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Going without sleep: how long and why?
Polago
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Over the past four days and three nights I went without sleep (work related) before having a long deep sleep last night at four am through today. Today, old memories of college have been coming up and thoughts of the MANY three night in a row losses of sleep or any real rest, the handful of four night, and the one five night period. Many great projects came from that lack of sleep along with a couple brushes with insanity and death. It should be mentioned that I don't drink coffee or (usually) soda, and don't take anything to keep me awake.
What's the longest you've gone without sleep, and more importantly why did you (or do you) go without when you do? What have been some of the side effects and situations to present themselves in your sleepless state and how did you deal with them?
What's the longest you've gone without sleep, and more importantly why did you (or do you) go without when you do? What have been some of the side effects and situations to present themselves in your sleepless state and how did you deal with them?
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I just can't do it. After like 24 hours I just say "fuck this" and take a nice, long, twelve and a half hour nap.
because, I mean, why
boy am I glad to not be in retail anymore
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
I work Wed and Thr nights this way, then come Fri night I try to shift myself back to being awake during the day and sleeping that night.
I'm probably shaving 10 years off my life but there's not much I can do about it right now.
No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
i flipped over my sleep cycle at least thrice last summer
Worst one was 36 hours sitting at a computer, excepting bathroom breaks.
Going to work without a good day's sleep is horrible, but when the night is over and you climb into bed it feels sooo good.
In what context do you spend 36 hours sitting at a computer?
without huge amounts of caffeine or amphetamines I can only manage about 20 hours
fingers crossed for lan party
I'll probably be dead in 5 years given how terrible the sleep schedule was for so long.
Hi5!
they still talk about it I hear
if I could get my hands on some modafnil I could do this more often and be 1 productive individual
I was playing with my band at a music festival and there were lots of drugs and I was supposed to sleep in a tent and that dog won't hunt
I went home and slept about 32 hours over 48 hours afterwards though, that was awesome.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
I'll barf
Work.
At least there's a drafting table (or used to be) to goto as well.
Its been 3 years and counting. Minus about a week of vacation per year.
No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
I really don't know, I just did a bit of homework, checked the forums, talked to the various time zone folks in vent, played some flash games, and suddenly realized that it was getting light outside for the second time.
The longest I ever games for was probably 14 hours and it wasn't WoW amazingly, it was Tribes, and it was glorious.
If I play WoW for more than 6 hours straight I feel dirty.
But I'm at that point in my life now where the fact that I work on a computer 9 hours a day for money sort of makes coming home to yet another desk and another computer seem so much less appealing.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
That was the most Batman sleep i'd ever had in my life and wish it happened more often.
got ready/went camping
set up tents
played football
didn't sleep
played soccer
other activities
slept at 1 am
i could barely walk the next morning
Maybe it's because I'm naturally an incredibly lazy person, but I simply can't do this. I lack the work ethic to finish six hour work days with a smile on my face, the idea of spending over 24 hours wrapped up in something like that boggles the mind.
We should have a support group with good catering and fluffy pillows.
That's ridiculous
Do you have some kind of disorder
something about the sun setting has me thinking it's okay to talk to myself
Just stayed up for 24 hours yesterday. Was forced to, though.
Hate being up for too long.
But sleeping is soooooooo good.
I played WoW for about 28 hours straight once. Now I'm lucky if I can tolerate it for 28 minutes, though I just can't seem to cancel...
During the fifth day of the five day lack, I eventually started bounding around the house and screeching like a monkey because it felt more normal than talking. There had been nobody in the house the whole time, I hadn't left the house that whole time, and communication didn't really mean much other than to express pain or anger or happiness.
especially the really oily shits i get after staying up for a day and a half
my record is the 20 hours I spent playing WoW the day I got it.