Comments on: Eleven Days Awake

By: jequinto

jequinto — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:35:34 +0000

woow! that is so cool! anyway,I always use this as an excuse for not going to school so I would try to stay awake for 2 nights then on the third day I would get a headache, and I won't be going to school for 4 days.yey!!I am just worried when I'm old I'm going kuku...anyway, its an interesting article.

By: Justin Bliffle

Justin Bliffle — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:34:34 +0000

wow i have tried to stay awake for 24 hours but i fell asleep at like 23.5 i couldnt do it i was just to hard.My eyelids felt like they were 2 tons i had to holdthem to stay awake

By: Some random person

Some random person — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:41:20 +0000

nope, and im now gonna try to stay awake till i see stuff just to see if its realy true

By: Xus

Xus — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:13:05 +0000

I agree with the guy that said you start to sync up with things you don't want to know are there. So you say the paranormal is impossible? Tell me this, do you believe in god?

By: Austin

Austin — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:04:33 +0000

I have 3 more hours until i can go to sleep, then i will have been awake for 28 hours. The longest I have ever stayed awake was 73.5 hours. Right now im trying to stay awake to get my sleeping schedule back to normal(10pm - ~6am) as I have been going to sleep around 12pm and waking up between 8pm - 12am.

By: Candace

Candace — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:28:09 +0000

I think the requirement for animals to sleep is an evolutionary device, which ensures that the body has time to regenerate and heal itself at a more intense level than it would were it awake and moving. Ever notice how you can feel sick all day long, but often times upon waking the problem has completely disappeared? Emotional stress is also lightened considerably after even a moderate amount of sleep.

If there were a way to "deactivate" the need for sleep for life, rest assured our average lifespans would be shortened considerably, and our health problems would mount to the sky (more than they already have).

By: Johnnie

Johnnie — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:32:14 +0000

I been up for 3 so far.... Not a football player yet.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:56:59 +0000

Yeah longest i did was 3 days.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:29:39 +0000

im on hour 44, and im screwed. ive been hallucinating voices. and i agree with the guy who says sleep keeps us away from paranormal. im scared as hell right now.

By: jmug

jmug — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:46:31 +0000

How is it pissible to stay awake for 33 yeasrs? k..that word is a result of 2 days no sleep. Sleep deprivation= making up new words

By: jmug

jmug — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:30:07 +0000

2 days awake at the moment..I read that article about ten times slower than if Id been sleeping. I don't think that even made sense..So my psychology teacher totally lied then. He said that the record was 11 days but the person died..whata schmo

By: sazu

sazu — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:11:27 +0000

wow im sure a human cannot go 11 days without sleep.thats impossible man. i cant stay awake at night till 12 mid properly man.or maybe thats coz im a baby . . . . . . . . . . . goo . . . . . . . .

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:58:33 +0000

The longest I've stayed awake was on a cocaine and drink fueled binge of 5 days and 4 nights. I frequently go for 2-3 days without sleep and although I do lose concentration and forget things easily, I have never hallucinated.

On the other side of the coin, when I was 12 years old I got Beijing Flu and slept for 13 days without waking up. My mum was a junkie and didn't take me to the doctor until afterwards. The doc said I should be dead! lol.

By: republiccommando

republiccommando — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:35:55 +0000

wait... do u throw up if u dont get sleep for a long time?

By: republiccommando

republiccommando — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:34:39 +0000

i think the computer wears my brain...

By: republiccommando

republiccommando — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:33:40 +0000

i feel this way when im in class or daydreaming. its actually kind of fun for a little while. i remember when i was 2-3 i used to hear little voices and i turned around it was halarious. lol. around that time i didnt sleep very well :S. i now often forget what i just said 2 secs ago and have to ask sum1.

By: sara

sara — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:37:53 +0000

@kiera
he beat Rounds' record of 260 hrs and then stayed up the extra four, meeting his goal of 264, not 268.

By: sfmac

sfmac — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:39:04 +0000

I went to an art college that was pretty demanding and I pulled many all nighters, my longest being over 72 hours. The worst I experienced was loss of concentration, I would start a sentence and totally forget what I was talking about, lots of ums. When it came time to present my project I fell asleep standing up in front of the class. I'm glad those days are over and I get paid for overtime now.

By: Tim Yates

Tim Yates — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:58:20 +0000

I've been a speedfreeak since 1969, although the last 20 years or so have been pathetic, quality-wise. The hallucinations were always my favorite part. They really kick in around day 11 or 12. One of my sweethearts of the past once stayed up for a couple of years, but she was really crazy to begin with.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:15:43 +0000

ive been awake 40 hours here, just because i have a dead line in university, im functioning fine just wen i re-read my work, it doesnt make alot of sence and looking at a computer screen doesnt help either.

By: RecoveredSpeedFreak

RecoveredSpeedFreak — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:33:06 +0000

As a NOW clean 'n sober meth head my longest 'run was 17 days without sleep. It as definitely interesting. The delusions were the most interesting part of the experience. I had many friends who imagined helicopters following them and 'tree people' spying on them altho I never spotted either. My favorite experience was imagining songs were following me around from store to store magically. "This is your brain, this is your brain on drugs." It wasn't pretty. Thank God for sobreity.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:08:31 +0000

When I saw ostriches every 1/10 mile with their heads in the concrete along side a nightime highway in IOWA, after not sleeping for 3 days, I knew it was time to pull over on the side of the road and get some winks. Things would have been fine except for the corn stalk praying manis that left by morning.

By: Russ @ bombay potatoes

Russ @ bombay potatoes — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:14:43 +0000

I would imagine some people can manage better without sleep than others, and that there are a few individuals in this world that need no sleep whatsoever.

By: breathless

breathless — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:07:35 +0000

Well I come from an interesting past and have stayed awake for over five days continously, suffered severe paranoi, hallucinations, blacked out constantly and had periods of extreme aggresiveness. On the other hand, other people I know have stayed awake for as long as a month at a time. An eighteen day run ended in a trip to a psych ward where my friend encountered another acquaintance, carried on a long meaningful conversation until his friend tipped his head back and was sucked down into the floor (he explained this as water going down a drain) and still didn't realize that his friend had never been there in the first place. Sleep deprivation is most certainley a drug in itself, a dangerous one at that and should not be attempted regularly (unfortunatley I did so, resulting in some not so great states of mental health) Eleven days is a long time for someone to be awake, that must have been tough for him but the sleep afterwards is so worth it

By: troy

troy — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:34:57 +0000

@Jerse

You forgot to take baths..

By: max

max — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:36:59 +0000

I have a hard time concentrating after just a few hours asleep?..cant remember doing a choir from just a few second earlier...can't a person die from lack of sleep??..

By: Alex R

Alex R — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:14:59 +0000

Isnt there a guy who hasnt slept for 30 years or something? He works out to stay away.. I think I heard about that..

By: lol

lol — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:00:27 +0000

Ever heard of insomnia ? Ever heard of ww2 and nazi experiments? What is so special about 11 days ? Person will not die from a lack of sleep EVER its easy to confirm this (use google). So this whole affair is a joke.

By: eye surgery scottsdale

eye surgery scottsdale — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:53:55 +0000

Really cool article, classic science is great. Man, 11 days must be insane, I've done a maximum of 3 days straight without sleep and still been fully functioning, but I was out like a light as soon as I let my mind get distracted.

By: Jokes

Jokes — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:03:21 +0000

Respect to people who can go to extremes for the research