Been up since 4PM yesterday.

[axeman61]

Because of finals I haven't fully prepared for, I found the willpower to stay up for over 24 hours. I'm not tired. Now I'm figuring that if I take this to 10PM, maybe I'll go to sleep at a "regular" time and have a head start at sleeping right. My schedule has me going to bed at 4AM regularly.

Am I crazy here, or has this worked for anyone in the past?

[ckrazy]

cCamming usually fuck me over, good luck to you. You're gonna need it.

[Sasmasta]

Since you've stayed up for 24 hours already, you should knock out at 8pm if you can make it that long.

At least for me, after staying up for that long, when I knock out I knock the FUCK out. Sometimes going 10+ hours of sleep. So set an alarm.

And my sleep schedule is still jacked up, but that's fine by me.

[MechZZ]

When I came back from flying over seas, I fixed my jet lag by just staying up 30 hours straight and going to bed at the appropriate time . It kinda works.

[Shukuda]

Not if you don't wake up early. I did the same exact thing and fell asleep at 11PM but slept for 16 hours, and the whole cycle repeated.

[Spinning Beat]

Not if you don't wake up early. I did the same exact thing and fell asleep at 11PM but slept for 16 hours, and the whole cycle repeated.

Yeah, thats kinda what happened to me. I had a fucked up schedule myself. Then I would go to sleep and sleep beyond 12 hours. Whoops that plan failed :rofl:

The only way I have been able to get on back to a regular schedule. Was to gradually get back into it. It takes a long time sometimes. I'm talking maybe 2-3 weeks. Maybe even a full month.

Then you begin to gradually go yo sleep earlier and earlier. Then I find myself on the regular schedule. I find it hard to maintain a regular schedule when daylights savings time ends. But when it begins like it did a few weeks ago.

I find it easier to keep my schedule.

[The Furious One]

The more tired the brain the less likely whatever you are studying will stick. Try and get back on schedule get someone that will make sure you wake up on time.

Final week for my degree I stayed up for over 72 hrs straight, I started hallucinating bluetac crawling up the wall. At that point I just gave up and took a 3 hr nap which ended up being 9 hours =/

How long to do you have?

[Demon Dash]

Since you've stayed up for 24 hours already, you should knock out at 8pm if you can make it that long.

At least for me, after staying up for that long, when I knock out I knock the FUCK out. Sometimes going 10+ hours of sleep. So set an alarm.

And my sleep schedule is still jacked up, but that's fine by me.
Agreed! While it might be a task, it's deffinately the best way to get your sleep back into order...

[mr. newbie]

i have to do the 24 hr awake thing every other week. it blows and it's NOT good for you.

don't end up in a car accident like i did! :tup:

[Azrael]

I stayed awake once for 84 hours straight.

Yep, I would not recommend that.

[TheSix]

If I don't get at least 10 hours of sleep, I feel like absolute shit (as in "nothing will get done, don't talk to me, please kill yourself" shit).

Problem is, I rarely get the opportunity to get that much sleep.

[kimterran]

I stayed awake once for 84 hours straight.

Yep, I would not recommend that.

lol seriously? wow.

[Stuart Hayden]

I stayed awake once for 84 hours straight.

Yep, I would not recommend that.

This was me when FFIX first came out.

[uknowuwishuwereme]

If you ever have a jacked up sleep schedule, fully open up your window blinds, all that sunshine in the morning will reset your sleep schedule. I remember when I would go to sleep around 5am and wake up around 3pm in the winter. Didn't see sunshine for 3 days straight. Shit was making me insane until I removed the blinds. Even though I only had about 4 hours of sleep, I felt fucking great and the sunshine was like mana from heaven.

[BeaTs*]

procrastination+depression+internet addiction has kept me up since 10:30am yesterday...I just started on work now. Hope to finish in time for work at my 9-5. then hopefully I'll get some sleep when I get home...though I will still have work to catch up on.

I need to see a professional or get some meds or something. It gets really bad sometimes. : /

[Crayz Penguin]

i have to pull shit like this all the time. im a security guard and we rotate afternoon and overnight shifts constantly so usually twice every 2 weeks i have to stay up for 30 hours to either fix my sleep back to normal or adjust it so that i wake up at 11pm for the midnight shift (dont want to fall asleep at work). its not too bad as long as you drink coffee and keep your mind busy. i find if you need to stay up for really long video games help a LOT, and if i need to go to bed but im not tired i just smoke a fat joint and im usually guaranteed a 2 or 3 hour nap.

[Doc Holliday]

Because of finals I haven't fully prepared for, I found the willpower to stay up for over 24 hours. I'm not tired. Now I'm figuring that if I take this to 10PM, maybe I'll go to sleep at a "regular" time and have a head start at sleeping right. My schedule has me going to bed at 4AM regularly.

Am I crazy here, or has this worked for anyone in the past?

Other than the elite few in this thread that have done 72+ hours, I don't think what you're doing is that bad. Not great but not bad at all. I'm on the overnight schedule too and I'll go days where I'm 24 hours into it because of something that came up (school, family, work etc.), no big deal. It's mind over body. After 24 hours, peeps get tired. You just need to learn to work through it. If you have to that is. If you don't, get your ass to bed. No reason you should be awake.

[Fir]

yeah get some sleep when you can, i'm closing in on 24h myself and feel like shit

[Warpticon]

Yeah, meant to go to bed, got tied up in shit...trying to make dat money and whatnot. Gonna take a half hour nap, then another in three hours, then another in three hours....keep this up until tonight and konk the fuck out.

[BeaTs*]

72+ hours, ugh.

It's not common, but there have been times where I was awake for nearly that long, maybe getting 1-2 hours of sleep here and there (doesn't make much difference)

zombie mode @_@. my all nighters are probably worse than regular all nighters since I deprive my body of more than just sleep

[axeman61]

I stayed awake once for 84 hours straight.

Yep, I would not recommend that.

Did you hallucinate? I keep hearing about strong hallucinations when you stay up that long.

It's strange. I still wasn't that sleepy when I finally hit the bed yesterday around 12. I WAS sleepy around 8, but leave it to my mom (who knew I'd been up for this long) to saddle me with housechores when I'm just about to go to sleep in this situation. Her timing is so bad I think she has an audio recorder in my brain, and does these things on purpose.

[blooper]

a regular sleep pattern and heavy studying will earn you better results for finals. staying up like that will only waste time because youre learning less efficiently if youre tired all the time. at least take good long naps between the sessions.

[Black Chanler]

check how fast your pulse is and freak the fuck out, thats always fun when you're sleep deprived.