Posted: 5/7/2014 2:57:04 PM EDT
Without drugs......
Is it harder as you get older? I am 44.....Had to get up at 1am EST lastnight on a Emg call {Electrical} after working my normal 8. Worked from 2am -to about 3 pm today. It's 6:50 EST and I am one loopy SOB. 
I used to be able to be at the "Club" all night back in my 20's and go straight to work.....Now.....Helz no. So, age and length of time being up and functional? |
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Without drugs......
Is it harder as you get older? I am 44.....Had to get up at 1am EST lastnight on a Emg call {Electrical} after working my normal 8. Worked from 2am -to about 3 pm today. It's 6:50 EST and I am one loopy SOB.
I used to be able to be at the "Club" all night back in my 20's and go straight to work.....Now.....Helz no. So, age and length of time being up and functional? With zero sleep, probably a little over 48hrs. With a few minutes of nod off time here and there, 96 hours. |
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About 36 hours driving a tank across a featureless desert in Desert Storm. Drifting off gently only to be smashed awake by the Tank Cdr screaming Ling Wake up, we're falling behind. Then rev up, go a little too fast, overtake my wingman who has by now fallen asleep in his tank. Want to talk about a drunken centipede looking wedge formation???
And the longest of all? A Dungeons and Dragons binge that started at 6am on a Friday morning and ended at 5am for Monday morning PT. Didn't get to sleep until 6 or 7 that night. Our Sgts were not happy with us. |
| Working 24's at station......up all night in the ghetto. Come home at 7am to take care of a baby and two year old while wife went to work. Up at night with baby and then back to work......So roughly 60 hrs. Happened several times over the years. I'll bet I was averaging 1-3 hours of sleep a night for weeks when the kids were very young. I literally thought I was going to crack. I think I did a few times. |