How long can one person go without sleep?
By donahueexec
@donahueexec (510)
Canada
26 responses
@pintac (165)
• United States
10 Nov 06
This is not reality; but check out the movie: "The Machinist". It's about this guy who, working as a machinist, suffers from severe insomnia and goes without sleep for almost a year!!
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808540051/info
Personally, longest I've gone without sleep is maybe 24 hours or so; and it did not feel good. I usually need about 6 hours a night.
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@juicemilk (2283)
• Australia
9 Nov 06
I think the record is about 11 days.
But no matter how many days it is, you still only need the same amount to catch up :)
@Solja420 (2503)
• United States
11 Nov 06
warning you will start to hallicinate if you stay up to long on the thrid day i started seeing very weird things the world was like a cartoon all wavy and colurful but the hullicinations turn very scary i started to see weird shadow things like unhuman figurs in the mirrior and on my walls i also heard weird things sounds iv never heard before i though about killing myself i was so scared i went outside but the sky looked very dark and out of the corner of my eyes i would see like gloopy glumpy demon looking birds in the sky that i was convinced was following me i had read about this before so i knew what was happining my mistake was i though my mind was to strong for it to happin to me anyways i was so freaked i drunk almost a whole bottle of nyquile to knock me out the last thing i remember is looking in the mirrior i was so pale and my pupils were very small my heart beat was weird i though i was going to die i was so scared i slet on the bathroom floor with all the light on untile my mom found me i told her i was just sick anyways im just saying dont do speed or stay up fo more than 3 days
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@protectiva (687)
• United States
15 Nov 06
I start getting ready to just fall asleep anywhere once it gets past 36 hours. and i have really bad stupids are the first 24 hours.
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@prncesssly (1373)
• United States
11 Nov 06
I don't know about most people, but I think the longest i've gone without sleep is about 32 or 36 hours and believe me I was sooo tired after that!
@happygal68 (3275)
• United States
9 Nov 06
The longest I have gone without sleep was about 48 hours. I kept getting a second wind that would keep me awake. It was weird though, I only need 6 hours of sleep to refresh my body, I thought I would be out for a few days to catch up on the sleep lol.
@joycey (76)
• Australia
14 Nov 06
The longest I've gone without sleep was two days. Had a fair bit to drink, and just skipped a nights sleep.
I normally require at least 7 hours per day/night. I work night shift so it is usually broken sleep, but I always find if I have the seven hours in total I am fine.
