What is the longest any human has stayed awake?

zbeckabee

Thai Ngoc, born 1942, has been awake for 33 years or 11,700 nights, according to Vietnamese news organization Thanh Nien. Randy Gardner holds the Guinness World Record for intentionally having gone the longest without sleep. In 1965, Gardner, then 18, stayed awake for 264 hours (about 11 days) for a high school science project. On May 25, 2007 the BBC reported that Tony Wright beat the Guinness World Record by staying awake for 11 days and nights. People born with the rare genetic disorder Morvan’s fibrillary chorea or Morvan's syndrome can go without sleep for several months at a time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Longest_period_without_sleep http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morvan%27s_syndrome#Insomnia Dec 12 07, 11:24 AM

Arpeggionist

Morvan's syndrome does keep its victims awake for months on end, but generally it is only stopped by death - the permanent sleep. Dec 12 07, 3:37 PM

deadlydalton

Thanks guys. Dec 13 07, 12:23 AM