48 hours without sleep.

Longest so far is a couple of days, though when I get around to my next set of beamtime at synchrotrons for experiments, I will be awake from the time the beamtime starts to when i finish collecting results/end of beamtime... anything from 2-5 days. Adrenaline got me through the previous run of 2 days straight :D
 
i did 49 hours at the beginning of term to get a coursework done - at the end of it i was completely fine (which my friends concur with) but once i got home, i was asleep the second my head hit the pillow.
 
How scary is it to think that a little over 30 years ago, Junior Hospital Doctors would start a shift at 09:00 on a Friday and finish it at 17:30 on a Monday - 80+ hours on call and your life in their hands :eek:

I talked recently to a GP who remembers when doing house jobs shortly after qualifying, taking a crash (cardiac arrest) call and promptly falling asleep - the patient survived.
 
Almost 3 days once when flying to the US via Amsterdam. After 24 hours I felt slightly dizzy and funny feeling in pit of my stomach, after 40 hours that went away but everything felt "dull" and I was having trouble concentrating on anything - someone would talk to me and I wouldn't even realise. At some point around 40 hours I'd start noticing inanimate objects would appear to move or bend heh. Coming up on 70 hours I was having trouble distinguishing if I was awake or dreaming.

Slept 10 hours straight after and felt fine, but after I flew home again a few days later as I walked into my bedroom it all hit me and I wiped out completely - slept 2 days straight.
 
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