Thread: The 100-hour no-sleep challenge.

uhhhhmm... You could try drawing. Or composing. Grab the FL Studio demo and start messing around with it. Or you could do some online shopping if you need to.

Grab a Zelda game. play through it with the extra hours. You will not sleep until you have beaten it!!!

OR find a TV show. Supernatural, Dr. Who, Parks and rec., the last airbender, (or if you really need something to take your time!) Naruto or bleach.

I would recommend a filler guide.

Whatever I was just trying to help

No, no, no - it's alright louie.

Also, I'm quite sorry but I realized last night I made the same stupid and plan-killing mistake as last time: poor timing.
To explain, since I started on Friday morning at 9:00, then if one adds a hundred hours from that point in time they are 4 days, 4 hours ahead. Which is Tuesday afternoon, 1:00. Right after my first final. After having not slept.

I think my mind gave up when I realized that, and the next thing I knew I was about to be late for work two hours ago.

I'm really, really sorry, guys.

I must note, however, that the first night is by far the hardest (for me) and for all the activities and games and homework I could have done, I had very little willpower.

HOWEVER...

I have a plan!

Thursday is my last final, and Friday I take off for Iowa. It's going to be a particularly loud road trip, including a mini-van jam-packed full of college guys, luggage, and testosterone.

No sleeping there. X_X

I'll get home, unpack some stuff and STAY AWAKE!

So:
Thursday morning ~8:00, get up
>Friday
>Saturday
>Sunday
>Monday afternoon, I take a "nap", and don't wake up until late Tuesday morning.

Result: I wake up Tuesday at ~10:00 and mom and dad go "where have you been???"
And I reply "It's called sleep, and I haven't gotten much. Wanna cookie?"

I can't really have respect for this. It's reckless. People have died doing stupid things like this.

Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox

I can't really have respect for this. It's reckless. People have died doing stupid things like this.

I agree with you 100% but 100 hours is not as much as you think. The himan body is far more capable then you have ever imagined. I agree with you though

The longest I had tried was around 32/33 hours and I wasn't able to walk straight.

If you need motivation, I would say make your next attempt your last and finish it. Although I had a hunch you make attempt to stay awake for the whole week the next time. But if you keep having insufficient sleep throughout numerous attempts, I think it's bad for you. So get it done once and for all. Good luck!

Originally Posted by Timothy Paradox

I can't really have respect for this. It's reckless. People have died doing stupid things like this.

And what if I can't respect your opinion? What if I simply want to DO things in my lifetime, even if I live a shorter life, because I don't want to end up like that fat, welfare-mooching, halo-playing, unmotivated, uninteresting, unhelpful, unnecessary waste of a human life that I call my neighbor?
I one took a spontaneous bus trip from Kansas to Kentucky in the middle of the school year just to hear my favorite band play for the last time. I had little food and little money, I got almost no sleep for three days, and I had to cancel the trip back and switch my transit medium in Kansas City. Reckless? Of course! But in those three days I met more people and made more memories than I did in the three MONTHS before. I don't even remember what my classes were like, but -as sure as the sun rises every day- I remember that trip to Kentucky.

This is my trip to Kentucky here on campus. I'm amazed at how much I remember of my 88-hour no-sleep adventure compared to the week before or after.

It's worth it man. Don't chicken out on the adventures in life.


tl;dr: If you're going to be a coward and a downer, then go away. NOW.

Originally Posted by Carrot

The longest I had tried was around 32/33 hours and I wasn't able to walk straight.

If you need motivation, I would say make your next attempt your last and finish it. Although I had a hunch you make attempt to stay awake for the whole week the next time. But if you keep having insufficient sleep throughout numerous attempts, I think it's bad for you. So get it done once and for all. Good luck!

I might go for a week next year, but not anytime soon. 168+ hours is a long time...

Also, keep in mind that I'm never going to try to do two no-sleep runs back-to-back like I did with the 88-hour one and the failed 100-hour one. (the one that ended up as 40 hours.)

Yeah I think next time it would be better for your body to adjust to normal before attempting another challenge

Originally Posted by Signet

I might go for a week next year, but not anytime soon. 168+ hours is a long time...

Also, keep in mind that I'm never going to try to do two no-sleep runs back-to-back like I did with the 88-hour one and the failed 100-hour one. (the one that ended up as 40 hours.)

How long are the intervals between your tries? I technically feel screwed up without enough sleep even after a long time and I'm still feeling screwed up now because I sleep at the wrong hours.

Mmm... It's been ~30 days since I last went at it.

Oh okay, I thought you tried it weekly or something.

Good grief, woman! I'd only be getting ~30 hours of sleep per week!
Remember, I'm no god in this world - only in my dreams.

Well you described some God like qualities.

If I hadn't sleep for a day or two, I would probably sleep 16 hours at once to make it up.

Mm. Maybe I should go out and try to find that one Morpheus guy. Or talk to Trinity again.

And I've no idea who you're talking about.

>.>
Anybody want to tell Carrot about the Matrix?

Hahaha! I saw that movie for the first time last night.

I respect your effort Signet! Although I hope this isn't just to induce lucid dreams because you can easily make that happen by sleeping consciously which according to me sounds like a walk in the park compared to this. ^-^ But from what I have read it looks like you have other reasons for staying up as well so.

But I wish you good luck and you have to tell us about your dreams (if you remember any) the night you get your sweet sleep.

I've never watch Matrix before. Give me a good reason to watch it.

No, I meant "The Matrix", as in the massive computer system that we are all subconsciously living in because we're all hooked up to machines that harvest our electrical impulses to power themselves.

Oh, wait. That's just in the movie. Right?

Or was I actually referring to the Kentucky-based 80's glam metal band, Matrix?

It is a rectangular array of numbers.