Sleep deprivation

[Dr Unne]

It's 7AM, I've been writing code nonstop for 13 hours, and I'm starting to get dizzy. This is my break, I've got at least 6 hours of work left before I can stop. I've stayed up longer than this before, but the heavy concentration part is making it a lot worse.

How long is the longest you have stayed awake? Did you start seeing visions?

[Sephex]

40 Hours or so. I was a kid. My cousin and I had a sleepover and we kept our selves occupied by trying to make 3D images with red and blue pen since we had those old school 3D glasses.

I usually get up early for work, so I never get enough sleep day to day. That's why my posts are sometimes off kilter here. I am just goofy tired, or I have coffee running through me. Or I am on a sleeping pill because I have had that hard of a time staying asleep. Or I'm drunk because it's the weekend. Or I am depressed.

But overall I am just goofy. I probably do something about the other stuff.

Don't want such a downer as a post so uh...

(SPOILER)

EDIT: I wrote two articles on ambien before. So I guess that sort of counts because the side effects are similar to sleep deprivation. Ignore the "backstory" to them. The editor thought it would be amusing. Also, NSFW language in the links:

http://www.primaryignition.com/2010/...g-and-i-share/
http://www.primaryignition.com/2011/...entertianment/

[AssassinDX]

38 hours is my maximum I think, I woke up at 6am for college, stayed up all night for a party, got the train home in the morning and felt pretty good, I think I eventually fell asleep at 8pm that evening. I couldn't do that now, I need my beauty sleep.

As mentioned in a topic I created a few weeks back I suffer from night terrors which involve hallucinations anyway, so I'm quite prone to them. On that particular occasion the one thing that stands out clearly to me was a bowling ball coming straight at my face as I sat there in a dazed state, that was the moment I decided sleep was needed. I heard voices too, not as in "you must kill your family" stuff but a short and loud AHH! as well as bangs as well, it's something called 'exploding head syndrome' (look it up) which I also regularly suffer from but it was much, much worse than usual that day. Never again.

[Cuchulainn]

6 days.

Drugs were involved.

[Carl the Llama]

I haven't actually measured the time, but in the early stages of my CKD I would sleep a maximum of 2 hours a day, and not continual, but 30 mins here 30 mins there... I would lay on my bed trying but I was basically a zombie all day every day.

I suffered from insomnia, it got better when I started dialysis though.

[Pumpkin]

I was ina pretty messed up situation the required me to pack up and move my entire apartment overnight, move the next day, and then that didn't work out and I had to go around looking for somewhere to stay and somewhere to store all or my stuff.

Anyways it was close to 3 days.

[Shauna]

I dunno. I have never successfully pulled an all-nighter, as far as I remember. Any time that was the plan, I just went to bed at like 8am or something and had a few hours sleep.

So uh, yeah. Probably not that long for my maximum being awake time. I enjoy sleep, and don't do things that need me to pull all-nighters.

[Spuuky]

About 48 hours. I didn't experience anything unusual other than being really, really tired. Nothing quite like feeling a rush of adrenaline when you're utterly exhausted.

[Scotty_ffgamer]

In college, I stayed up at least once for 40 hours straight (though I think I did this a couple of times). I had to do this to finish my last assignment at college. I woke up at 8am the first day and typed nonstop except for when I went to lunch and dinner for 23 hours. I wrote 30,000 words in that time for my final assignment. After that was done, I went to the cafeteria to eat, went to the library to print off all 140ish pages (I was lucky there was enough paper/ink/etc), and then went back to the dorm to work on my tri-fold poster board for the rest of the assignment. This took me a few hours to complete. I then practiced my presentation I was going to give over this assignment, which was about my student teaching experience. I played some Just Cause 2 for the couple of hours before the presentation, and then went and presented my thing over and over again for different people for about 4 hours straight. I was going to go back home and immediately sleep, but my fellow student teachers made me go out to eat with them. When I got back, I wasn't feeling so tired anymore and stayed up a few hours doing silly stuff with the roommates. All in all, it wasn't a horrible day.

[Shorty]

36 hours. My friends and I did it on purpose because we were young and had no responsibilities.

[Shiny]

I believe it was 3 or 4 days when I was doing my thesis dissertation. Chocolate covered expresso beans were involved.

[Old Manus]

I was awake for roughly 36 hours when I came back from Barbados last summer. Woke up at 8, had an overnight flight later that evening, arrived in London at 6am local time and traveled all day back to south Wales before chilling out for the rest of the day and going to bed at around 11pm. The weird part was after 25 hours suddenly not feeling tired at all. I only went to bed because I assumed my body needed it. I then slept 15 hours straight :manus:

edit:

expresso beans

[Iceglow]

lets see... probably close to a full week (7 days) if not a little longer. I've suffered severe insomnia bouts for years. Unfortunately there's no miracle cure for me. Sleep Hygiene Therapy helps but doesn't prevent it fully. Regularly I'll go to work having not slept at all for a day or two.

Have I ever hallucinated due to a lack of sleep? Yes. Most definitely. The worst period of insomnia I had was eventually caught on to just how bad it was by my sister when we were walking through the street and I got irritated that a tree was talking to me and I knew it was an hallucination as trees cannot talk to people.

[Shlup]

I was sleep deprived for two weeks. When Bailey was born, I stayed in the NICU with her, where machines beeped, alarms went off, people came in and out, I had to milk myself every two hours, and on top of that she needed her diaper changed and temperature taken and fed all the time, which I tried to not let the nurses do. The sleep I did get was sitting upright in a chair or on a plastic couch. She also just had to be born while we were dogsitting for my in-laws, so BJ had to drive home at least once a day to take care of the dogs. He got to the point one day where he couldn't form a sentence; he'd try and tell me something and it was just a jumble of words.

Once I got her home, she slept in bed with me, so I rarely had to actually get up--as long as my boob's in her mouth we both sleep just fine.

[Mirage]

Sounds like what you need, Unne, is some amphetamines.

I sometimes get light hallucinations when biking to work early in the morning after recently waking up after getting way too little sleep, but that's about it. I incorrectly register shapes as humans around the roads, it's kind of freaky.