HOw long have you been awake?

[WolfeMacleod]

What's your record? Without drugs?

I've been up since 8am yesterday (Monday) morning....coulnd't sleep at all last night. At about 7am this morning, I was *just* starting to doze off when I got a customer call that woke me right up.
Almost 1am Wedendsay morning. I don't went to do that math.

I'm a little loopy right now. But, this isn't my record. I've done 72 hours stints when I did a lot of Sci-Fi conventions in my late teens. Without anything but caffeine.

Well..I think it's finally time to sleep. Like a rock.

[johnco]

without.. 2-3 days. Long ago we used to have to work straight thru repairing oilfield equipment needed on rigs. sometimes well over 50 hours getting the job done, and then it would sit in the yard for a week or two after completion. the oilfield never sleeps. with... 7 days. after 3-4 days the hallucinations start and that's when it gets fun. a typical night for me is 3 or 4 hours. tonight I've had 2 hours

[VINMAN]

23 hrs so far this morning. Working a double shift.

My record is close to 48 hours, when I was working down Ground Zero after 9/11

[red-beard]

48 minutes, by the clock.

If we don't consider Pepsi (the old - unreformulated formula!) a drug, about 3 days. Friday morning through a Sunday night. Not job related, and you do start to feel like a Zombie.

Work related, I've pulled 48 hr shifts to get power plants back on line, back in my mid 20s. Coffee was used

[Freybird]

54 hours, college finals time, with the help of espresso made with caffeinated h2o.

[tsiegwart]

Wow, those are big stints!

My record is 34hours.

[TerryBPP]

I did a 50+ hour run in college. I heard that if you go 72 or more you are consider clinically insane.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Today: about three hours. After about three hours sleep last night and a 15-hour day yesterday.

I love it so much when clients call us up in the first week of December and say "here's a new project, we need it completed and in for permit by the end of the year". Naturally I'm personally stuck doing 80% of the work on it since everyone in the office is here, there and everywhere for the month of December with holidays and all. Oh well. Work is work.

My personal record is 68 hours straight. No joke. Grad. school. I was literally having occasional blackouts and hallucinations towards the end of it.

[Nostril Cheese]

3 days on an 8 ball

2 during studying for finals.

[HardDrive]

2 days*



*Poster may have been at rave parties in Chicago. Claims that drugs were not involved should be view with deep suspicion.

[Moses]

Originally Posted by TerryBPP

I heard that if you go 72 or more you are consider clinically insane.

Nah. For two years I worked 36 hours on/ 12 hours off. Basically I slept every other night for two years. If one of my co-workers needed a day off for a family emergency, wedding or whatever I'd double up. That meant a 60 hour shift. No naps, no breaks. Eating standing up.

When I'd go a third night without sleep, I get a dull headache and just feel physically awful. Never felt "insane". To my knowledge, I never made any really bad mistakes due to sleep deprivation. Some tolerate sleeplessness better than others.

[IROC]

I had some insomnia issues a few years ago and went about 72 hours without sleep once. It's really not that bad. I got a headache like Moses, but functioned just fine otherwise.

[cstreit]

Just over 80 hours. I was finishing up some monster projects in college. I remember at around the 72 hour mark the hallucinations start. (No drugs, just caffeine) THere's only so much your brain can take before it needs to take a break I guess.


...add to that, what's the longest you've been at work without leaving?

For me it was actually 7 days straight. Huge client project on a system that required constant attention. Had 2 sets of clothes, "showered" in the mens room late at night, took 1-2 hour cat naps on a couch and under my desk.

[legion]

I used to be somewhat of an insomniac. I bought a new bed, put a humidifier in the bedroom, and got rid of my alarm clock. I sleep much better now.

Springs poking my side, dry sinuses, and always staring at the clock were a few of my problems.

[RickM]

Close to 48 hours for me without coffee, soda or other stimulants. Back in the days when I managed a relatively complex asset management system. When it was time for a new release the planning, execution and QA was quite time consuming. Ahhh, the joys of backing up 1200 BTrieve files.

[dtw]

Last year did about 40-42 straight for work. Parked behind the laptop the whole time, doing complex accounting/auditing work. After the 24 hour point, I actually got 2nd wind and had no problems the rest of the day. The work I did was fine.

[old man neri]

Back when I did my basic officer's course the final exercise consisted of 4hr missions back to back for 4 days. Each mission involved about a 4km march to an area, shooting some stuff or doing some other activity and marching back. If you were lucky you could maybe get 15min sleep in between missions. At then end of that we were all both mentally and physically cooked. Yes, it is possible to fall asleep walking and go off into a ditch....I found out the hard way.

In college I never did the all nighters. I found I did much better on exams if I slept the night before as oppose to studying all night and trying to write the exam on no sleep.

[DavidI]

3 days in Marine Corps Infantry School.............David

[Racerbvd]

4 days, sometimes I just can't sleep. i'm lucky if I get 2 to 3 hours together

[Flatbutt1]

nearly 36 hours back in the glory days of pilot batch development. of course I was only 27.