How long can you go without sleep?

[gutawafang]

I didn't sleep last night. It's 1130am here in the office and I'm fucking awake. How long can you go without sleep? The longest I was awake was about 90 hours.

Is it insomnia? I'm scared. Right now all I'm thinking of is killing everyone with a pair of scissors.

[Just Silver]

I think my max is 48 hrs

[DetroitSkills]

have gone 56

[slims]

Once, I didn't sleep for 3 days because of this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s ... s_group%29
but in general, maybe a day.

[StanBase]

I was up for 8 hours once

[DetroitSkills]

I was up for 8 hours once

[StanBase]

I was up for 8 hours once

[DetroitSkills]

I was up for 8 hours once

[Guess_Who]

Not much, but everytime I have something important, I have problems to sleep. Exams, weddings....

So most likely to all the important things I go without sleeping....

[StanBase]

[DetroitSkills]

[Flamez]

longest was 48 hours. I can't do that shit no more I need my sleep or else I'll be pissed off all day.

[Elision]

I didn't sleep last night. It's 1130am here in the office and I'm fucking awake. How long can you go without sleep? The longest I was awake was about 90 hours.

Is it insomnia? I'm scared. Right now all I'm thinking of is killing everyone with a pair of scissors.

sorry that i didn't see this posted before i went to bed like 10 hours ago, but up until that point i hadn't slept since 5am on the 2nd. i was just having really bad anxiety trying to get to sleep, feeling like my heart was about to give out and stuff so i told myself i'd stay up for a couple more hours and that extended into a couple of days. from my experience, if you don't go to sleep in that 1-2 hour window that your body is clearly trying to find it, then your circadian rhythm kinda does a soft reset and it's like you've convinced your brain that it's slept, even though your body clearly doesn't feel that way. after that 40-hour (or so) mark things get weird, your brain starts showing you shit it hasn't shown you since the 90's, you're for whatever reason more productive than if you had slept, etc. but this is also the mark where you're not going to remember much after you do sleep, so try not to get involved in anything you won't finish in the same session. guess that's all i got for ya, good luck man

[EG.]

think my longest was like 40hrs

[Atone]

Depends if i have to work or not, i usually choose to work morning/afternoon hours but have ALOT of trouble sleeping at night so alot of days i stay up all night, work until about noon, sleep for 2 or 3 hours, and then wake up

if i'm not working for awhile, there was a few occasions i went 72 hours, back when i used to drink, and me and a friend would often go 2 or 3 days straight drinking, we would stay up for 72 hours, drinking, watching movies, and doin dumb shit, one night we were wrestling around in her living room and i didn't think she could do it, but somehow she lifted me in the air and accidently slammed me thru the table, it was hilarious as hell, thank god i was buzzed at the time cuz i didn't feel much pain.