Of Night Owls and Early Birds

BishounenStalker · Post by **BishounenStalker** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:05 am

What's the longest you've ever stayed awake in one sitting? And how long did you crash afterwards?

My current score: 82.74 hours straight

Slept a full 24 hours after that.

Method of staying awake: Coffee, SoBe Adrenaline Rush, and a six-pack of Bawls (little-known energy drink that tastes like it's alcoholic but isn't).

DreamsofaCobra · Post by **DreamsofaCobra** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:30 am

why in the world would you stay up that long? Sleep deprevation halucinations?

My longest would be around 40 hours, done that on many occasions. I always sleep about 12 hours afterward, unless I need to get up..
Nothing like a late project to motivate.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:09 am

I believe about 42hrs is my limit =\.

Jesus, BishounenStalker, that's like 3 and a half days =\

BishounenStalker · Post by **BishounenStalker** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:12 am

Finals Week'll do that to ya

HungryCrackPot · Post by **HungryCrackPot** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 5:27 am

1 week no sleep.
Voices kept me up at night around the fourth night. They liked to cuss me out and hinder upon my sleeping.
It was the second week of school.
Then I shot my face and the world was right.

AtomicWeezleman · Post by **AtomicWeezleman** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 6:27 am

72 hours, (give or take, althought this isnt strictly true, i didnt sleep, just switched off occasionaly)
method of staying awake- FFX, Internet forums (this one mainly, And one great big anime session composed off EVangelion (how obvious am i) Trigun, Blue Gender, AD Police, Nadesico, the eva films, appleseed (i know, iknow, its crap) Gits, X, and i think there was a few others, also had a game of warhammer, but no one could remember the rules...just ended up with who could say bang quickess......i lost

fyrtenheimer · Post by **fyrtenheimer** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 10:33 am

HungryCrackPot wrote:1 week no sleep.
Voices kept me up at night around the fourth night. They liked to cuss me out and hinder upon my sleeping.
It was the second week of school.
Then I shot my face and the world was right.

lmao

God kill me now.

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:01 pm

Time: 65 hours.

Methods: none.

Slept: 15 hours.

pyro_256 · Post by **pyro_256** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:39 pm

i stayed awake about 48 hours without anything to keep me up, the slept for three hours and went to school

RichLather · Post by **RichLather** » Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:24 pm

In the early '90s I was working as a production assistant for the (then) ABC affiliate in Birmingham AL when the biggest blizzard to hit the area in many years buried the city under ablanket of white and shut everything down for the weekend.

All the stations sit atop Red Mountain, so once I got to the top there wasn't any way I was getting down. No snow plows, y'see.

I was awake the better part of 72 hours, subsisting on massive amounts of caffeine and occasional food. No way to comfortable sleep in a TV station, and what rooms were designated as sleep spots were taken by reporters and anchors. Poor production weasels were left to fend for themselves.

I actually lugged my Amiga 2000 up there, so I was able to post messages to the outside world through GEnie. Remember GEnie, old schoolers?