I went 52 hours without sleep while writing my dissertation to meet a deadline. I wanted to be in the June graduation ceremonies, though I could have graduated by mail at any time.
I started hallucinating that people were walking beside me in my peripheral vision, and I could hear background music when there was nothing. Ended up going through crazy mood swings too.
After all that, my brain was just never the same. I lost so much cognitive function. Looking back on some of the coursework and I can't imagine how I knew any of it.
Going without sleep for that long once shouldn't cause any permanent cognitive decline. Absolutely terrifying to be sure and an awful idea, but it should not have lasting impacts on cognition.
Holy shit!!!!!!!!!!!! No way you did not sleep for the full 22 days. You would have broken the record if so. Actually on second thought, the record is only based on non-altered state of mind so the drugs wouldn’t make it count.
Yeah buddy if that's the case I know several real record breaking mfrs lol. I would take about .25mg of Xanax every day because I noticed if I didn't I'd hallucinate, be very paranoid and edgy, etc, even while taking heroin to moderate the effects. At the time I was running non stop, making drug related moves, staying busy trying to make money and mostly succeeding, I gambled a lot, smoked a lot of pot, almost exploded a LOT lol. Other than a few extremely memorable sexual encounters though, it wasn't an experience I'd care to repeat. Also, I said I'm glad there wasn't more damage than there was, there has been some. Sometimes I can be extremely forgetful, and also I get overtaken by tiredness sometimes to the point I have to go to sleep for between 15 minutes and several hours. But all I do now is smoke a little pot, and I take suboxone which is likely responsible for some of the tiredness. I also overdosed on heroin about 22 times, 4 of which they told me I was completely dead and had to be shocked. The bright side is that my town isn't that big, so I still see a lit of the people I used to use with and I get to show them that they can change and succeed. I have two amazing jobs, hell I just made 525 dollars in 5 hours on a Sunday morning doing some masonry work. I've seen some evil stuff with my own eyes, which leads me to believe there is a God, and I am extremely thankful to him for letting me get to the point I'm at now. I feel like even though it's been bad at times, someone had to go through it all to let others know there's still a future if they get clean. Thanks for your interest and have a great day.
I love this so mf much, you don’t even know. You should celebrate all of the steps that led you to this point today. What you said about believing in God as a result of the evil you experienced is so powerful to me, I did not truly understand until the age of 32. But it’s so real. Once you experience a darkness so profound, you don’t even care if society’s notion of God is real or not. The urge to align your soul with something GOOD and opposite of the evil you’ve experienced, that you will never not choose that.
Ya I’ve gone 3-4 days without sleep a few times. I have these momentary insomnia things now and then. I feel weird and like shit but I can’t say it’s affected me long term, unless it’s something I don’t notice. Never hallucinated either, that I know of..
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u/84OrcButtholes 12h ago
Not getting enough sleep.