Does anyone else have a habit of staying awake 2 days at a time?

Hey folks, so far I have been awake about 30 hours now lol. I don't really have a specific reason for it.. It seems to happen atleast once, or twice a week, I will stay up for two days straight, totally skipping a night of sleep. Usually it happens when I have a good idea and just have to see it through before bed, or any time I am especially productive, I just seem to not go to bed. And if it hits 9am and I havent gone to bed yet, I make myself wait until its dark to goto sleep, so I can atleast get up with the sun once in a while My family thinks I am wierd, on drugs or something (and no, I am not, sometimes I wish though!).

Does anyone that does this also get better ideas after being sleep deprived? I know this seems to go against the common sense that a well rested mind is more functional, but once I hit about my 3rd wind, after being awake for 28 hours or so, I start to get some pretty great ideas, that just never seem to occur to me when I am on a normal sleep schedule... Does anyone else experience this?

Also what is your record? The longest I have gone was about 66 hours, while I was programming my stupid drug wars game lol, but I did get it all done in "one day" haha

Also, oddly enough, I get alot more social and friendly when I am deprived of sleep haha

The only downside to this is when I finally go to sleep I sleep atleast 10 hours and am a little groggy when I wake up

 

Not anymore but I still have sleep problems. During my college days, I'd stay awake for 2 days at time, then crash for 12 hours. Now, I sleep every night but have trouble falling asleep so I usually only get a few hours of solid sleep before having to get up for work. I sleep lots on weekends. I've been in and out of sleep disorder clinics for the past 10 or so years.

Me too. I also see "ghosts" when I haven't slept for a long time. Most of the domains I register are done around 4am because I always have new ideas when I can't sleep (which, because my mind is racing, I can't sleep).

 

Yeah happens to me all the time. I never go to bed just for the sake of it. I have to be dead tired. Being wired on coffee doesnt help.

 

Have the sleep disorder clinics helped at all? 10 years is a long time, I hope you have seen atleast some results.

I like to live by the rule never to go to bed until I am tired, I know it doesnt work for most people that have to keep a regular schedule, but thats half of the reason I am a webmaster It is just horrible to be laying in bed trying to sleep, for hours, while great ideas fly through your head and ya cant do shit about em.

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lol yeah, caffeine is necessary! My monthly cost for my caffeine amounts to more then most of my bills lol. I am addicted to those damn $3 a pop energy drinks, the sobe no fear in particular

 

humanedited - do you exercise much? you should consider it if you dont... by the end of the day you are that exhausted that you just want to sleep.

 

I guess I've seen some results since I do eventually sleep every night but for the most part, no. My mind is constantly racing and i haven't been able to figure out how to "turn it off".



It looks like Hillary uses sleep deprivation when caught in a lie

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Very strange.. I already have a hard time staying up 16 hours. So far I've never spent more than 20 hours awake. Don't you feel sleepy right now?

 

The wierd thing is, it comes in stages, I was REAL sleep an hour ago, but it feels like I have never had more energy at the moment

 

Sleep? You can get enough of that stuff when you're dead.

 

Unless iam playing my xbox

 

ive done it lots of times, but i don't "do it", and yeah, idea's and thoughts are usually the reason, either that or ive been clubbing 2 days straight, prefer a quiet bar over the past year or so though.

try writing your basic idea down, then working on it in the morning. Apart from chloroform, thats the only thing i can suggest!

 

I have a habit of staying up 2 days at a time...usually it's cause the first day I wake up around 2 in the afternoon, then don't really get tired till about 5/6 in the morning the next day, and by that time it's no use going to sleep cause i'll be in university the next day at 9 or 10 (usually).

 

Yeah thats about how it goes for me If I am not in bed by the time the sun comes up I generally just stay up.

I actually quite enjoy it though, its a weird natural high lol

 

So happy to see i'm not the only "freak" around!!!

 

I can't beat the circadian rhythm but once in a while I go to sleep very late.

 

Happens to me sometimes: get a full power to do something and voilá, i dont go to sleep till next night.

When i was a radio professional, i knew a painter, he sells in Japan, NY, WCC etc, a major one, that wherever he started to work in a new material, like 4-5-6 paitings, he didn't stopt till it was done. No sleep, just coffee and more coffee. And this went on for 3-4 weeks.

Every week or so he went to hospital to get a shot of something to replace food and drinks.

Mad!

 

I need a good sleep to be in good shape and to have energy...it's unusual to stay away from the bed 30 hours or more...To sleep is good for your organism...try some

 

Nice, I have many fond memories of playing drug wars on my calculator when I should have been doing school work.

 

back in college, with the help of a few no doz and some energy drinks, and i was still fully functional or at least i thought i was...now i need to get at least 6-8 hours and i crash on the weekends

 

I always try to stay awake as long as I possibly can before I go to sleep. Sometimes 24~48 hours without sleep but I always end up crashing for 12~18 hours afterwards.