What's the longest time you went without sleeping?

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<p>36 hoursish? with very little sleep the night before as well. strangely, i was fine. i really want to see what would happen if i were to stay up for 2 or 3 days.</p>

22

<p>One time, I went 2 days without sleeping. XD</p>

23

<p>Around 1 day probably.
I'm weaksauce.</p>

24

<p>75 hours.</p>

<p>I can't sleep in hotel rooms...
or on 1200 mile Amtrak rides....</p>

25

<p>About 70 hours. One of my closest buddies invited me to one of his computer parties (lanparties?) once after finals a while back and I had a blast playing all kinds of games lol</p>

26

<p>i have the defining one...
think of it as the combination of the ultimate procrastinator and the most obnoxious perfectionist who quadruple proofreads his essays...
5 days...seriously!!
well, that is if you don't could some eye-shutting during history...;)
but seriously, 5 full days...my mom was in Athens, so that wasn't an issue, and I drank i think at least 5 litters of Starbucks...and 10 of Red Bull...made combos actually!!!
Try latte with cinnamon!!
(never try coffee with redbull in it...)</p>

27

<p>Three days.....</p>

28

<p>About 20 hours. I've never had to pull an all nighter (I'll be a senior in high school)</p>

29

<p>33 hours. I pulled my first allnighter. :D</p>

30

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder%5B/url%5D)"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

31

<p>I'm not an all-nighter kinda guy. What I do is take cat naps periodically to keep me going when I need to stay up for a long time or have alot to do. During a week of 3 midterms and a paper, I slept for roughly 4 hours over a 3 day span (so figure, 68 hrs awake over 3 days for those who don't want to do the math). Personally, I don't think straight when I get absolutely no sleep at all. I over-analyze things too easily.</p>

32

<p>Seriously people, 70+ hours? Willingly?</p>

<p>That is absolutely crazy. I would bomb a test or drop a paper to get sleep at that point. And virtually any other reason would not have any weight.</p>

<p>For me it was about 36 hours. Twelve hours of sleep for 4 nights (so I was already low sleep) - 3 hours, 4 hours, 5 hours, 0 hours (when the 36 hours straight happened).</p>

33

<p>19-20 hours</p>

34

<p>36ish. It was at a retreat and I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before. The next day I was working a chorus concert at my school and went prom dress shopping. I don't do well w/out sleep...</p>

35

<p>36 hours (today and yesterday!) :)</p>

36

<p>About 40+ hours. New Year's. :D</p>

37

<p>learned the hard way: when you stay up, just stay up. i tried to take a 40min nap after a (voluntary) all nighter and it RUINED me for the rest of the morning.</p>

38

<p>49 hours at a 3 day LAN. Other than water, I only had 5 Bawls and gaming to keep me going.</p>

39

<p>37 hours is my longest</p>

40

<p>22 hours...and that was right before two subject tests, 2 hours of sleep worked out pretty well though, i must admit.</p>