Whats the longest you've gone without sleep

[SRH KRONIC]

Afta I get finsihed with school this week ima try staying up for 7 days, wondering if anyone else has trtied and succeeded/ or failed
.:wtf

[Haly]

47hrs at a lan, and I wouldn't do it again. Screws up your body clock way too much so you dunno when to eat or anything.
I could do it again because once you get to a certain point, it's fairly simple to stay awake. I just don't want to do it again :p

[Darth Odan]

I did 48 hours. That wasn't a happy experience. I stayed up for a whole day and got the brilliant idea to stay up for another one! I basically ended up like a zombie, and couldn't do anything because I was too tired. Man, was that a pleasant night when I went to sleep.

[Kaens]

The longest I've gamed consecutively is 36 hours (on multiple occasions) and those were caused by MMOs. Actual max awake time is probably only 48 hours of so. I remember one time when I pulled 4 consecutive shifts at work that was unexpected (went in on Monday and left on Wed). Usually I go with very little sleep, but it's always 3-4 hours a night.

[Rammbone]

Spring Break, Cancun. Got there Thurday morning and didn't sleep till Sunday night on the flight back.

[CovertDog]

The longest I've gamed consecutively is 36 hours (on multiple occasions) and those were caused by MMOs. Actual max awake time is probably only 48 hours of so. I remember one time when I pulled 4 consecutive shifts at work that was unexpected (went in on Monday and left on Wed). Usually I go with very little sleep, but it's always 3-4 hours a night.

I beleive he was talking about humans, not machines like yourself.:p I know I have gone 24 many times, but I'am guess my most won't be anymore then 30.

[Cause]

2 days 5 hours driving to Virgina and back. I no lie drank 27 energy drinks. I had to keep switch them up from energy drinks to yellow jacket pills. Would never do again got to be the most boring ride ever.

[Bluntman428]

Roughly 4 days, give or take a couple hours.

I wouldn't recommend it, the hallucinations when you hit the 3 day mark aren't pleasant. :(

[Zef]

I did 80 hours during non-sleepathon '05.

I was planning on making an attempt to beat that over the Summer but I've been too busy thus far. I planned on watching every episode of One Piece back-to-back to keep me going, that is 313 20 minute (roughly) episodes, which is 4 and a bit days. Add on randomness and a bit of 360 play and it could be 5 days.

We should do a sponsored x360a non-sleep week, see how many hours we can put in online between us.

[Rocket]

76 Hours. Initial Convoy into Iraq. Not fun, not fun at all. I was to the point where had I not been aware of the fact that bullets were flying everywhere, I would have passed out walking from my vehicle to the command area...

[DoM cAbAn]

Probably just a whole day without sleep. Never tried to stay up for so long, and I don't think I will.

[Wreckon Dracgon]

Weak foolish mortals and your need for sleep sickens me. I average about 18 hours of sleep per week. Which usually consists of about 60-75 hours awake followed by a break to absorb more souls in the sleep realm. I've made it to 103 hours straight before the voices in my head went silent and I don't remember anything after that... but when I awoke I was a father for the fourth time. Ohh and yes I do have a diagnosed sleeping disorder.

[MALDUNE]

Wish i had an diagnosed sleeping disorder i swear to god today is Tuesday but wait i went to gamestop picked up some MS points and went to the marketplace and wow 2 new arcade games today
thats strange right so im like sweet there not out for another 24 hours im lucky as can be right now then POP wizzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........ Eh its Wednesday
Wednesday last time i checked it was Monday night at 4 am....I am freaked out right now!!

[Wreckon Dracgon]

Since we have all these people who don't sleep maybe I'll bring back my 24 Hours of Gaming Challenge... which I won by a landslide... still didn't get my badge... *cough cough Minty*... ohhh wait if memory serves Pinseeker said I'd have to go 11 days straight before getting a badge.... damn the Sith.

Edit... here is the link to the original challenge... ohhh I remember that weekend was basically 24 hours of Enchanted Arms.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9021

[MALDUNE]

Tell me more please i like the idea seen as how im going to be up playing games for the league for the next 9 weeks il give it a shot if its worth something!!!!!

[Glyndinn]

I think the longest I've ever gone has been been maybe 40 hours or so. I can't really think of anything that I would really want to stay awake for for days at at time.

Plus, when I was pretty young, I saw a show about sleep deprivation that was pretty spooky (hallucinations and just general flipping out) that pretty much made me not want to ever try it ;)

[teh x3nomorph]

84 hours was the longest I stayed awake.

5 tests and 4 major lab projects due the last semester of college when I got my nursing degree.

Worst idea ever. By the end of the last day I was completely worthless. I managed to drive home but was having major issues unlocking my apartment, and by that time I was so wired on coffee/energy drinks/pep pills that I just laid in bed crying because I was so tired.

I eventually took an anti anxiety pill and a muscle relaxant to fall asleep, at which point I slept for 32 hours straight.

[Zef]

Since we have all these people who don't sleep maybe I'll bring back my 24 Hours of Gaming Challenge... which I won by a landslide... still didn't get my badge... *cough cough Minty*... ohhh wait if memory serves Pinseeker said I'd have to go 11 days straight before getting a badge.... damn the Sith.

Edit... here is the link to the original challenge... ohhh I remember that weekend was basically 24 hours of Enchanted Arms.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9021

Sounds like a worthy challenge indeed Skeletor, but how do you check if the challengers are actually there for the full 24 hours?

You probably didn't get the badge because everyone knows you can play Enchanted Arms in your sleep, so you might have cheated.

[Tremlos]

92 hours 13 minutes....damn college finals...

[Wreckon Dracgon]

Sounds like a worthy challenge indeed Skeletor, but how do you check if the challengers are actually there for the full 24 hours?

You probably didn't get the badge because everyone knows you can play Enchanted Arms in your sleep, so you might have cheated. Alright my friend it's about to be on... looks at calendar for possible date to get rid of wife and kids... *perfect* Friday, August 16, Saturday, August 17, or Sunday, August 18... you pick the 24 hour time span between those three days (or even into Monday the 19th would be cool) and it's a challenge accepted... hopefully you my UK brethren will have Two Worlds by then because it's going to make my 24 hours fly by to victory. Plus Mountain Dew FTW... the ban on the godly green nectar expires this weekend so I'm going to be locked and loaded.

Ohh and I stopped playing Enchanted Arms in my sleep... the wife said it was hard for her to sleep with Executor screaming "Going Full Throttle... CHECK MATE"

[Brighton X]

I've gane for 3 and a 1/2 days.

[Predator x360a]

2 days only because I had a ton of energy drinks and I was playing Halo 2.

[SRH KRONIC]

wow, u guys r impressive, longest ive been awake is lik 30 somethin, brother was working night sift at 711 which was lik 2 min walk so i stayd up that night and kept him company by the time ti was morning id atin so many dounuts and drank so many enrgy drinks i wasnt tired at all

[Burning blood50]

More Then 7 Days

[Th3 Apache Dog]

i have never gone a day without sleep...if i go to sleep at 5:00AM i will wake up at around 2:PM...i need my sleep:Bounce:

[Clipse 2]

There was a period of time I was up for 50+ hours for several occassions mostly sitting at the computer playing Diablo II leveling my characters and item hunts (think of the WoW episode of SouthPark, that was me). It ruined my body clock, killed my schooling, and ended me up moving back home. Since then I don't play those type of games and won't touch WoW.

[austin rules]

about 2 days i think

[brodieman36]

Here here! Apache Dog. Sleep is a necessity which I crave more than food, clothing, or shelter. I can go a day or two without food easy, but sleep... not even close

[BlaZiN cdn]

The longest I've stayed up is about 35 hours, but I've stayed up 24 hours quite a few times.

[CC99999]

I had a couple long field exercises in the army- my longest not having had sleep was about 50 hours. However - after 9/11 - I had a period of about three weeks where I worked about 20 hours a day. and that was terrible.

[Nadefanatic]

the longest ive stayed up before is 63 hours...... i talked to my grandma about this because she was a doctor. she said that the body can only take up to 96 hours of being awake before internally shutting down. and thats if u sat there and didnt do anything. the problem with doing this though is when your body shuts down it thinks that u are "in a sense" dead and normally doesnt respond for 2 to 3 days. so if i were u i wouldnt try to stay up for 4 days.

[Adam Miller]

3 nights from Tuesday waking up in the morning Thursday about 1.

[PhotoJ]

You guys are all insane :p

I never stay awake for extended periods of time playing games, because quite frankly I'd rather enjoy going to sleep ;)

[shadow sniper]

4 am playing burnout

[Zef]

Alright my friend it's about to be on... looks at calendar for possible date to get rid of wife and kids... *perfect* Friday, August 16, Saturday, August 17, or Sunday, August 18... you pick the 24 hour time span between those three days (or even into Monday the 19th would be cool) and it's a challenge accepted... hopefully you my UK brethren will have Two Worlds by then because it's going to make my 24 hours fly by to victory. Plus Mountain Dew FTW... the ban on the godly green nectar expires this weekend so I'm going to be locked and loaded.

Ohh and I stopped playing Enchanted Arms in my sleep... the wife said it was hard for her to sleep with Executor screaming "Going Full Throttle... CHECK MATE"

We don't get Two Worlds until August 31st =\ I get my exam results August 16th, so if I haven't jumped off a bridge I can whoop you by not sleeping...or something. I'll even save my last case of Code Red.

[MovingWriter]

Time to see how long MovingWriter can stay up for... so far only 14 hours and 12 minuites...

[xVanished]

Not even two days in a row.. :(

[graf1k]

More Then 7 Days

Bullshit...

[Jdm7399]

Bullshit...

Haha, I wouldn't quite put it how graf1k did, but I agree. An entire week without sleep would drive a person into paranoia or worst. I don't think it's possible.

I've only lasted up to about 38 hrs. straight. This was way back when I was a "bummy" kid with no school or a job. My heart started beating irregularly and that's when I said f*ck it! I need some sleep.

[TimmayTheTurtle]

78 hours and 27 minutes.. my record :p

[sawman90]

I have stayed up for about 2 and a half days the last day I passed out on my girl friend when she came over lol

[Zef]

Haha, I wouldn't quite put it how graf1k did, but I agree. An entire week without sleep would drive a person into paranoia or worst. I don't think it's possible.

I've only lasted up to about 38 hrs. straight. This was way back when I was a "bummy" kid with no school or a job. My heart started beating irregularly and that's when I said f*ck it! I need some sleep.

The world record for staying awake was something like 14 days, a student somewhere was asked to stay awake for as long as he could whilst scientists (crazy bunch) observed what he did and how he behaved. They also tested whether things like memory or general knowledge recall were affected by a lack of sleep and they found nothing (apparently). If you google it, it will come.

Does anyone remember that programme a while ago that was like Big Brother only all of the people were attempting to stay awake for as long as possible? But the whole thing was fake because they let them sleep for a bit every day when the cameras were off.

[angry]

6 Days during my Army Days, and belive me i was so f***ed up it was unreal, i was on a recon patrol in the GULF WAR and we ended up reconing for 4 days then we found out that we had to wait 2 days and ambush 3 enemy patrols we kept trying to nodding off but never fell asleep. When we returned to camp all of us slept for 2 days solid... Although now i suffer with allsorts Chronic Insonmia i am on so much meds its unreal and these days i will easy stay awake for 48 hours np and if i do get some sleep it will only be for like 3 maybe 4 hours then i am awake again although i am on sleeping tabs they never work... Also as we speek i have not had any sleep since tuesday night i woke up at 4am tuesday and am still awake now but am now feeling worse for wear now i know i will sleep good 2nite. ;)

[bakardi boy]

about 30 hours but dont try it because the next day you look like sh*t

[graf1k]

The world record for staying awake was something like 14 days.

11 Days (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Longest_period_without_sleep) actually.

[Mace1982]

well i am abit weird about sleep i can close my eyes pretty much any time and sleep but at the same time i can force myself to stay awake if needed, i think my personal best was 170 hours when i was 18 (bad time in my life alot of things happened all too quick and i ended up taking substances that i should not have) but i have stopped that stuff and just have the occasional magic brownie, but recently it was 63 hours going for GRAW Leaderboards,

Khronic word of warning to you my friend if you attempt this 7 day feat you will pay dearly for it, unless of course you are like Wreckon or myself or Kaens who have abused there body clocks to the point of them not really working any more, but you will suffer after about 3 days comes the short temperedness, even the smallest thing will seem like the world is ending, then after 4 days comes the hallucanations this gets worse as the days go on, and finally comes the body crash this is nasty, you can move and talk and such like but you feel like you are not in your own body and that you are a 3rd party watching your own life.

As a fellow human being i strongly beg of you not to walk this path unless you truly have to, to do this for fun is insanity at its greatest, maybe go for 2 48 hour sessions in a 5 day period. but at the end of the day the decision is yours but if you go for it warn all of your friends before hand so they are aware of the situation.

Oh yeah and did you know if you go 7 days without sleep then technically you are classified as clinicly insane due to the fact that your brain wave pattern has altered so dramatically from the shock of not being allowed to regenerate.

[Zidane2chest]

46 Hours. My parents were gone at orientation for my brothers college. My friend was just leaving when we saw someone run out of my garage. I got freaked out and carried a knife around me where ever I went and had 2 people spend the night the next day and we stayed up for a while which totaled 46 hours for me.

[XxCARBONKIDxX]

Just One Night Without Sleep. Second Night Couldnt Make It.

[Cisumurug]

I don't think I've ever lasted longer than 24 hours. Jeez most of you guys aren't human :p

Ok this thread is making me tired, goodnight ;)

[p4in redefined]

full week the week Halo 1 came out non stop playing chinese food everywhere empty beer cans everywhere it was awesome everyone was so tired theyre body firgot what sleep was like lol. i came home and slept for 23 hours lol

[JoeHacker90]

well we had a flight at 6am in the morning so i didnt go to sleep then we got home i played 360 went for dinner got home played 360 all night went racing got home at 10pm played 360 all night then i pasted out the next day and sleep for about 28hours lol. so i stayed up for about 4 days. but ima bet my record when halo 3 comes out.

[Vampire x360a]

mines 36 hours went to concert got home and thought id play like 24 hours of gears

ive decided im going to try and get all halo 3 achievements in one play anyone with me ???

[Maka]

42 Hours.... Twice

Nothing Special, but I was going to be on a plane ride and wanted to sleep, so making myself tired was the easiest way, but ended up not being able to sleep, and was totally out of it when I finally got to Mexico. No Red Bull, no nothing. I did it Oh Naturel, and had a normally active day.

And the other time, was when i went to Quebec with my school, and we thought it would be funny to not sleep for a long time. It wasnt good.. And nobody would go to sleep because we promised each other that the first one that falls asleep gets a prank... And we're cruel people.

Once you hit 72 Hours, you start hallucinating, and your emotions let loose, you cant control anything your body is doing. Red Bull wont help you. Also, I highly recommend you have someone at least be owth you, or look over you, because youd be amazed at the crazy shit you do when you try it.

[Maka]

mines 36 hours went to concert got home and thought id play like 24 hours of gears

ive decided im going to try and get all halo 3 achievements in one play anyone with me ???

Impossible, you wont be able to get the final online achievement for a long time. It takes plenty of hours, and about 750 wins I believe, with a level 50.

[Flea]

My sleep patterns sporadic,
i got up at 1pm friday,
its now 3.35am monday,
and ive not slept yet.
:(
Gonna goto sleep in a minute though im Ducked.

[WarriorPriest13]

I have gone a little over 73 hours. By the time the 73rd hour rolled around my body said enough was enough. I passed out.

[Spot2009]

18-20 hours. yeah. I'm cool.

[ElementalSoBe]

about 28 hours , lol im weak

[Otaking584]

My personally best was about 48 hours when I marathoned the first two seasons of Battlestar Galactica. Went to bed shortly after and slept for about 8 or 9 hours. Did it again when I bought the first two seasons of House.

[LordDurham]

3 days, with maybe 1-2 hours in it where I fell asleep on my keyboard, I was at a LAN with some friends, I did it once, now I take at least 5 hours each night when do a LAN.

[M7.Ninja]

Around 25 hours. I was traveling and needed to deal with so many things before I went back home less than 24 hours later. I was up a few hours before the trip, all the way there and back again. I slept for 10 hours afterwards.

[Ho5tiLe D]

it was about 2 1/2 days, the best sleep ever after.

[Wolf]

11 days, give or take a few hours.

[CAMOUFLAGEiPOD]

37 Hours, Not from playing games sadly enough. I went for a job interview on the wrong day the boss asked me to leave and come back,and as I leaving some guy asked me if this was the line for the job ,so I stayed in line about 30 hours. I was first in line. Out of 700 people in line they only took the first 25.

[Raider]

About 3 days quite recently when coursework deadlines were coming up. I wanted to die...

[KewlBrettC]

hm.... 30 hours.... that last of which were spent watching season 1 of arrested development

[twelvegoats]

about 4 days straight when i worked as a camp councellor. a few kids bet me 50 dollars i couldnt stay up for the whole camping trip. i held out to the second day and then i pounded half the energy drinks i packed, and the other half on the third day, and it was clear sailing, untill i passed out for 14 hours during when we were supposed to be hiking after i had won the bet.

thats actually how i lost my previous job (now i work at blockbuster :p )

[RedstaR]

52 hours.

Reason: first mage to 70 on my server(omg geek)

edit: first 70 mage alliance and horde, I won by 5 hours.

[p4in redefined]

Impossible, you wont be able to get the final online achievement for a long time. It takes plenty of hours, and about 750 wins I believe, with a level 50.

500 wins to be in spartan officer ranks the achievement picture looks like the general logo and in the beta you only got that at 500 wins. i will have it within 2 weeks of owning the game lol

[BackerMan]

The longest without sleep for me was over 2 days. After that I went sleep 12 hours straight.

[Netnabi4]

28 hrs b4 my parents stopped me i really would've liked to continue playing. I was playing Guild Wars with some old buddies and for some reason we just never stopped.

[Walcherina]

I think last summer I stayed up all night and didn't go to bed the following night until like 3. So that assuming that I got up at about noon the day before. About 39 hours? Need less to say I won't be doing that again.

[TheSilentAssassin]

7 days? I could be wrong but I hear you get real sick after 6 days and nights of not sleeping. Like REAL sick.