Whats the longest you have ever gone without sleep?

[CaptainF]

eight days when in the army, but I was barely awake, never do this its extremely dangerous and I had to see a doctor and essentially do nothing big for a few days to rest my body to make sure there werent any harmful side effects.

Jesus Christ. You are a god amongst men!

 

[Irish Caesar]

Jesus Christ. You are a god amongst men!

Although the statement is true, I fail to see what it has to do with the quote...

 

[shortguy]

I've never pulled a true all-nighter. Anytime I've stayed up "all night" I had a usually significant nap the afternoon-evening before.

 

[GenMarshall]

eight days when in the army, but I was barely awake, never do this its extremely dangerous and I had to see a doctor and essentially do nothing big for a few days to rest my body to make sure there werent any harmful side effects.

Why in the world would you do such a thing in the service?!

 

[Abaddon]

missed a night an then ran right through..

a more interesting Q is how little sleep you have survived on for a week.

I could claim about only 20 hours in my freshers week

 

[IglooDame]

Somewhere between 48 and 72 hours during a field exercise in primary leadership school. They kept you awake to teach you what fatigue really does to you after awhile. You get to the point where you have to be doing something active all the time in order to keep alert. You slow down even for a minute and whammo......your asleep. Its also extremely hard to concentrate and even usually simple tasks get tough.

Ummm... ditto, except it was during a naval exercise, and there wasn't any intended lesson to be learned, just an undermanned wardroom on an old frigate due for decommissioning.

 

[Billy Rubin]

Five days - the final days of completing my thesis which had to be complete at a certain deadline. Retrospectively, I think I should have slept a few hours from time to time - I would have worked less but more productively.