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Drowned in Sound

i can feel a science experiment coming on...

joshua_t | 10 Oct '06, 05:20 | Send note | Report this | Reply



  • without drugs,

    probably about 27 hours. couldnt do more tho

  • .

    i've gone through two nights without sleep .... not sure how long that is

  • 12 hours

    Staying awake sucks.

  • 24 hours.......

    it really did suck. a lot.

  • We did a sponsored stay-awake once

    I managed 36 hours. But then I fell asleep while watching Blackadder.

    • I did that once

      it was stupid really though, stay up all night then go home and waste the day asleep.

      and about 36 I would think.

      • Yeah

        After your normal bedtime you get really tired, but then you go into zombie mode where you can't really think properly.

        And then after about 30 hours you just start nodding off and have to hit yourself just to stay awake. When it gets to that point it's not really fun anymore.

  • when i was at university

    up until the 2nd term of my third year, i never started an essay until the day it was due. i'd start at about midnight, hand it in at 9am and then sleep the rest of the day. awesomeness.

    the feeling of going back to your room knowing how easy it will be to sleep is just perfect

  • About

    36 hours, during the World Cup in Japan. It coincided with the Tyson/Lewis fight, so we got up for the 6 o'clock game in the morning, drank all day, watched the fight at about 2 the next morning, and stayed up to watch the football the next day, finally falling asleep at about 6 that evening.

    By the end of it, I could only communicate by singing, and had a very vivid daydream that I was masturbating in front of everyone.

    I can barely go 6 hours without sleep now

  • I used to get really bad insomnia...

    ...though the longest with no sleep at all was probably about three days. That's a whole world of fun - everything became very dreamlike and disconnected and my vision got all melty. Kind of like I imagine hallucinogens must be, but horribler.

    • I remember it well...

      Longest was probably while writing both my dissertations in the same weekend - evening on Friday til about 7am the Tuesday morning (although the Monday was spent almost entirely getting leathered after handing everything in on time).

      Not recommended. Ever.

  • I've had an hour

    of sleep for each of the past two nights. It's going to catch up with me at the football tonight.

  • About 40 hours

    It's not something I wish to do again.

    Sleeping is just too damn good.

  • Without even a blink of sleep

    36 hours.
    But at my first T in the Park I went 70 hours with 2 hours shut-eye.
    It would be fair to assume that drugs were involved.

    • actually

      on re-calculation, it was 60 hours. I'm not a mental.

  • half an hour

    give or take five minutes

  • bf

    I've been up boozing til seven or eight in the morning many times, one time though me and my compadres decided to carry that on through the next day too...went and bought a bottle of vodka at seven, drank that, then called a dealer at about ten and scored some weed...went to the pub in the evening.

    It was fucking weird, and to cap it all, a mate from back home decided to pay me a suprise visit. Must have thought I'd totally flipped

  • I think it was like

    about 32/33 or something, in my old job.
    It mormally involved going to a club, getting back about 5:30am, wash, change clothes, eat breakfast, get to work at about 7:30, leave at 4pm, get home and sleep.

    I think that's my limit. Sleep is too nice.

  • about 36-40 hours

    we did it for a laugh.

    Man did it hurt.

  • about 20

    I've fallen asleep standing up before. I'm not very good at being awake.

  • Waay too long

    Probably couldn't put a time on it, but by the end I was a mental wreck.

    I never get much sleep anyway, it's getting a serious problem. It just takes me so long for my mind to switch off.

    On the weekend I went to Rome (Ukraine, football) and got two hours of sleep on friday, and two the next day (we couldn't find a hotel, so I had to sleep in a doorway...) but somehow I just wasn't tired. Waaay too much caffeine I think.

    • My mum

      stayed awake for 72 hours solid whilst in labour with me! she started to hallucinate and thought she was in an aeroplane.

  • about 36 hours

    at the Leeds Festival 2001. I felt ok towards the end, but then fell asleep crushed up against people at Rocket From The Crypt. This may mean that RFTC suck, but I doubt it.

  • probably about

    36-40 hours or so on Sunday when I was at Reading Festival.

  • About

    30 hours

  • This summer

    Me and my friend Ewan tried to stay awake for 48 hours to see if we'd hallucinate. We didn't, but MY GOD did it hurt. My eyes got so sore, and i just felt like death. Not reccomended, kids.

  • without drugs

    about 30 hours, in a casino, i was a gibbering wreck by the time i left

  • Went out one weekend a few months back

    Came back home, crawled into my lovely bed at about 8.30am. 15 mins later, some kitchen fitters turn up. On a SATURDAY. I couldn't drown out the banging and drilling, so went round my mates to kip on his sofa. That didn't happen. Stayed up all day, went out that night and got to bed at about 3am

    I think it was about 42 hours. Weirdly, I didn't seem to suffer much due to it. I wont be doing it again in a hurry though