Comments on: Sleep deprived?

By: Tdave

Tdave — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:39:49 +0000

Got up at 5:00am on a tuesday, went to bed at either 1:00 or 2:00am thursday so that’s 44 or 45 hours.

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 04:40:54 +0000

Around 50 hours after flying back from Africa home to Cleveland (can’t sleep on planes either) and meeting up for a long night of drinks with my friend whom had just gotten home from Mexico.

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:06:59 +0000

I did three days in a row last semester. I actually needed to keep going, as I was working on my fifth paper due that week, but I ended up fainting in my room and apparently didn’t wake up for a few hours. When I finally did, I felt somewhat rested, confused as to why I was on the floor, and in pain from a nice bump on my head.

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 23:59:10 +0000

*snort* Amateurs! Try caring for premature twins with an autistic 2 year old already in residence. And since I was nursing, I didn’t use caffiene! I went for months on less sleep than a hospital intern and almost ended up in the hospital. I got to the point where I could literally go to sleep on my feet.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:18:16 +0000

I can’t sleep in airplanes either, so any time I travel I can count on being awake. The whole trip. The longest I can recall was about 50 hours returning to the US from Africa. A 9 hour bus trip from the village we were staying at to the airport – lots of waiting – long flight to Paris – lots of waiting – long, long flight to Chicago – lots of waiting – still more waiting – still more waiting – flight to home – arrive early in the day – too many visitors want to hear stories…

I picked up a virus somewhere along the way, and with a weakened immune system, ended up sick for the next week. I’m too old for stuff like that. But I can’t wait to go back!

By: greenstrawberries

greenstrawberries — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:19:18 +0000

Last summer I flew from Houston to DFW to Tokyo to Seoul had a 12 hr layover in Seoul then flew to Beijing then to Kunming (China)… I left Houston at 6 am on the 27th of July, and arrived in Kunming at 4 pm on the 29th. I recommend NOT doing that. (not that you’d ever fly to Kunming, but in the event that you do- don’t go that way)Someone else who’s good at math can figure out how many hours that was. This summer I get to fly to Frankfurt (via Bangkok) and then take a train to Krakow. I have 6 hours in Frankfurt then to Berlin then to Warsaw, a few hours in Warsaw then to Krakow. I’ll get back to you on how many hours of sleep I get.

By: Samantha

Samantha — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:30:51 +0000

I’m only in grade 12, so I’ve yet to have the most amazing sleep deprivation experiences possible, however..

I participated in a 24 hour music marathon thing called Keep the Beat at my school, ended up awake for about 37 hours total.

Aside from that, the night before last I pulled an all-nighter to finish a documentary for an Economics class and was awake for about 40 hours.

By: RSN

RSN — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:11:22 +0000

It wasn’t continuous, but it wasn’t pleasant — I flew Chiang Mai to Bangkok to Guangzhou to LA to Las Vegas to Cincinnati. Six hour layover in Guangzhou and overnight in Vegas airport. I think I catnapped on the various planes for a couple of hours total. I think in all it was about 48 hours awake.

By: sara

sara — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:10:44 +0000

I stayed up about 40 hours during the summer before my junior year of high school. I worked all day, went to a party at a friends house where I ended up staying up all night playing cards (and drinking?), then had to go back to work all day.

Side note: My friend and I had a joke about mis-hearing the phrase “up late” as “a plate”, so after this stretch he made me an “a plate” award which was a glass plate with “40 hours” written on it.

By: David

David — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:03:44 +0000

ha, funny larry. the moscow trip was unexpected. i already had plans to fly from seattle to nyc. booked 6 months prior. when the moscow trip came up, it was a lot cheaper to keep the tickets i had. but thanks for the concern!