Ok, during a period where I had 3 exams in two days, I stayed up for a total of 38 hours or so. I managed it off two power naps. I slept a total of 2 hours that entire period, but the powernaps kept me going, and feeling well and normal. When the period was over, I went to sleep like normal. I went at 10PM, set my alarm to 5AM to see what kind of affect it would have for my WILD. Well, at 5AM, after my alarm had been going off for like 5 minutes before I finally woke up, I must have had the easiest sleep paralysis I've ever induced in my life. I was laying in my bed, and the next moment I noticed I was in this very hazy, wierd non-physical environment - sleep paralysis. Except, this time, I was feeling the most powerful vibrations I've felt in months. So powerful, and so loud was the noise, that I was freaking out. I kept snapping out of it, only to be sucked back into it as soon as I closed my eyes again. After this happened about 5 times in the span of like 2 minutes, I was finally able to skip over that chaotic, vibrating, defeaning stage, and immediatly enter a dream.

So, if you can skip a night of sleep, if you take 3 powernaps - one when you'd normally go to sleep, another at 7-8AM another at about 12PM, your sleep cycle should be fine, because I was tired at 10PM when I finally went back to my normal sleep (and I usually go to sleep at 12-1AM). The powernaps allow you to function normally and feel fine, so you can avoid the "I feel like shit" after staying awake for a long period of time. Also, keep yourself active, or else you'll just be tempted to go to sleep.

1. You are going to be tired obviously from being up many hours when attempting to have a lucid dream the next morning.
2. Your mind is trying to make up for lost REM - I think that's why I was getting sucked into sleep paralysis almost against my will.

Just thought I'd share, because I wasn't expecting something good to come out of skipping a night's sleep