# 30 Longest time I've gone without sleeping

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was 16 and in the rat race.I literally stayed up for 5 days strait. I was determined to what I was doing. I wasn't very smart back then because staying up that long didn't pay off. I was driving my car and I blacked out behind the wheel. It was in the newspapers years ago. I woke up in the hospital months later. I was in a coma but the crazy part is that I didn't remember anything. My mom had told me what happened. I remember bits and pieces of what happened but not anymore. I learned my lesson though, I try to get much rest as possible because our bodies will shut themselves down. Now the longest I would stay up is only 2 days without rest because I'm not trying to commit suicide. But I'm not young and dumb anymore, I know better.