Hah! You're lightweights. One of the side-effects of the medications I took as a child running out was insomnia. Occasionally, I was awake 72 hours straight because I was out of meds and my body wanted a fix. There was one such occasion in which my mother did not refill my prescription for a week. Maybe I shouldn't be talking about this so much, though. My owner mother doesn't know how bad that week is, she only has a hint. However, there were hallucinations. And I did talk to them.

Well I'm at 18 now, which still isn't much. I'm wondering about these hallucinations though, are they full fledged seeing figures or just like fucked up colours and blurriness.

Well I'm at 18 now, which still isn't much. I'm wondering about these hallucinations though, are they full fledged seeing figures or just like fucked up colours and blurriness.

48 hours won't do much to you unless you're tripping on something or glaring at a computer screen and dehydrating yourself. That, and you won't last even 24 hours if you have a heavy meal. I used to pull 48's, maybe 72's to catch up on gaming. I will again once this military deployment ends.

i haven't slept since may.


you're going to regret this.

Well the plan is not to go nuts, I've been playing guitar and doing other random shit so far, its 3:30am here. Yes I know I will regret this. but it HAS TO BE DONE

48 hours is a bit of a strange target because it's enough to be uncomfortable but not enough to say "YEAH, 48 HOURS, WHUT" because it's not really impressive. 72 is where shit would start going bad, I think. I highly doubt you'll get hallucinations from 48 hours awake. Mostly you just feel blurry and out of it and shit.

I have a mate who is pretty insane and he seems to love functioning on little to no sleep. I'll regularly go out to a bar or something with him, only to have him basically become unresponsive after midnight because he hasn't slept for the past couple of days.

Alcohol is a weird thing with staying awake because it keeps you awake sometimes (usually if it's a caffeine drink I spose) but other times it just makes you crash like hell.

I know 48 hours isnt exactly impressive, but im not really trying to just 'impress'. I'm at 21 hours right now, and still feeling pretty much the same.

i suggest branding your genitals

This was more exciting when I read it as "braiding"

Unless you're getting something beyond bragging rights out of this i don't know why you're doing it. I've done sleep deprivation a couple of times and my longest was 39 hours, it gets really bad for me around 26-28 hours, then goes away for a while and just keeps coming back in waves.

Also my therapist did a bunch of psychiatric testing/evaluation in the 80s and one of the things he focused on was sleep deprivation, he'd give the subject 2 random words out of the dictionary (ie flip to a page put your finger down) and tell them they couldn't say the word. They'd do pretty good until 45+ when they'd say it at the drop of a hat, and some people would just say it over and over again. He told me he would offer $10 to people that could make it 24, $50 to people who could it make to 48 and $100 to people who made it to 72, which no one ever did, your body just shuts you down.

I used to do triple 12 hour shifts all the time, be up for almost half a day before I start them because I start on the odd shift and I wake up for the even one.

Last new years I was up a total of 50 hours. As long as you have something to preoccupy yourself like games and other known 'stimuli' then you can make it. Just drink nearly twice as much water and eat a fistful of food every hour to keep up your energy.

Yeah man don't drink caffine and don't masturbate.  They will make you sleepy.  Also don't really eat that much and don't eat any greasy food.

I suggest drinking lots and lots of water (so you need to pee like every two hours) and going for a jog when you start to feel completely dead.  Stick to stuff like fruits for energy.

The trick is not physically staying awake for a few days - that's easy.  What you want to do is make sure you don't feel like shit.  That's why you don't want to like sit still doing nothing and eat well while you're doing it.

But how old are you man?  Most of us that are in our 20s and 30s are like "lol we have to stay up for days at a time like twice a week".

Also shit I just got a text message from my girlfriend she had to have emergency surgery see you guys later!

yeah 48 hours is nothing. and you definitely wont be seeing any hallucinations. at most, you'll just feel tired. i dont seem to need much sleep... i've gone to bed at 8am before and woke up naturally at noon, and i was fine for the whole day. the next night, i went to bed around 7am. during the school year, though, i have lots of times where i stay up for several days at a time. sometimes i'll be working all through the night on a project. the next day, i'm fine. it seems like if you don't go to sleep at all, you dont get used to the fact that you need sleep, and you'll stay awake. i know its bad to not get much sleep, but i cant really help it sometimes because i have very bad insomnia. besides, i still get straight As in school and it doesn't seem to affect me.
my only suggestion for staying up would be to keep active. anything else is probably going to end up backfiring (energy drinks, caffeine, etc...).

also, the world record for sleep deprivation was 11 days, set in 1964: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)

40 years later, someone else came close. i dont know if they broke the record or not though, but here's their blog about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2007/05/15/aboutcornwall_sleeplessdiary_feature.shtml

those will tell you a bit about the effects of sleep deprivation. around day 4 was when Randy Gardner started having hallucinations. so yeah, 48 hours will do nothing for you other than give you the right to say "i stayed up for 2 days" which really isnt much.

everyone who hasn't done this acts like they're getting initiated into some kind of club, but everyone in the club hates it and thinks you'd be better off not trying.

yeah 48 hours is nothing. and you definitely wont be seeing any hallucinations. at most, you'll just feel tired. i dont seem to need much sleep... i've gone to bed at 8am before and woke up naturally at noon, and i was fine for the whole day. the next night, i went to bed around 7am. during the school year, though, i have lots of times where i stay up for several days at a time. sometimes i'll be working all through the night on a project. the next day, i'm fine. it seems like if you don't go to sleep at all, you dont get used to the fact that you need sleep, and you'll stay awake. i know its bad to not get much sleep, but i cant really help it sometimes because i have very bad insomnia. besides, i still get straight As in school and it doesn't seem to affect me.
my only suggestion for staying up would be to keep active. anything else is probably going to end up backfiring (energy drinks, caffeine, etc...).

also, the world record for sleep deprivation was 11 days, set in 1964: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)

40 years later, someone else came close. i dont know if they broke the record or not though, but here's their blog about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2007/05/15/aboutcornwall_sleeplessdiary_feature.shtml

those will tell you a bit about the effects of sleep deprivation. around day 4 was when Randy Gardner started having hallucinations. so yeah, 48 hours will do nothing for you other than give you the right to say "i stayed up for 2 days" which really isnt much.

that's for people without insomnia I suppose. both the record and the part about hallucinations

I've had insomnia for at least five days. I think I slept a little the next night but it's hard to tell, sometimes I just round it off to a week because of the next two days (not anything to brag about, this was some of the worst shit) but I didn't get hallucinations. I THINK this is because the hallucinations come from theta-wave patterns in the mind, and with insomnia your brain never even gets to make theta waves.

I do however get some mild hallucinations whenever I'm really tired, now that I'm on SSRIs. I THINK this is because of the extra serotonin swimmin around, my brain goes into theta waves while conscious much more easily. the hallucinations aren't that bad and they've only shown up when I'm not doing anything. they're also really weird and clearly not real to me, I've seen cartoony monster faces and even kinda boring stuff like strange nonexistant plants

every highschooler thinks it's cool to stay up (I did before I got insomnia), but once you're at the age where it almost becomes a necessity every now and then, it's no longer something you'd ever willfully do. think about that cyborgasm.....or whoever wrote this topic...........

IIRC staying up for more than like 5 or 6 days straight causes insanity or psychosis or something.

I was always under the impression that about 5 - 6 days of no sleep fucks your brains and you die. I have no idea if this is even close to the truth or if its insanity and shit instead. 48 hours doesn't sound too dangerous to me though.

Yeah man from personal experience 48 hours is not all that bad the best advice I can give you is drink lots of water to keep yourself hydrated or tea (because it gives you energy but doesn't crash as hard as energy drinks or soda or whatever) and eat LOTS of bread.  The bread will also give you energy that your body can use while you do whatever you do and it will keep you feeling good.  Just don't overload on the stuff or you'll get tired.  Pretty much never let your stomach get full, bring it somewhere close to full.  Another important thing is HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS.  They will keep you awake pretty effectively (nobody wants to fall asleep when they're hanging out with friends, and if you do, you have shitty friends) and they'll entertain you.

So yeah, water, tea, bread, and friends.  Those are the keys.

Oh, also Youtube helps.  99% of the shit on Youtube isn't funny, but after being awake for more than 36 hours, it is ALL going to make you laugh your ass off.

Getting lit up really helps but it may be out of your price range/ethics.