How long have you gone without sleep? > General Discussion

Posted: 5/7/2014 2:57:04 PM EDT

Without drugs......

Is it harder as you get older? I am 44.....Had to get up at 1am EST lastnight on a Emg call {Electrical} after working my normal 8.
Worked from 2am -to about 3 pm today.

It's 6:50 EST and I am one loopy SOB.

I used to be able to be at the "Club" all night back in my 20's and go straight to work.....Now.....Helz no.

So, age and length of time being up and functional?

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:01:28 PM EDT

[#1]

42yo. Went two days once when I was much younger. It was awful. Went 30 hours once on a Marlin tournament and a couple 24 hour stints in Vegas since then. Really, really hard to bounce back from them now.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:03:33 PM EDT

[#2]

31 hours

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:05:01 PM EDT

[#3]

Probably 30ish in the Army.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:06:33 PM EDT

[#4]

What is this sleep you speak of?

Years ago I used to run hard (OTR driver), going 2-3 days straight was normal. Now, on a rare occasion I might go 2 days but that is all I will do. Not worth it.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:07:00 PM EDT

[#5]

76, 78 hours? I started getting weird.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:07:18 PM EDT

[#6]

Just stay busy, you'll do fine.
A 30 minute catnap will get you a few hundred miles further down the road.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:08:07 PM EDT

[#7]

48ish when I was deployed. It sucked.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:09:54 PM EDT

[#8]

43 hrs. during the Battle of An Nasiriyah....Never stopped moving at 100 mph the entire time......

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:10:30 PM EDT

[#9]

I went 72 hours once. It was fucking horrible.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:11:39 PM EDT

[#10]

33 or so during the first Gulf War.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:13:32 PM EDT

[#11]

120 hrs.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:14:13 PM EDT

[#12]

3 days ish. In a blur towards the end

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:14:24 PM EDT

[#13]

I went 40 hours once when I was 21. I've gone over 30 a few times in the last few years. No fun.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:15:34 PM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Without drugs......

Is it harder as you get older? I am 44.....Had to get up at 1am EST lastnight on a Emg call {Electrical} after working my normal 8.
Worked from 2am -to about 3 pm today.

It's 6:50 EST and I am one loopy SOB.

I used to be able to be at the "Club" all night back in my 20's and go straight to work.....Now.....Helz no.

So, age and length of time being up and functional?

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With zero sleep, probably a little over 48hrs. With a few minutes of nod off time here and there, 96 hours.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:17:05 PM EDT

[#15]

45 hours straight to complete a software project.

Not good.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:17:43 PM EDT

[#16]

At JRTC I went 90 hrs and my Joe's around 70. We
were all combat ineffective. I couldn't write my name or
Repeat my SSN. After it was over we rotated sleep and
I felt great after four hrs sleep.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:18:00 PM EDT

[#17]

38 hrs. I actually fell asleep while actively playing video games.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:18:46 PM EDT

[#18]

70+

College

Adderall

No problem

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:19:44 PM EDT

[#19]

About 36 hours driving a tank across a featureless desert in Desert Storm. Drifting off gently only to be smashed awake by the Tank Cdr screaming Ling Wake up, we're falling behind. Then rev up, go a little too fast, overtake my wingman who has by now fallen asleep in his tank. Want to talk about a drunken centipede looking wedge formation???

And the longest of all? A Dungeons and Dragons binge that started at 6am on a Friday morning and ended at 5am for Monday morning PT. Didn't get to sleep until 6 or 7 that night. Our Sgts were not happy with us.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:19:58 PM EDT

[#20]

Several times into the 48 hours plus during the .mil days.

A few times 36 hours plus during the .party days

End result was pretty much the same

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:20:10 PM EDT

[#21]

3 days back when I was younger and worked 3 different shifts weekly. That job nearly killed me working two 7-3, two 3-11, and two 11-7 shifts every week for 7 years and not usually in that order

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:20:53 PM EDT

[#22]

At 48 hours I started hallucinating.

Hell I take naps now and sleep all night.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:21:18 PM EDT

[#23]

36 hours, had a fatal MVA at 10 pm on a Thursday after a regular 7-5. Cleared the station at 4 am and decided showering and a big breakfast was better than trying to doze for a half hour. Thankfully I had all day Saturday to catch up.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:21:48 PM EDT

[#24]

37 hours.

When the piece Of equipment is costing the company $2000/hour every hour it is down, no one lets you sleep.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:22:41 PM EDT

[#25]

About 6 days when I was on spring break in my junior year of high school. I will never do it again. Things got ALL fucked up.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:22:56 PM EDT

[#26]

Working 24's at station......up all night in the ghetto. Come home at 7am to take care of a baby and two year old while wife went to work. Up at night with baby and then back to work......So roughly 60 hrs. Happened several times over the years. I'll bet I was averaging 1-3 hours of sleep a night for weeks when the kids were very young. I literally thought I was going to crack. I think I did a few times.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:24:08 PM EDT

[#27]

When I was in college an all nighter was no big deal. I have trouble staying awake past ten oclock now.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:26:27 PM EDT

[#28]

I go 28-30ish every 7 days, rotating from night shift back to day shift. Wake up at 15:00 work from 18:45-06:45 stay up til 23:00ish that night.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:31:01 PM EDT

[#29]

It gets wierd in day 3 I'll tell you that much

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:36:02 PM EDT

[#30]

I used to be able to go two days when I was younger, but thirty-six hours is about my max now.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:36:23 PM EDT

[#31]

36-40 hours in the Army doing ARTEP's back in the day.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:37:43 PM EDT

[#32]

40-42hrs

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:38:08 PM EDT

[#33]

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It gets wierd in day 3 I'll tell you that much

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Truth

Things get textures

Sounds get near

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:38:10 PM EDT

[#34]

50-60 hours or so.

Don't ask.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:38:52 PM EDT

[#35]

36 hours, I have no idea how people in the military stay up for days and manage to function at all

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:40:15 PM EDT

[#36]

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76, 78 hours? I started getting weird.

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I'm betting sleep has nothing to do with that.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:40:28 PM EDT

[#37]

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Truth

Things get textures

Sounds get near

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It gets wierd in day 3 I'll tell you that much

Truth

Things get textures

Sounds get near

And everything gets HILARIOUS

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:40:53 PM EDT

[#38]

Hmm.. about 2 years.. from daughters birth through about 2 years of age.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:40:58 PM EDT

[#39]

About 60 hours last month at work.
Traveled two days in and then worked a full day.
Two weeks after this I was finding out how much I had actually missed during the handover.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:41:57 PM EDT

[#40]

54 hours, on the boat. A couple three 48s. Didn't really like it.

Eta: on the plus side, I am a shiftworker God as a result.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:43:12 PM EDT

[#41]

Never been able to do that sort of daftness

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:43:26 PM EDT

[#42]

Around 34-36 hours, I think.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:48:51 PM EDT

[#43]

Around 72 hrs once. 36 hrs a few times.

I worked rotating 12hr shifts at one time. Threw my entire schedule off track and sleeping didnt come easy so somtimes I just didnt sleep. All of the people saying it gets weird are dead on.

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Posted: 5/7/2014 3:49:02 PM EDT

[#44]

I did 36 hrs when I was younger

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:53:32 PM EDT

[#45]

I need sleep to function. I've done 36 a few times and 7 days with maybe 20 hours of sporadic sleep total. After 30 hours or so I do not need to be driving or operating machinery.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:54:11 PM EDT

[#46]

72 ish hours, I was delirious. I routinely go 24+ hrs between sleep from april - nov. when I have various wildlife environmental studies I am completing for clients.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:56:48 PM EDT

[#47]

50 hours every week for 2.5 years while going to school and working nightshift. After awhile you learn to function on a pretty high level considering, you get used to feeling like crap and just press on.

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:57:32 PM EDT

[#48]

30+ hours

Posted: 5/7/2014 3:57:53 PM EDT

[#49]

made it to 30 hours. once you get past about 20 it gets easier is seems. i'm sure it cycles again and you want to crash.

Posted: 5/7/2014 4:00:51 PM EDT

[#50]

44 hours during a flooding and recovery incident aboard ship.

About that long during a training op in the bush at Camp Pendleton.

Pretty damn tired both times.

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