Posted on 11/28/2006 12:47:33 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
This is a curiosity-based vanity. My impression is that the average FReeper works very hard. Probably the most common reason people deprive themselves of sleep is to get work done. I've heard some amazing stories of how little sleep soldiers have gotten in the midst of combat. What's your story?
Incidentally, the longest I've ever gone without sleep was about 85 hours, with the help of a ton of coffee, Diet Coke, and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.
I think my record's somewhere around 48 hrs, but my husband once pulled off a 96 hr no sleep jaunt while on a submarine deployment. He had half stumbled into the crews mess and ran right into the XO. XO asked him what was going on, he told him, and the XO ordered him to the rack (bed).
Um, you were in the military in the 80's.
46 hours. Pharmaceutically propagated.
70s, I meant 70s...late 70s/early 80s...a long time ago...
At the end I was hallucinating.
Thank G-d I don't have to live like that any more!
I learned to sleep with my eyes open, while standing, in formation, so I can't really say i've gone too long without some respite.
Regardless, I prefer a little shut eye during the day and then I can go all night for night ops.
I haven't slept since 1999.
I was none-too-stable then.
You're an E-7 ... doesn't standing in the front of the platoon kinda preclude you from sleeping?
I never did get used to eating corn flakes for supper and pork chops for breakfast though.
Regards,
GtG
I once did about 50 hrs awake in VN ,third night we got hit again and
I slept trough a rocket attack.
The guys all were talking the next A.M. about that nights barrage,they
couldn`t believe I slept through it. I was out of it.
Just a thought,how close are bullets to hear them going by?
yeah, it sure does now, but as an E-4 it was a heck of a skillset to have!
I was none-too-stable then.
Neither was I. Glad those days are behind us.
January
It got so bad that it was INSTANT MISERY on the very first hit.
That's right, passing out in the 80's was my thing. Get your own decade.
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44 hours with the help of hard labor pains. Before that I would pull one all-nighter a week (Thursdays) while in my first year of law school. It would be from about 6 am Thursday morning to 6 pm Friday evening but then I would crash. I was a real social stick-in-the-mud that year. It was pretty hard on me although I didn't necessarily feel it at the time. I do remember driving alone back home for Thanksgiving, a four-hour drive, and idly watching my left hand keep dropping off the steering wheel. I would haul it back up and it would drop off again after a minute or two. Didn't feel groggy or anything. I thought the arm incident was mildly amusing but I'm glad I didn't have any traffic emergencies to deal with during that trip. Real dumb.
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