OT: What Is The Longest Amount Of Time You Have Stayed Awake?

Meth is not your friend....

but, I did reach 100 hours. In 1997, probably at my physical peak, we had a port visit in Antalya, Turkey. I worked the mid-shift going into port, and immediaely went on a local tour. Between visits to local clubs, shopping for Turkish rugs, and time spent at the casino (when I should have been sleeping), I was awake for the whole port vist. I worked the day shift, on our way out, and that put me over 100 hours, with a few hours to spare. A Navy rack never felt so comfortable, once my head hit the pillow. But, it was totally worth it. It was, by far, the best port visit, ever.

Not recommended. It was for the first real death march project I worked on - we overcommitted drastically and ran into a major issue four days before launch. Steve Jobs was flying out to demo the project in another country so we had no real choice but to get it done. So I worked three days and nights to help get it done and sure enough, had a catastrophic failure at launch. We spent the next 24 hours stabilizing the site and I finally just crashed for three hours on the floor of a coworkers cubicle. Woke up feeling worse than before but staggered through the rest of the day until it was fixed, then went home and slept for 16+ hours. Fortunately I had a vacation scheduled for that weekend and didn't have to go back into work until I'd recovered and was able to rationally assess what had gone wrong. The post-mortared for that project was interesting - about the only time I've ever seen everyone standup and one after another rationally criticize management for biting off way more than we could chew, and the design lead for shoehorning in his pet model despite not needing it for the features we had to deliver. Management took it standing up at least and copped to their errors, and took care to try to mitigate those mistakes in the future. (Which is a big factor in why I still work there.)

2-3ish days. My senior all night party was on Sunday night, I didn't sleep more than an hour or two the next night because I was nervous about shipping off to boot camp in the morning, and I didn't sleep the first night of boot camp because that's just how it was set up.

I pulled a number of 40+ hour sessions in college, mostly pushing projects over the line. Not due to time mismanagement, but because I was taking an overload of courses. At work there were 3-4 occasions where troubleshooting and restoring a disaster required 50+ hours the longest was 56.

Oh to be young again, no possible way I could do that today, in fact much over 24 hours and I'm a basket case and require two or three days to recover.  

this thread....

Vicious hangover.

50 hours travelling home from the Maldives.  Boat trip, flight, layover, flight, layover, flight, then wanted to reach 48 so stayed awake to watch a replay of the ND UofM game I had missed that day (one of the Denard ones).  I can't sleep on planes, or in airports, or anywhere but a comfy bed really.  It was pretty awful.

60 hours. wake up at 6pm to go to work at night, get home at 7am, study, go to exams, pack to move, finish at 7pm (25 hours), go to work, come home, pack more, move (including driving a uhaul), finish moving, (48 hours) go to work, come home at 7am (60 hours) collapse and sleep 14 hours, just barely getting up for work that night.

I seem to remember sleeping 12-14 hours on each weekend night.

Long term, babies and a later killer job schedule were worse, but those mixed short stretches of sleep in.

That horrible week was the longest with absolutely nothing.

       Rob

went to a party Friday night, stayed up all night, went to a school event saturday morning, a church event saturday afternoon, another party Saturday night, church Sunday morning, then slept until Monday morning.

while I was in the Marine Corps

Finishing a final review project in architecture school fall semester. Woke up I think it was Thursday working on diagrams and my model. spent the entire time in the basement operating a table saw. Basically came upstairs to reload on Coke. Finished Monday morning, got maybe 2 hours of sleep then had to go in Monday morning for all day reviews. Mine was in the afternoon so I had to sit through the whole nor OMG session. I'm sure I dozed off a half dozen times. 75% of the class was the same way. Brutal but made it through. Definitely do not want to go through anything like that again. I got home and absolutely crashed.

Never found a return on the next hour or two studying greater than the benefit of a couple hours sleep. No military or med school torture. M&A project came close to >30 hours, but boss got sick so I napped for a couple of hours. My bladder might have max'd at 10 hours so I guess the sleep deprivation hits 3x the pee control.

This question just reminds me how much I love sleep. 

57 hours. Woke up for a night shift job on Thursday at 6pm. Finally went to bed at 3am Sunday morning.

Back in 2008 was going to Detroit to Hilton Head SC with my uncle and my cousin got a hotel room since it was an early flight 6 or 7AM flight. I couldn't sleep I had my eyes close but just couldn't sleep and I never sleep on a plane at around 1:30PM or 2PM took a nap woke up a couple hours later went to bed at 10:00PM I was pretty tired. I was visiting my grandparents who went to Hilton Head for a couple of months that was last time I have been on a vacation for a week other than staycation. 2011 ice storm power flicked on & off around 4:30AM the power went off for good until 46 hours so 2 days since where I worked had no power had no work. Dose off but really couldn't sleep since I need TV to sleep even know the radio was on that doesn't do it for me. After 24 hours I went to my grandparents condo since they had power I think they were without power for a few hours power didn't come back on until 46 hours about 2 days. I went to work on Wed got home that night I got a good nights sleep I was pretty tried.

B2B2B2B Final exam schedule. So much Jolt Cola and No-Doz... So little time.

49 and that was pretty recent

63 Hrs writing PChem lab reorts that I collected data for throughout the semester but put off writing up until the end of the semestet