What happens when you've been awake for near 72 hours?

scaramoosh · October 2005

Man i've been addicted to SWG the past 2/3 days and havn't come off tbh.

Heads spinning

codexia · October 2005

Isn't addiction grand :P I generally can't last more than about 36 hours awake myself...I pass out =/

Enigma · October 2005

after 70+ hours of straight game play with about 2 to 3 hours of rest you can experience the following SERIOUS symptoms:

1. Seizures (your brain becomes less tolerant of the acitvity on your monitor. If you have never experienced a Seizure before, bring a camera and a journal, because it's going to happen any hour now (if you're lucky)

2. Loss of consciousness. This is due to sleep depravation, dehydration, and the lack of blood flow from the loss of physical exhertion.

3. Bloated or "puffy" feet. A warning that you need to get up from that chair and walk around. This can lead to heart failure.

4. Heart failure. A result from dehydration, lack of rest, and a lack of blood flow.

If I were you, Id turn that computer off for a day and walk around abit.

scaramoosh · October 2005

Yeah my body feels weird and weak and tingles and my heads spinning and my vision is weird

Moo. I'll go bed

darkman · October 2005

Umm, don't end up like the korean guy who collapsed in the bathroom after 90 hours of playing...

Greatness · October 2005

It says you played 25 hours. Wow, 25 hours in 72 hours of being awake is a lot lol! Go to sleep!

Serien · October 2005

Originally posted by En1Gma

after 70+ hours of straight game play with about 2 to 3 hours of rest you can experience the following SERIOUS symptoms:
1. Seizures (your brain becomes less tolerant of the acitvity on your monitor. If you have never experienced a Seizure before, bring a camera and a journal, because it's going to happen any hour now (if you're lucky)
2. Loss of consciousness. This is due to sleep depravation, dehydration, and the lack of blood flow from the loss of physical exhertion.
3. Bloated or "puffy" feet. A warning that you need to get up from that chair and walk around. This can lead to heart failure.
4. Heart failure. A result from dehydration, lack of rest, and a lack of blood flow.
If I were you, Id turn that computer off for a day and walk around abit.

LIES!!! those things don't really happen ...lol

trust me, I've gone from a Monday to a Saturday without sleep, I'm still alive

scaramoosh · October 2005

Nah man trust me

Just been drinking lots off coffee and stayuing awake

I Just stood up and walked downstairs and i've got the shivers and gone white Can feel my body beating!

Was scary as hell

Zaxx99 · October 2005

That's why you need like to stop and take a break every few hours at the minimum. And watching TV isn't a break either.

LOL, atleast get like a porn magazine or something and masturbate every few hours to keep your blood moving! lol, j/k heh.

I am married now with 2 kids, and no longer have the time to even play 10 hours a week...

I do remember the days however where I'd play UO back in 97-99 and AC in 2000 thru 2003 and some weekends I'd play those games hard, sometimes hitting 16 or 18 hours a day for several days in a row. I would sleep however, and stop to go out and eat, or whatever.

Thinking back, it's really not healthy to put that much time into a game. Your health, cleanliness, diet, and pretty much everything suffers... as well as friendships and family.

I really think that when we find ourself playing a game for say more then 8 hrs straight, we should all really think outloud to ourselves"Am I actually having fun, or am I playing to try and hit some goal of uberness?". Chances are by the time you've been absorbed in a game for over 8 hours straight, the actual fun level has went way down since you logged on, and now it is just the addiction of trying to make one more level or make one more skill point, or whatever that drives us keep playing and playing and playing.

I haven't ever played for so long straight, but I have been in your shoes with all the weird feelings and exhaustion however. Get some sleep, seriously! And do something outside tommorrow for atleast a few hours, it will do your deprived body some good, trust me.

- Zaxx

Razorback · October 2005

Puffy Feet ??

Darktania · October 2005

Bah! Imagine the Slim Jim Fairy Snapmother hovering over your shoulder. Now what would he say if you stopped playing because of something like fatigue? He'd belt out an obscenity, whack you with a Slim Jim, and tell you to get back to playing.

dragamor · October 2005

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm

read the article above then get some sleep

Grunch · October 2005

I remember once I had stayed awake for a couple days then I was in my living room and saw what looked like silly string being sprayed all over the place and passed out on the couch. Of course this was before the mmorpg craze that is today I had been out with friends every night before and when I passed out I was at home just me and parents so it was imaginary silly string. Loss of sleep or lack of, over a period of time can lead to strange things I think its very unhealthy for the mind, a good example is the movie Fight Club. However if get Korean sickness and die at the computer thats a little different then what happened to the guy in that movie.

stone-seraph · October 2005

to answer your question: at 72 hours nothing at all happens, however, at 73 hours you die . . . instantly and without fail . . . trust me.

Darktania · October 2005

I imagine you're sleeping right now but you'll eventually wake up and come back. When it comes to advancing your character every minute counts. Things like going to the bathroom to potty can take the place of leveling up and thats bad. So do what I do. Instead of going to the bathroom sit on a bucket with the open side up and catheterize your bladder. That can save you valuable time.

Remember! While you are away from the computer and not leveling ... the other guy is leveling. So get back to that grinding trooper! And Snap into a Slim Jim!

brostyn · October 2005

Longest I ever stayed up was 48 hours. Had to work back to back 16 hour shifts that were 6 hours apart. Then I had to stay up for New Year's Eve with someone I was dating. I knew if I went to sleep I wouldn't wake up to be in. Nowadays I'm just too old. I get real cranky past 20 hours. I haven't stayed up all night in about 4 years. I say if your young and in fair shape its not a big deal, imo. You get in trouble when you have these severely out of shape people who've been playing 16-20 hours a day for months pushing their bodies to the extreme.

Harlequina · October 2005

How do you manage to stay up 72 hours? I find that for myself its a physical impossibility. I think the longest I ever stayed up was something like 50 hours, though I can't quite remember why I didn't go to bed. I ended up falling asleep at Pizza Hut, slumped over my food. Kind of embarassing, really...

PsyX · October 2005

Worst ever was 4 days and 4 nights at a LAN party..lets just say i slept very hard after that

Nullapax · October 2005

Originally posted by scaramoosh
i've got the shivers and gone white Can feel my body beating!

I used to pay a fortune to get like that when I was clubbing ::::02:: ::::06::

Darktania · October 2005

Originally posted by Nullapax

Originally posted by scaramoosh
i've got the shivers and gone white Can feel my body beating!

I used to pay a fortune to get like that when I was clubbing ::::02:: ::::06::

LOL!!

"X" is Best!

scaramoosh · October 2005

I went hospital they said it's becayse i had too much caffine to keep me up (1 pot of it)

So my heart has had alot of strain and weak and that explains why it keeps hurting and doing weird things :S

So i gotta get rest and take pills

Dekron · October 2005

Originally posted by Serien
Originally posted by En1Gma
after 70+ hours of straight game play with about 2 to 3 hours of rest you can experience the following SERIOUS symptoms:
1. Seizures (your brain becomes less tolerant of the acitvity on your monitor. If you have never experienced a Seizure before, bring a camera and a journal, because it's going to happen any hour now (if you're lucky)
2. Loss of consciousness. This is due to sleep depravation, dehydration, and the lack of blood flow from the loss of physical exhertion.
3. Bloated or "puffy" feet. A warning that you need to get up from that chair and walk around. This can lead to heart failure.
4. Heart failure. A result from dehydration, lack of rest, and a lack of blood flow.
If I were you, Id turn that computer off for a day and walk around abit.
LIES!!! those things don't really happen ...lol
trust me, I've gone from a Monday to a Saturday without sleep, I'm still alive

I think he means if you just sit in front of your computer the whole time. You were walking around, going to school, etc. So you at least had some physical activity other than using your fingers for wasd movement and your hand for mouse use. ::::28::

Munki · October 2005

When ever I do any type of stint like that.. I ALWAYS try to go for a job every 12-24 hours.
As well, I usually use coffee and jumping jacks to keep myself awake.

The feeling of over 24-48 hours+ of no sleep is a strange one.. every time its been worth it tho lol.
and when you fall into that bed.. my god, you just go.. its great.
then when you wake up at 7pm the next day... then its just funny.

Edit: And Dekron, it seems that wasd might help.
all the deaths are playing mmorpgs, and koreans really prefer point and click over wasd (see lineage or the PnC option in WoW that nobody in North America uses).
so perhaps, thats why Americans/Canadians/Europeans dont die as much from computer use, we keep ourselves active with WASD...

Gamewize · October 2005

I've stayed up for a total of.... 9 hours at the most, when I went on a WoW jam. Whne I was done I was very disorientated and dizzy, so ive never attempted it again. Id rather not push my body to the limits of how far its energy takes me before it runs down.

Phoenixs · October 2005

I have been awake for 2 1/2 days at a lan party. But I gave up after that. Evey movie or game I played that didn't have max action on the screen, made me fall asleep. I was watching I-robot and I kept getting these blackouts where I suddently wakeup and don't remeber anything.

lex-icon82 · October 2005

there was a time I stayed awake for so long that at a certain point I became wide awake and really hyperactive.. I couldn't stop talking and moving around and couldn't sleep for another 8 or so hours.

it was a strange experience, it's like I had heightened senses or something, the sounds were so loud and my vision was so focused..

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