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72 is my best... after that though, medically speaking is when hallucination is possible, and a lot of other negative effects of the body wearing down and such... i don't know about any of you guys but wierd parts of me started to hurt really effing bad after like 50 hours... like really sore muscles for no reason etc...i don't think 8 nights is even possible, is it?

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I've done 3-4 days more than once when I've had some very serious projects to get done, though did do a few very brief catnaps here and there (less than 15 minutes?). Used zero caffeine, etc. -- just had major major incentive to meet absolute deadlines.

Can't imagine doing such now, and these people going for 8 days or so are actually putting themselves at some significant physiological and psychological risk.

They will start hallucinating, probably getting paranoid, etc. after a few days, especially if they can't even catnap here and there, let alone close their eyes for a period.

Regardless of assumed waivers signed, could well expect some lawsuits coming out of this one c/o the participants. Anyone who even starts to approach 8 days without sleep will not be a happy camper, and I'd be fairly surprised if anyone is able to go the full distance, esp. if 1% of the prize is deducted per 10 seconds of eye closure. Anyone who agreed to participate in this is stupid.

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I managed about 37 hours

A stayed up all night on Christmas Day/ Boxing Day watching TV and TTTEE

I thought it would have been a lot longer but since I slept in until 11am on Christmas day it was a bit less.

So it was 11am Xmas day until Midnight on 27th December

I woke up at 3pm on 27th

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this friend said he was up 4days straight...taking caffiene pills, said he was seeing things and starting to hallucinate and having waking dreams or w/e, he sleep 20hours on sleeping pills. i dont think ive stayed up over 24 hours, unless you count gmt time zone change :D

i need my sleep.

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Bah - I think it's the same as every other thing that's meant to put you at risk, it depends on the person. When I done a week I felt just the same as I normally would, and unless an extensive experiment is carried out to prove that it can, and will harm you seriously I'll continue to stay up when needed.

There's also a condition where you can be awake for weeks but your body is in a sleep state, whilst you're still awake and doing things as normal. It goes alongside anxiety/panic attacks, not quite sure ofthe name...

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72 is my best... after that though, medically speaking is when hallucination is possible, and a lot of other negative effects of the body wearing down and such... i don't know about any of you guys but wierd parts of me started to hurt really effing bad after like 50 hours... like really sore muscles for no reason etc...i don't think 8 nights is even possible, is it?

Don't you die after 9 full days without sleep? Even if you don't, its really unhealthy.

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Don't you die after 9 full days without sleep? Even if you don't, its really unhealthy.

Nobody knows, I've heard that you die after 6, 7, 9, 11, 14 days without sleep. As I said, I guess it varies person to person.

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no, 9 full days is without food and you die... and i know what buttseh is talking about being an insomniac, there are days i honostly don't remember working... i went, i did my job, but i don't think i was really "there".. i was getting about 7 hrs of sleep a week at the time...

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Nobody knows, I've heard that you die after 6, 7, 9, 11, 14 days without sleep. As I said, I guess it varies person to person.

After even 24 hours or less, the brain will generally try to enter "microsleep" states -- what some may refer to as "daydreaming" where their mind sort of wanders off though they're still awake. (The kind of stuff that makes sleep-deprived truck drivers and the like very prone to accidents.)

Some people are better than others with their brain being able to get the benefits of "sleep" even though they technically aren't sleeping.

Don't know how long it would take on average for one to outright die due to lack of sleep. Believe a point would simply be hit whereby the brain/body "insists" upon sleep no matter what's done to it.

Believe it's on record of folk hitting roughly 8 days without sleep, though the process hasn't been a pleasant one for them in the slightest. Not a thing I'd even think of stretching, personally.

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I've been up since Sunday, Janruary 4th, at 11:30pm, and it is now Tuesday, Janruary 6th at 1:06pm. You do the math. No caffiene, and I'm not the least but tired.

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It's not that bad. I'm used to staying up weird hours. For me, the first 48 hours are brutal. After that though, about the 52nd hour, my body seems to give up on sleeping. Mates have told me that I do crazy stuff though.

It was back in October, around Halloween, and they said I walked up to some 11 year old kid walking down the street, told him he would die when he turned 14, and walked back to them. I don't remember doing it, as I had been awake for about 47 hours at that point.

The first 2-3 days are hell, then after that, time seems to just slow down, and it becomes hard to concentrate. It's like I'm watching myself live, but I'm not controlling anything. Sleep Dep is a crazy trip. I swear, you see/hear crazy things.

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