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Axl Rose · Joined: 16 Feb 2006

Gimme your CRAZY lack of sleep stories please!

thanks.

Axl Rose · Joined: 16 Feb 2006

Okay I'll go first.

Yesterday was a first for me.

i went all night sun/mon without ANY sleep. no exaggeration - i literally got ZERO sleep!

because i was out partying all night saturday night/sunday morn, i woke up at 3-4pm and couldn't sleep the following night to save my life.

the CRAZY thing is...i didn't call in to work sick. i went to work because strangely i didn't feel like total crap in the morning. i thought it'd be alright.

BIG MISTAKE!

By 11am I was absolutely crushed. after lunch i felt dreadful. by 4pm i was ready to die. i looked into my eyes in the mirror and saw INSANITY! Go too long without sleep and you DO start to go mad! teaching takes your mind off it actually (unlike a boring office/desk/computer job where you'd DEFINITELY fall asleep) but it really is torture staying awake when not in class.

last night i slept from 9pm til 7.30am solid, out like a coma. had a coupla hours sleep after work yesterday too.

NEVER AGAIN! If you get ZERO sleep, call in sick and say you got a stomach infection, diarrhea etc etc.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:07 pm Post subject:

I've posted the indepth account before here at Dave's, so here's only the short version.

4 and a half days.

i was in my early twenties, and it was the last week of a university semester as an undergrad and I had five term papers to write, so from Sunday morning until Thursday afternoon I stayed up and researched and wrote all of the papers, with the serious help of chocolate-covered coffee beans on the toughest day (tuesday). By Thursday at 4 pm every paper was handed in and i didn't even feel like sleeping, I was in a zombie-like emotionless state of being. I went home and began watching t.v. My dad convinced me to put my head down on a pillow for ten minutes and i awoke 26 hours later. My dad says i went to the bathroom twice during that stretch, but I had no recollection of it. When I finally awoke over a day later I felt so alive, and my previous state was scary to think of... I truly believe I would have stayed awake until I'd died of a heart attack or something. never again I swore.

i had often gone a day or two without sleep in high school and early in my college years, having a graveyard shift part time weekend job and a full-time girlfriend, sleep often wasn't much of a consideration.

but after that marathon university semester paper writing week... I make it a point to always now get at least two or three hours sleep... because i am truly scared of what a sleepless state would do to me next time... I am past 35 now, and when I travel i always have the demand for sleep in the back of my mind even if i don't feel like it... i guess you can say that sleepless four and a half days changed my life.

Mills · Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon

United States Marine Corps Crucible
Minus all the propaganda...

Axl Rose · Joined: 16 Feb 2006

4 and half days is total madness, VI ! Very Happy

I can't believe (a) you survived that long without overwhelming exhaustion/collapse and (b) were able to actually concentrate on something (your papers). you must be someone who can naturally survive without sleep. i'm not. no way could i do that.

this morning, after a big-ass sleep, i had maniacal feelings of depression. but thankfully my students this morning put me in a good/normal mood and i'm back to normal.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

24 hours?? Axl, I think you set the threshold way too low. There are times during the year when I'll go 24+ hours several times a month (if not within the same week). It's just work and ambitious scheduling. When I used to work for "the man", it would grind me down to do that. But then there was typically forced drinking involved, which made it "real fun" and then "real torture". THAT type of all-nighter I couldn't do anymore.

VanIslander · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 6:32 pm Post subject:

tzechuk · Joined: 20 Dec 2004

About 60 hours.

I had 3 days to finish a paper..... my fault as I came to Korea for a holiday (hey, it was 6 months into a long distant r'ship, I needed it!).

I was a zombie, I tell ya!

skinhead · Joined: 11 Jun 2004

Everyone should keep kicking it all night once in a while. I usually do it on my birthday.

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

is this with or without drugs?

without 36 hours..
with 2 or 3 days!

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

without coffee?

12 hours.

Axl Rose · Joined: 16 Feb 2006

vox · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Location: Jeollabukdo

72 hours, same deal as VI, mid twenties, university all-nighter that wasn't enough so I kept working and working and working. Thankfully I didn't suffer any missed classes or teaching requirements but I did call in sick the moment after the last print-off went and got handed in. All the coffee and angst did things to my gut though. So I probably won't ever do anything like that again.

canuckistan · Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject:

What are the odds? I met the same person by chance 3 times in 3 different locations in Canada/the US in the space of 2 weeks.....which is just part of the story of what I think my longest time awake was:

31 hours: San Diego to Denver to Newark to Montreal.....rather bombed on tequila and leaving a trail of fire the whole way home.

My voice was gone for the next 2-3 days.

I don't drink that stuff anymore Very Happy

Swiss James · Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Location: Shanghai

doing a normal working day (up at 7am, back at 7:30pm) with a midnight till 8am shift tacked on the end is something I get asked to do regularly in this job, and at other times I've worked a 36 hour shift (with meal breaks) before.

For partying though I don't think I've ever done much more than 24 hours- I'm too careful with uppers and too careless with booze.