I had insomnia for many years. I slept 30-60 mins a night then crash for five or six hours once a week. It was horrible. I’d rather take these mind altering drugs than go back to that

With 30 mins naps included, probably 72 hrs during filming a short film.

But if youre asking for a straight awake, it is around 26-27 hours. It was also during that time. The first day of filming until I got my first nap.

3 nights. On the 4th I got 3 hours of sleep.

Around 2.5-3 days. On a LAN party in 2003 or so. 2 nights without sleep. Lots of caffeine. It was fun at first but really started feeling terrible after the 2nd night.

3 days. Mostly just eating fruit and water. Caffeine and processed sugar leads to crashes that I’d learned from previously. I could have done 4 days, but I began to notice that I was not paying very good attention to passing traffic when crossing the road, so I stopped.

3 ish days, it was awful. Everything starts to feel fake and I got really paranoid

Around three days. No drugs, just showers and energy drinks I took sip by sip for a long time. I was somehow productive, but caught my attention stuck a couple of times on something banal like a working microwave buzz. Everything felt dull and I seemingly had no emotions near the end.

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72 hours or nearly so, and basically worked the whole time too. It was the first time my roommate gave me Adderall to try. I did around 2 weeks worth of work in my auto body shop, then slept like 14 hours straight. To top that off I was around 350 pounds too. A week later I was on the stuff legit. Three years later I was racing bicycles and under 190 pounds. Three years after that, I was disabled from a crash with 2 SUVs.

I think around 48 hours.

High school LAN parties.

In 1989 I was one of the participants in the (then) Guinness World Record Endurance Computing held at the Hobby Computer Club days (HCC dagen) in the Netherlands.

The record was for 63.5 hours, but I had a two hour or so commute in each direction and the event started (from memory) at noon.

I’m guessing that I was awake in total for about 70 hours. I fell asleep on the way home.

We published a newsletter called “Elephant News” every few hours. Time keeping was managed by official time keepers and it was entered into the Guinness World Records in the 1990 book. I have a copy somewhere.

At some point not long after, Guinness abolished all world records that only had a time component and as far as I know it still stands :)

72 hours to finish a design project for a client. Hard deadline to make it to the printers in time for a trade show. By the end, I couldn’t see straight. Slept for 18 hours after handing it in.

Saw the end product at the trade show. Horrified to pick out so many small errors. Customer was happy, though. Got two more projects.

Never did it again, but it was good to know I could.

About a week ; there were some very hard drugs involved, and I credit that experience with getting cleaned up. Started seeing “shadow people” in my very peripheral vision.

Technically, five days, though it was barely over the line.

I was hallucinating by the end of it. It was intentional, one summer during high school, just to see what it would be like.

It be like something I’ll never do again. Took me weeks to feel right again

72 hours finishing an application so we could train on it immediately after. What a shitshow.