# What's the longest you've slept when in good health? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 13, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183 "2017-07-13T18:02:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anny\_Middon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@Anny\_Middon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anny_Middon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/1 "2017-07-13T18:02:08Z")
The thread on old people’s schedules got me wondering: What’s the longest you’ve slept when you weren’t sick? Many years ago, I had a client I shared with a friend/colleague whose time management skills weren’t all that terrific. We had a project that required both of us that needed to be completed for a big meeting with a dozen people from the client organization at 9:00 Friday morning. We ended up having to work until about 3:00 am on Wednesday, and got back to work at 9:00 Thursday morning. We worked through the night and completed just in time to get ready to go to the meeting. Friday afternoon I sat at my kitchen table and decided to take a nap. So I went to bed. Next thing I knew it was 8:00am on Saturday. So my longest sleep was 17 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/2 "2017-07-13T18:06:49Z")
If being healthy also includes “being drunk as fuck and then hungover like fuck” probably about 14 hours. Sent from my XT1635-02 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/3 "2017-07-13T23:27:04Z")
When I used to travel a lot for work and my body would get bumfuzzled as to what time zone I was in, I would sometimes sleep about 10 hours in an effort to re-regulate my internal clock. As a rule, my normal night of sleep is about 5 hours, so a 10 hour night of sleep was a marathon for me. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/4 "2017-07-13T23:42:30Z")
I’ve done 15-hour sleeps… But, um, wait: does “waking up and then going back to sleep” cut the sleep into two separate periods? If that’s the case, I doubt I’ve ever in my adult life done better than five hours. (Willy Weakbladder…) ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/5 "2017-07-13T23:49:56Z")
Not much more than 8 hours. I’m lucky to get that. ---
**Author:** ![Unabashed\_Fascist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/c2a13f/32.png) [@Unabashed\_Fascist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unabashed_Fascist)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/6 "2017-07-13T23:55:07Z")
I once pulled a not quite 5 day marathon of not sleeping when I was in college. I ended up sleeping 14 hours. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/7 "2017-07-14T00:06:17Z")
After basic training, I had a hotel room on the base, and I crashed for about 12 hours straight of my 36 hour pass, plus another five hours or so. I spent the rest of the time eating junk food and watching television. Pretty much whatever was on-- _Rugrats_, I remember in particular enjoying for some reason after basic training. Now, I’m sure I got up once to pee during that time, but I don’t remember doing it. When my son was eating enough solid food that he could make it for a while without nursing, my husband let me sleep until I woke up on my own, and I slept for 10 or 11 hours. This was after six months of never sleeping more than four hours in a row because I was home with a nursing infant. My husband had gotten up with the baby on a Sunday, and fed him cereal with fruit, yogurt, and a little watered down juice, then bathed him and dressed him in a blue shirt, brown pants, and yellow socks. I took pictures because he was so proud of himself for his solo babycare. And really, except for his color-blindness, the baby was clean and happy. He did tummy time, and played ball with him. I was a SAHM, and so DH was flying by the seat of his pants, and did great. He didn’t usually solo for more than a couple of hours at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/8 "2017-07-14T01:25:56Z")
Once when I was a teenager, everyone else got up early on a Saturday and went out to go berry picking, but they kindly let me sleep. Only I didn’t know anything about it, didn’t know they were gone, and so even though I sort of half woke up there were no house noises so I just turned over and went back to sleep. They woke me up when they got home around noon. I think that made it about 13 or 14 hours. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/9 "2017-07-14T02:06:19Z")
Even after getting very little sleep for several days in a row and having a catch up day, I rarely sleep more than 10-12 hours in a stretch. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/10 "2017-07-14T04:58:25Z")
I did 20 hours once, after being awake for a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Remember\_me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/82dd89/32.png) [@Remember\_me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Remember_me)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/11 "2017-07-14T12:00:44Z")
My record: 18 hours, when i returned from summer camp as a young teenager. As a teenager and into my twenties, on the weekends I would regularly sleep until 1 or 2 o’clock in the afternoon, even when I went to bed “early” (i.e. I went to bed by midnight). So around 14 hours were not uncommon for me then. Funny to hear, that for some people that is even more than there record. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/12 "2017-07-14T15:45:28Z")
When I was a kid I got a yellow jacket sting one day. It swelled up a lot, so when my mom got home from work she gave me my first-ever dose of Benadryl. I went to bed and slept for 14 hours. As an adult my record is probably 11 hours, after partying all night in college. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2017, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-longest-youve-slept-when-in-good-health/791183/13 "2017-07-14T16:46:29Z")
Without being sick or sick-drunk I can’t remember one over 11-12 hours; even when totally exhausted from being up 36+ hours.