Longest Stint at Staying Awake

In My Humble Opinion
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50 to 55 hours myself. I had to write a 30 page paper my first years in college and completely blew it off. (Research and all.) I finished it in about 40 hours, but my computer crashed when printing it out. I reloaded the program and I lost about 10 pages. I was sooo tired I could barely remember what the hell I was writing about. Anyway, I ended up in the bathroom at about the 48th hour laughing my ass off at nothing. I also experienced colorful hallucinations and extreme dizziness.

BTW: My prof. ended up giving me one of my few Cs in college. “A hodgepode of facts,” he called it. Duh, no shit.

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Back from the dead…

Well, I did finally get to sleep around the 36 hour mark, just as I had hoped. For those of you who are curious, the record for staying awake the longest is 264 hours by Randy Gardner, a 17 year-old high school student from San Diego, California in 1964. Information courtesy of the book “Sleep Thieves” by Stanley Coren (1996). An interesting book, as it explores the science and mysteries of sleep.