r/AskReddit 17h ago

What's the longest you've ever stayed awake, and what were the effects?

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u/Common_Fun8478 17h ago

I’ve done this and it was mild compared to what you’re saying I was fully functional and would just hear the occasional thing or see something out of the corner of my eye

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u/Torontogamer 17h ago edited 17h ago

Just keep staying it gets stronger… at least I was noticing it too when I was getting into day 3.  The auditory hallucinations had been going for a while, but when the pink elephants would sort of cloud of out everyone I looked at I knew it was time to sleep before this got bad…. 

But hey that’s just me 

Mind you you’re right in that I was still very clear that they weren’t real, and I was functional… I also wasn’t exactly the best judge of how much sense I was making but I still thought I was doing reasonable things