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[x2yzh9]

Has anyone here been awake long enough to have visual hallucinations? I used to go for days without sleeping.

First came the paranoia. Whenever I walked through the house I felt like someone was going to break into the house through the sliding-glass door. I literally could not be in the living room when it was night or when people were gone and almost had to lock my bedroom doors at night for the sake of my sanity.

Then came Audio. Oh boy, the sounds. I don't hear them anymore, but for a time I heard shit out of nowhere. Freaky stuff

Edit: Almost forgot, this is just a general experience sleep-deprivation thread.

[sonerohi]

Around 60 hours I get that super paranoia. Around 80 everything just sort of starts listing to the sides.

[Criptfeind]

Huh. I do the paranoid and auditory hallucinations without sleep deprivation.

[Aqizzar]

Has anyone here been awake long enough to have visual hallucinations? I used to go for days without sleeping.

Not so much visual hallucinations, as drifting into half-sleep and not realizing it, sometimes even with my eyes open.

Moods and comprehension are another big effect.  One week, I was cramming in all kinds of stress and very little sleep.  When my alarm clock went off after two hours sleep by Friday, I literally woke up screaming.

[Ioric Kittencuddler]

Sometimes if I'm doing something really boring without getting enough sleep first I'll pass out for just a short while and immediately start to dream before suddenly waking up.  It's annoying because it takes a second for my brain to switch back on and realize I was dreaming sometimes.

[Elegy]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=58228.0

[atomicwinter]

I get really paranoid, start looking behind me and looking around.. I sometimes see shadows and crap moving around. I have currently been up for almost like 20ish hours, I am trying to fix my sleep pattern and I still gotta make it through this new day its only 5:10 am. But I am going to the range with a friend later the noise should wake me up .

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I've never been awake more than 24 hours myself, but I haven't exactally tried to do any longer. Besides crushing fatiuge, there are no side-effects at that point.

[Muz]

Worst I went was over 30. And even at 18 hours, I started struggling to maintain sanity. Not easy writing 7 pages + 12 pages of low level code when sleep deprived without going crazy.

I don't ever want to do it again. Worst experience of my life. I could probably go 48 hours or more without sleeping, but I can also do that without eating. It ain't natural yo, probably would cause some long term damage.

[Sir Pseudonymous]

I was up for 32 hours a few months ago, and thoroughly drunk for 26 of that. I got drunk early in the evening, stayed up all night watching married with children and drinking bourbon, then drank black coffee with vodka in it and spent six hours wandering around a renaissance faire, near the end of which I felt like shit as I'd begun to sober up, then I drank more spiked coffee, drank some more non-spiked coffee, went home and passed out. By the end, the only thing keeping me upright was the alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, and numerous burns and bruises I'd acquired due to being drunk while smoking.

Didn't get any hallucinations from it though, just extremely painful fatigue. I did get sleep-deprivation hallucinations once in highschool, when I took roughly 1.2 grams of caffeine in the form of espresso. When that started to wear off, I felt like I'd been awake for days, complete with an inability to think straight and various visual... malfunctions. Like seeing afterimages of things moving around, while the object itself vanished, and moving shadows. Horrible experience, really.

[Heron TSG]

Longest I've ever been awake was around 30 hours. I woke up one morning, ran the sound systems for an all-night cancer walk, and then went on a field trip the next morning where I ran up a mountain and back, before going home and sleeping until the next day.

No hallucinations, just tiredness.

[lordnincompoop]

I don't usually go for too long without sleep, but I've been sleeping for only about 5-6 hours a day for a few years now. Might need to stop that.

[Labs]

Went about three days without sleep. Saw a stereotypical Native American man (think Village People) stick his head out of my closet. I decided it was time for bed after that.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

You went to sleep while there was a Native American man in your closet!? Don't you think that's a bit reckless?

Also, I wouldn't be concerned about risking your health with sleep depraivation untill about the 100th hour. If memory serves, that's when your synapses begin to fall apart and you start risking a heart attack.

[Criptfeind]

I used to stay up for 40-60 hours regularly several years ago.

I had no issues other then being tired. The hallucinations actually lessened.