What's the longest someone can survive without sleep?

Answer 1

Okay, the longest u can survive without sleep the 1st day you are all goofy 2 nd day ur alittle paranoid 3rd day u start to Irritable 4th u start o u lose you're mind 5th day you lose you're mind and u start to take naps that are 15 secs long and you dont even know that u are doing this the 6 to 7 th day you will die Oops my bad ppl 10 days

Answer 2

"Randy Gardner holds a Guinness world record for the longest period of time a human being has intentionally gone without sleep not using stimulants of any kind.

In 1964, as a 17-year-old high school student, Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours (11 days) with the help of friends, TV reporters, and shooting hoops. On his final day without sleep, Gardner presided over a press conference where he spoke without slurring or stumbling his words and in general appeared to be in excellent health. "I wanted to prove that bad things didn't happen if you went without sleep," said Gardner. "I thought, 'I can break that (Peter Tripp's 1959) record and I don't think it would be a negative experience.'" Sleep experts now believe that such sleep deprivation stunts are dangerous (Veasey et al., 2002).
It is often claimed that Gardner's experiment demonstrated that extreme sleep deprivation has little effect.[citation needed] This is primarily due to a report by researcher William Dement, who stated that on the tenth day of the experiment, Gardner had been, among other things, able to beat Dement at pinball. However, Lt. Cmdr. John J. Ross of the US Navy Medical Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, who monitored Gardner's condition at the request of his parents, reported serious cognitive and behavioral changes. These included moodiness, problems with concentration and short term memory, paranoia, and hallucinations. On the fourth day he had a delusion that he was Paul Lowe winning the Rose Bowl, and that a street sign was a person. On the eleventh day, when he was asked to subtract seven repeatedly, starting with 100, he stopped at 65. When asked why he had stopped, he replied that he had forgotten what he was doing."

I tried it and got paraniod after 3 days. When there was a man in a hat peering round the corner watching me from the kitchen window I knew it was time to get some sleep

Answer 3

I've stayed awake for about 4 days before, the trick is to always do something, don't sit still. Although you will probably start to hallucinate, doors seem to be opening but they aren't, walls seem to move & so do carpets & the little bits of fluff on the carpet seem to crawl. An easy way to stay awake is to get an Xbox & a load of games, or get into South Park or Aqua Teen Hunger Force & watch them all on youtube.com (you will need to move about though or you'll fall asleep). There was a TV program before where a few people tried to stay awake for a week & the winner got £50,000 or something. You would need to set loads of alarm clock to wake you up every so often when you catch up on sleep however so that you can eat & drink enough to survive.

Answer 4

depends if you have pro plus, red bull etc......normally 2-3 without can be done, but not adviable. will pills etc has been know 6-7 days.

BUT WHY, cos you would behave and act out of chatacter.

Also don't forget that the body will need to rest afterwards, so therefore you haven't gained anything in the long run. UNLESS ITS A CHALLENGE

Answer 5

the longest someone has gone without sleep is 10 days, which is 240 hours.
but that's really unhealthy, so i wouldn't recommend trying to beat that record.

Answer 6

I have heard of a chap who never sleeps. He is not touched by sleeping tablets either and just walks the moors at night while hiswife is asleep in bed.

Answer 7

the correct answer is eleven days then oxygen cuts off in your brain and u dieeee ,but i don't kno how the person who did that could cuz i can't even go 2 days without sleep

Answer 8

i've done 4 days.. which is.. er.. yeh i guess i did lose brain cells after it. 96 hours..

yeh.. a year back during my school certificate exams.. living on coffee and ice cream for all four days and CRAMMING like there was no 2moro! aiiiiii...

Answer 9

Quite long actually. I have done 72 hrs at one stretch.

Answer 10

I did 48 hours once, no coffee, might can do four full days.