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Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 6:47 am
by pigmaker
I'm working on 1.5 hrs of sleep in the last 45.75 hrs of real time


but one time i went like 6 days without sleeping a wink, like in 09


plenty of times gone 2-3 days without sleep *by choice* recording a track

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 7:14 am
by psychedelicrelic
I used to abuse my add meds in high school. I wouldnt sleep for a week at a time. Sleep in school for like an hour total maybe. Cant do it anymore. I cant stAy up for more than two days with out sleep. Most nights I only sleep maybe 3 to 5 hours naturally but im bright as sunshine the next day. My sleep cycles are strange. Its unhealthy, ive been working on it lately. I want to live past 80. Just gotta quit the cigarettes. But thats a motherfucker.

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:05 am
by kbit
A period of 50 some hours back in college. Weird times.

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 8:14 am
by Andrew
I have the complete opposite thing going on, I don't think that I have ever been able to stay up past 3:30am - I can't usually stay up past 1am most nights and I cannot even sleep in aswell.

I'm shitty at being young.

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:03 am
by Casavettes
I go to sleep every night but good god do I sleep like shit

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:13 am
by intothegroove
2 days without sleep for me, but I sometimes go for a couple of weeks with only 2-4 hours a night :grumpy:

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:24 am
by pigmaker
Casavettes wrote:I go to sleep every night but good god do I sleep like shit


Don't worry, Dave.

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:28 am
by Ancient Astronaught
I've had a few 1 week periods of my own construction back in the day, unaided though probably 72 hours, followed by 18 hours of sleep. Me and a few friends discovered one of the strongest psychedelics you can find is sleep deprivation, so we went on some crazy binges to test out the theory. It works pretty well unfortunately.

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:33 am
by DADGBD
I had a stretch of about 4 years (when my kids were born) where I was sleeping like absolute hell. I figure I was probably averaging about 3 hours or less sleep a night. But there would be days where I hadn't slept at all. I was a wreck. I would arrive at work and be sitting in the parking lot, zombified... and totally not have any clue how I got there. I would just crash out all over the place. Scary times.

Funny thing though.. no matter how good/bad I sleep I ALWAYS - without fail - wake up at 3:35 a.m.
I have no idea why. But I do. And it's happened for as long as I can remember.

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:57 am
by ShaunNecro
I've stayed up for three days straight because I couldn't sleep. I've had problems with insomnia since I was four years old. I remember staying up for two days straight when I was a kid ALL THE TIME. I also remember being about nine and I was jealous of my sister for being able to fall asleep so quickly. I only get about 4-6 hours of sleep at night. I also stayed up for 5 days straight once when I was in high school to see what would happen. Crazy shit happens.

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:37 am
by pigmaker
Ancient Astronaught wrote:I've had a few 1 week periods of my own construction back in the day, unaided though probably 72 hours, followed by 18 hours of sleep. Me and a few friends discovered one of the strongest psychedelics you can find is sleep deprivation, so we went on some crazy binges to test out the theory. It works pretty well unfortunately.


yeah, ive been gettin a lot of tracers, usually when it's dark, like last night
nothin THAT cool tho

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 10:43 am
by Ancient Astronaught
The good stuff doesn't kick in till day 5 or 6 usually :picard:

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:04 am
by Joe Gress
Around 50 hours was my longest period without sleep. Then I slept for two hours and was awake for another 36.

I proceeded to sleep for about 14 hours and was fine.

I usually get around 5-6 hours of sleep a night, and then I'm ready for the day. I fucking hate the mid afternoon evening slump though.

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 11:21 am
by zRobertez
Andrew wrote:I have the complete opposite thing going on, I don't think that I have ever been able to stay up past 3:30am - I can't usually stay up past 1am most nights and I cannot even sleep in aswell.

I'm shitty at being young.

Hehehe I'm like that some times.

Re: Longest period of insomnia you've ever had?

Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:01 pm
by pigmaker
i still havent slept yet - i had to go a few blocks to do a couple things earlier. i was getting a new cellphone. standing at the register trying to remember the 2nd thing i was going to do.......... took me 5 minutes. well, at least 3. i just stood there with a dumbfounded look while they activated my phone

then i realized...i was supposed to go get a black cherry iced latte. that was my second task.