Hours Without Sleep - What’s Your Record?

March 29th, 2008

Just a fun and useless post, between Thursday and Friday night, I ended up staying up straight a total of 44 hours without any sleep (maybe 30 minutes in a plane, but that was not really sleep).

During this time, I spoke for 90 minutes at a conference and I traveled across the country, I also wrote my entire 90 minute presentation from scratch…

I’m writing this after having had a great 8 hours of sleep, but honestly, last night had I wanted, I could have kept on going.

My record is 56 hours - I did that last September when our company launched a major product and we had a “melt down” to say the least.

I’ve heard before that when you stay up very long, you go through phases and that after a certain time you’re not actually tired any more - you get “focused” but maybe a bit slow. I think I can agree with that…

What about you? What’s the longest you’ve stayed up without any sleep?

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2 Responses to “Hours Without Sleep - What’s Your Record?”

  1. Daniel Says:
    May 1st, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    That’d be 3 days.

    A couple of years ago.

    I had to go to work for the last time in my holidays before starting on education the 5th January. So i got up 6 in the morning and went to work, then caught up with some friends after work and we played some pc games till the next morning.

    Then we went out n got something to eat and repeated.

    The next morning was the last day of the year and instead of sleeping the whole day as my friends, to be ready to party at night i had some family stuff i had to attend.

    After attending the family get together i went out partying till the next day was upon me.

    Because of partying all night and way too much lack of sleep i went out as a candle when i hit bed hehe.

    I woke up in the middle of the night 2 days later and realized it was night and went back to bed and woke up early next morning.

    First and last time i ever do something that crazy.

    I’m pretty sure not sleeping for 2 days or more is very unhealthy i don’t recommend it :)

    Thats my 5 cents.
    Cheers,
    Daniel.

  2. Mystery CEO Says:
    May 2nd, 2008 at 1:41 am

    Wow - yea im done not sleeping for long periods, i get sick!

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