What is the longest you've been awake without sleep? When and why did you do it? - eviltoast

So I kinda just realized I didn’t sleep for the past 24 hours. Noy sure if it’s the longest I’ve been awake, but probably of the top 5 longest. I’m dealing with depression so my sleep cycle have been fucked up. Got coffee I think around the 12th hour mark.

I’ve basically just been watching youtube videos, browsing lemmy. Googled random things.

Idk why, I guess I just wanted some dopamine boost from coffee and now I can’t sleep lmao. Maybe a bit of anxiety around certain recent political events.

I honestly am not sure if I’m actually awake or dreaming.

Anyways, what is the longest time you’ve been awake without sleep? When did it happen and why?

  • Mesa@programming.dev
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    ~40 hours literally a few days ago. Had a project due date through which I procrastinated heavily. Not proud of that one.

    I don’t think I experienced any hallucinations, but it sucked. What was weird was that by hour ~33, I tried going to sleep, but failed and ultimately got back up. Hopefully never again.

    Edit: just occurred to me as well that of that time, I worked for 20 straight hours. Don’t be like me.

    • lunarul@lemmy.world
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      Had a project due date through which I procrastinated heavily

      Pretty much all all-nighter I’ve pulled in my adult life have had this exact cause.