When is the last time you stayed awake for over 24 hours straight?

When my daughter got run over in 2002. She’s OK.

I used to do it often when I was younger and on call in the hospital. I try to avoid it now.

Last week. Pain.

Early 20s when I was in college. Pulled a few all-nighters studying. There was also a time more recently when I had a 5 A.M. flight and didn’t sleep that night.

A few times when my daughter was a baby and a couple times a month back when I was in college.

When my mom had health issues in Spring 2019. I can do it during emergencies but it’s definately not easy for me.

At a LAN party back in school. I was miserable, and vowed to never do it again.

In my 20’s I think.

Probably earlier this year, when my wife thought there was something wrong me, according to her I was acting goofy and talking slurred. Long story short she took me to a hospital and I had to have brain surgery. Recovered fine and feeling no pain, but I couldn’t smoke or have coffee and I had trouble resting. Don’t think I was awake for 24 hours but probably close to that. I was so happy to get the hell out of there, but don’t remember much of anything. Don’t really feel like there was anything wrong with me anyway.

A year ago when I needed to do a sleep deprivation brain scan.

Never. I admire people who have enough stamina to do it.

@RedDeerGuy1 I feel for you. My husband went through several bouts due to epilepsy and sleep issues, hope you got it figured out.

sometime within the last 6 months. Not for any real reason. I just get caught up in this and that and don’t feel like sleeping.

I have insomnia, so I often have difficult times getting sleep.
The last time I went all night? Probably when I was on the cruise ship.

I just realized it’s when my daughter was born. The water broke at 1 a.m. and I was awake all that night and the following day. So a day and a half awake. I was in labor for almost 48 hours.

2017. My dad’s wife came for her annual visit. We had a mega family get together at the lake. It was a major event and I was in charge.
I fainted fom exhaustion at bedtime that night.
Kathy camped in our motorhome with us. We gave her the bedroom, we took the hideaway in the living room.
So we all went to bed….then I had some sort of weird attack….I could not breath. Scared me so, so bad I ran outside. I was terrified to go to sleep, convinced I’d never wake up again,, so I sat by the fire until the sun came up.
Then it was time to go to work, cooking and prepping.

@Dutchess_III Did you ever find out the cause?

No. No clue @Nomore. But didn’t go looking either.

Overseas flight – Israel to the US. Had been up all day in Israel, flight left at midnight or so, 11 hour flight, then drove home. Probably 28 hours (I can’t sleep on planes)

I can sleep ANYwhere!

1983, studying for a final in college. It didn’t help. I got a C in the class. Never have I ever had a professor/teacher make European history both dull and difficult.

Ah hell. In college I’d stay up for 24+ hours cuz I was having too much fun to go to bed!
“Look! The sun’s coming up!”
“Cool dude!”

In the early 90s, I was a hotel manager in the Chicago suburbs. After working from 6am until 4pm, I headed home and was ready to head to bed mid evening.

A call came from the evening manager. The night auditor (a clerk that balances out the day’s transactions from 10pm – 6am) called in sick. The night manager begged me to cover that shift as no one else knew how to do it. I probably cried all the way to work, but accomplished it.

In the US Army back in ‘92 we were being tested out in the field in an advanced medical lab course. We had to operate a field medical lab for 36 hours straight with no sleep. I remember at about 3 AM while working on the blood band bench a nurse brought me a blood specimen and requested a cross match for 6 units of blood. I was so tired that I saw visions. But I noticed that there were 2 labels on the tube with 2 different patients ID. I called the nurse to request another specimen on the right patient. The nurse asked for the specimen back but I told him that the specimen’s integrity was in jeopardy and I discarded it. The nurse left and came back in a few minutes and told me to cancel the blood order. He said, “The patient died and you killed her”. I said, “No you killed her by not following SOP”. That was wild.

Oh Jesus @gondwanalon…

Dutch, it was a test. No humans were harmed in the taping of this exercise.

I guess we know who functioned better suffering from lack of sleep!

In my late 20s and early 30s I worked for a community volunteer ambulance service, while I had my full time day job. It did it for 7 years with over 2000 hours of service.
During those 7 years there were a handful of nights with so many calls we never got a chance to sleep. I went directly from the ambulance base, changed my cloths in the locker room and went to work.

We were super human when we were young.

In 1978 I was in college. I was carrying a full academic load (including required extracurriculars for a music major), holding down a full time job, and playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof!

The summer of 2016. It was horrible.

In about two hours.

‘twas July, 1978. I was pining away for a love I thought could never be.
It turned out to be, but it wasn’t that great.

@Strauss

”...playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof!”

After going Sleepless in Stalingrad, I hope it was a flat roof. ;-)

@Brian1946, @Dutchess_III and other seasoned members…

When we’re young we think we are unstoppable!

Tonight, we are young
So let’s set the world on fire
We can burn brighter than the sun…