Aussie bloke, 19, stays awake for 265 hours straight and opens up about the symptoms he suffered – and how long it took to get over it [Video]

03:17 EDT 15 Aug 2024, updated 03:18 EDT 15 Aug 2024

An Australian teenager who claims to have broken the world record for staying awake has spoken about the symptoms that came with it and how long it took him to recover. 

‘Norme’, 19, says he stayed awake for 265 hours straight in order to beat the record set by Randy Gardner, who spent 264 hours and 25 minutes awake when he was a teenager in 1964.

He spent the 11 days and one hour awake in his home near Melbourne, as an audience of viewers watched online, or at least they did until YouTube banned him for ‘violating community guidelines’, as did streaming service Twitch.

On day 10 Norme, who didn’t talk to any doctors before taking on the challenge, told 9News he was ‘pretty freaking delirious’.

As he closed in on his goal, he posted a photo of his hands to X, saying the skin on them had become …