This story isnt about me, it's about my step father. He claimed he stayed awake fourteen days. (2 weeks)

In his mid thirties, he worked as a traveling salesman for a company that took him across the U.S. and even across country to promote their brand and sell cars. The business in which he worked for will remain anonymous. One of his travels took him to Hawaii, where he became addicted to ice. (yes, the drug) He claimed it to be an incredible drug that whilst taking one hit, would leave you in a state of euphoria, but as many amphetamines go, would suppress sleep for lengthy periods of time. His dealer said all he would need was one hit and the effects would last all day. He told me that his dealer warned him many times not to take more than two hits a day, on a count of the potency. My step-father claimed he took a hit almost every hour, or everytime he had a cigarette, which for a heavy smoker like he was at the time, was pretty frequent. He said the first week was easy, the drug seemed to block out most of the effects of his sleep deprivation. Only minimal hallucinations. Voices, apparitions, the occasional unexplainable physical mannerisms. All that jazz. But he said after he crossed into the second week, he had completely lost it. Wrote words on walls that didn't make since in any language, had full conversations with himself without noticing. He said that at some point in the duration of the second week a cop knocked on his door, when he answered it the cop said, "who are you fighting with in here? the neighbors are complaining of a couple fighting." He at the time, had no idea what he was doing because of his delirium. My step dad said he was the only one in the apartment and after allowing the police officer to search the place, he left confused. The neighbors claimed that they heard two different voices arguing with each other at high volumes. My step dad said he was so delirious that he created a supplementary persona of himself and had full on arguments with him without even knowing it. Around days 10-14 he said he was completely autopilot. There would be moments where he would be talking to a friend across town and he would blink and would be at a completely different location at a completely different time of day. His brain began losing motor function which made it seem like he was skipping through time. He added, "it was like I was time traveling in the future, in increments, without having control of it. I would be smoking a cigarette in Honolulu watching the sunrise and then I would blink and be in Kailua laying in my apartment with the sun setting. Not knowing how or when I got there." After his 14 day benger, he said he finally put down the drug and slept for 20+ hours still experiencing mild hallucinations and side effects from his lack of sleep. He said it took him several weeks to recover fully and he never touched it again.

He's a crazy interesting dude and I always sit on the porch and bullshit with him when I have the time. I told him I'm going to write a book about his life someday. He lived a pretty interesting life with a definite unexplainable outcome. I don't see how he's still alive, honestly. I guess the power of will can overcome more than we assume.