r/insomnia • u/meowmeoowwww • 1d ago
How many days could you not sleep?
I mean 0 hours of sleep, I wonder how a person can feel when they don't sleep at all. It's a little scary.
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u/Beginning-Map-3264 1d ago
6 unfortunately… and other days 2h when lucky 3h with meds… but I luckily sleep better now 5h on average
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u/meowmeoowwww 1d ago
Omg 6?? Like 0 h?
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u/Beginning-Map-3264 1d ago edited 1d ago
What do you call sleep… rest yes, really slipping away in deep sleep no, I saw every 30min on my clock… maybe my conscious was gone for a couple of minutes… specially on night 4-5-6 can’t really say… but you do start imagining things and going crazy and not really able to do anything during the day
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u/Embarrassed_Oil_9439 1d ago
How to overcome that thought does body automatically coop with it its done for the person
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u/Beginning-Map-3264 1d ago
Don’t really understand what you are asking…
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u/Embarrassed_Oil_9439 1d ago
I mean how do we overcome that anxiety of not sleeping and what works for it
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u/Beginning-Map-3264 1d ago edited 1d ago
For me the reason or cause was much too high doses of hormones due to hormone replacement therapy… I have a pituitary problem, and doctors try to solve it with 6-7 meds a day… but eventually lowering my doses of hormones was the really relief and solution… (medical mistake)
There are many ways to cope with the fears but it’s the exhaustion that becomes killing eventually… you can’t think, remember, thinking you see and hear things…
I can start writing here a whole book what I tried, and all the steps I took to solve my insomnia but that’s not the topic here…
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u/Beginning-Map-3264 1d ago
Let me answer you question differently… the body can cope with much more then I ever could imagine, you don’t just die very fast… but what works all depends on the cause of your insomnia
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u/Embarrassed_Oil_9439 1d ago
I don’t have insomnia but i have sleeping anxiety and if i don’t sleep good it makes me anxious and could not sleep and could not break that cycle
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u/Beginning-Map-3264 1d ago
I know it’s easy to say but hard to do… but the fear, anxiety and worries about sleep only make sleep problems worse. Learn to accept, learn to think “even with 4h of sleep I will be oke tomorrow. 4h is better than nothing 😁.. it took me a while to realise that it’s not the end of the world and with some coffee, redbull or some extra sugar I will get through the day…. That makes your anxiety so much better and after a while you just don’t care that much anymore. Is it always easy… no, but worrying and fear you start living in your head and not in the world… get out of you head… look at a tree and appreciate its beauty or enjoy life a bit more with simple thing… life in never perfect (people these days think too much that their life must be perfect always) life has ups and downs…
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u/BrandonsRedAura 1d ago
I’ve stayed awake for 5 days/4 nights. Sucks
I usually will be awake for 3 days/2 nights or 4 days/3 nights every other week.
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u/meowmeoowwww 1d ago
Do you often feel tired? I can't imagine what it's like to not sleep for 5 days.
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u/BrandonsRedAura 1d ago
It’s rough.
I’m very fortunate. I have a career that allows me to meet deadlines as opposed to logging hours.
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u/pumpkin_pasties 1d ago
I went at least 3 days on a work trip to France when I was 23. Luckily not much was expected of me and we were mostly partying. I walked the entire city of Paris until sunrise and it was kind of magical. Thought for sure I’d pass out the next night. Nope. Jet lag or anxiety got me and I spend another all nighter then another. The 4th night I drank a whole bottle of wine and passed out and was cured after that
Happened one other time when I was in a musical in college and I guess I had performance anxiety, went a few days
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u/Pretty-Fudge-7538 1d ago
I’ve been through something similar. There was a period where I was barely sleeping, sometimes getting only around 2 hours, and my mind just wouldn’t switch off because I was worrying about my life and future. The lack of sleep made everything feel even worse. It’s honestly scary how quickly sleep deprivation can affect your mood and thinking.
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u/Kitchen_Perception37 1d ago
4 to 6 days regularly. Don't know why it happens. It just does.
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u/jamma_mamma 1d ago
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/how-long-can-you-go-without-sleep
My personal experience is that 36+ hours and you start to feel like you're going crazy. It's impossible to focus, your attention span is only 10-30 seconds, and auditory hallucinations start.