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[–] • 6 pts

3 1/4 days.

I had a new job on the other side of the country starting in 4 days, and I had a big ol'Oldmobile that could only manage 55 on the highway to get me there. I loaded it with my stuff but left the passenger seat empty. The plan was I'd drive until I couldn't keep my eyes open and then pick up a hitch hiker and have them drive while I slept.

What can I say; I was young and not very smrt.

After 24 hours on the road I was fighting to keep my eyes open so picked up the next hitch hiker I saw that didn't look like a crazed psychopath. Ha ha the joke was on me because it turned out that he was on a weekend pass from the nut house and didn't have a diver license. But I didn't have the heart to kick him out, especially since we were rather in the middle of nowhere.

He rode with me for a full day. All the time droning on about TV shows he watched as a kid or dozing. I can still hear that monotone voice of his plodding through description of show after show. I have no idea how I managed to stay awake.

After he got out at some town I was somehow beyond tired and no longer needed to fight drifting off to sleep. But as I got closer to my destination strange things began to happen. For example I recall having a conversation with my best friend from back home as if he was in the back seat. He wasn't in the back seat and a part of me knew that but damn I was talking to him nonetheless. And then I became convinced that one of the tires had gone flat and I was riding on the rim. I'd stop and take a look and the tire would be fine. But after 5 minutes on the road again I'd become convinced the tire was riding on the rim.

It was dark when I finally approached my destination city, and raining. The freeway was busy and the head and tail lights looked like something out of that sequence from near the end of 2001 A Space Odyssey. The windscreen was just a blur of colors and to this day I don't know how I managed to not have a wreck. The whole undertaking was fantastically irresponsible and foolish of me.

I arrived and got about 6 hours sleep before having to go to my new job. I actually felt normal and the day was fine. Ah to be 20 and invincible again, eh?

I've never done hallucinogenics but I think I know what "tripping balls" feels like.

[–] • 1 pt

That's just autopilot at that point.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Shitty driver. Autopilot shitty driver. That's why so many accidents on the road.

[–] • 1 pt

My dad had a brand new 1973 Olds 88.

Yeah I did NoDoz for several days driving to NYC from Texas.

[–] • 1 pt

I think mine was a '68. That 455 Rocket engine was a damned beast.

[–] • 0 pt

I bought a 68 Olds 98 for $200 from an old guy who didn't want to replace the starter. That heavy, big car with the 455 Rocket would just scream. It was fun driving a big 4 door family car and blowing the doors off of some Mustang or Camaro.

[–] • 1 pt

Are you from the UK or?

[–] • 0 pt

No, not the UK. Why do you ask?

[–] • 2 pts

You called your windshield a windscreen 💁🏻‍♂️

[–] [deleted] • 4 pts

Worked in a specialized field and was on average awake working nonstop 28 hours, no breaks with the longest I can remember being awake was 36 hours. Driving home was always terror filled because with all that sleep deprivation and intense concentration you lose depth perception and everything looks flat. Don't miss it one bit.

[–] • 0 pt

That seems super illegal.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

medicine. I remember standing in an O.R one night being so tired I started to cry. Just because I was tired. It was the job and we had to do it and it had to be done and done right.

[–] • 0 pt

That seems like it should be super illegal.

[–] • 3 pts

30 days.. Methamphetamine

[–] • 1 pt

No way

[–] • 3 pts

~72 hours straight. I was young and stupid and was just seeing how long I could go without sleep. I am pretty sure I was seeing things by the time I finally crashed. I also think I slept for about 2 days straight only getting up for water or the restroom.

That was a stupid idea. Dont do it.

Otherwise the last one was ~60 hours and it was due to work. Also stupid. Dont do that either.

[–] • 2 pts

4 days and some change. Had bad pneumonia and was so stuck in forced, manual breathing mode that I believed that going to sleep would kill me.

[–] • 2 pts

I partied for 3 straight days in January. Eventually I started hallucinating and had to take a nap.

[–] • 2 pts

Not that long. Probably 36 hours

[–] • 2 pts

A week. Detoxing from alcohol. After 48 hours paranoia sets in and I started seeing and hearing things. Shut sucks

[–] • 2 pts

Pulled an all nighter dissecting a fetal pig cutting the spinal cord out of the spine one vertebra at a time

It was an all or nothing extra credit assignment - you either got the brain all the way to the cauda equina out in one piece or zero points

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

teasing out the cauda equina must have been a treat.

[–] • 2 pts

Truly But the most difficult part was removing the brain intact that sucker was stuck in there.

My hand was all cramped from holding surgical scissors all night snipping each side of each vertebra all the way up

I mangled the brain stem a bit but the teacher looked the other way (I was the only student brave (stupid) enough to try for the extra credit. And yes we were only given 24 hours to complete the assignment)

Technically the whole thing was in one piece

One of the weirdest and most tedious experiences of my life but makes a good story

[–] • 2 pts

In high school I did crazy sleep deprivation experiments. 50 hours was common. I may have gotten to 60ish, but things are fuzzy. People would think I was drunk constantly. I was only drunk sometimes though.

In my early twenties I experimented with actual multiphase sleep patterns. I did about a month at the 15 minutes 4 times a day with 2 hours at once each day. Drove my wife crazy. Probably because I was acting insane.

[–] • 0 pt

I did this for awhile, 4, 90 minute naps a day, for a couple years. It feels great until you have an appointment to make during one of those times you should be asleep then it throws the whole thing off.

Now I prefer 2, 3-4 hour naps, daily.

[–] • 2 pts

5 days.

Working a shitty security job, wanted to find better “big time” job after getting some experience. No drugs, no nothing. Just working, come home, go back to work and try to have some sort of social life. Always worked Wednesday-Sunday with Monday/Tuesdays off. Days 2-3 felt like being in a 3rd person view game/movie. Days 4 and 5 felt like being on auto pilot and not even inside of my own body, like watching myself from someone else’s view. Then blacked out for 12 hours that felt like 10 minutes on what would’ve been day 6.

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