how long can i stay awake for?
 

i am going for the all elusive 72 hours.
i will check in every 2 hours, so i dont fall asleep.
i got up at 3 pm on feb 14. it is now 2:16 am eastern standard (east coast, usa)
how long do you think i will last?
i am going on 12 hours, now, and my next check in will be at 4 am.
wish me luck!

*luck*

48 is about the most i can hold.

I never sleep.
It's true! :igor:

if i never slept i would be in jail be now
:)

whereas i would merely be dead.

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it is now 4 am. not that impressive... yet. this makes, uhh, holy crap- it seems as if i have been listening to pink floyd - money for a long time! anyway, that makes 17 hours uptime i think. next check in at 6 am or earlier if i get bored. so far i have gotten respectable in terragen, but i still can't make night scenes with a moon or day scenes with sunbeams. i can get the night to look right, but the sun when i make it look like a moon gets all weird, es p at low angles to the ground. if anyone knows how, post post! i am going to go watch a movie. ill keep posting. ill write a review on the movie later.

i dont know where i got 11 am from. i woke up at 3. so to amend my post, its 13 hours, not 17.

its 6:35 am here, that makes uh, 9+6 and a half = 17.5 hours.

all natural? or drug induced?

Ok dumb question.
Why are you doing this?
and Good luck I guess!

i have alcahol to help. it is 8 am, and im doin fine...
im doing it out of boredom.
coinbird is helping me a lot. i watched the matrix, and i think i am going to watch some old beavis anb butthead- wait, chasing amy instead. hmm, i got mikroangelo running, and i am making cursors for my skin. i am going to dl and skin mikroamp today, and figger out how to make a background image for the MB. terragen also is very good for wasting time. ill crack open bryce, too, and see what that is about. i have to walk to class in , cant subtract. at 10 30. ill do my hw there, and then i will come home, and get drunk. at least that is the plan. it is 8 00, so i have only been up for 9+8 hours. syyea in two hours w/ another update :P i guess hat will be at ten oclock or s=close to it.

here's a hint. open the window, so it's cold. don't smoke or drink (if you do anyways). try to always keep occupied. the best way to do this is play a long game, like final fantasy or GT3. make sure you have no commitments. lots of food and water. cold water usually keeps you up longer. DON'T watch movies that have a complicated, clow or boring storyline. watch films that have lots of action, very loud, with big explosions. listen to your favourite type of loud music, preferably rock or similar. try to take little notice of time, otherwise you will keep on checking up at the time, realise how slow it's going, and go to bed out of boredom.

how do i know all this? i did this a while back, last summer. i lasted 5 days without sleep, and by then i felt horrible, as though i was going to be sick everywhere. on the 5th day i couldn't speak, i felt devoid of all energy, couldn't hardly move. butt he best thing was, when i did go to bed, i slept 1 day and about 7 hours solid. that was fun, sleeping through a day. i haven't seen anyone do that before.

all good tips. i had to stop watching chasing amy, though it is a great movie, it is very stressful to watch. i have slept through a whole day before, that was realy fun. i forget when it was, maybe 7 months ago at the end of HS. im gonn drink a little, because whenever i drink and then sober up again without falling asleep i feel greatt, and plus, if i dont drink the rest of the beer i bought my roomate will steal it.

5 days is VERY impressive. after like 3 days you are supposed to start having hallucinations and stuff.

I'd recommend that you not drink alcohol. I would recommend that you drink more water than you normally would, though. Also eat small, frequent, light meals. Don't eat anything really heavy, or really starchy. Too heavy will make you tired insantly. Too starchy will raise your blood sugar, which will keep you away for a while, but then it will fade, and you'll be worse off than if you ate a heavy meal. It takes a toll on your body.

Find ways to keep occupied, as was suggested, but don't stick to one activity for too long. Staring at a television will make you tired after a while. Get up and go for a walk every so often. The fresh air and excercise will help wake you up.

Also . . . why are you doing this?

Pie, I've slept for over 24 hours before, and I'd only been up for about 36. :D

stayed awake once for almost 100 hours (just over four days) during college when I had exams. Nearly passed out walking home afterwards though. As far as I know if you forcibly stay awake for more than five days you can slip into a coma.

i dont think ill goto te pint of being comatose! its 10:00- do you know where your children are?
10 am, gonna go to class. ill be back later~~

I do the 48 hours no sleep thing once a month when I drive to New York.

It sucks.

Do the things they told you above. Without any drugs ie: caffeine, speed, coke, ect. - You should start to hallucinate after 50 hours.

I dont know why anyone would really want to do this though. When you do sleep, it will be for a long time.


~ Missy

Alcohol will make you far more tired after a little while. Bad move!

Well, i think i'll join Staffy in his little quest for insomnia. It's 11:00 now, so i've been up for like 2hrs so far, so only umm... 70 to go.

thanks for the idea Staffy

:D yay im not alone! its 100 pm, only been up 22 hours. i just got a cofee and some donuts :D

im gona drink the alcohol tonight, i PROMISE not to go to sleep. i wont drink much.

spiffed keep us posted :)

well, it's only 1pm now, so it's only been 4hrs of uptime.
But i intend to pull this off without caffine just because i swore i wouldn't keep drinking the stuff a couple months ago, and i'd hate to break that now

This little excursion into sleep deprivation
is quite amusing.
I'm laughing...
Brings back thoughts of yesterday...
Better no go there though...
I'll start missing it...

are you sure this is healthy?
a few nights ago i was up the entire night b/c of the flu
the next day i stayed home i felt so out of it (i was walking into walls, and stuff)
at one point i had to get some essays written on my computer, i went to turn it on, fell over backwards, hit my head and either fell asleep or unconscious for two hours (i'm still not sure which, all i know is my mom walked in and said i was lying on the floor)

wow good luck again staffy and you too spiffed.
but I like sleep I need it,.
if yall need help I'll be glad to send my 2 yr old over to help with the cause.
He will not let you sleep at all trust me!!!
He can keep you entertained and occupied till all hours of the day and night - I could use a break to sleep :)

I once did the 48 hour thing when driving to the West Country to pick up friends and then travelling into the depths of Europe. A car full of guys talking, eating, and drinking in an attempt to keep eachother awake (well, mainly trying to keep me awake as I was driving)

In the end they all fell asleep (including my driver's mate) so after a couple of hours I gave in too and pulled over to sleep (probably very wise).

I was up awake for about 70 hours straight once, that was my freshmen year in marching band. It was on our band trip to Disney in Florida. Started off with an 18 hour road trip there by bus, then no one in my room slept for about the next two days! We wre at amusement parks all day and were up playing video games all night, it was a blast! Of course we accidentally slept through the next day and night, and scared all of the band parents. They didn't realize we hadn't gone to the park and thought we had been left there, but finally they checked our room and found us, boy were they mad though! We just laughed our asses off!:D ;)

its been 24 hours and im not tired yet!! i am going strong. i will definitely make it to 24
check in at 5:00 :D

congratulations on your...... progress.

:D

bwah! I do 36 hours regularly... come March Break, I'm going to make an attempt at 168hrs.

Sure, send him over (can you send kids through E-mail?) he can keep my 2yo company, she's prompted me to stay up beyond all hours of the night many times

[edit] 4:00, so 7hrs now, still very far from 72[/edit]

im bored. im making cursors now, and it is very time consuming, so that is good. its 4:20 am!

edit PM 4:20 PM what a tard i be

You could always post poetry on the Artistic thread around here. I do that, and enjoy reading others poems, there is some really good stuff on there.:)

Don't do that... squinting at the monitor will tire your eyes, and make you sleepy.

40 something hours. done it a couple times.

i spent much of it surfing and watching dvds.

I must be getting bored lately cause the last few nights im out before midnight and 10 minutes on the net bores the crap outta me.

not so true, the bright light from the monitor actually helps to keep you awake, your brain is sure it's daytime (just makesure you keep background lights on too)

Yes, true, if you are looking at large monotone areas with a lot of contrast, such as a blank document in Notepad. But if you are working on cursors, your eyes have to concentrate more, and will get tired more easily.

Perhaps yes, but it's still better then reading a book. My suggestion, go play a FPS game, or watch TV.

I'm sorry, but I just don't see any point in staying awake for so long.