Just pulled all nighter... now what?

[Avalanche]

Stayed up all night, browsing the net and such (mostly DV, of course). Now what do I do? I heard about REM rebound but never fully understood it as it didn't apply to me as I usually slept during the night. I have been up since 11am saturday and it is now 8:40am sunday. When should I go to sleep? Should I nap? How can I best use this situation to get an LD? I'm feeling pretty tired, if I shut my eyes and curled up in bed I would definitely fall asleep in minutes.

[Avalanche]

Going to nap, and do a WILD. I feel like I'm on the verge of falling asleep, but I am still focused in a sense on what my thoughts are. Should be interesting.

[Trinacu]

report your experience

[Whiskee]

I doubt 24 hours are nearly enough to talk about REM deprivation

[Avalanche]

3 hours and 20 minutes later... slept like a log, had some dreams but they were rubbish. I don't even remember what they were about now. Was too tired to WILD. What's the best way to make use of a nap?

[TheDreamless]

Usually if you're going to do a WILD you want to do AFTER sleep and not before. Try doing it when you wake up from a proper sleep. Usually it's best 4-6 hours after sleep.

[dms111]

Using REM rebound is a two day affair. What you do is deprive yourself of REM sleep by sleeping for only 3 or 4 hours on Saturday night. On Sunday you go about your day as normally as a sleep deprived person can. When Sunday night rolls around you go to sleep normally. During this sleep you will experience a lot more REM than you normally would have to make up for what you didn't get the night before.

[Avalanche]

I see. Well I didn't sleep at all Saturday and I took a nap today so that's kinda ruined it. I can try again next weekend, but it was kinda rough being tired, I doubt I'll do it often, if at all. Thanks for clearing it up about rebound.