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AKnate said:
If I get 35-40hrs sleep a week I'm doing decent.

Have worked 2 jobs, days and nights several times, sleep 4-5hrs between them.
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I can agree with this, 5 hours is good and 7 hours is a blessing.
 
I regularly go 36 probably once a quarter when things are going at work. Just trying to get shit done deadlines. Once I get past 42 to 46 start going a little sideways, hallucinating and talking to myself, more than normal.

The two worst ones I can think off the top of my head were driving in nowhereVille, Indiana and remarking to my copilot that it was odd we were on a runway. Think I had four hours and about 72 on that trip.

Another was plowing snow somewhere around 36 to 42 hours straight we ended up with 3 feet of our member correctly. I missed my exit for the next property. It took me about 20 miles before I realized I had actually missed the exit, passing all of the closer right and leading me to turn around about an hour from where I was supposed to turn off the highway originally, having passed all of the “local exits and having to run to the next town to turn around.

Keeping the windows down and being able to talk to someone or the two best thing for keeping me awake while driving. Worst idea was probably resting one eye at a time, thinking that’ll help at all.
 
You fuckers aint staying up 50 plus hours without drugs tweaking your balls off. Quit lying.
 
Animalmother said:
You fuckers aint staying up 50 plus hours without drugs tweaking your balls off. Quit lying.
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You'd be surprised how long you can go if you never stop moving.

In my case that was nothing but mt dew, there wasn't energy drinks or 5hrs back then

When I was working 12hr nights, I'd stay up 36+ on the switch days (twice a week), but the older I got the more that sucked. And on those days if I wasn't doing something and made the mistake of sitting down, that was it. Out, and you weren't gonna wake me back up.
 
I used to be able to do 36 hours or so occasionally....now I get pissy when I don't get a short nap around lunch time lol.
 
Ummduh said:
You'd be surprised how long you can go if you never stop moving.

In my case that was nothing but mt dew, there wasn't energy drinks or 5hrs back then
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I've drank so much coffee that it just makes me sick and dizzy, no more energy.
 
Ive been on a long ass shift for 36 hours maybe a few more but i caught power naps here and there
 
I was driving home after a 21 hour shift early one morning and I woke up :goofball:. I was doing 70 on the side of the freeway pulling a trailer and almost hit my exit sign. I just eased back onto the freeway and finished driving back to the shop. I was wide awake after that :homer:. I was about 22yo.
 
M92PV4U said:
I've drank so much coffee that it just makes me sick and dizzy, no more energy.
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Yea nowadays I can only consume so much before my body freaks out. It's starts with just not wanting to drink it. But if I push through then I get really jittery, but like this weird "oh that's bad, I fucked up" jittery.

But that shit didn't happen in my teens and 20s.
 
Ever start sluring random words like you're drunk?
 
I did 4 days / 3 nights my senior year in high school. My car at the time got picked out for a movie, and we were extras. Took a different girl every night - it was pretty fun. 4 of us all went together. My Nova, a GTO, a Mustang and the last one escapes me.

Was a good time.
 
Baja 2000, got up at 7am Thursday morning, didn't go to bed till 8pm Monday.

That would probably kill me now.
 
Microtus said:
Military guys probably own this.
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We also learn to sleep anywhere under almost any conditions :homer:

I think my longest stretch without sleep was 24-36 hours straight. We were doing live fire ranges during the day, then night drivers training blacked out with NVGs. I was amazed no one drove into a ditch.
 
smurfblue40 said:
We also learn to sleep anywhere under almost any conditions :homer:
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When it was just my dad and I, we worked like we were on an desolate island. We didn't stop until we were finished with the job. I feel asleep standing stright up on the back of the pipe trailer, I don't know how long I was out but my dad caught me as I was falling forward into the rig:homer:.
 
Microtus said:
Military guys probably own this. Went back to California on Sunday for a funeral, busy schedule and about 10 hours sleep in 3 nights. Couldn't sleep and got up at 0100 on Wednesday morning, flew to Detroit and plane landed too late to catch my connecting flight. Chilling at the airport until my rescheduled flight tomorrow morning at 0700. Currently at 38 hours and probably won't sleep until I get home around noon tomorrow.

Detroit airport is a shit show. TSA screening line was over 400 people deep. All their sniff dogs seem to be German Shorthairs. No vouchers from Delta and the hotel here is $400/night.
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Interesting on the GSP’s. We have one and he has an awesome nose and excels at blood tracking deer. I’m somewhat surprised they are used in the airport though since they are 100% crackheads. I get up at 5:00 and mine is rattling his kennel and demands I play fetch with him inside the house while I have my coffee. :laughing:

Seems like labs and shepherds are more down with chilling until it’s time to work.
 
These GSP's were all pretty damned mellow. I grew up with GSP's for pheasant hunting, mellow they were not.1


I jacked up my right Achilles trying to catch my connecting flight, came close. Not bad for an old dude covering 60 gates, 78 to 18. I'm now slow(er), gimped up and not chancing going through a 2+ hour TSA line while trying to catch my flight in the morning. Hopefully this place quiets down later tonight and I can sleep a bit.
 
I've been up for 3 days a few times. The last one was when I quit drinking liquor, xanax and caffeine at the same time. Talk about a miserable couple of days. Fawk.
 
~40 straight was working 4pm to 3 am waking up around noon, worked a full shift, went out to a club for one of the guys birthdays until we shut that place down. Went back to the hotel took a shower, went to what I assumed was going to be a couple hours of traffic school that turned into a full 8 hour day, back to the hotel for a second shower, back to work... Just had to keep moving cause I knew if I stopped I was going to drop right there.
 
Saw a gas station store was open, so went in to get some coffee. There was no coffee!!!!

But the gal made me some because I am special:smokin: I figured they were just opening, and asked what time they turned the lights on.

They were actually closing for the night:lmao: So however many hours it takes to not know what day it is:flipoff2:
 
Extra meal definitely helps, used to stay awake 24-36 hrs a few times a month, started in high school staying up all night doing the homework or whatever stupid project I ignored all month. been a few years since I did.

However the last two nights I’ve only gotten 3 hours. There was a time I could drive for 4 to 16 hours and then go straight to sleep, now it takes a few hours for the buzz of the road to wear off.

I could be home now but I wasted time adding a hitch to the bus and prepping a shit box for a 370 mile haul only to fail and I still have those 370 miles to go tonight. :shaking: Inflexible appointment tomorrow.
 
I used to do 36hrs pretty regularly when I rotated days and nights and was coming off nights. I'd come home at 5am and wash my car and start to get things done. Problem was.... I'd do it on my last night to "get the most of my days off" then start drinking by noon.... by late evening I was basically not making any sense to anybody around me. Lol. To be young....

How about consecutive days worked? I hit a 45 or so day turnaround straight into my 4 regular days on, got my 4 off, then into a 72 day turnaround. My gf at the time would come home around 8pm and I'd be asleep on the couch. She would try to wake me so I could hop in bed and I would start talking about how "I'm not gonna issue a fuckin permit until they got their shit together on the isolation"....
 
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How much blow did y’all do to make it past 30hrs?

Working nights I’d regularly stay up on a weekend off so maybe 30hrs but I could fall asleep doing anything. I caught shit many times helping buddies and I’d randomly pass out in the middle of working
 
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