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re: What's The Longest You've Stayed Awake?

Posted on 6/20/17 at 11:32 pm to
Posted by Hook Em Horns
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Posted on 6/20/17 at 11:32 pm to
2 weeks. meth.
Posted by biglego
Ask your mom where I been
Member since Nov 2007
76324 posts
Posted on 6/20/17 at 11:45 pm to
Yeah we get this thread periodically and inevitably the OT can stay awake longer than humanly possible. A person can literally die from lack of sleep. But not the OT.
Posted by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
161244 posts
Posted on 6/20/17 at 11:46 pm to
Slept from 4-8 last night but won't be sleeping till 8 tomorrow... Been a shitty 3 days with less than 8 hours of total sleep
Posted by rantfan
new iberia la
Member since Nov 2012
14110 posts
Posted on 6/20/17 at 11:59 pm to
I'm a speed addict , not lying seven days. When I fell asleep it felt like I was drunk off my arse. I was starting to hallucinate and was talking out of my mind. It was scary
Posted by Nado Jenkins83
Land of the Free
Member since Nov 2012
59653 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 12:00 am to
3 days for work. I still have anger issues over it. Because I right on what the issue was and nobody would listen
Posted by Bushmaster
19th Hole
Member since Oct 2008
39621 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 12:03 am to
4 days in Fallujah.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
Simple Solutions to Complex Probs
Member since Jan 2004
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Posted on 6/21/17 at 12:10 am to
quote:

if you don't think 30 hours is even possible then I'm not even sure what to say other than you're a pussy.

my firend just told me about this thread and i was thinking and i dunno if i've hit 30, but i've hit at least 26-27

i could have kept going. it was a "wake up early on Friday b/c of court out of town then go out and before you know it, you're still at cowboys and it's the same time you woke up at 24 hours ago" situation.

but i've never done anything insane. i've probably done 24 hours 10-ish times
Posted by beauchristopher
new orleans
Member since Jan 2008
65956 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 12:14 am to
Maybe 3 days
Posted by RLDSC FAN
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Member since Nov 2008
51610 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 12:17 am to
My brother is a meth addict, I've seen him up for a week straight. He was literally insane by that point. It's only after his body shut down on him that he finally passed out for like 2 days.
Posted by boogedy
Member since May 2011
396 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 12:17 am to
I'm always woke
Posted by NotoriousFSU
Atlanta, GA
Member since Oct 2008
10226 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 12:25 am to
quote:

My record is roughly 40 hours


I stay woke so I've got you beat there.
Posted by VaBamaMan
North AL
Member since Apr 2013
7653 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 12:43 am to
2 weeks ago I went 5 days with a combined 3 hours of sleep I was awake from Saturday morning at 7 am through 3 am on Tuesday morning. So thats...68ish hours straight. I then slept 3 hours, and was up all day Tuesday, slept 1 hour that night, and then was up all day Wenesday.

So my answer is 68 hours.

I was hallucinating at that point, and not in a fun way. I woke up after the first hour of sleep on that tuesday morning so loopy that I woke my wife up because I was yelling at some weird being that appeared in the china cabinet and looked like it was trying to steal the glass.
Posted by Cali-to-Death Valley
SF Bay Area
Member since Dec 2004
746 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 12:47 am to
Partner and I were on call in 1998. Homicide callout, we'd automatically go on a 36 hours clock. After 36 straight, was on way home to get some sleep. Get another callout, weak arse supervisor refuses to call in another team. After living on Mountain Dew, Salem Lites, and Payday bars with no sleep for about 49 hours I began having audio hallucinations. It was at this point I told my supervisor he could kiss my happy Italian arse, I was going home to get some sleep. Got in my car, drove about 100 feet, fell asleep and plowed into one of our motor units parked in the compound. By the time I got back to work 15 hours later, they had already drafted a new G.O. that said for every 18 hours straight you work, you have to have 8 hours of sleep.
Posted by Sun God
Member since Jul 2009
44874 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 1:09 am to
36+ hours fairly often in my first years in the oilfield; max of 60 or so. I'm an expert at naps now
Posted by gpburdell
ATL
Member since Jun 2015
1423 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 1:27 am to
70 hours. This was back in my late 20s for work. Production issue in our data center where the shite was hitting the fan. I was unlucky to be one of the people still at the office who had any idea what was going on.

I drove home afterwards, dozed off on the interstate and almost wrecked. I think I slept for almost 2 days. Could never do that again.
This post was edited on 6/21/17 at 1:28 am
Posted by CCTider
Member since Dec 2014
24170 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 1:31 am to
quote:

Only took 6 posts for someone to claim they stayed up 84 hours. I'm impressed, OT


He claimed 84 hours, without the use of coke or meth, and was supposedly productive. An even more impressive live of bullshite.
This post was edited on 6/21/17 at 1:32 am
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
140462 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 5:29 am to
I stayed up for about 62-64 hours straight just a month or so ago without really wanting to and not taking any stimulants besides alcohol. Just a combination of anxiety, insomnia, and camping and trying to sleep in a shitty bed.

I've always had a hard time sleeping. Going 36 hours is something that happens pretty regularly with me.
Posted by dawgdayafternoon
Jacksonville, GA
Member since Jul 2011
21608 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 5:47 am to
Around 48 hours. Took a couple of ADHD meds with several cups of coffee.

The first half of that stretch was fine, but after I was midway through the second day it was a fricking nightmare. I didn't even feel like a person.
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
140462 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 5:50 am to
Damn y'all make me think I'm much more fricked up in the head than I already thought. I go 48 hours probably more often than twice a month and that is not taking any stimulants and trying to go to sleep.
Posted by redstick13
Lower Saxony
Member since Feb 2007
38522 posts
Posted on 6/21/17 at 5:59 am to
My first year offshore working as a roustabout. Over the 7 day hitch we only got 1 full 12 hour shift off and two other 4 hour naps in the rack. So we were outside working 148 hours out of the 168 hour hitch. We would catch 30 minute naps on top of pallets of sack material, etc where we could. Most exhausted I've ever been in my life.

The rules were much different then, there is no way this would be allowed in the industry today.
This post was edited on 6/21/17 at 6:13 am
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