brickboy

Without the assistance of specialised pharmaceuticals of course

Only caffeine, nicotine and alcohol allowed. My best is 65 hours .... followed by 18 hours kip

I wouldn't like to have been driving after 48 hours though, it started getting wierd on the third day

Tiggs

no more than 6 hrs without a nap!

J S W

26 hours, wasn't trying to stay awake but I had driven to France and back . I was exhaused (sp?) and in a bad way.

Full credit to anyone who can do 8 days.

James

ProperCharlie

BB - why did you stay awake that long? i'm doing well to manage 12 hours without a quick snooze...

drug assisted i think i managed about 48 hours (in my youth, of course), but even that was a bit taxing on the inner sense of wellbeing.

[Edited by ProperCharlie - 1/6/2004 10:34:37 AM]

Scooby96

Only about 54/55 hours - used to work Mon-Fri 9-5 then on a Friday evening I used to drive to WH Smith wholsale wharehouse and then deliver papers / magazines all round Gatwick / Redhill areas from 11pm to 8 / 9am.

Then I'd be back at my fulltime job from 11am on Saturday doing overtime then repeat the process at WH Smith on a Saturday night / Sunday morning followed by a game of 5 a side at the Angel Centre at 11am Sunday!

However I do now realise it was very stoopid driving a 3.5T Iveco truck suffering with bad sleep deprevation!

Scooby96

Ibiza was another matter

MattOz

I managed about 67 hours once when at Uni in France. Tuesday morning until Friday morning! I was driving back from Bordeaux and we had some car issues, a police chase followed and we hid for a bit We had by this stage missed the Tuesday night ferry at Caen. The next ferry was the following evening and I couldn't sleep. Didn't then sleep on the ferry and was up all day Thursday until just after 3a.m Friday as I'd been in France for a few months and was catching up with mates.

Thank God for caffeine and chocolate! LOL

Matt

ProperCharlie

96 - so when exactly did you sleep? are you saying that you woke up on friday morning and didn't sleep until sunday night?

i hope they were paying you well for the night time paper-round!

ajm

I've done about 3 days at the millenium new year... large amounts of vodka redull and general messyness..... also started seeing "shadow people"!

brickboy

ProperCharlie -- with me it was revision for re-taking my 2nd year exams at Bradford. If I'd failed, I'd have had to retake the year with no grant and no fees paid, so I was suitably incentivised

ADP

regularly do 12 hour night shifts, regularly do 36 hours plus awake

mart360

332880 hrs

approx 38 yrs............


the voices they get to me.. sheep with knives ......

sleeeeeeeeppppppp



honestly 42hrs only went to bed cos i had to

i had completed a night shift and went and laid a drive with a mate

slept for 18 hrs straight

mart

Markus

48 hours. Was many years ago when I was a lot younger! Had to get a specific print job out asap, it was some HMSO white paper on something, and thus required someone to oversee it all, and that was me.

Got some very nice overtime for it too, so I was not too bothered about it.

did sleep for a fair while after though

Fatman

Only about 26, 27 hours or so, personally. Much longer and just feel ill

CheekyChimp

I once stayed awake for nearly three days when I was 16. Three of us decided to stay up for as long as possible after an all-nighter. We ended up nodding off sometime around lunchtime on the third day without even realising. We didn't hallucinate or anything but it felt like a really bad come down off speed (no I hadn't taken any that weekend). The tempation to snooze was far too great and I found myself staring into space for what seemed like hours for no reason what so ever. I was gutted when I woke up 12 hours later... but very comfy.

StickyMicky

ive done 3 days and i started tripping really badley

ive seen them, and it was not due to lack of sleep
i was not on any drugs of any kind, nor was i drinking, i had been living 100% clean for about 8 months

i got so scared i wouldnt leave the car, and my ex bird got really freaked, because i was ooooo freaked out,
im telling ya, them fellas were coming for me and it scared the poop out of me

Crapaud62

I used to be involved with 24 hour Endurance race teams and that required long time awake.

In 1992 at Spa I went four days with no sleep. Thursday night we had night practice and then things were going on through the night.

Friday was a full engine rebuild through the night and Saturday was the race. After the first few days you sort of half shut down and exist in a zombie state. I think the petrol fumes from the pits kept us awake. Finally on the Sunday afternoon, I left the circuit to ride to the border with France and fell asleep whilst riding my bike. I just managed to stop at side of road, get off bike and immediately fall asleep for a few hours.