Ok i am gonna see how long i can go without sleep i will make a post in this thread once every hour to show everybody that i am still awake i have always wanted to do this.
I will go to sleep tonight and when i wake up in the morning i will start the count down to see how long
i am guessing i will last 3 days

How long do you think i will last?

wish me luck

I went almost 3 days in college once but I was a little younger then and much coffee and cramming had a lot to do with it..

well i am gonna try without any caffine and sugar because i am a naturally hyper peson.
it will be hard but i'm gonna fight the dreams!!!

Good luck.... don't you have work tomorrow or something?

i don't start school till monday and i don't do my homework anyway

Maybe he's skipping work to hurt his self?

Generally, 48-50 hours on the outside without any pharmacueticals to help out. Caffeine can help to a degree as well.

Beyond that gets very difficult unless you are under psychological conditions like combat where your body keeps you on edge to stay alive. I have stayed up a couple days at a time when I was in the army, but by the end I could figure out how to tell time on my watch(I couldn't remember what the hands stood for), and simple things like operating a vehicle were just out of the question.

As a firefighter I have dealt with many meth addicts who are up for 4 days at a time. When they finally do crash, it is very unpleasant as they are generally hallucinating and having a minor mental breakdown...

I've stayed up three straight days in the Coast Guard. It was... interesting...


The drug smugglers we caught were hyped up on crack and they also stayed awake for around three days. Then the crashed, and so did we.

well they say like two days without rest is basically like being drunk
well i am gonna make sure i get a lot of sleep tonight hopefully enough sleep to give me enough energy for a couuple of days

I went four days without sleep back when I was an architecture student, and pretty much all of it was spent at my desk. I honestly cannot remember the last 24 hours. I'm told that I handed in my project and left without a word, and I evidently walked the thirty minutes to my house and got into bed, fully clothed. I didn't wake up until well into the next evening, and then only for a few hours.

The human body can go up to 11 days without sleep... anymore, and you'll probably die

thats pretty weird how we can last longer without food than without sleep

well i will not be able to do the hourly posts tommorow morning because i have to go somewhere
but i will still start the countdown and i will notify everybody what time i woke up and such n such once i get back

my hourly posts will consist of

1. how i feel
2. how long i have been awake

-IAC

I predict that at the 24 hour point of non-sleep, we'll be seeing some fairly odd postings, and at the 48 hour point, some downright nonsensical things. I don't think we will see any more beyond that until he gets some sleep.

Incidentally, I sincerely hope you have someone to monitor you, as what you are doing can be considered a hazardous thing.

I don't know, I've gone to school and posted here without sleeping for about 30 hours.

i have experience with dangerous things thats basically my job at school thats how i make all my money!! but seriously yes if i start feeling abnormal as in nauseated or in any other way I will quit the experiment

I'm worried that, at your age, you will wait until you feel danger before getting help. At that point, it might be too late.

The recklessness of youth and all that.

i'm not tryin to hurt my self i feel that i have nothing to prove. actually hurting myself is the last thing that i want to do

i should be dead then.... i stayed awake for 3 weeks once (without caffiene, sugar, or other stimulants)

i'm definatly not gonna try to beat that record

I highly doubt that you were awake for 21 straight days. Whoever said 11 was pretty much on the mark. My sophomore year in college I stayed awake for 9 straight days. I spent an entire week in the hospital...in the psychiatric wing. I wasn't taking drugs...just a lot of caffeine...

...but after about 72 hours, I felt energized actually...I felt great...about the fifth day however, my brain began thinking irrational thoughts and it only got worse from there.
I didn't realize I was irrational and if it weren't for good friends, I would have died.

It is 'fun' to try and stay awake for as long as you can...but don't even think about exceeding 72 hours...it can be lethal.

I'm sure that the case, but in order to prevent it, you have to plan ahead, instead of just waiting till you think it's too dangerous. After all, you have already figured out by now that, at a minimum, your judgement is going to be impaired. As has been mentioned, you actually feel pretty wired the first few days. Feeling energized, however, isn't the same as being able to make good decisions.

trust me i have adults here and i will be under watch it's not like i'm gonna be driving a car

Good Luck.

joc, i was awake that long. it is all in the control of the mind and the body. you probably don't believe people can be punctured without bleeding or scabbing while in meditation. disbelieve all you want. we will call it your turn.

actually i think i should be getting to bed about now

i will leave a post in this thread in the morning before i leave

and the adults are cool with this? actually, I think it would be kind of fun. But families kinda paranoid. Good luck though, and I can't wait to see your posts this is gonna be interesting. I just hope that no mods close the thread.

i don't think mods will close this thread as long as people don't start argueing

and i think the mods are also looking forward to seeing how this will turn out

goodnight

-IAC

sleep well, keep us updated

I still doubt you were actually 'awake' for 21 days. I am not interested in arguing with you and I am not calling you a liar....I don't believe it is possible to stay awake for that long with no repercussions.

What do you plan on doing throughout the long night while everyone's sleeping? I would try this, but I wouldn't have anything to keep me busy.

Bad guess.

It wouldn't be prudent of us to condone this sort of activity, not on the forum, anyway. If you must satisfy your curiosity, it would be better if you kept an account of your experience in a personal blog.

Magikman