Sleep Lack
 

Hooligans and esteemed sages,

What's the longest you've ever gone without sleeping? Why? What effects did you notice (if any) of this sleep lack upon your behaviours, perceptions, and general everyday experience?

five days where i slept perhaps 30 minutes in total, without the aid of any substance.

i wasn't tired but it felt weird being awake and things were like misplaced, kinda hard to explain.

by the fifth day, i was hallucinating big time.

i sometimes get a pleasant high & lack of inhibitions after a night without sleep. i mean i get positively goofy.

but eventually i collapse. i've never skipped 2 nights in a row-- at least not that i remember. never was much of a cokehead.

i didn't do anything special to keep me awake, i just didn't want to sleep.

i used to be insomniac, that's a whole other beast.

i was going to put five days but it wasn't a speed binge so i refuse to cast my vote.

This is currently my second night in a row without sleep, last night I had to write an essay, and as my brain was expecting to sleep, thought processes were slow and the essay took all night to write.

I felt that goofiness all yesterday, kept thinking of particularly stupid things (asking a girl if she'd ever considered growing a mustasche), and laughing uncontrolably at innane things (I stumbled and kicked a fence on a public street, which caused a knocking sound, which coincided with an abnormally loud fart that escaped from me without my cooperation. I was laughing at this coincidence of events for about 5 minutes.)

Then I decided I may aswell not sleep tonight, just for kicks.

yeah, yeah, that's the good part!

after than you need your Zs or your neurons start to die like tiny lemmings

but if you need to work a 3 hour nap should tie you up sufficiently

anyway, happy headaches. eat fish.

both times to London have been rather sleepless, and traveling in general

last year no sleep on the plane over then couldn't sleep at Toilet's flat, especially since his couch bed was very uncomfortable when they got back from Wolf Eyes we all had tea and marmite, and got maybe an hour of sleep after being awake for 36 hours, then about another 20 hours awake going over to Minehead, so about 1 hour of sleep in between 56 hours with alot of walking and standing

i remember the first time i stayed awake past midnight, it was in Cape Hatteras, NC after night fishing on the surf with my dad and his brothers over 15 years ago, that was quite fun

I noticed I'm more creative when I miss sleep. I think you've all seen my upside letter posts, etc.

Of course this last only a while till I hit a wall.

funny that this thread would suddenly appear, i'm going to pull an all-nighter to finish some work.

mighty sardine, i invoke thee

I was once up for 6 days straight.

When I was in third grade my insomnia was at its worst. I was visiting relatives for a couple of weeks in West Virginia. For the first week I did not sleep a wink. I was absolutely exhausted yet I could not sleep no matter what. The first couple days were pretty crummy, but aside from the usually fatigue, everything was ok. By the third day i was feeling pretty sick, by the fourth day I started having panic attacks and on the fifth day I started hallucinating. I witnessed an Alladin figurine from macdonalds that was placed on a shelf in the guest bedroom float from one side of the room to the other. When I looked back at where it had originally been, it was back in its right place. I started freaking out. The next day I told my parents what had happend and how long I had not slept and they took me to a hosptial where they gave me a sedative to help me sleep. I've had awful insomia for the past 20 years, but never had I been so bad off as that week.

sardines are going to chase your sleepyness away?

'k...

brain food, brain food, keeps the neurons from dying

to stay awake, nothing like

For several very good reasons I never sleep when I travel:

1)can't sleep on planes
2)bad with jet lag
3)save $$$$ on hotels
4)cram the most fun possible into a short period of time
5)way more outgoing/adventurous/stupid/goofy without sleep
5.1)leads to all kinds of unusual adventures/encounters

My last trip to San Francisco I stayed awake a full three days, slept 20 straight hours, then stayed up for another two days. I remember not a thing, cept that I left with much less money than I came with.

try nuts (no albur intended).

That sounds like quite a terrible week kingcoffee, sorry to hear about the insomnia.

I also had a hallucinatory experience, but it was a number of other things. I had been awake for over 24 hours, dehydrated from drinking the night before, and I had nothing to eat since lunch the previous day. It was mainly auditory though, I kept hearing unusual phrases in different voices in my head end on end. The combonation distorted things at first glance. I saw a man fishing by the pond (I was at work), and as soon as I focused my eyes on it, it returned back to a rock. This happened with a number of things I saw, but it wasn't too bad.

When I was a senior in high school, I stayed up 3 days on acid (along with my ex and 3 other couples) during thanksgiving break.


Good times.

Class yourself as either never sleeping (surely this category would never be used unless for lengths of sleeplessness unpredicted by the conservative poll) or... if you dare... as Drummond. I would recommend the never sleeping category.

yeah, im an almond fiend. im out of walnuts at the moment.

apples, cheese, fish, nuts, & huevos feed the sesos. (no albur intended either!)

but apples & cheese will make you sleepy. apples: agua de manzana para los loquitos.

it's all about the right phosphorus-calcium balance.




HA HA HA HA HA HA

Eat a big bowl of pasta.

yeah that will put you to sleep in 15'.