what’s the longest you went without sleep?

72 hours or nearly so, and basically worked the whole time too. It was the first time my roommate gave me Adderall to try. I did around 2 weeks worth of work in my auto body shop, then slept like 14 hours straight. To top that off I was around 350 pounds too. A week later I was on the stuff legit. Three years later I was racing bicycles and under 190 pounds. Three years after that, I was disabled from a crash with 2 SUVs.

3 ish days, it was awful. Everything starts to feel fake and I got really paranoid

I think around 48 hours.

High school LAN parties.

In 1989 I was one of the participants in the (then) Guinness World Record Endurance Computing held at the Hobby Computer Club days (HCC dagen) in the Netherlands.

The record was for 63.5 hours, but I had a two hour or so commute in each direction and the event started (from memory) at noon.

I'm guessing that I was awake in total for about 70 hours. I fell asleep on the way home.

We published a newsletter called "Elephant News" every few hours. Time keeping was managed by official time keepers and it was entered into the Guinness World Records in the 1990 book. I have a copy somewhere.

At some point not long after, Guinness abolished all world records that only had a time component and as far as I know it still stands :)

It was about 6 days. It was during college and I was at the peak of a manic episode fueled by alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine. I worked nights on the weekends and went from the beginning of my Sunday night shift through my Friday night shift. I went to my classes during the day, hopped from one party to the next at night until everyone else passed out, then just drove through all of the back country roads we have while everyone else was asleep. In the first couple of days I had auditory hallucinations and 3-4 days in there were shadow people. By the end of the week it was hard to tell if I was awake or dreaming. Surprisingly when I finally slept it was only for like 13 hours and I made it back in for my Saturday night shift.

About a week ; there were some very hard drugs involved, and I credit that experience with getting cleaned up. Started seeing "shadow people" in my very peripheral vision.

Around 2.5-3 days. On a LAN party in 2003 or so. 2 nights without sleep. Lots of caffeine. It was fun at first but really started feeling terrible after the 2nd night.

Around three days. No drugs, just showers and energy drinks I took sip by sip for a long time. I was somehow productive, but caught my attention stuck a couple of times on something banal like a working microwave buzz. Everything felt dull and I seemingly had no emotions near the end.

3 days and 2 nights in the military.

In the 3rd day I was semi-awake and seeing shit. i.e. familiar home town sceneries behind distant trees, although I was nowhere near.

3 days. Mostly just eating fruit and water. Caffeine and processed sugar leads to crashes that I'd learned from previously. I could have done 4 days, but I began to notice that I was not paying very good attention to passing traffic when crossing the road, so I stopped.

Technically, five days, though it was barely over the line.

I was hallucinating by the end of it. It was intentional, one summer during high school, just to see what it would be like.

It be like something I'll never do again. Took me weeks to feel right again

I think it was about 28h when my first child way born.

Usual day, up at 6am, normal day. Then wife stated around 10pm 'alright, we need to go to the hospital'. Few hours later at around 6am child was born. The aftermath and heading home took a few hours as well and finally got some rest at 10am.

The funny thing is I did not sleep that much then. I think about 4 hours and was good to go.

Oh yeah, and my wife was probably also happy to get some rest lol.

72 hours to finish a design project for a client. Hard deadline to make it to the printers in time for a trade show. By the end, I couldn't see straight. Slept for 18 hours after handing it in.

Saw the end product at the trade show. Horrified to pick out so many small errors. Customer was happy, though. Got two more projects.

Never did it again, but it was good to know I could.

Idk how many hours but i skipped two sleeps, was gona skip a third but was forced to sleep. Was binging skyrim lol

I had insomnia for many years. I slept 30-60 mins a night then crash for five or six hours once a week. It was horrible. I’d rather take these mind altering drugs than go back to that

72 hours finishing an application so we could train on it immediately after. What a shitshow.

Haven't gone more than 24 hours, if I had to guess maybe 20 hours.

3 nights. On the 4th I got 3 hours of sleep.

With 30 mins naps included, probably 72 hrs during filming a short film.

But if youre asking for a straight awake, it is around 26-27 hours. It was also during that time. The first day of filming until I got my first nap.

About 72h going from a scouts camp into a festival. first 2 days included a lot of coffee, last day might have had a little coke sprinkled in.

3 days during last summer. It was before I got my summer job and after school ended.

It wasn't for any particular reason I just didn't wanna go to sleep and just stayed on my phone 🤷‍♀️

I don't even know. Im not sure if I even did an all nighter in college but definately came close and with cons Im not sure if I did not fall asleep for periods here and there.

28 hours after pulling a double shift at work then camping a rare spawn in everquest

I was about 12 years old, I woke up Friday morning 6am for school.

After school my friend and I bought WWE 2007 on PlayStation 2.

We stayed up all weekend playing and only went to bed 8pm om Sunday.

So 62 hours.