Have you ever stayed awake for 24 hours?

yeah college I stayed for 24 hours, becaue I wanted to study as much as I can, wasn't very smart though cause I kept nodding off in the middle of the exam, and couldn't keep my eyes open. Also when my sister gave birth to her baby girl I was with her all night long at the hospital and I didn't get any sleep and HAD to go to work. I kept falling a sleep and I slept a little in the bathroom. thanks god it was a slow day. LOL

yes I did 26 hrs awake, yes because I'm driving our van and I take coke and coffee for me stay awake. It's difficult without enough sleep especially if you are driving as it may take you danger the lives of your passenger. I said to myself that I will not do it again, it's difficult your mind is not alert as of with enough sleep.. But if it needed not to sleep maybe I will do it again but as much as possible not..

I've done this lots of time and each time I say its not gonna happen again. And then a couple months later a year or two and I'm pulling all nighters and LOOOOOOOOONG weekends. It's horrible and I always sleep for days afterwards.

Yes I've easily stayed awake for twenty four hours and I think the longest I've ever gone without sleeping is probably like seventy something hours. I know that I didn't sleep for two nights straight and I stayed awake throughout the whole day of like three days. I don't think that we necessarily need sleep to survive and we can do without it at times.

I attended a stay-awake party at school and we all camped in the school hall and stayed up all night. Then I would have to say when my daughter was born. I could not sleep at all the night before and my water broke at 5am the next morning. She was born at 10:10am bt I only slept that night.

When I was in college, I did have to pull a few all-nighters, but there is just NO WAY that I could do it now... I would fall asleep by 10 at night! I think in order to stay up back then I took some pill called No-Doze, and it really did work, but it was most likely just loading me up on caffeine!

Hello the_dutchess, Yeah, I have on several occassions. You see I work on shifting and during the graveyard shift, sometimes you stayback at work for 24 hours. I just did it once because we really need to finish something. I don't think it is advisable because you are not 100% effective. Some of my co-worker even tried 48 hours awake. It's crazy right, but it's not impossible to do but the truth is you are just killing yourself. Regards.

I experienced that every months. I don't know why but may be it I am under a lot of stress. Usually I will be very energetic and do a lot of things at one time. After that I will be feel giddy and start to yawn continually until my tears come out. I usually force myself to sleep or make myself really really tired so I can fall asleep.

I have,when my mother was nearly dying.She started being restless the whole day.So my attention was with her till the next day.She passed away at 3 in the morning.Have to arrange for every thing for her.And can't get to sleep till the 3rd day.I felt I was lost that time.

I did for forty-eight once. Had to write a big(60 page) paper in 2 days, and only had free time at nights. So I took a ton of caffiene and forced my way through it.

hi dutchess, I tried 48hours. I tried working double job. I was a manager during the day and work night shift for a call center, It wasn't fun at all. On the 2nd day without sleep, I had to go on duty for my night shift job and I found my iris voluntarily spinning on it's own. I have to stand up all the time because I automatically fall asleep when I sit down even when someone is speaking on the other line. Whew! I found myself exhausted eventually and had to quit the night shift. A person cannot stay awake for so long. That's the lesson I learned. And you can't give your best shot exhausting yourself. 24hours awake is pretty normal to me now.

of course,on the eve of the spring festival,we chinese usually stay up until next day,during this time,we often have meal at the table together and then see the program at eight o'clock .someone play games such as " majong" .

try 96 hours. i was on call for 4 days straight. i want to make clear, though, that although i haven't been lying down, my mind has been sneaking in sleep by making me doze off one second at a time. i think most people experience this when they're sleepy and driving... they keep nodding off. so although i haven't slept for 4 days straight, my body is cheating and i am getting micronaps as i go. =)

I have stayed up for 24 hours and then some. I work odd shifts one month I am on days, one month I am on nights. There have been many days where I've had to get up and do something during the day, and then go to work, only to come home after working my 12 hour shifts to do something the next day because it has to be taken care of. I also have to stay up when it's my weekend to switch to go to days. I get up during the day I have to work my final night, go to work, and work my shift, come home and stay up all day, until 10 that night so I can sleep at night to return to work on the following day at 6 am.

I had insomnia every once in a while as a teenager, so there were many. The last time though as an adult was when I first got the internet and AOL. Their 3.0 software was excellent for chat rooms and my dial up connection handled it with ease. There was once I did not go to sleep that night, and it was a voluntary decision (unless you consider it an addiction)

I did not exactly try, but it happened. I was like a robot, still able to work or drive the car, talking less than usual, but OK. Still, all my reactions started to slow down, and I kissed the bed suddenly, not much after 24 hours. Why? Because I had to work, then travel/and could not sleep during the trip and, as soon as i got to the destination I had to work hard stay awake again for 10 hours.

Once I had to drive to Vegas to see some friends, put needed to get home the next day. So I drove down during the night spent the day and then drove home the next night. It was awful, miles of dark empty highway. Seeing old friends was so not worth that drive home. I'd never do it again, plus I hit a jack rabbit on the way home. So sad!

Oh,I think it is a little hard for me to stay awake for 24 hours.I even could not without sleep for about 10 hours.Usually I will sleep for about 10 every day so that can make me sufficient of energy next day. The longest time I stay awake was in the last Chinese new year.I think I stayed awake about 20 hour,and make me so tired.

Hey... Yeah, I pull hours like that all the time. My toddler refuses to sleep regular hours. She likes to sleep when I have to be up getting my son up for school, and I can't catch a nap, and she like to take another nap so I call them, right after dinner, when it's about timee for my son to want to take a bath, bedtime story, and so on, and there again I can't catch me a nap because I am the only one home to take care of my children, so when I get my son in bed she's back up and ready to go, so I pull them most of the time, other than on weekends when I can sleep in the morning for a few hours because My son doesn't have to get up and go to school. It's rough on the body.

I was leaving for vacation last year in March. The day before I was supposed to leave, I was going to an afternoon hockey game, picking up my best friend after the game (she was going with us). I was pretty much up from 8am that Sunday to 10pm that Monday night. My boyfriend (I flew to see him) encourage me to get some sleep, but I literally bouncing off the walls =) 38 hours without sleep and I don't think I can ever do that again.