Staying Up All Night
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<div class="IPBDescription">I finally did It.</div> I know what most of you are gonna say. "Your such a wuss, not being able to stay up all night!" and all that crap.
Its wierd, really. I kept saying to myself "I'm gonna stay all the way up tonite, all the way through".
I usually fell asleep in a after after I said that.
But last night/this morning, I stayed up all night.
Finishing the new Harry potter that I got 2/3rds of the way through, then just stopped reading for a month and a half.
And its 6:20 AM right now, PST, and I've been up for 22 hours, about, and am just BARELY feeling tired.
I did it.
Its wierd, really. I kept saying to myself "I'm gonna stay all the way up tonite, all the way through".
I usually fell asleep in a after after I said that.
But last night/this morning, I stayed up all night.
Finishing the new Harry potter that I got 2/3rds of the way through, then just stopped reading for a month and a half.
And its 6:20 AM right now, PST, and I've been up for 22 hours, about, and am just BARELY feeling tired.
I did it.
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(I am 12 years old)
Its wierd, really. I kept saying to myself "I'm gonna stay all the way up tonite, all the way through".
I usually fell asleep in a after after I said that.
But last night/this morning, I stayed up all night.
Finishing the new Harry potter that I got 2/3rds of the way through, then just stopped reading for a month and a half.
And its 6:20 AM right now, PST, and I've been up for 22 hours, about, and am just BARELY feeling tired.
I did it. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I've not usually had any problem doing this, the trick is finding something to do for those extra hours.
Every month or so i go all-night clubbing so it's grown on me, i can do it whenever i like if i feel like it, but since i have a full time job to do, it's not a wise thing to do.
Before i got a job i'd spend most of my nights watching tv and crappy movies, keeps me entertained at least.
Same here,maybe except the job part,still not old enough to get a job,now that bites....if I had a job I would donate to Flay <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Never had trouble staying up all night if I wanted to. I just play NS or something. I've never fallen asleep playing yet.
We need to eat and drink. Eating doesn't take much time, a small meal can be finished in fifteen minutes and can easily sustain you for six low-to-medium-activity hours.
We need to reproduce. The nine-month incubation period may seem like a long time, but it's a one-time thing that's quite short when you look at the full lifespan of the resulting human.
We need to sleep. Or do we? Depending on how old you are, you should sleep anywhere from 10 to 6 hours consecutively to be at your best the next morning. That's about one third of a day. One third of your lifespan spent doing nothing.
Either mother nature royally screwed up, or sleeping is <i>really</i> important.
My lord. You sound like me. I too believe sleep is worthless. But I must succumb....I hate it though.
(I am 12 years old) <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I'm 13, I did it 3 times.
I'm 17.
I remember this one time I stayed up all night running around Providence Road Island, and when I cam home I remembered that I had to march at a football game that day, that was not fun. I remember at one point I was talking to someone and then I realised that I had been acting like a chicken for about 5 minutes. And I laugh too much (most of the time people think I'm just stoned), that day I also watched MST 3000, and I found it so funny I was falling out of my chair laughing. When watching Fatal Fury (subbed) on the sci-fi channel while on no sleep I nearly passed out laughing because the dubbing was so awful. O yeah, and one time when I was going for 2 days with no sleep, I talked to NO ONE on the phone for about 15 minutes. That got me kinda scared and I immediately tried to go to bed, but somehow ended up pacing my kitchen for a few more hours instead. Man I'm weird.
and well my record is 3 nights D:
and yus i am a lazy bum...
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Every all nighter I have ever pulled has ended in disaster, because I get REALLY weird when I stay up for a night (and I've tried for two once or twice but I usually start to halucinate voices before I can finish the second night.
<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->well one night i could have sworn that the bird chirping sounded like Skulk chomping for some minutes D: .... and yus you become quite strange at night...but no need to phear it.
Just lay down and you'll be out.
am i right, or am i missing a piece of the puzzle?
38 hours, with 2 hours of sleep half way through, right after lunch
when i didn't have classes till after noon, i would stay up till 6am mapping and messing around in war3, and play ns at the only time my connection would allow
Conversely, lots of people feel really sleepy when they just woke up. Especially after sleeping in. That shouldn't make sense, because they've just rested well - it's because sleepyness and fatigue aren't the same thing.
Anyways, if you're going to stay up all night - stay up all the next day as well. Don't sleep during the day, wait until normal bedtime, and then crash. Otherwise your sleeping pattern will be completely screwed.
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Staying up all night's kinda fun. Everything's funny, or failing that really entertaining. In Australia, there's a music vidoes show that runs all nights on weekends called Rage (it's on a government-funded channel, that's why it's everywhere in Australia (well, at least I think it is)). Anyway, in the wee hours of the morning, they play all kinds of stuff which usually doesn't get much screen or air time, a lot of hip-hop and heavy metal. And the thing is, it all sounds fantastic at three in the morning, but later on if you by chance hear the song on the radio when you're awake, it's like "What the hell? This is the same song? It's <i>crap</i>!"
My way of looking at things is that being drunk feels like you've been up all night, but you're awake enough to enjoy it <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
fatigue is the body's need for rest, 1000 years ago people moved around a lot and needed rest at night, so we never had cause to learn that these two thins are different
now with us spending all day sitting at a computer or reading or whatever modern humans do, the body doesnt really NEED sleep, but the brain still does, if you go about 35 hours you start to feel drunkeness. if you go 48 it gets psychotic, a friend of mine stayed up four days and ended up in the insane assylum for a week, no lie. he was fine after the much needed rest, (induced by carefully dosed chemichals im sure)
PS. I believe the trick to staying awake all night is actually altering your sleeping pattern and sleeping during the day <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->. I tried it, it works very nicely if you aren't bothered about not seeing the sunshine, don't have a job etc.
Never hallucinated either...Can't see my body doing or making anything I didn't plan it to.
Hooray for all nighters...and all dayers.
Listening to: Bohemian Rhapsody, by Queen
...So you think you can love me and leave me to die?