Sunday, July 13, 2008

Record for Stay without sleeping

In 1965, Randy Gardner set the world record for staying awake: 264 continuous hours (about 11 days).

In Biopsychology (by J.P.J. Pinel, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000, p. 322), the record for time awake is attributed to Mrs. Maureen Weston. She apparently spent 449 hours (18 days, 17 hours) awake in a rocking chair.

The Guinness Book of World Records [1990] has the record belonging to Robert McDonald who spent 453 hours, 40 min in a rocking chair.

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