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Re:Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death by hhh on Friday November 16, 2018 @01:47PM (#18470928)
From experience, I would say very. The longest I've been awake is ~5.5 days though.
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Re:Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death by pmarreck on Friday November 16, 2018 @01:50PM (#18470961)
Brain damage can start around that point... Watch out
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Re:Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death by andai on Friday November 16, 2018 @02:14PM (#18471170)
Source? I expected harm would come much earlier.
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Re:Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death by pmarreck on Friday November 16, 2018 @03:22PM (#18471676)
http://sites.bu.edu/ombs/2014/03/24/new-study-shows/

I'm in the middle of stuff and can't google a more concise source but I recall it being about 4-5 days

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Re:Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death by wild_preference on Friday November 16, 2018 @09:17PM (#18473526)
I hit that figure quite a bit back in my stimulant abuse days.

But your blog post specifically refers to chronic sleep loss.

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Re:Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death by andai on Friday November 16, 2018 @02:16PM (#18471190)
Did you do anything specific to stay awake? After a certain number of hours, I really have to keep myself busy, or my brain just shuts down.
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Re:Insomnia: 'No link' between sleepless nights and early death by hhh on Monday November 19, 2018 @02:43PM (#18489111)
Playing games, specifically Diablo 3 & CoD MW2, separate times
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