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Posted on 11/28/2006 12:47:33 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
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).
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posted on
11/28/2006 1:36:44 PM PST
by
Severa
(I can't take this stress anymore...quick, get me a marker to sniff....)
To: dakine
Um, you were in the military in the 80's.
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posted on
11/28/2006 1:40:37 PM PST
by
ShadowDancer
(No autopsy, no foul.)
To: pieceofthepuzzle
46 hours. Pharmaceutically propagated.
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posted on
11/28/2006 1:43:22 PM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The way that you wander is the way that you choose. The day that you tarry is the day that you lose.)
To: ShadowDancer
70s, I meant 70s...late 70s/early 80s...a long time ago...
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posted on
11/28/2006 1:44:03 PM PST
by
dakine
To: pieceofthepuzzle; RobFromGa
6 days on a cocaine run.
At the end I was hallucinating.
Thank G-d I don't have to live like that any more!
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posted on
11/28/2006 1:44:20 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(That's the spirit.)
To: Centurion2000
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.
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posted on
11/28/2006 1:46:59 PM PST
by
SFC Chromey
(We are at war with Islamofascists, now ACT LIKE IT!)
To: Lazamataz
I haven't slept since 1999.
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posted on
11/28/2006 1:49:16 PM PST
by
RobFromGa
(I'm still optimistic about our future!)
To: Lazamataz
"6 days on a cocaine run."
From personal experience, after 48 hours, psychosis seems to set in. (meth driven)
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posted on
11/28/2006 1:55:23 PM PST
by
wolfcreek
(Suegna como si vivieras para siempre; vive como si fueses a morir hoy.)
To: wolfcreek
From personal experience, after 48 hours, psychosis seems to set in. (meth driven)I was none-too-stable then.
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posted on
11/28/2006 2:03:03 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(That's the spirit.)
To: SFC Chromey
I learned to sleep with my eyes open, while standing, in formation You're an E-7 ... doesn't standing in the front of the platoon kinda preclude you from sleeping?
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posted on
11/28/2006 2:06:57 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(If the Romans had nukes, Carthage would still be glowing.)
I worked for about a year before I started college. My first job was third shift, seven days a week. After the first 24 hours I noticed that during the daylight hours I was mildly tired but after dark I really felt pooped out, come daybreak I was wide awake again. I went about 72 hours before I was able to sleep during the day.
I never did get used to eating corn flakes for supper and pork chops for breakfast though.
Regards,
GtG
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posted on
11/28/2006 2:09:12 PM PST
by
Gandalf_The_Gray
(I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
To: Centurion2000
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?
To: Centurion2000
yeah, it sure does now, but as an E-4 it was a heck of a skillset to have!
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posted on
11/28/2006 2:17:06 PM PST
by
SFC Chromey
(We are at war with Islamofascists, now ACT LIKE IT!)
To: Lazamataz
I was none-too-stable then.
Neither was I. Glad those days are behind us.
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posted on
11/28/2006 2:20:36 PM PST
by
wolfcreek
(Suegna como si vivieras para siempre; vive como si fueses a morir hoy.)
To: pieceofthepuzzle
To: pieceofthepuzzle
In college during summer classes of 1979 I was taking masses of NoDoz pills and could not sleep for 3 solid nights and days and got scared and quit.
I went over 4 1/2 years (1989-end of 1993) without vomiting. In case you were going to ask that next.
To: wolfcreek
Neither was I. Glad those days are behind us.It got so bad that it was INSTANT MISERY on the very first hit.
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posted on
11/28/2006 2:29:17 PM PST
by
Lazamataz
(That's the spirit.)
To: dakine
That's right, passing out in the 80's was my thing. Get your own decade.
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posted on
11/28/2006 2:29:19 PM PST
by
ShadowDancer
(No autopsy, no foul.)
To: pieceofthepuzzle
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posted on
11/28/2006 2:31:03 PM PST
by
Cyclopean Squid
(Authoritarianism depends on lack of information. Totalitarianism depends on misinformation.)
To: pieceofthepuzzle
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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posted on
11/28/2006 3:13:27 PM PST
by
caseinpoint
(Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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