How long can I stay awake before hallucinations and other issues mean I MUST sleep?
About 54 hours.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:26, 5 replies)

Really?

As I type I've been without sleep for coming on my 67th consecutive hour.

No chemicals provided...in fact I've had a few beers over the time.

All because I've got a couple of pretty tame problems...but for some strange reason my mind has gone into a sort of twisted 'overdrive'... constantly going through possible solutions.

I don't actually 'feel' tired. It's a bit bad (particularly at night) because my limbs all go to sleep so I get that non-orgasmic shudder running through them.

I've managed to get loads done though..and watch a few films etc.

I've got my fingers crossed for some shut eye tonight
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:37, closed)

Poo flakes
gonna start seeing and fighting Brad pitt soon.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:52, closed)

Yeah
Past forty something hours it started getting really freaky. As I approached 50 hours the hallucinations were really quite alarming and almost served to keep me awake! Dazzling colurs and shapes in the sky, dark spots where I wasn't focussing my sight. I'd see/imagine something then realise it wasn't right and have to battle in my mind to decide if what I was looking at now was real or the thing I was seeing a second or so ago. In other words doubting the real world and convincing myself the hallucination was right and now I was hallucinating.

I became a total danger to myself and was less use than a water paperclip.
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 14:58, closed)

Err. Hmm.
Approaching hour 37 now. Have just gone to see Dark Knight Returns, which is excellent and a massive three and a half odd hours.
Stumbled home feeling very tired and thinking only of sleep.

Step in door, make cup of tea, sandwich out of remains of salad and stuff, and now I feel like I can stay awake forever.

I am totally going to regret this later.
(Sundayturkey has the biggest mug of tea, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 23:40, closed)

my friend Matt did about 5 1/2 days
At the end, when he finally went to sleep, Mr Kitty got Matt's collection of garden gnomes that had been repainted evil and arranged them in a circle around the matress on the floor that was serving as Matt's bed.

Apparently the noise when he woke up got the cops called out to see if someone had been murdered.

It took Matt about 3 weeks to be all normal again, well as normal as Matt gets.
(misskitty reeks of sex and turpentine; laudanum afternoons, Sat 26 Jul 2008, 2:40, closed)