I Was Up For 31 Hours Straight...

ruaround

ruaround

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i just woke up from a 5 1/2 hour nap after staying up for 31 hours straight... due to a time restraint on some work i had to get done and tending to my kiddos last night it had to be done...
i had 18 hours of work to get done and all the duties of a parent to do in less than 24 hours... when i finished my work at 5:30 am i opted to stay up instead of trying to get an hour or so of sleep in fear that i would sleep right through my alarm... so i started the caffine & sudafed intake then... then i had a full day and couldnt get out of any of it... i feel good now though rairly refreshed...
the longest i stayed up was 42 hours... no drugs were involved either... i was playing Magic: The Gathering and people just kept stopping by to play... one of my buddies was over 3 seperate times after he had worked over the course of 3 days...
whats the longest you have stayed up???
 
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usirchchris

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Originally Posted by ruaround
http:///forum/post/2933893
i just woke up from a 5 1/2 hour nap after staying up for 31 hours straight... due to a time restraint on some work i had to get done and tending to my kiddos last night it had to be done...
i had 18 hours of work to get done and all the duties of a parent to do in less than 24 hours... when i finished my work at 5:30 am i opted to stay up instead of trying to get an hour or so of sleep in fear that i would sleep right through my alarm... so i started the caffine & sudafed intake then... then i had a full day and couldnt get out of any of it... i feel good now though rairly refreshed...
the longest i stayed up was 42 hours... no drugs were involved either... i was playing Magic: The Gathering and people just kept stopping by to play... one of my buddies was over 3 seperate times after he had worked over the course of 3 days...
whats the longest you have stayed up???
I can barely get over 24 in an emergency case only. I cannot physically stay up once I am tired...there is no fighting it. I just fall asleep. I get my 8 hours typically at night, and generally take a nap when I get home from work. I love naps
 
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eric b 125

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ive done 24 hours without sleep countless times for work. interesting side note: i've read that if you go 24 without sleep and get into a car, you are as impaired as someone who is legally drunk.
 
socal57che

socal57che

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Originally Posted by Eric B 125
http:///forum/post/2933908
ive done 24 hours without sleep countless times for work. interesting side note: i've read that if you go 24 without sleep and get into a car, you are as impaired as someone who is legally drunk.
Um...I drive from Kansas City to San Diego straight through.
I'd say that somewhere around 35hrs without sleep is the most I've pulled off. After driving from KC to Riverside, Ca a few years ago, I couldn't go to sleep. We got home at about 5am. That was a 25 1/2 hr drive plus staying awake all day after unloading the Jeep. I don't think I could do that now. I've even started pulling over to nap for an hour on the KC trips. Now that my wife is making the trip with me, they take about 30hrs. I drive for about 20 hrs, pull over for an hour to powernap, then finish the trip.
 
mimzy

mimzy

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I did 36hours a few times as a teenager during my summers in the bungalow colonies of upstate NY.
Those were good times, man. Good times.
 
nw2salt08

nw2salt08

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36 hours is the longest and that was when I was in the hospital having my daughter. The labor was 16hours and after that I couldn't sleep...The nurse finally came in and made me take a sleeping pill.
 
pumper

pumper

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I did 23 hrs in a shipyard once. Not an office with papers- a heavy industrial setting repairing battleships.
 
gypsana

gypsana

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About 72 hrs. and no drugs. Just teenage fun and excitement. Went to SF to see Metallica. Up cruising the city the first night and Metallica shows the next two consecutive nights. After the second show I drank one beer and fell asleep in a small chair. Good times!!!

Now in my mid thirties I am lucky if I can stay awake for 24hrs then I feel all punchy and spun. Sucks getting old.
 
saltwatersubie

saltwatersubie

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Longest I have stayed up was about 40 something hours. I flew to California to visit my family. My plane left at 6am but since I work nights I did not sleep before my flight because I would have missed it. Then got to California at 11:45am and stayed up until at least 11pm. Also every Monday I stay up for about 22 hours because I work an overnight 12hr shift. Kinda sucks because I have to flip my schedule from working 10-10pm on Sunday, get home try to stay up, then go to work at 8pm on Monday.
I get exhausted just typing about it.
 
nigerbang

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It would be easier to tell you how much I sleep rather then how long I can stay awake.. On average I sleep around 10 hours a week..
 
aquaknight

aquaknight

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About 76 hours myself. Finals week my freshman year of college. Woke up Monday for class, went through the day then had a paper to write through the night. Got that done, drag through Tuesday classes. Here it starts to explain why:
My freshman year was also the year that Halo 2 came out, and changed the gaming world forever. Do say we were grossly addicted is an understatement. Played that through Tuesday night, and then classes Wednesday. Got home, more Halo, then I had to write another paper through the night. Dropped it off at class Thursday and came home. Tuesday night and into Wed., I 'broke through the zone.' I really wasn't 'tired' anymore, just a sort of feeling of lifelessness, sort of like a drone.
 
snakeblitz33

snakeblitz33

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Longest I have stayed up was a full 92hrs (4 days) I couldn't sleep, regardless of anything that I did. I even took benedrill!
 
el guapo

el guapo

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Originally Posted by ruaround
http:///forum/post/2933893
i just woke up from a 5 1/2 hour nap after staying up for 31 hours straight... due to a time restraint on some work i had to get done and tending to my kiddos last night it had to be done...
i had 18 hours of work to get done and all the duties of a parent to do in less than 24 hours... when i finished my work at 5:30 am i opted to stay up instead of trying to get an hour or so of sleep in fear that i would sleep right through my alarm... so i started the caffine & sudafed intake then... then i had a full day and couldnt get out of any of it... i feel good now though rairly refreshed...
the longest i stayed up was 42 hours... no drugs were involved either... i was playing Magic: The Gathering and people just kept stopping by to play... one of my buddies was over 3 seperate times after he had worked over the course of 3 days...
whats the longest you have stayed up???

Heh You played MAGIC .....
GEEK
 
life~reefer

life~reefer

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Longest I have stayed up was 48 hours!
I went to Italy and We left early morning and actually skipped a night of sleep!!
 
jackri

jackri

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I worked a 20hour shift once of hard manual labor with 1 - 15 minute break.. needless to say after that following a 16hr day I didn't go back... longest? probably 35 or so hours I'm guessing.
 
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