When was the longest time you went without sleep?

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I win. 81 hours! I was formulating a correlation between Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and Theory of Mind (in this incident). Once I created an a priori for an ANCOVA and was awake, in deep thought, for....I lost count. However, DO NOT DO THIS! I hate myself when I forget to sleep - and I do. I am productive, but after ~ 50 hours or so I'm incoherent. Just don't do it.

HFA can become deeply absorbed and 'forget.' I feel so stupid....I have to set an alarm so I can remember to go to sleep. I don't really like sleeping anyway.

When I was really little I would 'cut & paste' (pictues clipped from magazines, newspaper, etc. and glue onto sheets of paper). BUT, I would did this to excess, for literally every waking hour until collapse. I have blood poisoning 5 times from the scissors abrading my hand, which became infected. I am intense. My scissors were taken away, btw.

Oh, I still cut & paste! But not to excess, at least I try. I am a great collage artist though
Yes, the Lab Pet is deeply entranced in the deep autistic realm.....


Cut & Paste 12 step program: I can stop whenever I want. I only do it asocially. Just to 'unwind.'

Don't forget...I am the Aspergian Princess.

Um, at my 81 hours (after my ~ 50 hour threshold) I think I hallucinate. I wish I could defy sleep. But, it does feel so good after collapsing from exhaustion.

Sleep: That thing I do between collapses from exhaustion. What, precisely, is wrong with HFA (ie: me) and sleep pattern?

3 days

Psychotic breakdown led me there; the inability to sleep near those I don't know/trust kept me up. I started napping during the day whilst my mother visited me; I eventually learnt to sleep at night "normally”, but that was a few days before I left. I was surprisingly lucid for those 5 days awake, anxiety does that I guess.

I don't know the exact length of time, as it all became very fuzzy after a point, but I do know it was a couple of days. Nowadays I just have enormous issues with falling asleep and waking up after 2-3 hours, but I just pour myself a glass of milk, play on the computer for awhile, and go back to sleep. Like right now. There were about ten years starting in childhood that I had severe insomnia.

When I didn't sleep for 3-4 days, things became very surreal. Nothing seemed real. Voices seemed distant and foreign. I remember laying on the couch seeing little dots vibrating all over the ceiling, and the way people talked was very strange; like in Jacob's Ladder with the "demon" with the weird shaking head.

I don't know about your specific case, but the psychos at Attwood's told me that it's common for those with AS to have flipped sleeping cycles, i.e., preferring to sleep during the day and staying up all night.

I have also been told this. I prefer the night, but because the weather is hospitable (I live in Southern California, summers here are unbearable), it is quiet, and it is peaceful. I had no idea this is a "typical AS thing". It just seems logical to me; to avoid the heat and over stimulation.

I dunno, but it is probably not more, if at all, than 24 hours.

51 hours.

For the first 48 hours I couldn't sleep...for the last three hours I was trying to get ready for sleep without passing out as I was sooo tired

Probably 48 hours.

Tim

I once didnt' sleep for four nights straight.

It happened after I took a low dose of benzodiazepines for about three months. I wasn't tolerating them and was having crappy side effects. I tried to quit too fast and had major sleep problems.

After a couple nights with no sleep I started feeling like my head was fuzzy and full of cotton. At times it felt like I was dreaming even though I was wide awake. I also became extremely forgetful and overemotional. I couldn't stop myself from crying and getting angry for no reason. I felt like I was going hysterical. I don't know how much of this was from sleep depravation and how much was an effect of withdrawal.

Five days.

I've been just over 48 before.

My wife would get upset with me because I would often stay up 36 or so.
I just didn't have the need to go to sleep.

I still do this but I stay at work now. I go in at 3pm and don't leave sometimes until 4 or so. The graveyard tech will see me still there and say, "The a.m. shift will be here in half an hour and they'll see you here!". It's kind of a joke to some of the folks at work..."So Mark, when did you leave this morning?"
Sometimes they catch me because even though I'm off the clock, I may do something on the computer for work and I have to log back on to do it and if it involves a patient's lab results, I usually leave a comment with the time I did it... standard procedure.

Anymore, I only do this when I work the swing shift... two nights in a row.

Although this place keeps me up pretty late... regularly!

I stayed up for nearly a week after my dad died. I felt I had to figure something out and sleep seemed too much like death. It was the only time in my life I ever drank coffee. I lived off pot, and cigarettes that week.

Don't you dream? At least a third of my life experiences come from my adventures in the Dreamlands. Without dreams... I'd only be 34 years old.

You've got me beat. I was going to say three days, thinking it long, thinking I might win; but I note there are a few others who, like me, have gone that long. And, yeah about after about two days, I got really loopy. But, sometimes, really loopy is an interesting experience. To anyone who's never experience really loopy - you don't know what you're missing.

I recommend exploring the ways in which we can temporarily escape these crude biochemical vessels in which we are condemned to dwell...

Good fortune,

- Icarus won't sleep prior to Thanksgiving; to help appreciate having a place to sleep...

Woke up one moring at 6.00am and the went to bed at 4.00am that is the longest I have been up.