Historically, I've never been successful after staying up for 24 hours, and my recall was always horrible. Maybe that's just me though. |
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It's the summer, and I still have over a month before school starts. I'm looking to pull an all-nighter sometime in the next few days. So, I'd like to know any preparations that will make it easier to stay up all night. I'd also like to know how easy it would be to WILD after doing one, as well as what to do afterwards to get over the effects of no sleep for 24 hours. |
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We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
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Historically, I've never been successful after staying up for 24 hours, and my recall was always horrible. Maybe that's just me though. |
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Be prepared to feel like crap in the morning, and I do mean nausea. Your digestive system won't have time to reset overnight. You'll also want to avoid caffeine as much as possible, or you'll end up crashing. |
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Last edited by Puffin; 08-03-2010 at 09:25 AM.
We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
Vandermeer
SAT (Sporadic Awareness Technique) Guide
Have questions about lucid dreaming? DM me.
I pull all-nighters every weekend. Typically, I feel great the next day. I feel incredibly energized, like my body has gone into overdrive. Doing it once over an entire summer isn't going to harm you. Staying up all night really isn't a big deal. Staying up for a few days is more of a problem. |
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It's not as bad as they make it sound, trust me. I've been up for 60+ hours and it's okay. |
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Last edited by XeL; 08-03-2010 at 06:23 PM.
~XeL's DJ~
~Adopted by Cygnus~
An all nighter is likely going to kill your chances at going lucid, but they really aren't so bad. As long as you stayed occupied (and you will need to to pull this off), you should have energy to spare. Sleep deprivation in humans is the same for two hours as it is for six. Get some books, set up a stumbleupon account, and down as much coffee as you can. As long as you don't let the caffeine levels in your blood deplete, you can do this no problem. Just don't OD on coffee and you'll be fine. |
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True...fair enough, but from experience, the dreams I have after all-nighters are so chaotic and random that there is no hope of detecting anything out of the ordinary, because I'm not sure if anything actually exists. Even if I did become lucid in such a time, I'd have to sort out all the crap, and then find my body so I could go do something. But, I guess that's just me. |
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Nah, I can relate. |
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What are you trying to accomplish with your all nighter? What is the point? |
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We all live in a kind of continuous dream. When we wake, it is because something,
some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we have taken as reality.
Vandermeer
SAT (Sporadic Awareness Technique) Guide
Have questions about lucid dreaming? DM me.
If you're going to pull an all nighter make sure you have something to fill your time. You know, other than anticipating the effect it'll have on your dreams |
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Hahaha, you're just like me earlier this summer. My friend and I had both never stayed up all night, so we thought we'd try it just to see what it was like. It was fairly difficult, actually, but since then I tried switching to Uberman (only lasted three days) and now staying up all night is easy. Oddly, I've found that if I go to sleep after an all-nighter I usually only sleep for 6 hours (normally I sleep 9-13). |
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I gotta say man, all nighters are counter productive. I'm not an expert on WILDS and what not but judging by what they say, if that's what you're looking for, you're not going to have much success. Also, it screws up your sleeping schedule for a while. I don't know how yours is already and maybe you don't care about that, but I think all nighters just achieve confusing your body, and wasting a lot of time afterwards sleeping for like 15 hours. |
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First of all if you don't want to use caffine to stay up get a few apples and eat those during the night, this works just as well. Doing it alone will probably be much harder so get some good friends half the time when I stay up all night with my friends we never get even a little tired 'till like 5 or 6 we don't even plan for it the next day. If it wasn't a struggle in the night to stay up you should feel fine for about 3-6 hours unless you sit in a comfortable chair for too long or hear soft music then you'll start nodding off, after then you might start hallucinating anywhere in the next 48 hours (Unless of course you sleep). If you can, try to stay up all day so when you go to bed you won't mess up your sleep schedule to much hopefully you'll be able to sleep in but you might still feel a little tired. Like Mathias said get something to keep your attention, beat a fun video game or something my record is 11 hours straight |
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Last edited by ooflendoodle; 08-04-2010 at 05:12 AM.
"For a long time it gave me nightmares, having to witness an injustice like that. It was a constant reminder of how unfair this world can be, I can still hear them taunting him. 'Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!'... How come they just couldn't give him some cereal?"
i have had several experiences with this on several different occasions... try not to be tired the day before. The key for me is to make sure you have a purpose. You will not be able to keep yourself awake very easily if you don't have a goal that you are trying to achieve. I have rented many hours of my favorite tv show "24" the night before and then stayed up all night to watch it. For me it is also very important to have lots of caffeine, sugar, and snacks. you do not want to be hungry and feel sick! i've seen that some people would not recommend caffeine because of the "crash", but i don't see how you are going to avoid a crash if you are awake for 24 hours straight. Once you have a goal, caffeine, sugar, and snacks make sure you never get too comfortable. laying on your bed won't help you get an all-nighter |
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I wander through the woods listening to the sound of nature. The sky turns red and opens before me. I realize that I must be dreaming... My adventure has just begun.
Dream Goals: Become Lucid [1], Fly [ ], Transform into a dragon [ ], Explore the world of Oblivion [ ], Sex [ ], Travel to other planets [ ], Time travel [ ].
LD Count: 1.5
well... there is one very simple and very effective (and very fun) method of staying up all night (and in my experience, it can produce some psychedelic dreams) |
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im not even going to put something clever or inspiring to do with lucid dreaming here until i stop being a noob =D
I did it once, stayed awake for 32 hours and slept 18 hours. Didn't help with anything. |
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A few weeks ago, I stayed up for 38 hours without sleeping. It certainly didn't help my dream recall, but I guess it was pretty fun. |
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Give me the night!
Let me be me for one last time!
I've pulled an all nighter once. Complete with camping, fire and alcohol (luckily nothing happened). I felt like complete shit the next day, and had to carry all of our camping stuff to my friends house. The boys made us bacon sandwiches which helped alot, but yeah I was knackered and was in bed by 8pm. Was actually really fun though, and it's fun to laugh about with your friends. I don't think I dreamed that night, I pretty much passed out. |
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Well I just read in my Psychology book(summer homework ) that a deprivation in dreaming(which also could be sleeping altogether, I think) can lead to a significant increase in the amount of dreaming time during the next sleep time. I don't know whether or not it will be easier to WILD or not, but you might dream a little longer. |
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I dream a lot, need not be asleep.
I find I can stay up as long as I want if I have people to talk to (on msn, facebook, etc). Caffeine helps too, of course. |
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Give me the night!
Let me be me for one last time!
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