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

I live in Georgia too, and my county has the largest technical high school in the state, of which I attend on my Odd class days. Students here can take career classes as freshmen, so yeah Awakening, we can take college classes this early.

Carmine, how are you doing with this? Or have you just given up? I'm interested in results too. I read an interesting article on sleep deprivation the other day and thought of you. If you have given up, how did you do when you stayed up however many hours you stayed up?

Originally Posted by CarmineEternity

I screwed up and slept a long time ago.

i think she gave up after that post

Yeah it's not true at all. I've heard it before about taking 7 LSD trips and being declared legally insane. It's all bullshit (although the LSD one was to make it sound bad by drug hating conservatives, but you get the point). To be declared insane you have to get a psychiatrist to testify you are insane in court. They wouldn't if you just hadn't slept. Although maybe temporary insanity but I don't know, I doubt it's been tried and doubt there are any laws on it.

BTW I slept and didn't get any REM rebound as far as I can tell. Could remember a few dreams but can't remember them now (10 hours later or so) so they weren't that impressive. However I did wake up a lot and I can remember trying to get back to sleep and feeling like I was floating down. So I tried that thing to imagine a scene under my bed and floating in to it but it didn't work coz I was so tired lol

Dude, aww man you stuffed up. Although if you try again, I suggest you drink lots of red cordial. LOTS!! A few nights ago I was showing off my chugging abilities and managed to chug down 5 glasses of red cordial, then about two hours later I had another glass before bed. I stayed up all night, reading, drawing, typing. I got up at 6:30 and didn't even feel tired. I began to tire around 5 pm the next day so I just had a couple of glasses, that kept me up until 8pm then I slept until about 4pm the next day. Although one thing is the bags under your eyes look horrible.

Originally Posted by Saturos

I once heard that if you stay up for 72 hours and then commit a crime, then you cannot be held responsible, because you would be classified as insane.

Not true. In court it would come up as to why are you up for 72 hours? And usually it would be because of methamphetamines, which will definitely not get you off. Also, you would have to prove that you were up that whole time, and you would have to have exercised your 5th amendment and NOT said anything to the cops, because even if you were innocent it would incriminate you. And even if you did get off for insanity, you would just go to a prison for the criminally insane, which isn't exactly getting off.

Originally Posted by NicklePickle

Dude, aww man you stuffed up. Although if you try again, I suggest you drink lots of red cordial........

This is what happens after the age limit being lowered to 13.

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

Not true. In court it would come up as to why are you up for 72 hours? And usually it would be because of methamphetamines, which will definitely not get you off. Also, you would have to prove that you were up that whole time, and you would have to have exercised your 5th amendment and NOT said anything to the cops, because even if you were innocent it would incriminate you. And even if you did get off for insanity, you would just go to a prison for the criminally insane, which isn't exactly getting off.

Yeah. You used to be able to get off a crime by being drunk. You can't anymore because it is your choice to drink. Same thing here. Although I would think you'd be a little more 'out of touch' after not sleeping for 3 days. But it would never be put in to law, coz people would just not sleep for 3 days before committing a crime.
Also, mental hospital > prison. But still not a nice place to be.

coz people would just not sleep for 3 days before committing a crime.

Aye, that's why I asked.

I wonder what would happen if you put like 50 people in one large room and didn't allow anyone of them to sleep for like a week. Some people can get really heavy hallucinations so it would'nt suprise me if someone got stabbed.

Originally Posted by enannanfemma

I wonder what would happen if you put like 50 people in one large room and didn't allow anyone of them to sleep for like a week. Some people can get really heavy hallucinations so it would'nt suprise me if someone got stabbed.

Stabbed with a fingernail? o.O

Wow, 3 whole days? That's insane! I've only gone about 24 hours without sleep, and that was at relay for life. The thing I like about sleep dep, is that you laugh at everything, and you are always happy, it's like your high, or something, atleast, that's how I feel.

Well, if you're still keeping it up, good luck!

Originally Posted by lVlerciless

Wow, 3 whole days? That's insane! I've only gone about 24 hours without sleep, and that was at relay for life. The thing I like about sleep dep, is that you laugh at everything, and you are always happy, it's like your high, or something, atleast, that's how I feel.

Well, if you're still keeping it up, good luck!

Yeah, same happened to me but it wore off soon after D:

I dunno if you've already tried gone through with it, but exercise always keeps me up when I need to stay up later than usual. Generally when I'm up late writing a paper I try to dedicate 10 minutes of every hour to exercise to keep myself alert.

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.

Essentially its like this

(assuming you get to bed at around 11:00)

from 11:00 - 5:00 YAY I DONT FEEL TIRED THIS IS AWESOME **** SLEEP

from 5:00 - 6:30 HOLY **** IM SO TIRED **** THIS
WAIT OH **** I WILL BE OFF IN MY SLEEPING SCHEDULE
IF I GO TO SLEEP NOW

from 6:30-10:00 (generally if you make it this far you last the whole day)

from 10:00am-11:00pm WHAT A STUPID ******* IDEA THAT WAS

then you go to bed.. for about 14 hours
and have great dreams....
because of the ridiculous duration of rem sleep.

Source: To many all nighters in school.

Originally Posted by Dreams4free

Essentially its like this

(assuming you get to bed at around 11:00)

from 11:00 - 5:00 YAY I DONT FEEL TIRED THIS IS AWESOME **** SLEEP

from 5:00 - 6:30 HOLY **** IM SO TIRED **** THIS
WAIT OH **** I WILL BE OFF IN MY SLEEPING SCHEDULE
IF I GO TO SLEEP NOW

from 6:30-10:00 (generally if you make it this far you last the whole day)

from 10:00am-11:00pm WHAT A STUPID ******* IDEA THAT WAS

then you go to bed.. for about 14 hours
and have great dreams....
because of the ridiculous duration of rem sleep.

Source: To many all nighters in school.

Thanks for giving a credible summary of the experience, so I know not to ever try this.


Well, from what I've heard from others' general comments on prolonged intentional sleep deprivation, I'm interested to read someone's actual thoughts (like,a diary) as they go through the experience of depriving themselves of sleep. And, of course, from someone more committed and realistic than Carmine. XD (See: "I don't think its torture at all.")

Has anyone considered giving this a shot? No pressure, only if you're ready to deal with what Dreams4free just described.

I would do this..

If my parents would let me.


Over spring break I get one night to stay up. Problem is, I have to go to sleep the next night. I can't stay up more than like 36 hours.

Has anyone tried forcefully to WILD after this long sleep dep?

Originally Posted by Clyde Machine

Thanks for giving a credible summary of the experience, so I know not to ever try this.


Well, from what I've heard from others' general comments on prolonged intentional sleep deprivation, I'm interested to read someone's actual thoughts (like,a diary) as they go through the experience of depriving themselves of sleep. And, of course, from someone more committed and realistic than Carmine. XD (See: "I don't think its torture at all.")

Has anyone considered giving this a shot? No pressure, only if you're ready to deal with what Dreams4free just described.

I can't describe all my thoughts from my experiences. But I tend to start getting paranoid and depressed after about 2 days. Like you feel depressed over nothing. But this makes you think about everything in a sad way, instead of thinking about it in a good way like most people usually do. Same with paranoid things, usually it would be a normal thing but you just completely think it's something to do with you, or something hateful towards you.
Best I can do since I'm not gonna deprive myself of sleep again any time soon. Maybe in a few years lol.

Originally Posted by Awakening

Has anyone tried forcefully to WILD after this long sleep dep?

Yep. Doesn't work for shit.

Thanks tommo, that explains it really well in my mind - I can actually visualize the experience, so I won't need to try it for myself. And I can imagine WILDing afterwards to be a....what's a word that means challenge, but way more difficult?

Originally Posted by cygnus

fine, go ahead.
uh i hope none of the new 13-14 year old members take my paint reference seriously.

Hehe

Originally Posted by tommo

Yep. Doesn't work for shit.

Wait til you take the Intro to LDing class, and you can calculate your Slow Wave Sleep (SWS - Where it's extremely difficult to wake up, you feel groggy... etc.) Then you can calculate it to WILD out of it.