I know i've asked this before, but

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I know i’ve asked this before but I’m hoping different people reply. My question is… what’s the longest you’ve ever stayed awake for? And how did you feel?

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I stayed awake for 36 hours once in 2014 because I was homeless in a new city and didn’t know where to sleep and was scared to sleep outside.

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Being homeless is one of my biggest fears. How long were you on the streets for?

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It was just that one night. The rest of the time I slept at missions until I got tired of that and went to live with my dad again.

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My voices once kept me awake for 3 days, falling asleep finally was a really weird sensation.

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Probably only around 16 hours. I worked 12 hour shifts and it took an hour to drive to work each way and it always took me a while to go to sleep.

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I’m glad you weren’t homeless for very long.

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I’ve done all nighters partying, but also studying. So I guess 36 hours.

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Longer than I can remember. The days blurred-together into one foggy mass of time.

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Yeah 16 hours isn’t very long.

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My son can stay awake for quite a few hrs & then sleep for 36hrs.

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Welcome to the forum! @Lifeisagentlereminde

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Yeah I know. But I was really tired after staying up that long lol. Im used to sleeping 10-12 hours.

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I once stayed up painting from dusk until dawn. I love oil paints because you can constantly edit the artwork without them suddenly drying, and you can experiment with shades and hues of color, shadows, and lighting. I think that turning insomnia/mania and symptoms into art and creatively channeling it has been the healthiest way to deal and cope with my non-neuro-typical self.

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When I get manic a stay up for 3 days, sleep 4 hours then repeat. Can’t go manic anymore because I get irrational and dangerous. Last time I go off my meds if I can avoid it.

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I remember looong time ago my voices said i only needed to live on coffee so i was just subsisting on coffee and no food for a couple days till i blew up

Im mostly a hypersomnia type. Too much sleepin

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I regularly go around 24-48 hours with zero sleep, maybe a half-hour nap in there somewhere that never actually gets into REM sleep

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