What's the longest you've gone without sleep?

EBSVC · 36-40, T

I’m an addict. My poison is stimulants. Almost 8 years clean. So I’ve been up for 5 or 6 days at a time.

I'm thinking 5 or 6 days...

I have a procrastination issue and when I was younger, I could make up for it by getting everything completed usually by working all night and catching up and I actually usually worked better at night with less distractions. So that was highschool or college.

dancingtongue · 80-89, M

I once had to work the phone for 36 hours taking media calls from around the world. As we finished deadlines in one time zone, we would come up anew in a the next time zone. It started a little after 5 pm on a long weekend so no one else to back me up. I had already put in an 8 hour workday, so approaching 50 hours. I was taking little short cat naps between calls towards the end when things began to slow down, but not real sleep.

Pfuzylogic · M

I usually get my sleep but one new job wanted to test me so I stayed awake 18 hours and had to beg off more overtime so I could make it home safe.

DeWayfarer · 61-69, M

Three days and basically cost me my job at the end. I was still on call and couldn't wake up.

Mordechai · 31-35, M

Had 20 minute intervals but like a week. I started seeing stuff and I was working full-time

Sunch74 · 31-35, F

I think over 24hrs, i was so high on drugs at the time. I started seeing shodow people. Not good at all, dont do drugs.

AverageMuslim · 26-30, M

A work week for just 1-2 hours a night

48 hours for the longest continuous timeblock of awakeness. I can't imagine someone whose been awake for longer