Sleeplessness

FROM: Robert
DATE: Sunday May 13, 2001 -- 2:54:51AM

Ryan--I went to bed at 5 yesterday, thinking that I might just sleep 2 or 3 hours. I actually ended up sleeping until midnight, when I was awakened by a well-meaning soul who wanted to make sure I was still alive. D'oh!

One lesson I have learned is that a lack of sleep seriously comprimises your abilities to think. I can't remember much of anything that has happened since 7 am.

FROM: Cat
DATE: Sunday May 13, 2001 -- 12:35:21PM

Well, not to be a self-linker or anything...but when I did this, I was up for most of the day before I started the 24-hour run at midnight. I was awake for something like 40 hours straight. You can see me disintigrate before your eyes.

FROM: Aaron
DATE: Wednesday May 16, 2001 -- 6:14:20PM

I once stayed awake for 72 hours (or thereabouts) in Junior High for a marathon Bard's Tale session. I was staying at my best friend's house cuz he a Commodore 128, and Bard's Tale. It was during summer vacation, so I played all day and all night for (IIRC) three days.

Although I did manage some marathon Civ II sessions in college, I don't think I ever came close to my three-day Bard's Tale immersion.

FROM: Robert
DATE: Wednesday May 16, 2001 -- 7:14:45PM

Aaron--How much Mountain Dew did you drink for that thing?

FROM: Old Fezziwig
DATE: Thursday May 17, 2001 -- 9:02:14AM

I witnessed the Civ II sessions that Aaron speaks of and I can attest that it was a case of RC Cola, not Mountain Dew.
"Dude, I'm not even tired."

-Fezz

FROM: Natasha Weihe
DATE: Monday January 14, 2002 -- 11:58:08 am

A friend told me that he stayed awake for 19 days straight...(with the help of methamphetamines) I was just curious if that is physically possible?

FROM: Charlie (UK @ Bangor)
DATE: Monday February 11, 2002 -- 5:30:52 pm

I stayed awake for over 144 hours due to stress in an exam period. I had 6 exams, and got some sleep for the last two after the sixth day. I suffered mild hallucinations, twitching/shaking, loss of temperature sense, hot and cold sweats, loss of spatial awarness and personality instability. After the last exam I went on an all-day bender of gin and stella till 3:30am then awoke at 7:15am the same day to go mountaineering, I got home at 7:30pm; this was to make sure I got to sleep in my week off in which I slept between 11 and 13 hours a night for 7 days. I'm currently writing a letter acompanied with a doctors note to submit to my university.

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Monday February 11, 2002 -- 5:47:24 pm

Good God.

Best of luck -- sounds like either you need to prepare more beforehand or your university needs to lighten up with the exam schedule.

FROM: tony
DATE: Thursday March 7, 2002 -- 9:19:41 am

you guys are all worthless. i have been awake since 1996... i havent told anyone about this because it is no big deal. You can do it to!!!! all you have to do is Take 23 caffine pills a day and drink 48 bottles of some imported cola called AFRI-COLA, this is not avaliable in the united states. Good LUck and i am not sleeping for another 6years.

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Thursday March 7, 2002 -- 12:41:46 pm

Not sleeping can apparently cause random use of the SHIFT key.

FROM: Robbie
DATE: Saturday March 23, 2002 -- 3:03:51 am

heh, i agree with the shift key thing

FROM: Freida213
DATE: Wednesday November 20, 2002 -- 2:57:40 am

I once stayed awake for over five days straight while working on a project, and while I'd like to tell you that I suffered no ill effects during that time I firmly believe that the acrobatic seals and the Victorian family having Christmas dinner that I halucinated in the walls of the room I was in would have quite a problem with that.

FROM: Andrew Braun
DATE: Wednesday June 4, 2003 -- 2:30:35 am

I have stayed awake for 3 1/2 days i am trainning to set the world record i am 15 1/2 and i found that i have and ability to stayawake as long aspossible if i have stuff to do.

this is not a joke i really want a world record and this is one i can do my parents don't liek theidea but look foward to seeing my name in the news in a feww years cuz i can do it. i have had no halucinations yet and i don't expect any. Peace

FROM: IanC
DATE: Wednesday June 4, 2003 -- 8:17:06 am

It would also appear that sleep deprivation can cause some young people to struggle with spelling, punctuation and sentence structure.

ps. Thinking back, I'm pretty sure that I never made it much past 40hrs or so when I was at uni.

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Wednesday June 4, 2003 -- 9:35:53 am

Maybe he's planning on studying Elements of Style for three weeks...

FROM: jk
DATE: Wednesday June 4, 2003 -- 10:43:31 pm

Good one!

Whenever I go to Germany, I eat something when I get there, then take a one or two hour nap and promptly attempt to adjust to their clocks. Someone usually has to call me to get me up, and it is at that point that I am the grumpiest tourist in the world, morphed into my bed. I would prefer to sleep the whole darn day, but I manage to get up. (btw--I have very little problem with jet lag after doing this!)

At the Penn State Dance Marathon (48 hours!) some students have really interesting hallucinations.

Sleep is good. Good night!

FROM: Andrew Braun
DATE: Thursday June 5, 2003 -- 12:19:25 am

hey IanC wuts ur prob just cuz i can do something that u want to do.

Just so u know that i don't care bout my spelling and sentence stucture. Wut r u some kinds screwed up English Teacher cuz i don't care wut u say bout wut i am attempting.

FROM: Ryan
DATE: Thursday June 5, 2003 -- 1:10:13 am

Just so u know that i don't care bout my spelling and sentence stucture.

That about sums up everything.

FROM: some guy
DATE: Tuesday June 17, 2003 -- 11:59:01 pm

im staying up as long as i can so i can hallucinate, any1 had that? isit even possible?

FROM: Diggie
DATE: Sunday July 6, 2003 -- 11:21:51 pm

i managed to stay up for 3 hours straight one time just for the fun of it, i only ate 3 things and was constantly drinking water, most of my time me and my friend who did it with me were walking around our town for pretty much all of our 3 days, and we watched 3 movies, nothing bad or weird happened to us, we felt fine, a little tired from walking and lack of sleep, but we felt the same.

FROM: Dip Shit
DATE: Wednesday July 9, 2003 -- 1:12:12 pm

i like sleeping with guys and it helps me stay awake adn its really cool that my gay homies help me through the night so i dont slepp. 8==>

FROM: dude772
DATE: Tuesday August 19, 2003 -- 8:33:45 am

Hey Andrew Braun I like your idea of the world record have fun with your attempt im working on it too and i'm about the same age. So far I have gotten up to 5 days without sleep... and I usually sleep for 12 hours on a regular day. Just shows anything is possible.

By the way what is the official record?

FROM: stephen collins
DATE: Saturday October 11, 2003 -- 2:52:25 pm

Just finished a few 50 plus session of no sleep, and some strange things happened tp me. Im in munich in germany with the gfriend, we where in the rail station sitting down when all of a sudden i got really angry with her and told her i had to go for a powder, i dont rememberr this. I then disappeared for an hour where i basically in a complete daze wandered to the other side of the station where i thought i was meant to meet karen and Jack black, after I searched 3 or 4 trains for them i gave up and returned hoping to find karen. and of coarse she was in the original place worried about me, i can only describe the feeling like sleep walking but half knowing what i was doing, very strange indeed!

FROM: Mike Day [E-Mail]
DATE: Thursday October 23, 2003 -- 9:45:49 am

The official record for lack of sleep is 11 days, set by high school senior Randy Gardner in 1964. He was monitered by sleep specialists throughout, and apperently suffered little or no negative consequences.

As far as the question about meth, I live in the meth capital of the world (Fresno, CA), and while I've never done it myself, I have been around it and seen quite a bit. It's possible to stay up for LONG periods of time while on meth. 19 days isn't really much. Staying up for a month at a time is not entirely uncommon with that drug. See, really anything after a week and coming down from it is quite difficult (usually involving a lot of hallucinations as well).

As for my own sleeping habits, I usually sleep only every other day. 40 hours at a time is common, followed by either 12 hours of sleep, or more commonly, something like 4 hours. Insomnia, you see. This is without any drugs, including caffeine.

I do hallucinate when I am like that, but I hallucinate all the time anyway (mental illness) so it's not fair for me to comment on that from my own experience. However, I do know for a fact that lack of sleep can cause hallucinations and delusions. Why you want that though, is beyond me.

FROM: Mike Day [E-Mail]
DATE: Thursday October 23, 2003 -- 9:47:45 am

btw, the source for the record is sleepnet.com

FROM: Sean Ford [E-Mail]
DATE: Wednesday November 12, 2003 -- 7:43:50 pm

the longesyt i've ever stayedd up was 52 hours. I'm WORKING ON BEATING my record right now.im at 33 almmosst 34.good ol' caffine pills judst take 43 pills every 7 hours like me and yall be finee.

FROM: Mnash
DATE: Sunday December 7, 2003 -- 11:39:18 pm

I completed a 66 hour intentional sleep deprivation project. Originally i wanted to do 72 hours, but when hallucinations and illness came about, i felt that my goal was reached. This was the best project idea ever thought up! We have to do a senior project with a presentation for our school in order to graduate. After putting it off for.... a month past the due date, i decided to deprive myself of sleep to the point of deprivation, which i heard was at 72 hours. I did see some things... it was very minor. Everything in my periferal vision seemed to move and if i looked at an object it would begin to move. I saw little spiders appear and then just as fast as they appeared, they disappeared. It was crazy! Caffeine pills dont make you stay awake just so ya all know. The only thing that can truely keep you awake is your willpower. Caffeine is merely an aid. Taking amphetamines is cheating. Yep.

FROM: Lordpoee [E-Mail]
DATE: Tuesday December 9, 2003 -- 12:01:04 am

The absolute longest I ever stayed awake was 71 hours. People sounded far away in addition things they were saying were sometimes re-arranged some how and when I tried to read the words moved on the page. Very odd experience. Also I have noticed when I stay up for around 24-30 hours, I will sleep like 13 hours when I do sleep as opposed to my normal 6-8.

FROM: Mnash420
DATE: Tuesday January 20, 2004 -- 11:59:01 pm

I plan on making it to 72 hours this time. If there are any readers that are also trying to stay awake... that is my AIM screen name. I could use someone to talk to. PeAcE

FROM: Kenneth
DATE: Thursday April 1, 2004 -- 10:15:18 am

I am going on 11 days 256 hrs and i am wanting the record

FROM: Loki
DATE: Wednesday September 22, 2004 -- 6:05:22 pm

I drove 18 hours solo from Tucson to Dallas, slept three hours, then packed and drove with a friend and his 18 month old to NYC, 34 hours. We then moved a U-Haul full of furniture up three flights of brownstone, so it was another four hours before finally getting to sleep six hours.

So, may record is being awake 56 of 59 hours. My buddy and I had an arguement as we got onto the last exit to Manhatten. I assured him we were on the right road and he asked the toll booth guy how to get to Manhatten. I got pissed off he didnt trust me and he yells at me, "Who the hell founded Manhatten!?!" I told him I didnt know and he replies, "Well, if he were here right now I would ask HIM how to get there too!!"

FROM: jimmy-jimmy
DATE: Monday January 10, 2005 -- 3:56:11 pm

You're all crazy. The longest i've ever stayed up is 10 hours at a time. I don't know why you would want to stay up longer than that!!!!

FROM: Stellar
DATE: Monday April 25, 2005 -- 1:48:42 am

The longest Ive been awake is 120 hours, and now Im trying to beat my record.

FROM: Joseph
DATE: Monday April 25, 2005 -- 4:34:46 pm

Architecture students routinely pull all-nighters and, sometimes, a few in a row. I got into the habit of sleeping every other night. In fact, claiming that you've never pulled an all-nighter by graduation time sets you apart. There was only one kid I knew of who made it to graduation without pulling an all-nighter once.

What happens without sleep for me has pretty much stayed the same over the years, but it was definitely easier to stay up all night before age 22 or 23.

You at first get tired, but you keep going. You drink a bunch of caffeine, smoke cigarettes, etc.. to stay awake. You don't really begin to feel different until about twenty hours. Your limbs begin to feel insubstantial, you start to get cold during your normal sleep cycle (your body temperature does lower during sleep), after 22 hours or so, things start to slow down and you experience trails, mild hallucinations. As time moves on, you may experience difficulty talking, breathing may seem more laborious, etc. But if you make it until the next sunrise, you'll find that you can operate just fine again until about 2pm, at which point, you become a sack of lead. Also, my upper front teeth begin to hurt. If you make it through the sack of lead stage, you're good for another 12 to 16 hours almost effortlessly. The key is not to eat. As soon as you have a meal, you are dead.

I also recall that many of the architecture students, male and female, complained of all nighters causing particularly acute horniness. Maybe the lack of sleep shut off the same areas of the brain that alcohol does.

Ahem, anyway, as far as I know, it wasn't a particularly enjoyable sort of sexual arousal horniness--it was nuisance horniness.

I remember one girl screaming out of nowhere (a very quiet and rather high strung individual) yelling at about 4 am "Goddammit! I'm so f---ing horny!" But it was a complaint, the same way one might yell, "Goddammit! I'm so f---ing angry!"

There were at least twenty of us in the studio with her. It didn't spark up an orgy or anything--but it did spark up a conversation in which we all pretty much agreed that we were experiencing the same sort of problem.

FROM: Joseph
DATE: Monday April 25, 2005 -- 4:36:29 pm

And we went right back to work.

FROM: qt_esme
DATE: Saturday May 28, 2005 -- 11:05:18 pm

The longest i have stayed awake is 6 nights, 7 days! Was peaking pretty much the whole time, didnt eat either...too busy partying i guess...overall had a fantastic time but Look out...What goes up must come down!

FROM: Joey
DATE: Wednesday July 6, 2005 -- 3:16:15 pm

Hey,

im making a 10 dollar bet with my friend going for 72 hours. Im 16.. and my friend told me she heard if you stay up for 72 hours straight youre considered legally insane, after reading some of your guyses stories it doesnt sound like that. I heard you just hear things and hullucinate. Does it depend on the person?

FROM: cool_guy
DATE: Monday July 11, 2005 -- 9:32:19 am

it depends all on the person i would say, because i was once at this party, and i was only up for about 23 hours, and i started doing stuff that id idn;t even know i was doing, like when you get high....MAN IT WAS FUN HTOUGH!

FROM: snaily
DATE: Monday July 11, 2005 -- 10:13:19 am

once i stayed up for 24 hours because of the twilight zone marathon on new years eve. i watched 48 episodes starting from 8 a.m. until 8 a.m. the next day. i just felt really tired and slept for a long time after but no hallucinations

FROM: Yolanda
DATE: Monday August 1, 2005 -- 11:25:57 pm

currently, i have not slept for 36 hours (no small naps just awake, very awake) i plan to stay awake until I either collapse or I start to consider this idea stupid. Originally, I was going to saty awake for 48 hour to see how lack of sleep affected human behavior. I have not been delarious but my reaction time is slow, I do everything a bit more carelessly, and at times, I have random moments of hyperness. I took no pills and only had one can of soda.

FROM: Bribs
DATE: Saturday August 6, 2005 -- 4:50:41 am

I haven't slept for 32 years. I have gone into a few bouts of microsleep, but that's all.

FROM: Mnash420
DATE: Saturday August 13, 2005 -- 2:42:57 am

hey this thing is still going. After heroin addiction which gave me normal sleep, i am back to insomnia now that i am 1 month clean. fuck.

FROM: thilak
DATE: Thursday October 6, 2005 -- 1:35:56 pm

As far as i know, there is a man in india who hasn't slept for 40 years, strangly he hasn't moved from his place at all, his wife and children died in an accident when he was 24, he doesnt even go to bathroom, thats immpossible but true, a camera crew was with him to test this, they gave up after one month, they took turns watching if he would move from his place or sleep but he didnt. Interestingly he speaks to people, and lives on the food given by the villagers, he hasnt changed his clothes for 40 years! yuk

FROM: delusialsparx
DATE: Tuesday November 1, 2005 -- 12:18:29 am

hey how intense are these hallucinations supposed to get? i mean are they always little things or can i hallucinate entire visions?i stayed awake for a total of 113 hours once( parent's divorced about 2 years past but i was still pretty shaken by it) i was actually afraid to sleep. i believe that i did but i'm not sure. i find that i onlly start to hallucinate on the bus ride to school in the morning and that then they are almost my entire field of vision. like i'm looking out one side of the bus but after a minute i'm seeing as if my vision got mirrored and im seeing out the opposite window. is that a hallucination or is it my imagination?

FROM: Needs ideas!
DATE: Tuesday November 22, 2005 -- 10:59:43 pm

Hey im working on going clinically insane from lack of sleep. I'm wondering how long you have to stay up for that to happen. Also anyone got any tips for staying awake? At 5am it will be 48 hours for me. I am not trying to break the record just trying to freak out =)

FROM: James [E-Mail]
DATE: Monday November 28, 2005 -- 10:42:47 pm

I live in the ice cold wasteland of Palmer Alaska, and I don't recall trying any allnighters before I was 20 years old, this could have been due to the Reefer I started smoking at 16 as it is a rather mellowing drug. however with the advent of drinking parties, I often found that after staying awake for one day and then night beyond 3 AM, things become as though no time had passed at all. Now I find myself staying awake randomly for 2 or 3 days at a time without any planning, the trick is to keep yourself occupied with trying to get all those things done that have been put off for days months or years. I am on a third day right now, and I find myself to be way more spaced out then normal, often not responding at all to anyone who is talking directly to me, and then saying huh or what, after they stop talking, so.. I guess the ability to multitask is seriously degraded. however the ability to write a rather long comment about lack of sleep during lame college CISCO class is much easier.

FROM: Matt
DATE: Wednesday December 14, 2005 -- 9:50:23 pm

Interesting forum I must say...I stumbled upon this site while researching ways to help me sleep...not keep me awake...LOL !!!

Life has been caos the last few weeks...work, eat, work, eat and then an occassional nap in the afternoon for a few hours, but as of the last few days, I go to bed and all I do is lay there...I can't seem to sleep...and I'm starting to feel...well awful. I am now going on almost 40 hours without any sleep. I have tried sleep pills, I've stayed away from caffeine completely, and I've even tried relaxing before sleeping, all without luck! Any suggestions? Thanks...

Matt
XxXMusicLuvr2XxX@aol.com

FROM: Padraig [E-Mail]
DATE: Saturday December 17, 2005 -- 11:37:47 pm

i'm a new person

FROM: CHI TOWN
DATE: Sunday January 1, 2006 -- 2:46:41 am

ive stayed up 8 days straight. It's because i was on meth =)

but when you stay up straight for 3 days you really start doing stupid shit like when you get high. instead of doing drugs why not just stay up.

FROM: CHI TOWN
DATE: Sunday January 1, 2006 -- 2:51:10 am

Look at Joseph's post on Monday April 25, 2005 -- 4:34:46 pm

he knows what im talking about!

FROM: kimikki
DATE: Sunday January 1, 2006 -- 10:25:13 am

As a teen, my sisters and I used to stay awake for whole weekends at a time, hanging out at the family cabin. We'd swim, do stupid things like raid the next cabin, go out in the boat at midnight. No drugs/alcohol were involved. Now I'm lucky if I can make it past 7:30 in the evening. I have a friend who used to see 6-foot skunks when he was over-tired.

FROM: Mike
DATE: Thursday January 19, 2006 -- 5:04:22 am

I've been awake for 24 hours straight. The previous night I only had 4 hours of sleep. The night before this I had 5. This is mainly due to a hectic work and school schedule. According to my calculations in the past 72 hours i've only had 9 hours of sleep. No hallucinations yet. In the last hour I've been noticing that my thoughts are slightly slower. No major effects. I should also mention that about 6 hours ago I smoke some great ganja and then again about 3 hours ago. The weed didn't seem to effect me in the same manor it would have if I were well rested.

FROM: niggins
DATE: Saturday January 21, 2006 -- 2:55:11 am

MIKE UR SUCHA NIGGER MOTHER FUKER I WANT UR BIG FAT COK IN MY LOOSE AZZHOLE WHITE POWER WHITE POWER DIE NIGGERS

FROM: mike
DATE: Saturday January 21, 2006 -- 2:56:01 am

What the hell? FUCK YOU ASS HOLE

FROM: Robert
DATE: Tuesday January 31, 2006 -- 5:26:02 pm

Lets see, I've been up for a total of 114 hours...and I'm not really tired right now, but my body is aching.. I don't know what day it is, nor the time really... compu clock is out. Since I've been awake, I've experienced what seems rather rare... I am 85% deaf.. And I can hear voices...in both ears-- as if I met Jesus and he healed me...

With that being said, I thought it might be the t.v., but the t.v. wasn't on. I see objects out of the corners of my eyes levitate, and when I turn my head, its as if it never happened. I've also encountered spiders running across the floor and roaches in my shirts... But as I took a closer look; focusing in on these events, they fade away...

The most bizzarre thing yet is sitting here at the computer noticing a thin cloud of smoke (just like cigarette smoke) however horizontally spread from one side to the other, swoop vertically below me and back up to the ceiling... Not only seeing it, I could focus in on it. Now this is pretty strange, but I could feel it pass from my head to my legs and back up again.

The bugs and floating objects began the day before yesterday. Last night sometime, I noticed the smoke. Now, I am experiencing small trickles of white specks falling ...very small. When I turn my head, I see red dots and sometimes get a bit dizzy. And when I move suddenly, the room sways and the walls melt.. As if I'm trippin on acid.

Now you make think this is all cool and what not.. but I'm sick of it. I close my eyes and I feel as if I'm drunk, spinning in a pitch black cave...and there is no possible way I can stop the rotations.

I have insomnia..which is a symptom of depression...and I get that from ptsd..This is my longest sustained period in which I have not slept.. Even in war, I came close to 72 hours, but this time I've clearly topped that.

Let me just say one thing.. If you want to stay up longer than 114 hours, go right ahead.. But why? I cannot fathom. Anyway.. good night..

I do this seldom.. Perhaps I sleep only 96 hours a week... I wouldn't be surprised. I believe after 72 hours of restlessness, you won't really feel awake or sleepy. Your just kinda there. Like I am now. Here...doing what? Nothing... I'm slow and well....miserable.

But if you insist on trying this, you definately won't have to stock up on any drugs to have a good time.. if thats how you have a good time. By the way, if you plan on staying up this long or longer, make sure you eat.. As your body will quickly begin to shut down and may inturn lead to some serious health problems...

Well thats it for now.. and probably forever on this site... I hope I have all encouraged you to at least try to rest before 72 hours....Good day....

- Rob :)

FROM: Andy
DATE: Friday March 17, 2006 -- 11:06:52 pm

I stayed up for a real long time evacuating from rita driving in traffic for almost 35 hours it was awful.

FROM: emily
DATE: Wednesday March 29, 2006 -- 12:25:37 am

i'm getting kinda, shall we say, "tired" of not sleeping. ya know that feeling when your sittin at some kids house at 2 in the morning and everyone else is passed out, so you play pool by yourself and then stare at the clock until the light coming through the window in the morning finally reveals the time. and you wonder if you snore when you do sleep because no one has ever seen you sleeping to find out. eh, well its boring. get sleep if you can, kids. because when you cant get it you stop taking it for granted.
ive had my share of insomnia over the past 2 years, and man its not so pleasant. not even sure wat causes it cuz its on and off.
but dude, i dont understand why people intentionally try to stay awake if they're tired and shit, when people who cant sleep lie in bed for hours trying to fall asleep. thats some fucked up shit right there.
and people keep tellin me imma go insane or sumthin from loss of sleep. but aren't we all a little crazy? at least we got an excuse right?
aight kids, lets all try and sleep a little.

good night and good luck

FROM: Jon
DATE: Sunday May 7, 2006 -- 2:49:47 am

To Emily :

I have Insomnia too (clinically diagnosed). I refuse treatment because I L-O-V-E staying up days on end. I get SO much more done than most people do.

Why lay in bed waiting to go to sleep when you know it's not going to happen? Go take a drive, make a website, watch a movie, read a book. I've hallucinated, felt weird shit, become VERY sick as a result of my Insomnia. But I've also started my own company, made a documentary, raced my motorcycle, and tons of other shit while on a no-sleep stint.

Yes, you might go "a little crazy" from lack of sleep. But bein' crazy is FUN.

But I've got it, and I love it (Insomnia, that is). I DO understand why people intentionally stay up for days on end. Because in 72+ hours of being awake, I experience more than most people do in a week. Why let the symptoms of Insomnia make your depression and sleeplessness even WORSE when you can embrace it? I've taken 500 mg doses of Seroquel and 20 mg doses of Ambien. Both worked WONDERFULLY and allowed me to adjust to a normal sleep schedule. But I don't want a normal sleep schedule.

But if don't enjoy the sleepless nights you've been blessed with, talk to your doctor, there is a SIMPLE cure out there. Don't have a doctor? Try Melatonin, a natural supplement available at any pharmacy. It will make you SLEEPY, not TIRED. You will need to be lying down and expecting sleep for Melatonin to work. OTC sleep pills don't work if you have Insomnia, trust me on that one (even in relatively high doses of 5 - 10 capsules).

Natasha :

At the beginning of this post like 4 years ago someone mentioned a 19 day stint with the help of Meth. I know a couple Tweakers and they all CLAIM to have stayed up for 10+ days. I know for a fact most Meth addicts have LONG periods without sleep, but I doubt anything close to 10+ days, FORGET about 19.

When you do Meth, reality is distorted to a cetain extent, as is the perception of time. After a Meth binge, I'm sure Tweakers FEEL like they've been awake for 20 days, when really it's been 6 or 7. I don't care what any Meth addict claims, Amphetamines just aren't THAT much of a shock to the CNS. "Bullshit, I'VE stayed awake for 14 days." Yeah. I've heard that before, and its pretty much bullshit. I've heard no factual scientific evidence that Amphetamine addiction (or Meth- addiction) leads to sleeplessness to THAT extent. And if Meth kept people up for 10+ days, the scientific community would know about it and would have reported on it.

FROM: chris
DATE: Monday June 19, 2006 -- 2:22:10 pm

I have stayed awake some where around I think about 85 hours, I think I cat napped once or twice for about 30 minutes to an hour. Man that was one of the most horrible things I have experienced. I lost my appetite after a about two days and the nervousness that kept me up got worse. I got super paraniod thinking every one was out to play cruel jokes on me. Once or twice I thought I heard a voice, but I think it was just me having a panic attack and imagining that I was imagining things(if that makes sense). Overall not a pleasant experience, so get some sleep everynight.

FROM: thilak
DATE: Friday June 23, 2006 -- 6:06:39 pm

Want to stay awake for as long as you wish. This website contains a step by step procedure. http://anti-sleep.org/welcome.htm

FROM: kole
DATE: Friday July 21, 2006 -- 9:54:14 pm

The longest time ive ever gone without sleep is 197 hours. ive tried to break the record several times. i have a gift. i like can sleep for a long time or not or i dont have to sleep for days. i can choose how long i sleep. its wierd

FROM: brett
DATE: Wednesday August 16, 2006 -- 6:19:11 am

I thought I was cool for what I'm trying, but some of you are insane.

last summer, i made it to 60. energy comes and goes at about 36-48 hours. after that, you do anything to stay awake. loud music next to your head, cold showers. the creepiest thing was the movements in the corners of my eyes.

right now, i am going for 72 hours. i am at 22 right now. so basically 2 more days. i start college on monday. ill sleep from friday 5AM till saturday 6AM and then have the weekend to get ready for school. i'd like to just learn some methods to stay awake so that I can be prepared for exam studies and also possibly going into law school.