Randy Gardner still holds the world record for 264 hours of sleeplessness as a 17 year old kid back in 1964.
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 in San Diego, California, 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
Im now on my 104 hour… if i beat ull b hearing my name in the book. James P. Fallon
im gonna try and beat your record
i woke upp yesterday at 5pm
and im going for 12 days
this is just a test thoe to see if i can do it
ill be prepared to do it again if needed :]
well, just let us know if you do beat it, we ARE your witnesses!
I never sleep. I haven’t slept since 1994. I just don’t need it and see no point in sleeping 1/2 your life away. There ain’t nothing to it. Just work two full jobs and have fun.
I DIDNT SLEEP FOR 48 HOURS AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS HARD SO I DONT THINK ILL BE ABLE TO BEAT YOU SO THATS ONE LESS PERSON TO WORRY ABOUT.
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SAM 13 FROM NSW
I have gone 4/5 days without sleep this, and last year, a few times. When I do sleep, its only 4/5 hours a night, max.
Last month, I did go with 8 days until I started shaking, got severely cold, and slept
. That was.. hard. Don’t think I could do anymore than 8 days. But hey, you never know.
Im nearly 19 now by the way.
I’m going on 22 hrs. 21 hrs and 49 mins to be exact right now since i woke up at exactly 6 yesterday. I’m not tired at all. I feel like I could stay up forever right now
I’m currently on my 54th hour without sleep. I’m trying to go for three days without sleep. But it’s actually for a school project so there is some incentive to do this. It’s really hard though, as i’m starting to hear and see things that I know are not there. I feel that going going beyond 3 days would be a hellish nightmare, and kudos to all of you that have gone past.
I’m on my 35th hour and feel fine
I’m 16 woop woop
Y’all ain’t no nevermind. I dern’t slep none at all. Ain’t slept in years. Not a wink. Work a couple of jobs and do lots of this and that. I’m gonna live twice as long as any of y’all, cuz I get to live my two lives to your one. That’s right, boys and girls. Sleep is the Devil’s chance to screw with yer head.
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wierd A
If you caught a world record fish but had to kill it to claim the record would you kill it or release it and be satisfied with the knowledge of your achievement? id eat them and brake 3 records at da same time + da long est tatto
20 Oct 2008 … A Key West tattoo artist will try to break the world record for the most tattoos in a 24-hour period. The current record is 415 tattoos. i,ed do this with a smlile on my face and a few on my face
We just spoke to Alan who is on his 108th hour. The record stands at 116 but he is pushing for 125. He is allowed a 5minute break per hour which he has been accumulating into half hour naps every six hours. no naps fo me check dizz myspace.com/kstyle1982
oh da last one was about djinG myspace.com/kstyle1982
Im 17 and I’ve been awake for exactly 55 hours. I’m going all the way in a hospital or not
youll be sweet dude i have sleeped now, i only broke da record bye 3 day,s but only wanna brack it bye 24 hour dont wanna do all datz wired shit like heapz o tatt,z and shit i was fucked i have dun heap o research my muma was giving me sleeper,z da hole time but i didnt sleep, i now have gone off all my psych medz and all drugz oh i have a ciggy every now and again but going 2 stop soon its hard when you are coming down off heapz o drug like weed alcohol medz and shit but all up feel really good now and registered at Guinness book have a good one dude peaz….. ONE
Man you beat me by 63 Hours
Well im on my 7th day I feel fine and it’s ok u know just wish me luck
Are you guys serious? 3 or 7 days without sleep, and you feel ‘normal’? Or is there some BSing involved? I’m just skeptical, no disrespect… And no, I do not plan to use that other half of my life time.
My dreams when I get them are much better than what I see. The world seems bigger, more peaceful. Waking up too long wasn’t an interest until tonight. I’ll go no longer than 48 hours sleep. I’ve got stuff to download.
At least one of you is crazy, working all his waking hours, what are you using all that money for.
In the days before written history men and women slept at night because they couldn’t see the predators outside. Nowadays it’s an inconvenience when people need to work 2 or 3 jobs to survive.
‘Sleep is for suckers’
Thousands, perhaps millions, of years of evolution is tested by today’s demands.
Humanity is meant to sleep, unless you have really bad dreams and don’t want to sleep…
Rant over.
I reckon I’d check in with you crazy folks and let y’all know that I been sleepin like a baby. Hussein Obama is goin down in flames and i feel right fine again.
At first, you will feel like you can stay up forever. But when that 23rd hour comes, you will just fall asleep. When you wake up, you won’t even remember falling asleep.
Yo people
I woke at 8 o’clock and now on my 8 day
This is hard my eyes are like sleepy and i think i am gonna pass out so see ya
all people who are trying to ths are crazies. or scary. or have nothing else to do. randy gardner, all i have to say is wow.
132 hours
after that it was unconrollable
amazing man
Hey boys and girls. I cain’t git ta sleep cuz all them cartoons ’bout Mohammed and doggies. Why do them Muslims hate ‘lill doggies? All them Muslims say they wanna kill, destroy, butcher and bludgeon l’ill doggies fer no good reason. Doggies is Man’s best friend. I love dogs and they love me. Most nice folks like doggies.
But, fer some crazy reason, Muslims hate dogs? I reckon dogs dern’t like them much neither. I s’pose dogs is good at sniffin out evil filth. I s’pose dogs know when they done found somethin rotten to thar core and as evil as the heart of Satan. That’s all I can reckon.
Gonna think on that a spell, whilst I try once ‘gain ta git me some sleep.
i never sleep not kidding i sleep like once a week
with out trying not to sleep its just natural
I only sleep on even numbered years.
Roll on diablo 3 – then your record will be smashed by myself
I’m a college student who is 19. I have been awake since Wednesday morning at 7:30 AM. Seeing that it is now Friday morning with a current time of 9:07 AM, I have successfully wasted 49 hours and 37 minutes of valuable sleeping time. Last semester during the last week of classes, I stayed up for 168 hours to finish final projects or study for tests. I started shaking and collapsed on the floor during class.
Considering that the record is for doing it intentionally, this would ruin any chance for me to enter, not that I would want to. I have a combination of DSPS and Insomnia. Both of which for me are worsened by stress. Ironically when I get tired, my anxiety levels rise which makes my stress levels go up. So you can think of it as the recycle logo only replace it with not being able to sleep, stress, and anxiety. They all feed into each other in an on going cycle. My average sleeping schedule consist of staying up for about 22-26 hours and then sleeping for 2-5. Every now and again it’ll calm and I’ll sleep nearly normally. Some times it worsens and i’ll be up for 29-35 hours or more. and sleep for a few hours. the worst I’ve had was during June of 2009, I didn’t sleep during that whole month. A lot of horrible things happened to me and I just didn’t sleep. I never shook, collapsed, slurred my words, etc. just one night I passed out, slept for 5 days and woke up with the worst feeling body in my life. 5 hours of sleep in about 720 hours is definitely not good for your body
Before any one tries callin’ BS on me. Just know I’m not happy about this, and I’m not “gloating”. Only reason I decided to say this is to post this is since it’s a topic about not sleeping for a long time. My problem is medical, not something I chose to do. So don’t spout off to me about being crazy for not sleeping or that i’m a liar and i would have passed out or w/e.
hai i am gopi.i am sleeping one or two hours per day.spending time mrng and evening i am going to part time job.after going to college.so I BEAT UR RECORD IN 2010.
I woke up at 9:32pm 6days ago and it’s now 9:24pm I’m going for 8 days after that nighty night for me haha
i woke up this morning and thought who is a witness for the world records im gonna beat 264 hours of pure no sleep.
My record is 132 hours after that i started to hallucinate acording to my brother, i have no memory after 100 hours!
reality check!
12 days is no longer world record its 22 days 5hrs.
an average man can easily stand 10 days.
every thing has a technique, a way of doing it…so does this.
personally awake for 216hrs.
100% sure that this can be sustained for weeks if done with expert and scientific advises.
My record is about 57 hours no sleep.
I was up for 125 hours and i was playing Call of Duty: Black Ops and passed out in the middle of a team death match game >.> (i know this because of Theater ;p)
is randy gardener dead ??? if so when did he die !! ????
well you think this is a record but there’s a photographer on this site at the bottom that didn’t sleep for 968 hours, thats 40 days and an hour or 2, thats more than a MONTH GUYS
hey im bipolor and i was manic in the summer i didnt sleep for 5 days 120 hours than slep 23 hours then didnt sleep for another 5 days i spent a month in the hospital after and now i have to take medication
and the hole time i was in and out of a sana righting jibris on every thing or i was kyaking for hours of skateboarding for hours and i would never stop talking i thought i found the meaning of life i would halusenat the wall turned green and waved i was clinming on the roof and up trees i was contiplating reality my friend almost cut of his fingers with a axe i thout the animals had video cameras in ther eyes i thought i could comuncat to the loons i thought nodic aliens would come take me away i thought the world was going to be destoyed and i thought the hospital was a space ship i was not on drugs im back to normal now i had a cemical in balence in my brain
Troll Meter at 100%!
lol im 13 trying for 150 hours like 35 right now
Been up 6 days as my longest, and honestly I will never do it again. I felt like crap for nearly a week and on the 6th day I passed out for about 12 hours and dont remember much at all. lol
You all are stupid as hell sleep is a gift the best gift for everybody to rest and doing this is stupid and dangerous I sleep all the time and I’m damn proud of it