Thread: Going to stay up for 2-3 days.

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Originally Posted by Leviatahon

i new the deffinition of a troll but why do people refer to other as trolling?

being an asshole.

Originally Posted by Awakening

being an asshole.

oh ok well im not as asshole

Ok CE, I've pulled a whole 7 days before.
No I was not on any drug or substance!
You will start to hallucinate after the second day,
you will have mostly sounds, but you may get a few "weird" visuals.
You will be irritable. You need to drink a cup of water every hour to two hours and eat small snacks and definitely get the main three meals down each day. Your metabolism increases exponentially. You need to have things to do, not tv or the internet, i mean like physical things, try to stay outside most of the time. Don't sit for too long. Go easy on the caffeine and energy drinks. If you want to use them take the 5hour energy shot, fruit works 10x better though. Avoid too much milk and turkey. They work and do the least damage to you. Don't ignore your "restroom" signs.

Most importantly!
Make sure when you end it you don't oversleep! It can create a bad sleeping pattern for you, try to get only 8-9 hours of sleep afterward, and keep it below that maximum. Also don't perform sleep deprivation repeatedly as it can create a type of insomnia.

Originally Posted by CarmineEternity

I want to do it because its an experience I want to have. I want to know what it would be like. If you aren't here to help me out with that, then just leave.

Ehh.. I don't really understand why you want to torture your body, but...
As the others recommended, a lot of caffeine will be needed. My personal advice is to go buy some green tea - I drank some a couple of times and I after a hard day I was still fit
For even better results, if you can find natural green tea leaves and steep them in some hot water I'm sure you will be satisfied

Well, best of luck Carmine! I actually think it is very interesting, so I would love to get some updates once in a while. Good luck!

I would love to stay up for 3 days straight, but It is not going to happen anytime soon. I read that some guy stayed up for 11 days once. If I even stay up late one night, sometimes I start to see stuff. I wonder how much stuff I would see after 3 days. Anyway, you would for sure end up seeing time differently. Kind of like When you travel and are only able to sleep for a few hours at a time. It makes time more contentious than broken up into days. So I wish you the best of luck. You will need it.

I just have one question Carmine. Have you planned anything out at all? Like what you are going to do or anything?

Originally Posted by TheLight

Ehh.. I don't really understand why you want to torture your body, but...
As the others recommended, a lot of caffeine will be needed. My personal advice is to go buy some green tea - I drank some a couple of times and I after a hard day I was still fit
For even better results, if you can find natural green tea leaves and steep them in some hot water I'm sure you will be satisfied

I don't think its torture at all.

I drink tons of tea.

I fell asleep for 3 hours last night. I guess I broke my streak. :\

Originally Posted by Naiya

...because long term sleep deprivation can be very harmful to your body and your brain.

I think long term is more to the chronically sleep deprived.

Three days is a short term deprivation, you may just need a day or two of increased sleep to make it up. However, try not to make it a habit, or yes long term sleep deprivation can be very harmful.

I have always wanted to try this to see the outcome on the mind & body.

I just never seem to get time to try it.

Around day 3, it would be nice to have someone monitor you so you are safe in this experiment.

The most significant benefit of a long deprivation is the altered sense of time you retain

There are risks involved, but if you are safe it can be a fun experience. I feel really giddy and spaced out after about 48 hrs. the longest ive gone so far was about 4 days and I never had hallucinations, just visual distortions and weird feelings. Also once I sleep I have very long vivid dreams and/or lucids. Definitely worth trying at least once, I wish I had more oppurtunities to experiment.

Lol i saw a doc on tv about what your body does if it goes to long without sleep... some guy was in a hot air balloon and was going to Antarctica (some record thing) and he was depriving himself of sleep to get ahead of schedule and he started to talk to himself alot and see things... he was even talking to a little rubber duck he had (no idea why he wanted one in hot air balloon but ok), it said if you go long enough without sleep your body will just pull the plug and you will go into an instant sleep no matter where you are or what your doing it will happen! Because he was asleep for a while his balloon was going down, and on the balloon it had a box thing on it where if the balloon got to low it would start making a loud beeping sound, this half woke him up and his body's first reaction was to flee the balloon to escape the sound and he actually fully woke up when he was half over the basket!

Im not trying to stop you from doing it, im actually interested in it

Make sure you post what happened each day, and the weird things you hear/see.

And Good Luck!

Yeah, as the others said. Keep doing stuff that isn't boring but doesn't require much thought either. Doing pysical things will keep you awake (not too strenous though), if you're going to sit in front of the computer etc anyways then just do a couple of jumping jacks or something when you start falling asleep. Do not lie down or close your eyes just to rest them no matter how nice it feels. Energy drinks will help but make sure you don't stop drinking them untill near the time that you give up the experiment or you are going to have one hell of a crash. Drink a lot of water, the cooler the better. Green tea is also a nice alternative, especially if it's a bit bitter as that will wake you up. Brushing your teeth could help too, something minty. Do not eat a lot at once, eat a lot spread throughout the day. Eat more than usual as your body will need it and your metabolism won't slow down when you sleep as you are not sleeping.

That's as much as I can think of at the moment, I tried it once but I gave up after I started really wondering what the point was because I wanted to see some hallucinations without a chance of getting addicted to anything (never tried drugs). Good luck, Carmine.

Hows it going Carmine? How many hours now?
You should keep us updated every hour. Because it will give you something to strive for. For example if you're almost falling asleep you can be like ok just one more hour. Next hour, ok just one more hour etc. You should have tired periods and periods where you don't feel like sleeping at all.

Just keep us updated every hour with what you're feeling etc.
Don't stop just coz you slept for 3 hours. Just start again, 3 hours is enough to get some REM in, so just start again for 3 days timing from when you woke up form the 3 hour sleep.

I read though the posts and no one mentioned REM rebound as a reason to stay up? I think the REM rebound affect worked when the body is not allowed to enter REM state (it was kind of experimented on those who fell asleep but were woken up before they had the REM stage). I don't see why not REM rebound wouldn't work for staying up all together. Btw REM rebound is where if you don't get enough sleep in REM state when you are allowed to sleep your REM sleep is double the normal amount of time spent in REM. This would mean at the end of the sleep deprivation if your pretty good at having lucid dreams you could end up having maybe an hour long lucid or so.

I stayed up for about 30 hours a couple days ago, I didn't have any lucids or even particularily vivid dreams from what I can remember.

Yeah coz usually you end up sleeping for way longer than the REM period goes so you just forget it all by the time you get up.

Originally Posted by Dying Dignity

I stayed up for about 30 hours a couple days ago, I didn't have any lucids or even particularily vivid dreams from what I can remember.

30hrs... thats just a long night. in my experience it takes 50+ hours for results to begin.

36 hours*

Not long, no but I would of thought you would still get REM rebound. Anyways, kinda off topic and yeah, you should keep us updated to make little targets and some of us are interested

My 21 hours is starting to look like nothing

Also, Good luck Carmine (By that I mean don't die on us or anything)

Only ever stayed up for a day and a bit.

Very curious as to what sort of hallucinations people have seen.

I would like to try it once in my life. Should I go for 3 days or 4?

Most people do not see full on hallucinations, it's just like ghosts in the corners of their eyes mostly, visual distortions as somebody else said.