I sleep about 4 hrs or less a day and for 5 or 6 days on a row if I am working . I have been known for slapping and pinching self to stay awake when trying to get home and nothing moves in the tunnel .
The saddest part is when u finally go home after 5 days as above , u crash self at bed w plans to sleep until the end of times , and the hospital calls to ask / beg for another shift out of u . Turning phone off is not an option . Always anxiety that u might get a call Bcz u did something wrong or someone died shortly after u left .
The longest I ve stayed awake was also for work and it was 46 hrs , emergency hurricane response . Sleep is my secret fantasy

When I was manic, I could not sleep but my body crashed after about two days...then I would sleep for three days to recover...

Now, the most I go without sleep is less than 24...I get about 6-9 hours per night, more if I am sick or healing from something...I have a lot more energy to get things done when I sleep well.

I did a drive from Las Vegas, NV to Fort Campbell, KY by myself. Drove straight through. It’s a 25 hour drive plus stops.

Senior project in Journalism school. Up for over 48 hours.

I passed out and slept for 36 hours. My roommates thought I died and kept checking my breathing.

Realizing I was fine, they lifted my arms up and they went down with a thud, redid my hair, took my picture with things on my back.

Good times....

Trip to Vegas.
Went the first 44 hours without sleep.

College. With a weird dude I was kinda friends with. I was down for anything and he thought we could do 72 hours.

24 hours when you're trying is easy. We played games, watched movies, drank a lot of vodka and wandered campus like a damn pair of fools.

We split up that morning to find breakfast, go to classes, etc. This is where it gets tricky. My memory is hazy. Did I fall asleep in one of those classes? Maybe. Hard to remember. I remember walking down a hallway out of a night class around hour 30something and I wasnt just in the wrong hall, i was in the wrong building. No recollection of how I got there.

Not long after, met back up with my buddy and we recreated the first night's shenanigans with a lot less gusto. I remember at 2 or 3 am, 5 or so hours left, I berated myself as a damn fool in the middle of this idiot next to me's adult swim marathon. Its fucking cartoon jesus christ. I got up and played pool by myself for two hours, and never sat down again. Hit 8 am and just walked into my room and actually had trouble falling asleep at first. Finally did, woke up 16 hours later. Fucked up my whole week.

Legit never hung out with that guy again.

Actually, I misread the question.

The longest I've ever been alone behind the wheel straight through was a drive from Vicksburg, MS to Tucson, AZ. This was in 1985 when the speed limit was 55. 31 hours of foolhardy stupidity, lots of Vivran, and coffee for good measure.

Otherwise, I've bee up over 48 hours at a time on a couple of occassions. Military stuff.

Working as a dialysis RN in acute care on call did obe 36 hr shift did 5 case you can only do 1 at a time ? Do you want me dialysing you mother on no sleep in the last 30 hrs

Sleep is for the weak! 6 am until about 1 am three days later, about 67 hours. I was busy almost the entire time. Then I had to get up at 6 am and go back to work.

About 48 when I was in college and it was so much fun........ the good old days are gone, now a days can't even watch an entire movie at night !!!!

For me it was during the wild fire here in Santa Rosa in 2017. I was in survival mode, I could not sleep and did not feel tired. The power was out and the natural gas was turned off. I did all the cooking in my driveway. We did not loose our house but I know a lot of people that lost everything.

Driving between Seattle and Michigan, I drove for 24 hours before stopping to sleep. This was in my 20s. I would not do that now.

without ANY? three days. that was about 40-45 years ago. without more than an hour or two at a time? a week or more. without meaningful sleep? years.

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I was working as an ironworker in Maryland with a group of friends, when a warehouse we were building collapsed on one of our co-workers. We worked nonstop for the rest of the day and through the entire night until mid-morning securing the building so first responders to cut our friend out of the twisted metal. We thought he was a goner, since he was bleeding from the mouth. We assumed he had internal injuries, but it turned out he bit the inside of his mouth and that was causing the bleeding. He was lucky in a sense. He ended up with a few broken ribs, dislocated hip, and required stitches in his mouth. After we got off work, i drove to Ohio for a few days off with my family.

Far less than 24 hours... I go to sleep around eight pm and wake about four am... Sleep is important...

About 60 hours. Our band were attempting the nonstop playing record. After two days we were all hallucinating, no drugs or alcohol involved, and the doctor said we had to sleep in our breaks. Really silly. Not advised!

In high school my junior and senior years, I was a D+ average student. To pass each grade nearly all my courses combined I had 1,000 questions I had to copy and answer. Each year I did not sleep for the entire school week, mon-fri, completing all the work. Slept for more than 20 hours, those saturdays after though.

Three days, a couple of times, fueled by scotch and speed back in the 80's.

I had bilateral knee replacement surgery and was on the pain killer Dilaudid for a month. After I stopped taking it I don't think I slept for more than a few hours for nearly two weeks. That was roughest part of the surgery, I was really starting to come unglued emotionally. Ambien didn't do anything, what finally worked was Klonopin. But then it took 6 months to wean off that before I could sleep without it.

The last time I quite smoking, I had very little sleep for 2 weeks (1hr or less). I'm an insomniac anyway, but that was frustrating. There were several time during that 2 weeks where I had to call out of work because I had no sleep for more than two days.

I'm not real sure how long I was without sleep but by the time my then boyfriend hauled my ass to a real hospital I was hallucinating. My speach had also become slow and slurry by then. I got sick on June 30th and he took me to the hospital on August 11th.

I was on call for three days over a holiday weekend. I was working in the cardiac cath lab at the time. We had been called in 15x in 36 hours. Needless to say, no sleep in at least 36 hours. That was the worst weekend of call ever in my career.

When my son was in hospital with DKA, didn't sleep for days.

How about "Less than 16 hours"? I'm a very talented sleeper!

Literally without sleep? Less than 24 hours.

Even during nights people consider sleepless, you still get some sleep, even if it's just a few minutes at a time.