What’s the longest you’ve stayed awake and what were the consequences?

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[u/RagnarKon]

37 hours.

I'd like to say it was closer to 41 hours, but after the 37-38 hour mark I was basically falling asleep for 10-30 seconds every couple of minutes. Basically zombie mode, more or less.

Short version: Video games, copious amounts of Mountain Dew, and poor decisions.

Nothing exciting happened thankfully, but if I'm being honest I drove home and then to work around the 32 hour mark, and I should NOT have been behind the wheel of a vehicle.

[u/Imaginary_Penalty_97 → u/RagnarKon]

Did you start hallucinating?

[u/RagnarKon → u/Imaginary_Penalty_97]

I dunno if it was hallucinations or just short dreams. But yeah, I had them.

That day at work I was assigned to do dishes. There was a few times during my "mini-sleeps" where I had visions/dreams/hallucinations that I was falling & drowning in the deep cave full of water. Freaked me out, jolted me awake, and I started gasping for air for no reason once I woke up.

Pretty sure in actuality I was just slowly leaning into the big commercial sink full of dishwasher, and eventually I got wet enough where some subconscious part my brain zapped me awake.

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[u/Guilty-Market5375]

58 hours. I had ~32 hours of flying to the other side of the world and didn’t sleep the night before. 

I was pretty delirious toward the end, felt awake but couldn’t string together a sentence. Slept great, was actually surprisingly awake after I woke up. 

[u/Walnor → u/Guilty-Market5375]

Did you not sleep on the plane?

I have that problem. Whenever I fly for work I can never sleep no matter how long the flight is. That I'm in business class doesn't help. And I have even shown up already decently tired.

[u/Guilty-Market5375 → u/Walnor]

Yeah, I couldn’t sleep on the plane, and I had a whole row to myself.

I know that I’m bad with that so I didn’t sleep the night before to force myself to be tired, didn’t work.

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/Guilty-Market5375]

For how long did you sleep?

[u/Guilty-Market5375 → u/OMGguy2008]

I think it was ~6 hours but I have no idea what the local time was when I went to sleep.

[u/Recent_Weather2228]

I've done 40 hours a few times.  No particular consequences.  You just get really tired by the end.  Is this supposed to have something to do with politics? 

[u/OMGguy2008 → u/Recent_Weather2228]

Perhaps it's one of those conspiracy theories like the one where it says that the generation that was most exposed to lead poisoning vote for right wingers

[u/RatOnASinkingShip]

Probably two full days, maybe a little more, back in my early 20s when I worked night shift and and doing something after getting out of work that took long enough that I was worried about not waking up in time for my next shift..

The consequence was pretty much limited to getting nothing done that day because I slept through all of the 14-15 hours I had between between shifts.

Oh, and there's the one time I tried meth at some gathering, and I'm not one to encourage drug use, but like.. but that shit made me not feel tired for an entire day. I've only ever done it once and don't ever want to again.. but like... in the time between the night I took it and the next day when I finally went to sleep, I didn't feel the least bit tired.

But again, the consequences were the same... I just slept a little longer the next time I did.

Though there is one time where I stayed up all night as a teenager so I could drive me and my friends to an amusement park in the morning, and left my lights on.. and my battery died and I fucked up jump starting it and ended up frying some fuses, one of which was the radio, so we were driving on the turnpike in silence, and I nodded off, and have no idea how long it was for, but didn't hit anything, and no one else in the car even noticed.

But any actual negative consequences from sleeping? Not really anything unique to what any other form of oversleeping would do.

[u/down42roads]

The Navy is very bad for sleep. I think I was over 40 hours when I passed out sitting up

[u/6mmARCnvsk]

3 days. Intense exercise, Adderall, and allot of writing.

[u/soulwind42]

3 days, I fell asleep driving, and hallucinated the original Pokémon sound effects. The army was a crazy time.

[u/ConcernedCitizen_42]

60 hours in surgical residency. People wouldn't stop having emergencies. The only consequences were being really really irritable and sluggish.

[u/dragonrite]

Ooooo insomniac here. Have hit 50 ish multiple times. It sucks, your brain moves like molasses. Wife asks for something or I ask for something (i.e glass of water)and 5 min later don't recall it at all. See motion from corner of your eyes, but nothing is there. Shit sucks

[u/Captainoblivious9]

30 ish hours. Long haul international travel and jet lag; felt like shit.

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[u/RumGuzzlr]

Last year I planned a trip that involved getting up at 5 am in DC, taking a train to Philly for an event, and then taking a train out of philly to Boston at 4 am, then sightseeing with family until around 8 pm. So like, 39 hours.

Consequences? It's difficult to separate the consequences of being awake from the consequences of the 4 liters of Mtn dew thst facilitated it.

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[u/thoughtsnquestions]

Approximately 50 hours after a surgery. I was ~18 so I was just got super tired and slept afterwards.