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ThisHAStobeaTROLL t1_iuc3k6w wrote

Did 3 days and 5 hrs . Never again

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Lylat_System t1_iudhrpe wrote

Furthest I ever got was four days...I suffer from insomnia, had been so since preteen. You hear what sounds like flickering lightbulbs at first, or fly buzzing sounds that go from the left ear to the right (or appear to sound like that). For visual, stuff graduates from the corner of your eye, to the corner of the room. This was all when I was 20 years old. I remember I stopped drinking energy drinks out of fear. You know insomnia is bad, when you can take 50 mg of a sleeping pill, 5 times, and it still wouldn't work. Never could afford a sleep study, this makes me want to invest in it all the more.

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WhinyTentCoyote t1_iug05wn wrote

Ugh, that buzzing. Makes you feel disconnected from the entire world and also yourself, somehow.

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eyeball-beesting t1_iue7iij wrote

Jesus! I couldn't do that. Sometimes, I only get around 4 hours sleep and my day is fucked.

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Local_guineaPig t1_iucw8m4 wrote

How did it feel like? What did u see/hear?

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Dagmar_Overbye t1_iudpj9o wrote

Not OP but I once did 4 days. Days 1 and 2 I worked but also had the assistance of a certain white powder. Once that ran out I had two more days off and for some reason I just could not fall asleep. Day 3 was mostly spent in kind of a semi conscious haze, I very well may have been slipping into a few moments of microsleep but from my memory I was awake the entire day.

Day 4 is when it got weird. I started having conversations with people who weren't there. I did actually experience the feeling of there being some sort of beings looking at me from around every corner. You could catch just a glimpse of them and then they'd quickly dart away. I paced around my apartment for hours looking for them. Hiding in bathrooms or closets didn't work because you knew they were just behind the door, waiting for you to open the door and cheekily dart around the corner. They had long limbs and strange mask like faces that I guess kind of looked like those African tribal masks you can see in museums.

Not sure what happened but I ended up sleeping for nearly 48 hours and woke up in a bundle of clothes in the corner of my closet surrounded by rambling notes and drawings of the things I had been seeing.

This is when I ended up going to a doctor and finding out I have bipolar disorder. Get some sleep people and if you start to see things please contact a medical professional.

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Local_guineaPig t1_iue4avl wrote

Yo that sounds scary af. But honestly, even tho I do understand the danger of sleep-deprivation I wanna try sth like this once. Wanna see them creatures too

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Dagmar_Overbye t1_iue5fsh wrote

Weirding me out how many people share that experience of seeing "shadow people" in this comment section as well. I strongly recommend against trying sleep deprivation though it took me weeks to feel normal again and it's very certainly just a trick your brain is playing on you. Plus I'd never have made it 4 days without the aforementioned stimulants which I also do not recommend.

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UsedUpSunshine t1_iuf2j3y wrote

Didn’t sleep for 3 days and could swear my coat rack was the babadook coming for my kids(I didn’t have kids at the time. So I was confused and scared)

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Icy-Actuator5524 t1_iueyada wrote

Longest I did was nearly a week, work, school, work, school, work, work, school

Also suffer from insomnia

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Chrisxy t1_iuk9uo0 wrote

I had 5 days with 1 hr of sleep between them working two jobs. One was a semi poorly lit warehouse, shadow people behind every pillar, the zebra stripe migraines were fucky. Disassociated for 2 hrs and got a ton of shit done on heavy equipment without realizing it. I was eating 2 bronkaid with 600mg jet alert every 4ish hours to work 20hrs a day with an hour and a half of driving

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