i refuse to nod off

[Denmark]

This is more of a personal experience thread than just a counter to rubah's thread (though it is also that).

What's the longest you've ever gone without sleeping? What methods did you use to keep you awake during that time?

For me, it's about 27 hours (from 9 AM yesterday morning to noon today). During that time, I wasted time around the house, picked up a corsage, ate things, went to prom, played poker, jumped on a trampoline, watched Dane Cook and Robin Williams, and had someone sleep on top of me in a not too comfortable position for me to sleep in. I'm still hungover from it, because I've only gotten 3 hours of sleep since.

[Old Manus]

Probably about 20 hours - I sleep too much

[Venom]

Just about everyday.

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

12+12+12+7+5
about 46 hours I think. I don't think I got any sleep on my first night in New York when I was on a school trip.

[Zeldy]

I usually get atleast 2-3 hours sleep at Sleepovers(I find it SO hard sleeping in places not my own), but this one time, I didn't. Im almost sure of it. I just listened to my Music and Played my DS.

The next day I looked and felt like a Zombie, so thats probably the longest Ive stayed awake. I need my sleep

[Spiffing Cheese]

Nearly forty hours, I think. ._. I woke up really early and went to a sleepover at which I didn't sleep at all, and then went to sleep quite late the next day. It's weird, if you stay awake for long enough you just stop being tired.

As to how I stayed awake that long... I had quite a few glasses of Coke with instant coffee stirred into it. And sugar. Oh, god, I feel sick just thinking about it.

[Freya]

The least amount of sleep i've ever gotton was 4 hours. This summer i will accomplish staying awake for a full 24 hours though.

[Faris]

About 24. I plan on trying the "having no sleep for three days or more will make you go literally insane" theory this summer.

[~SapphireStar~]

A whole day! I was very proud of myself. I was the 31st of January last year, the day of the GreenDay concert! After we came back home at midnight, I wasnt tired! I was so buzzing and didnt go to sleep till 10 the following morning!

[Dreddz]

From 7am to 11pm the next day.....something like that. It was when I went to Egypt

[Anaisa]

4 nights I went without sleep! And I wasn't using any methods to keep me awake, I just couldn't sleep, and wasn't concerned enough about it to do something to make myself sleep.

[Levian]

30 hours. But that was a task I had to complete and I wouldn't have done it otherwise, or ever again for that matter.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Four days. I did it as an experiment to see what would happen to me without sleep. My hypothesis was that provided that I kept activity down to a minimum during the evening then my brain should be able to shut down enough to trick it into sleeping. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. On more than one occassion I would drop off for about five minutes, and by the fourth day I was very sick indeed. Not on death's door, but I did sleep for a day and a half after the "experiment" was over. On the last day I was hallucinating, hadn't even in two days, and I couldn't see or speak properly.

[Bart's Friend Milhouse]

my brain

What brain Captain Maxx?

[Anaisa]

Four days. I did it as an experiment to see what would happen to me without sleep. My hypothesis was that provided that I kept activity down to a minimum during the evening then my brain should be able to shut down enough to trick it into sleeping. Unfortunately that wasn't the case. On more than one occassion I would drop off for about five minutes, and by the fourth day I was very sick indeed. Not on death's door, but I did sleep for a day and a half after the "experiment" was over. On the last day I was hallucinating, hadn't even in two days, and I couldn't see or speak properly.

I didn't have any trouble like that.