I've stayed up several times up to 5 am in the morning so i can complete my assignments which are due the next day. Annoying since it means i only have 2 and a half hours of sleep.
I think i should organize my assignments better. lol.
What about you guys?
I've done plenty of all nighters. Last night was one of them. I go through phases where I try to go to bed at a reasonable hour, which is probably later than it should be. But when I am gung-ho about something I can carry on right through to the next day. Usually when it gets past 1:30 a.m., I'm no longer tired. It usually hits me the next afternoon, and I then go into a complete "slump". 
8AM.
Then I slept till 12.
I've stayed up for all nighters or gone to bed around 9AM many nights playing MMORPG's in the past. Those were some sleepless nights 
Does thirty eight (3
hours straight count? Too many bad things going on at that time. Once went 3 days with about 1 hour of sleep... I wouldn't recommend it, especially if you expect to be driving.
i stayed up for over hours once , when i did eventually go to sleep i slept for about 12 hours
| hamza1122 wrote: |
I've stayed up several times up to 5 am in the morning so i can complete my assignments which are due the next day. Annoying since it means i only have 2 and a half hours of sleep.
I think i should organize my assignments better. lol.
What about you guys? |
I've pulled some all nighters, but not lately. The last late night was thankfully not too late. I believe it was 2 a.m. and I had to wake up at 5:30 a.m. I also don't recommend driving on reduced sleep b/c I've seen too many accidents that involve it.hmm well I tend to sleep from 2am to 9:30am this summer, but I've stayed up until...12 noon the next day, maybe later, but I'm pretty sure it was a time that I had gotten up early the previous day so I was up for nearly 30 hours. Oh and I've been up pretty "late" several times editing movies, but hey it's fun.
Probably the "latest" I've stayed up was about 52hr straight. It's not something I really recommend, you start getting lucid, but eventually you just stop feeling tired I think I've done a 36 hour go. A very intense time, to be sure.
I have done 48 hours straight...it was a huge challenge!
I've done 36 hours a few times during college. The worst portion of time for me is between 8am and 10am the morning after I haven't slept. After that I seem to be okay, though I feel a bit strange overall and I have a weird taste in my mouth in the morning.
I've pulled a few all-nighters before. I did this once while living in London. I stayed up all night to write a paper and finished it at the Internet cafe next door to where I was living. That day we went to a museum and then I saw a play in the evening. It was a production of the Importance of Being Ernest, and since I really wanted to be able to stay awake for it, I wandered across the street to the coffee shop and had a double or triple shot of espresso. I prefer espresso in situations like that because I get all the benefits of caffeine without the trips to the bathroom.
I have slept at almost every hour in the 24 hours depending on various situations, i.e. sometimes I have stayed up till 11AM and sometimes slept at 3PM after skipping one day of sleep!
I did some all nighters usually playing games or partying.
When I do this I usually go to bed at 9 PM the day after."
its crazy!
I have managed to stay up all night multiple times. Longest, I managed to stay up all night, make it through the day, and then go to sleep as I normally would around 10:00 PM or 11:00 PM. I wasn't really tired, and I felt alright, but there was a strange feeling within me. Not worth it in my honest opinion. Sleeping is too nice to pass up. Enjoy it! 
I'd say 9 AM. The longest I've gone without sleep would probably be 36 hours.
I stayed up at a camp out/sleepover all night and lasted probably for about 25 hours, then I couldn't stay awake. I slept half of the next day, I guess I am not used to not getting much sleep. I just stayed up till 6AM yesterday. I'm on my crucial year at college so everything, including sleep, is screwed up. I try my best to sleep well during major exams though, cause i believe that the brain won't be able to remember all the things I memorized. The longest I have stayed up is probably a day and a half.
Stayed up for 40 hours recently. Wasn't very nice...
I believe the record up there so far is 52 hours, I have to say I'm impressed. I recently stayed up about that long ~50hrs at a party that I didn't trust, followed by an all night work session to make up for it. It really is quite a challenge.
I used to stay up and play online games with friends until 3am or 4am and have to get up for class at 7am.
The longest I can remember staying up is 6am. I lightly fell asleep and then had to drive an hour to work a few hours later. Lets just say I'm lucky I made it to work alive.
I did quite a few all nighters in college. I remember staying up all night writing an 8 page research paper and being late to class after just finished the paper.
Recently I've been just staying up just for the hell of it. When it starts getting light outside I take that as my cue to get to bed.
Every hour of the day, I've gotten my schedule completely backwards before.
Usually I sleep 3 - 4 hours at night. I sleep around 1:30 AM. I do sleep at noon though. I don't have much to do at work so I go off to home at 12:00PM to take a nap about 2 hours. I liked this behavior.
I had another all nighter last night, following a week of little sleep, maybe averaging about 4 hours a night. So today really had a challenge to keep my head up, as working with a computer today and trying to concentrate on some training, I found my head kind'a nodding now and then, and becoming almost unconscious. Tonight at home, I almost blanked out in the middle of company, and was lights out for about two hours, sitting straight up. I'd hate to know what that must have looked like! 
i worked night shift for 5 years, where i would start at 7PM and finish at 7AM...so i was regularly going to bed at 9AM...Not good for family life when you have 3 young kids, i DO NOT recommend working night shift too anyone...Only reason i did it for so long was the a) good money and b) piss easy job
I now have a normal 7:30am-4:30pm job
I have stayed up for 30 hours straight is my record. We use the mantra "sleep or calories" you can push your body to stay awake if you feed it a steady supply of caffeine and calories. I know people who have stayed up longer, but they were using chemicals you can't buy at Wal-Mart and got pretty scary after a couple of days.
back when I was in college (industrial design) i used to pull all nighters all the time.... My record is about 35 hours... and thats after a week of sleeping only 3-5 hours a day....
I have gone for 5 days with only 8 hours of sleep... i dont recommend it... you don't do anything productive... now i have learned that.
now a days I usually go to bed around 2... I find it real hard to go to bed before midnight...
I just got a job that starts in a few weeks, and its 8am-5pm.. so I have to get used to waking up early 
| ocalhoun wrote: |
| Once went 3 days with about 1 hour of sleep... I wouldn't recommend it, especially if you expect to be driving. |
Wow; that's very dangerous I think... I went 43 hours one time without sleeping. I was at university and had too many things to complete and not enough time... At a certain point your mind just stops performing correctly... | ProfessorY91 wrote: |
| I believe the record up there so far is 52 hours, I have to say I'm impressed. I recently stayed up about that long ~50hrs at a party that I didn't trust, followed by an all night work session to make up for it. It really is quite a challenge. |
Yeah, it's not easy... though mid way through it starts getting easier
I was going to a conference, traveling over the weekend... I had to stay up late to finish my presentation for the conference and pack, then go for a full day of classes and labs, and teaching a lab in the afternoon, then had to drive out of province (5hr) to pick up a friend at the airport (12am), spent time with him in the nearby city until I had to get back to the airport for my flight (6am), and spent the next 14hr flying and in airports (I don't sleep while traveling), got to my destination, met up with one of my thesis supervisors, got signed in for the conference, did some mingling, got set up in the hotel, and did some more networking before finally getting to stop and sleep. Was an interesting 2.5 days | Ankhanu wrote: |
| I was going to a conference, traveling over the weekend... I had to stay up late to finish my presentation for the conference and pack, then go for a full day of classes and labs, and teaching a lab in the afternoon, then had to drive out of province (5hr) to pick up a friend at the airport (12am), spent time with him in the nearby city until I had to get back to the airport for my flight (6am), and spent the next 14hr flying and in airports (I don't sleep while traveling), got to my destination, met up with one of my thesis supervisors, got signed in for the conference, did some mingling, got set up in the hotel, and did some more networking before finally getting to stop and sleep. Was an interesting 2.5 days |
Maybe the momentum got you going, and kept you on the go? I can imagine the moment that you could pause and stop to relax, you must have been literally lights out. 23:00 pm 
Once I went to sleep at 7am… And, off course, I couldn’t sleep for more than one hour although I was very tired. Staying awake for that long is destroying possibility for me to sleep normally for some time. That was one long and wasted day… Tired to do anything useful… Tired to go to sleep…
4 days and nights in a row a couple of years ago, totally with assistance from stimulants (which I would strongly say is not a good suggestion as towards the end it all got a bit strange) - there were loads of all-nighter beach parties going on and I had to work each day so just kindv ran with it. Was fun in an unusual kind of way though and will always be a crazy memory.
...apart from the time I finally spent sleeping from dawn sunday and waking on the monday!
(legal disclaimer - not sensible, not clever, not healthy, and more than likely dangerous activity, never again!)
I think I have got most of you beat, for the fun of it a group of us help set the Gunnis World Record for Longest non-stop Lan Party at 36 hours. Because of all the activities at Nvision 2008 sponsored by Nvidia we stayed up for 56 hours or so. And were gaming for most of it. It was a blast but I'm never doing it again.:
Here is a clip from during the event, we were all very tired:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us747QdMA1E In the good old LAN days, I did several multiple nights awake, just imagining that it was funnier that way...actually I'm sure that it wasn't really the case, and that some more focused gaming would have been the product otherwise.. Though it was just a part of it I guess... The latest I have ever stayed up was to 9am in the morning,
and even then I only slept for 45 minutes before going to school.
We started later than usual, though, because it was the last day of school.
This was two years ago.
One time I went almost 36 hours without sleeping whenever I slept over a friend's house because we stayed up all night playing video games. When I being driven home by my Mom, I was eating a candy bar and talking to her, and I fell asleep mid-sentence and mid-bite.
-Nick Can't begin to compete with the multiple days thing.
Latest I've stayed up - and still gone to sleep that day - is about 3:30 I think...although I'm not entirely sure, as that was the day that Daylight Savings changed over, so it's kind of fuzzy to me.
I am 50 years old and I spent the last 10 years on night shift. 7pm to 7am, it was hell, it was the worst time of my life, and the extra money was not worth the wear and tear on my body. I literally started to fall apart at the end of it.
If you ever have read any articles on sleep depravation, and it's effect on the body, mine was like a text book example, i began to become type 2 diabetic and my insulin bacame very insensitive, I wwas unable to eat any sorts of sugary foods, whole grans and carbs, had trouble digesting anything, ended up jiucing a lot to make up for the lack of digestion that my body had began to suffer from. I continued to lift weights throughout the 10 year on nights which I know saved the type 2 diabetes from going into full blown diabetes, and my supplementation with digestive enzymes and other herbs that help cure adrenal fatigue were a god send as well. But I developed serious joint pain, and high blood pressure as well.
I read so many posts about going on 4 hours sleep, and staying up all night a few nights, and how that felt, and I gotta tell you, a few times aren't too bad in life, but doing it for a living is the miserable thing I ever expereinced. If you are ever asked to do it, say no, and if you are forced to do it to keep your job, look for another one, and get off it as soon as you can!
| hamza1122 wrote: |
I've stayed up several times up to 5 am in the morning so i can complete my assignments which are due the next day. Annoying since it means i only have 2 and a half hours of sleep.
I think i should organize my assignments better. lol.
What about you guys? |
Set a new record. 5 am is the latest i've every stayed up. Yay!i think it was about 1 day for me lol... coulda went a lot longer but there was nothing to do so i just went to sleep. 
Oh god, this summer was full of all nighters for me. Most of the times I would stay up playing Phantasy Star Online: Blue burst until 6:30 am, then I'd go to my room and not be able to sleep... for whatever reason , so I'd be up for the rest of the day.
But I remember when I was younger, my friend and I were having a contest to see who would last the longest, and I think I crashed around 53 hours, and he was up for like.. 56 or something around there. That was years ago.. I think i was about 12 or 13.
Though, I did want to try to go 72 hours without sleep this summer (as healthy as it ISN'T), after a discussion I had in an irc channel, where around 72 hours of sleep deprivation, you'll start to hallucinate. I wanted to see if it was true, but I can barely stand staying up for 30-42 hours these days. I just get so bored, and everything goes by slowly.. So yeah.
My latest was 4 am, with the help of music. Yeah, i have a bad habit of listening to music while i sleep.
I've pulled a few all-nighters before. I did this once while living in London. I stayed up all night to write a paper and finished it at the Internet cafe next door to where I was living. That day we went to a museum and then I saw a play in the evening. It was a production of the Importance of Being Ernest, and since I really wanted to be able to stay awake for it, I wandered across the street to the coffee shop and had a double or triple shot of espresso. I prefer espresso in situations like that because I get all the benefits of caffeine without the trips to the bathroom.
ahhhs just don't be going 5 days, my uncles did that and they were hallucinating (sp?) lol it sounded, amazing but yet a little bit strange xD
