<p>sometimes i wish i could go a week without sleep and without getting psychotic from a lack of sleep. all without drugs of course silly.</p>
<p>but what is the most time you have gone w/out sleep just studying? </p>
<p>me? it was two days last quarter for finals. no sleep at all for two days just straight studying/test taking.</p>
<p>In terms of no sleeping, I've gone 2 days. I think 2 and a half / 3 is my absolute max, but that's when I have to start taking like pills and stuff. It feels horrible though.</p>
<p>What I do during exam week, is actually divide my sleep time to around 2-3 hours every 12 hours that I'm awake. It works quite well, and I get just enough to stay awake. I can go around 2 weeks like that before I completely crash.</p>
<p>2.5 hrs awake/12 hrs. awake</p>
<p>brilliant. fascinating. worth trying.</p>
<p>If you want to get ready for exams, I strongly at least trying it for a week. It'll be HELL for the first week, but after that, it gets a lot easier. I started doing it when second semester began and I can pretty much control how much I sleep now.</p>
<p>I've never pulled an all nighter or even changed my sleep schedule so far at college or while I was in high school. I think the longest I was a awake was like 40 hours, but it wasn't to study. A friend of mine convinced me to stay up and pick up his brother at the airport with him, so we got drunk and them started pounding enegery drinks to stay awake. By the end of the next day I was like the walking dead, and barely made it home to crash.</p>
<p>Even when I had 5 final exams in a 4 day period I didn't stay up past 1PM each night, I can't function if I don't get rest.</p>
<p>Isn't that the best feeling though? After staying up for some ungodly amount of time, you just crash for hours. God I love that feeling.</p>
<p>If you're having to pull all-nighters (even during finals), you should probably take a look at your time management skills. I realize they're not uncommon, but they are terrible for your health and almost always totally unnecessary.</p>
<p>I went a week once like this:
Monday night: 3 hours
Tuesday night: 4 hours
Wednesday night: 2 hours
Thursday night: 5 hours</p>
<p>It was ridiculous...</p>
<p>I went once 2.5 days without sleep, last year when I was completing my RD applications just before deadline day :D</p>
<p>No wonder I wrote "cornell" in my yale essays..</p>
<p>LOL. fun for admissions officers. hmmm we're studyin sleep in AP psych rite now. i wanna grow. so i'm gonna sleep.</p>
<p>35 hours for me, worst day sleep wise at harvard so far</p>
<p>Yes, don't sleep for a few days to study for finals then barely remember anything when its time to take the final because you didn't sleep.</p>
<p>souds like a great idea to me</p>
<p>Perhaps around 1.5 days. Shoebox, I had a similar week as you did last semester. It was crazy.</p>
<p>At most, it was skipping one night of sleep because my floormate was partying on the last day of exams... at least it was the night before the day I'm going home for Christmas break.</p>
<p>I went almost 3 whole days without any sleep once...it was interesting to say the least. I've done ~2 days without sleep countless times, though...so it doesn't really faze me much anymore. </p>
<p>During summers I become either completely nocturnal or do the stay up two days, sleep 14 hours, stay up two days, etc thing. My brother has the same problem...I guess it runs in the family?</p>
<p>My all nighter days start around 9am then go to 1am the next day usually...soo 40 hour days? What really sucks is when you pull an allnighter and then the next day you still think its the previous day ("What? Its Tuesday? Oh, $#!@, I thought it was still Monday!"). Or you go so many nights of getting 2-5 hours of sleep, you just turn into a zombie and just don't care about anything other than getting work done.</p>
<p>Worst. Ever.</p>
<p>65 hours. That was not a fun time at all. I think I crashed for 15-18 hours afterwards. That felt good, but it is odd to simply lose a day.</p>
<p>well, finals week last semester was brutal...</p>
<p>i slept like six hours sunday night, then slept 5 hours wednesday night and didn't sleep again until friday night.</p>
<p>woke up at 6am on monday, stayed up until 5:30am tuesday, got up at 6am tuesday, then didn't go to sleep until friday night at around 3am.</p>
<p>I stayed awake for 5 days (120 hr) once this semester because I couldn't sleep the first three nights then I just decided to stay awake after that until Friday night. It was hell. I was like the walking dead and I could barley function and my head hurt all of the time.
I did 4 days once last semester with the help of adderal.
The crashing sucks by the way. I think I slept for 20 hours after both instances.</p>