy. Even not getting sleep for more then 18 hours regularly fucks you something good. Seriously all you need to do is look up effects of sleep deprivation and you will realize how dumb you are. People who smoke two packs a day are healthier then you if you regularly go without sleep for 48 hours.

>>8804257
>People who smoke two packs a day are healthier then you if you regularly go without sleep for 48 hours.
[citation needed]

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These are only the lungs.

>>8803546
72 hours
I was hallucinating, and was getting spooked by my own shadow or anything in my peripheral vision

About 3 1/2 days so I could catch up on a ton of classwork I didn't do. I did pass out for a few minutes at some point though; I jolted awake when I heard my sister rummaging in the kitchen. Toward the end of the second day, I started hearing really pleasant, instrumental music (maybe just a memory of some classical music I listened to earlier in the day but I didn't recognize the piece) and also somebody faintly saying my name every now and then.
The hallucinations actually motivated me to stay awake longer. I thought it was a very intriguing experience.

>>8803546
~40 hours straight of study, it was terrible.

How can I describe it, I didn't even feel sleepy at all, it was more like a light headache and dizziness, combined with body sensory numbness. Felt like my eyes were going to pop out of my head and that my skull was shrinking. Also felt like seeing hallucinations, but that wasn't too bad. Not worth it senpai.

>>8804260
Data from three large cross-sectional epidemiological studies reveal that sleeping five hours or less per night increased mortality risk from all causes by roughly 15 percent.
http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/matters/consequences/sleep-and-disease-risk

That's just for 5 hours a night, they can't ethically test 48 sleep deprivation repeatedly.

>>8804128
Because most people here pulling off days without sleep are using their cognitive functions all along, while you were just being a retard on vacation.

Staying up for 36 hours doing nothing and staying up for 36 hours studying intensely are two very different things. The mental exhaustion is far too severe in the second case.

>>8804315
So 48 hours exploring and walking around forests, cities, etc isn't energy consuming?

or does the pic prove he has smalls hands? think about it.

72 hours when I was 19

No job no school no responsibilities

Played league of legends to stay awake

>>8803576

> me every day

pussy.

First 24 hrs I stay awake in pretty darn woke. After that i want to go to bed.

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>>8803546
50~ hours

There were no hallucinations but apart from crippling fatigue I was fading in and out of lucidity in the last 8 hours.

I could've gone more, I think

I've been awake for a little over 50 hours, after you've broken the first day. The second day isn't too hard if you have something to do.

>>8803576
did that for a whole 3 months
but boy did I make cash

>>8803546
One of our healthy ubermensch-CEO switched to 20 hours awake/4 hours sleep per day. Had a stroke after 11 months. Still needs rehab, no longer participates in marathons and iron man. His mistake was dehydation in combination with high blood pressure - he forgot to drink.

>>8803964
I had the same experience, except it was with drugs. I smoked weed for years, then one day I started getting anxiety, never having it before, I didn't understand it and fell into the same loop of "crazy shit is happening, am I crazy?"
Makes me nervous just thinking about it, but your story has soothed me.

I don't really know the longest I've stayed up, maybe somewhere between 30-40 hours. Actually sounds insane now that I think about it, almost a whole work week gone in a haze. Though, I did this when I was younger in attempt to bruteforce my sleep schedule in order to fix it. It works like a charm. I'd force myself to be outside and doing something with my friends, as soon as I sat down or wasn't moving it's game over and I'm basically snapping myself awake. Sometimes I'd stay up for a whole day, say like 3pm Friday to 10pm Saturday and be unable to go to sleep till 4am, effectively making my efforts a complete waste of time when I wake up at 2pm Sunday.

>>8805152
As for generally weird shit but also expected, I did LSD once and despite being up for about 30 hours I could not fall asleep. By the time I got home around 7am, the trip was pretty much over, my monitor was rippling and distorting very slightly despite not having many visual hallucinations throughout the night. At about 3pm I was getting annoyed. At 5pm sleep did not seem to be an option. At 7pm I was grabbing some food and kept seeing humanoid shadows appear in the bathroom, pantry, whatever. Ended up closing my eyes and I guess I ended up falling asleep for about 3 hours. Felt fine afterward. Drugs are for brainlets guys, keep your IQ, some of us can't risk losing a few points.

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When Guild Wars 2 released I played that game for 3 days straight. I think it would have been something like 60-70 hours.

Just felt like shit and slept for the next two days after that but I did hallucinate a little bit on the third day.

Bit of backstory, I had this friend and i'd regularly go to his house for LAN parties and such.
Anyway by the time the third day rolled around I was staring at my computer screen and in my peripheral vision, rather than seeing my own desk and room, it was as if I was at my friends house, with my computer set up there. Instead of my desk I saw the table that I usually would have my keyboard/mouse on at his house. My peripheral vision above and on either side of the computer screen was exactly the same, as if I was staring at my screen at a LAN party. It was honestly pretty shocking when I realised what I was "looking" at, how I was completely hallucinating being at my friends house.

The split second I pulled my vision away from the screen everything kinda just "snapped" back to normal but as I got comfortable staring at the screen again the hallucinations would return. It was at this point I knew it was time to sleep.

Pretty weird experience overall, I think it's definitely had an effect on my mind.
10/10 would recommend

48h+ with extreme physical training. Pulling cars, people puking from exhaustion etc. No food. Fell asleep while walking. Woke up in the side of the road to my officers laughing at me. Hands cramped up while polishing my gun. When we finally got some food, the roof of my mouth hurt like hell. 10/10 would do again.

>>8805178
>>8805184
10/10mind

I've done 40+ quite a few times. It isn't fun, but I certainly don't start hallucinating.

I just get super emotional, and my thought patterns start to get extremely repetitive, I can't stop thinking about whatever specific thing is on my mind for the life of me.

I find that math really starts stressing me out if I've been awake for that long. I think to heavily about the implications of math and get caught up in some kind of semi-fugue state where I just start dazing about it.

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104 hours. I began hallucinating and saw my teachers' hands as the size of a baby's.

>>8805281
I call bs on that

>>8805120
Did he do one of those polyphasic cycles, or did he go full retard and just slept 4 hours every night?

93 hrs, reprocessing data as our previous 3 months of processed data at sea got corrupted so me and another dude just sat processing non stop till we got back alongside, only taking breaks for food ad toilets, still wasnt finished by the time we got alongside.
drove home and passed out for the entire weekend, which was sad because that was why we were processing.

went to work on the monday and processed for another 3 odd hrs to finish the data.

still have weird flash backs when i process for more then 10hrs straight

65 hours during midterms once.

The only reason I didn't pass out is because I was taking a vyvanse about every 6 or 7 hours.

No clear hallucinations but did feel out of it and spacey like I had smoked a nice bowl.

Had a fraternity meeting that lasted until 3 am and went to Denny's after.

Completely fell asleep at the table and couldn't be woken up.

My friends had to carry me back to my dorm.

>>8805315
he only reduced nightly rest to four hours

i knew a guy who did 8 days, but that was on the crystals, he said from the fifth to the seventh day he was taking hits no matter how much he smoked, then after the seventh day he was no longer tired, no wired either, just sort of in a daze and everything was in a kinda slow motion blur. i got to see him on the eighth day right when he started pounding the bongs and drinking, cause he realised he needed to sleep, but couldnt. he ended up passing out on his back after drinking a bottle of smirnoff. had to roll him over then watched over him for 2 odd hrs whilst drinking till i passed out. saw him again then next week, said he was out for 2 days straight, woke up got some food then passed out again fro another day. took him over a month to fix his sleep schedule.
moral of the story, sleep dep aint cool also meth aint cool

>>8803546
Don't know about the longest duration that I've stayed awake, but a couple of years ago I suffered from insomnia for a couple of months where I would get about 8 to 10 hours of sleep every week. Being a psychotic didn't help me when it came to trusting my psychiatrist with sleeping pills.

All in all, I'd rate it a 2/10.

>>8803546
This is disgusting.
Did he really put his hand inside his mouth?

After 36 hours I couldn't even tell if I was tired. I had a hard time thinking so I thought "I haven't slept in a while, let's try that"
I didn't even realize just how mentally impaired I had become

>>8803546
circa 36 hours in my teen days on some summer festival, at the end it felt kinda like being slightly drunk/stoned, but with some weird shivering quality.

>>8805750
for science

>>8803546
A whole week. I was in finals, had a group project of 5 people where I was the only one working on it and I worked night shift.

It was living hell. I even slept in one of my classmate's house while we were discussing the project. Her mom put a blanket on me and they all left me sleep for a few hours. I'd pass out in class (I'd say sleep, but it didn't feel like it), and teacher wouldn't say a thing about it.

>>8804013
Practice. Program your naps and make them count. Do not try it in the first attempt, tho.

>>8803576
o boy gee howdy willikers

About 50/60 hours. Completely forgot about a giant programming assignment and did the whole thing in one sitting while chuggin energy drinks.

I felt fine for most of it, but my short-term memory was completely gone the last few hours.

>>8803650
No they aren't unless you have Bipolar 2.

>>8803648
Both mania and depression are hell on Earth. Mania being 10x worse, don't listen to Bipolar 2 people, they don't know what they're talking about. I can explain why I feel this way if you want.

>>8806252
Also done this with hackathons and gamejams. this is pretty much what happens. Also did 4 days straight on amphetamines and beer, my advice is not too do that because the hangover is killing.

>>8806279
>I can explain why I feel this way if you want.
Please do. What's the difference between your mania and bipolar II mania? I assume you have bipolar I?

>>8803546
Almost 4 days or ~88 hours. I slept 1 hour though during the second day by accident. I had no big exams or anything like that, at first it was just an overlong gaming session (32 hours, nothing unusual at the time, I was a NEET back then), but then I got curious for how long could I go on without sleep.

I had no hallucinations at all, but I was physically exhausted, my arms and legs felt like they weighed a ton. Mentally, I wasn't that tired, I was alert until the last day. Often times I felt almost entirely normal. If you consider psychopaths normal, that is.
My emotional "circuitry" fried out sometime during the third day, so I kinda stopped feeling emotions, both positive and negative. It wasn't an altogether unpleasant experience. It's not like I couldn't remember what it was like to have them, rather, they simply weren't available to me. Like how you know the taste of coffee, even if you aren't actively drinking one, yeah?

Also I was experiencing micro-sleep constantly after ~50 hours. By the fourth day if I closed my eyelids for more than 5 seconds I was seeing dream images. In the end I ended my little experiment because I was fully aware that staying awake for too long can kill you, though I definitely had felt I could have gone for another day or two.
Ironically, it took almost half an hour to fall asleep, after I settled in bed. I remember being mildly concerned, in a detached sort of way if my body even knew how to sleep anymore and whether I was gonna die, but it felt like it wouldn't be a big deal anyway.
All in all.. if there was 0% of dying, I'd do it again. But since that isn't the case, I'm gonna have to pass. Though I really, really would like to know what it's like to stay awake for over a week. Or have hallucinations.

>>8806352
Lol you don't die from sleep deprivation for, like, months, dude, you aren't gonna randomly drop dead after a week.

Anyway it sounds like you should try meth

>>8804376
It depends, but walking only will not exhaust your mind. It's actually a good way to get rest

only 28 hours 1 day apart from both episodes.

If awake over 20 hours I get a pretty shutted mode for 2 hours max and but keep on as if another day after that, pretty energized (working)

Random question: can melatonin make you even more tired during the day? I've been taking it for a couple weeks since it helps me get to sleep where even benzos have no effect (legit insomnia) but I feel during this timeframe I've been even more tired than usual during the day

>>8803637
I fail to see how this would be beneficial in any way other than time. You're hardly getting any REM sleep with Uberman

>>8803546
>5 days.

It was horrible after the first day and a half. Before then my productivity shot through the roof. After that everything went to shit:
>Couldn't concentrate even on simple tasks
>Fuck load of micro-sleeps
>Irritable af
>Miserable af
>Bitch of a headache
>Hungry all damn time
>Constantly kept "switching off" for lack of a better word
>mild hallucinations

I suffer from occasional insomnia but it's never been that bad before (or since thankfully).

>>8806279
YES, I TOO WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE

>>8803546
One whole week.
Wolves. Dirt. Ice. Fuck everything.

3 days into no sleep I started throwing up violently and had the most painful erection.

But that could've been because it was a 3 day cocaine and liquor bender

>>8806654
wattup bipolar bro

i feel u

>>8803617
same here dude. Went six days w/o sleep before being sent to a psyche ward where I got my diagnosis. Thank god for olanzipine tho

>>8806600
The idea behind it is that if you get used to it, you will go into REM instantly, so you get about 6 × 20 minutes of REM per day. That is the whole reason for the whole 6 × 20 minutes thing, instead of just sleeping for two hours straight. Don't know if it's legit though.

>>8803939
kek best answer

>>8804134
all nighters are top quality for getting work done, just shit for study

>>8803546
Went into work two days in a row after only 2 hours of sleep. I try to get 8 every night now. Fuck never doing that again.

>>8804013
Being a NEET

>>8803546
one week, It was a psychological hell.

>>8803673
Yeah same, I've never encountered any hallucinations but have been awake 30-40 hours many times.

>>8803815
I've had that exact same problem for the past few years. There is no solution I know of, made a specific board about it and got no help. It's just like this mental fog that doesn't go away until night, or it also goes away if I get <= 5hrs of sleep. I'm a programmer too and I can't afford to be retarded all the time, so I just stash up on sleep on Saturdays.

>>8803962
> 5AM to 13PM
Lmso, this is so easy to fix fot me, just sleep 5AM again but force yourself to wake up earlier (Like 8AM), your day will be really fucked up, but you will be really tired at 11PM, then you will sleep a lot and fix this shit, always works for me.

Your 32 hour method is really overkill.

>>8803652
Because he isnt a dumb vaginaboy that needs drugs to find meaning in life.

>>8807627
Sounds absolutely retarded and completely devoid of any legitimate evidence of functionality.

I was up a little under 48 hours on an amphetamine binge. I started seeing shadow people though so I killed it with some xanax and slept for 22 hours. It was highly unpleasant.

8am to 8am

> 38 hours

no hallucinations or bullshit, I was tired and my memmory was completely shit

>>8812080
No I meant why didn't he take drugs against mania/to get him to sleep. Guess I misunderstood though.

>>8812077
>Your 32 hour method is really overkill.
For me, it was easier to spend the whole day awake than it would have been to wake up after having slept only 3-4 hours, considering I had nothing to do all day. Not to mention that I would have felt worse with very little sleep than with no sleep at all.

>a method of sleep that is not natural

what is the point of this? death?

>>8803546
48 hours at the most. It's weird because during the end of the first night, I'd feel tired but when morning came, I'd start to function ok again. When the second night came I'd be dying for sleep again.

IDK

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>>8803546
2.5~ days.
Started hallucinating at the end of it.
Kept thinking I was playing WoW and I had to get my character to the Inn and log out so I could log out and go to sleep as well as get that bonus rest XP.

Except every time I made it to the inn I would log out, go lay down in bed and then be back at the computer on WoW, trying to get to the inn, and this just made sense to me, no logical fallacy with it at all.

All the while I was really in bed trying to fall asleep from a caffeine high. Thinking I need to get up and get to an inn in WoW so I can log out and get to sleep. Even though the computer was off.

Fun unrelated fact, US marines have to stay up for 3 days straight while preforming some really labor intensive stuff the entire time during training. I wonder whats going through their minds in the final hours.

3 days due to tinnitus - very depressing, trance like state.
Once worked on a building site from 07:30 till 18:00 then on to I.T job 19:00 till 06:00 next morning. Felt really odd, brain stopped functioning.
48hrs or so due to drugs/rave and partying the following day...fun

>>8803546
29-30 hours with the power of 6 liters of coca cola.
A progress of trying to get my natural daily rhytm into a better order.

>>8812491
Population control, since natural sleep is:
>dusk
>1st sleep
>wake up
>fuck
>2nd sleep
>dawn

>>8812578
>US marines
Meant navy seals.

>>8806265
Bipolar 2 Electric Boogaloo? Heard that one sucked

>>8803546
3 days due to drugs. One night of mdma, a day of dxm, then caffine, weed, and adderall carried me through to the third morning and I blacked out while walking to the library. I made the whole trip with my eyes closed, convinced that gnomes and woodland critters were leading me to the jellybeans. Once the absurdity of that registered, I opened my eyes and there was the library. Not even joking.

>>8803546
i worked at a casino for 2 years, during the better part of which i had nightshifts, which implied trying to sleep at 11am, and waking up at 3pm

it's been almost 6 years since, and my sleeping patterns have been ruined forever

i will tell you this, 1st generation antihistamines, muscle relaxants, and z drugs are my friends

especially when you mix them with wine

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Alright /sci/, get ready for the question that even you can't answer:
> Why do we need to sleep?

inb4 because we get tired, I'm asking why our brain needs to shut down everyday.

>>8812622
why would sleeping twice be natural?

36 hours
it does not feel good
you cant even read something without microsleeping

>>8803583
Does t mean source

>>8812706
because thats how it always used to be

>>8803546
Other question: Why do brainlets brag about how little they sleep?

>>8812709
There's a whole website for people like you!
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/414urs/what_does_t_mean_on_4chan/

>>8803546
Something like 28-30 hours peppered with naps. After about 14 full hours I'd start falling asleep immediately unless I was actively doing something that demanded I apply my attention. At about hour 20 pretty much everything started hurting and I started feeling sick, by the end it wasn't fatigue but a relentless headache that drove me to lay down and sleep.
>>8812699
Your body needs some downtime to repair shit damaged while you're awake, synthesize hormones, process the day's information intake, clean waste out of your brain, and consolidate important memory. It's not just your brain, your whole body has evolved to function on a day/night cycle and different processes are carried out during different parts of that cycle, if you start skipping shit starts breaking down.

>>8803546
When I was a teenager I was sort of obsessed with sleep deprivation records. Tried it with my brother whenever I had enough time. Managed 80 hours once, but it was just pure agony, I swear. It's not like fasting, you don't feel anything positive at all, you just want to sleep SO BAD. Plus, hallucinations (always saw things very rapidly moving in the periphery of my field of view), very easily aggravated, no focus whatsoever and at some point physical pain in my joints. Slept 20 hours straight after that. I actually had the theory that I would still sleep normally (~8-10 hours) prior to that, was mistaken it seems. Never tried that shit again and never will. That was a lesson.

I've spent the last year running on a consistent schedule of 4.5 hours of sleep (3 cycles).

Is this bad?

do you guys know how to reset the biological clock? i.e resetting the circadian rhythm,

I love being a night owl but it conflicts with my routine, I'm loosing weight this summer and being a night owl is tempting because I love it when there is no noise beccause fuck da people,

>>8812738

because they will have more time mastering/ studying shit

>>8804011
Wow! You're incredible

>>8812743
t. redditor

In undergrad I had a full time job and full time school

Would work 1900-0730 on a Sunday (feeds into Monday morning) then go to class from 0830-1600 then lab from 1800-2100

Longest I was awake for was about 60 hours, and I usually just felt "foggy" and my eyes were red all the time.

>>8803546
I don't know, some nights I only sleep 4 hours because I need to get stuff done.

Usually I get 6.5 hours of sleep a night, and 8-9 hours on weekends.

4 days, slept 6 hours and stayed up another 2 for a runescape week record. I stopped thinking after the 2nd day and just relied on muscle memory after that

>>8803576
is this bait?

>>8812699
Literally to not to die of overheating.

>>8803680
Holy shit, that actually sounds pretty intense.

2 1/2 days, LoL season was ending around exams, played League until my vision was blurry, then played for three more hours.

>>8803546
my dad hasn't slept in 10 months

>>8812082
That's why it's not used legitimately.

>>8803546
somewhere between 25-28 hours 12 hour surprise nightshift getting home around 8.

>>8815419
>my dad hasn't slept in 10 months
Being dead doesn't count as being asleep but doesn't count as being awake either so is your father alive?

About a week excluding some (but not many) 2-hour naps. Severe insomnia at the time. I was attending 8 hours' lectures every day and then tried to do some running to get myself tired. I felt tired as fuck but couldn't get any sleep. I was pretty much on auto pilot for most of the time. Coffee was the best shit. It still is.

>>8815656
>Coffee was the best shit. It still is.
Caffeine has a half life of ~6 hours.
Did you consider that?
I sleep more the days I don't drink coffee.

>>8806104
goshes galoshes

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>be me 16
>wonder how long i can go without sleep decide fuck it lets go.
>24 hours in feel tired but not too bad better than when i usually 24 hr
>48 hrs: shadow people hallucination whenever i check peripheral and they dart away.
>listen to metal to stay awake then get angsty and switch to mellow techno
>this is where i start losing exact counts of time
>55hrs?: skips time frames without realizing
>ill walk into a room and not remember any details of when i was walking there
>feels like teleportation in a way
>59hrs?: vision dulls and lost focus in most activities i attempted (Dota, chores, even eating)
>was invited to autistic kids house to play mtg with one of my friends
>would feel bad If i ditched so i go neglecting my sleep even further.
>78 hrs?: at autistic kids house with pal dont remember walking or anything.
>we eat pizza takes me about 3x longer to actually finish a slice
>friend and autist start ranting about stupid shit during my turn and i stare into the distance for "8 minutes" according to friend
>we decide i should go home and rest.
>90 hrs? imagine when you have 0 sanity in dont starve, shadow people dont leave and start hearing shit that i dont want to hear from inner psyche. Depressing shit about relationships
>tears streaming down my face and teleport through shadow people who are giving me stimulus in terms of touch, sound, and vision
>dont know if i made it to day 4 but i passed out for a little over a full 24 hours
>rem rebound kicks in making up for my lack of sleep
>long vivid hyper psych dreams
>legitimately something changed in me after that dream
>wake up starving and groggy shit breath and stink, kind of stiff from sleeping that long. Best sleep ive ever had to this date however.

im 18 now and would probably consider doing it again but not anytime soon
>>8812996
similar to this

about 4 days straight when in military training, all while digging a hole. on the last night we fired live and some dude fired his CG with HEAT into this big tree that was maybe 10 meters infront of him.

>>8803546
3 days, took 6x vyvanse and worked 3 shifts and went to the gym twice

>>8815963
What is HEAT?

>>8803546
A little over two days straight is the max I can remember.

I regularly go through 30-35 with no sleep (which is about what happens if you are unable to sleep at all one night but still have to work the next day).

>>8815706
I get headaches when I don't drink