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When you're physically past the point of being tired, but are mentally running around in circles about the same thing causing you to stay awake. Before last night I was up for three days and only running on a three hour power-nap. And at this point, I feel the same way, so I'm probably not going to sleep again. Isn't supposed to be that if you stay awake (no naps, nothing) for ten straight days, you'll start to hallucinate? I want to try this at some point. Sounds pretty insane.
(The above was written last evening)


Also:

No sleep last night.

As soon as the sun rose and light flickered across my rug this morning, it looked like it was a cat or ghost or something rushing towards me. Kinda creeped me out. And just a few minutes ago, when I opened the bathroom door (leaving the bathroom) I could have sworn I saw this man staring at me, just inches away from my face.

My mind is starting to play tricks with me, and Im not liking it. I'll stay awake for a few more hours and see what happens.

Dude, that's really not healthy, but, as selfish as it sounds, I'm very interested to know what else you experience. Keep us posted but don't take this too far.

Will do.


Chances are I'm going to fall into a pseudo-coma tonight. I gotta start sleeping a LOT. Im supposed to be driving to Florida on Wednesday.

You should try to get some serious sleep at some point. Yet I am also very interested to see how far you can take this.

I refuse to go past tonight. Im driving to Tampa on Wednesday and want to have somewhat of a social life before then. Hahahaha. And holy ****, glad to meet another Prowl

Good luck with that drive. Can't imagine it being too safe if you don't get some sleep. Nice to meet you Prowl20. Prowl is awesome and so are we!!

Yeah, definitely try to get some sleep. If you're still having trouble tonight, try taking something to help - even warm milk, or a hot toddy (my personal favourite is hot milk, Malibu and honey) could might help you get off.
I've gone over two days straight without sleep, and it was unpleasant toward the end; my girlfriend's gone far longer (I think it was about eight days), and yeah, she did start seeing pink bats...

When I was younger I used to stay awake for stupid periods of time (I can't remember how long the longest was) but I know I started seeing the kitchen flashing orange, a bat flying through the living room and a jaguar in front of the television.

Kookie stuff.

Either way, it's really not healthy, but, if you can, document your experiences. And then get some damn sleep!!

Ramrider wrote:Yeah, definitely try to get some sleep. If you're still having trouble tonight, try taking something to help - even warm milk, or a hot toddy (my personal favourite is hot milk, Malibu and honey) could might help you get off.

Get drunk and pass out. Problem solved.


I haven't stayed up past two days. It was physically impossible for me.

I've gone a week or so without sleep before.

It's fun to a certain extent because the world is like one giant illusion, but sometimes it kind of creepy

And I turned into a giant asshole eventually, so someone slipped me sleeping pills

Only took Apu 4 days before he started hallucinating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6aNR2-Toc

Dude, the world record is 264 hours without a wink of sleep. It is one of my goals in life to break this. By day four or five, you probably will start seeing minor hallucinations. Nothing major, but I've seen things like posters sagging when they're not or thinking a window is open when it's closed. Worst I ever had was the one that made me go back to sleep, might have been day five or six. I sat for an hour on the bus to school thinking some kid had hung like a wooden coat hanger from the racks on the bus (you know what I'm talking about, yeah?) when it wasn't actually there.
But there are serious risks, mostly to do with impotency and psychosis. Don't let that deter you.

I can never reach a hallucinatory state. When I get tired, I literally feel as if I'm sinking into my own unconsciousness and all sounds seem to become distant.

The Grim Locust wrote:I can never reach a hallucinatory state. When I get tired, I literally feel as if I'm sinking into my own unconsciousness and all sounds seem to become distant.

You know, the thought of you hallucinating is a frightening thought, and yet it'd be awesome to hear what you hallucinate.

no matter what. sleep is realy important. try to sleep as much as you can.

Mr.RobotAutoMan wrote:no matter what. sleep is realy important. try to sleep as much as you can.

actually excessive sleep can be hazardous to your health.

I had gone for 2 1/2 days without sleeping before. The first day I felt sleepy, the second day I started to feel paranoia and began to hallucinate. What I tended to hallucinate about was sounds and I would see stuff that wasn't there. One of them was seeing little black shadows darting behind trees or vanishing right before they got into my line of sight. I thought of them as black fairies, and it also didn't help that I had to go down at night to the barn for my animals, as I would see them at night too. After two days of no sleep I would start falling asleep where ever I was, so I had to constantly try to keep myself awake. I did fall asleep on the third day, but only because it was getting ridiculus after a while. It was fun, but at times it was boring too, especially at night.

It is something fun to do, but only if you are not going anywhere or driving a car.

Not sleeping after a cetain amount of days gets dangerous, and even life threatening. I not just talking about getting behind the wheel or operating machinery, but you can end up just dying. They did an experiment on a rat once, where they deprived it of sleep. It died after 19 days. It was healthy, it had enough food and water, but it was not allowed to sleep. Did you know you can get hospitalized if you end up not sleeping for a certain number of days straight? Weird but true.
I hope you are able to get back to sleep eventually. If you sill have trouble after a while sleeping, then you might want to see a doctor just to make sure there is nothing wrong.

I remember one summer like 8 years ago, I had stayed up with no sleep for 3 days and then I fell asleep and didn't wake up for a day and a half and when I did wake up I didn't even know it was the next day until somebody told me.

Tammuz wrote:

Mr.RobotAutoMan wrote:no matter what. sleep is realy important. try to sleep as much as you can.

actually excessive sleep can be hazardous to your health.

I think I might have some form of that thing where you don't actually get the right balance of sleep and be more tired for sleeping - I'm always more spritely when I don't sleep than when I have a good night's sleep. In fact, for all my drinking, the morning after is worse for being tired than for being hung over.

Predaprince wrote:I remember one summer like 8 years ago, I had stayed up with no sleep for 3 days and then I fell asleep and didn't wake up for a day and a half and when I did wake up I didn't even know it was the next day until somebody told me.

I have a similar story, I was in 7th grade. Spring break of 97', it was the week I first got a internet capable computer at my house, and the same time that Surge filled the isles in the US.

Man, it was a week of nothing but caffeine and porn. I think I only got maybe 3 hours of sleep that entire spring break.

Senor Hugo wrote:I have a similar story, I was in 7th grade. Spring break of 97', it was the week I first got a internet capable computer at my house, and the same time that Surge filled the isles in the US.

Man, it was a week of nothing but caffeine and porn. I think I only got maybe 3 hours of sleep that entire spring break.

lmao

Thanks, Hugo, I needed that.

Tammuz wrote:

Mr.RobotAutoMan wrote:no matter what. sleep is realy important. try to sleep as much as you can.

actually excessive sleep can be hazardous to your health.

what i tried to say is try to get the amount of sleep you need. 8hrs? is that right?

GET YOUR TUSH TO BED RIGHT AWAY!

You could drop DEAD at any minute!

Well, unless there is something physically wrong with you that is preventing sleep, your body is going to take care of that for you before the mind breaks totally. Eventually, you'll just pass out...just don't be driving or operating heavy machinery.

I get the right amount of sleep, but I see shadowy shapes fluttering in my peripherals and hear the occasional voice anyway. It's doing nothing but increasing my paronia.