Sleep deprivation! How do you react to it?

[hazabaza1]

Ah, sleep deprivation. Wonderful, wonderful sleep deprivation. I was planning to go to bed early tonight (last night. This morning. Whatever) because I've got stuff to do in about... 2 and a half hours from now. But after many consistent nights of staying up till 3-4AM, it turns out that that takes a toll on you. So my once premeditated plans to go to bed really early, get up early, shower, eat some nutritious food and go on my way have fallen apart.

Indeed, around 3:45 of today's morn, I found myself laying in bed, looking at the ceiling, thinking to myself "I'm not going to sleep. Why am I trying to sleep? This is dumb. I'm just going to sit here until I get like, 4 or 5 hours of bad sleep and wake up mad."

So instead, I decided to stay up. Turns out someone on my steam friends was also up. This is the result.

Spoiler: Be warned, crazy lack of sleep talking.

Reginald Von Hammercock: Dota at 4 AM?
hazabaza1: yes
Reginald Von Hammercock: Whys this
hazabaza1: cos fuck sleep
Reginald Von Hammercock: Flying solo?
hazabaza1: yeah
hazabaza1: people sleeping so can't skype
Reginald Von Hammercock: Y u no axe me to join
hazabaza1: cos you away nigga
Reginald Von Hammercock: Is not away nigga
Reginald Von Hammercock: I was having sex
hazabaza1: well not now
Reginald Von Hammercock: You in a game?
hazabaza1: yes
Reginald Von Hammercock: Durn.
Reginald Von Hammercock: Win it for me.-
hazabaza1: kk
Reginald Von Hammercock: I think youve like given me your herpes
Reginald Von Hammercock: Because I have a cold sore or something on my tongue
hazabaza1: blame your gf or something
Reginald Von Hammercock: Ive had it for ages
Reginald Von Hammercock: Its just pissing me off now
hazabaza1: yeah but you love me more
Reginald Von Hammercock: Because it hurts, so I cant stop playing with it
Reginald Von Hammercock: It is making me want to get my tongue split though
hazabaza1: I'm not winning
hazabaza1: I blame you
Reginald Von Hammercock: We're getting a divorce.
hazabaza1: kk
hazabaza1: If you want we can skype now
Reginald Von Hammercock: Nah, gfs asleep.
hazabaza1: And I shall regale you with the tale of why the fuck I'm up
hazabaza1: Ah okay
Reginald Von Hammercock: Regale me anyway.
hazabaza1: So you know how I wanted to go to bed earlier?
hazabaza1: Basically fuck that
Reginald Von Hammercock: xD
hazabaza1: And it about 6 hours and 20 minutes I'm meeting up with friends for the first time in... ranging from 2 months to a year and a half
Reginald Von Hammercock: Oh wonderful
hazabaza1: the plan was to go in all fresh and cool and prepared
hazabaza1: but I couldn't sleep
hazabaza1: so 5am dota it is
Reginald Von Hammercock: xD
Reginald Von Hammercock: You fresh cool and prepared?
Reginald Von Hammercock: No.
hazabaza1: Yes
hazabaza1: I shall be at 11:30
hazabaza1: I will trick them]
hazabaza1: fuck I can barely type
Reginald Von Hammercock: xD
hazabaza1: my ska music shall keep me up
hazabaza1: It's like dubstep where there's only one song
hazabaza1: but it;s a good song instead
Reginald Von Hammercock: Dubnstep Popera?
hazabaza1: no
hazabaza1: But srsly
hazabaza1: dubstep has like
hazabaza1: 30 seconds of intro
hazabaza1: and tyhemn it's the sma eufcking song
hazabaza1: oh god
hazabaza1: what is that
hazabaza1: jesus
hazabaza1: my hands
hazabaza1: they no longer like me
Reginald Von Hammercock: xD
Reginald Von Hammercock: Now you know why I always have typos.
hazabaza1: Eh
hazabaza1: Mainly it's just ******/nigga
hazabaza1: oh god I'm shaking
hazabaza1: so many late nights
hazabaza1: and not staying up for 24 hours in like 3 years
hazabaza1: I think I might die
Reginald Von Hammercock: xD
hazabaza1: also it's bright out
hazabaza1: And the birds contributed to my not sleeping
hazabaza1: **** birds
Reginald Von Hammercock: Its been bright out for like 3 hours
Reginald Von Hammercock: Fucking birds
hazabaza1: quite
hazabaza1: but yeah, like 4:30 it gets bright now
hazabaza1: so similar kinda times
hazabaza1: and by bright i mean average daytime light
hazabaza1: not like "ooh look at da preyy sun"
hazabaza1: "is so shiony"
Reginald Von Hammercock: xD
hazabaza1: you know what they should do?
Reginald Von Hammercock: I have the ability to make my room pitch black
hazabaza1: free battle bonus wirth all purchases
hazabaza1: and do it
hazabaza1: and then
hazabaza1: touch youself
hazabaza1: in bad places
hazabaza1: BUT INVISIBLKY
hazabaza1: FUICKING RIKI ****
hazabaza1: FGAAAAH
Reginald Von Hammercock: I have a girlfriend thats what she does.
hazabaza1: WARDS
hazabaza1: I NED WARDS
hazabaza1: FUCKING 6 MINUTE QUEUE
hazabaza1: 5 am dota is not fast dota
hazabaza1: but io finally have one
hazabaza1: so I maty not be talky
hazabaza1: uinless I die lots
Reginald Von Hammercock: xD
hazabaza1: so i;ll bne talky
Reginald Von Hammercock: <3
hazabaza1: i can't eben bf to corerdt typos
Reginald Von Hammercock: <3
hazabaza1: <3
Reginald Von Hammercock: 3<
hazabaza1: <=======3
hazabaza1: :O<======3
Reginald Von Hammercock: ( Y )
hazabaza1: :O `,`,`, <=====3
hazabaza1: in your mouth
hazabaza1: Al da

Looking back on that... not sure how I feel about it really. I was surprisingly incomprehensible, but now... 2 hours from 24 hours straight and I feel alright. A little cold maybe, a bit shivery, but alright.
Any tales to tell us?

Captcha: Sleep tight
What the fuck.

 

[smithy_2045]

Sleep deprivation. It's one hell of a drug.

I find the best way to fix an abysmal sleep pattern is to pull an all nighter and go to bed at a reasonable time the next day.

 

[NightmareExpress]

Sleep deprivation. It's one hell of a drug.

I find the best way to fix an abysmal sleep pattern is to pull an all nighter and go to bed at a reasonable time the next day.

I've always done this.
Sometimes I fold and take a one hour nap.
Other times I up the caffeine threshold and go all in.
Usually it's thirty something hours without sleep before I tuck in at a "normal" time.
This one time I went three days on a horrible boat ride (72 - 80 some odd hours of no sleep).

I imagine it's the same effects that some drugs can take on you.
Feeling weightless and heavy at the same time, laughing at mundane things, wishing for the sweet embrace of sleep to take you away.
Pretty bad, but there's certainly worse sensations to experience.

 

[Catfood220]

Sleep deprivation. It's one hell of a drug.

I find the best way to fix an abysmal sleep pattern is to pull an all nighter and go to bed at a reasonable time the next day.

After years of working in bars my sleep pattern was fucked up, which was a problem when I got back into normal 9-5 employment. I pretty much did this, I stayed up all weekend and then got to sleep about 10o'clock on the Sunday. Worked a treat for me.

I imagine it's the same effects that some drugs can take on you.
Feeling weightless and heavy at the same time, laughing at mundane things, wishing for the sweet embrace of sleep to take you away.
Pretty bad, but there's certainly worse sensations to experience.

Last year, it was during one of the 3 weeks of hot weather that I as a Brit get a year, I had got no sleep the night before because it was so hot, had done a full days work and was on call that night. It got to about 9o'clock and I get a call out and I was a mess because I was so wiped out, I was pretty much useless but managed to struggle through. I got home and I felt like I was drunk without having actually touched a drop, which scared the shit out of me because I had been driving.

Anyway, for some reason when I am sleep deprived, I get incredibly horny. I don't know why this is but it always happens. To be fair, this is my favourite sleep deprivation symptom.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I react by being extremely tired the next day.

I've noticed that when given free reign of all of my time, my sleep pattern tends to "drift." An hour or two later every night, until eventually I'm sleeping all day and awake all night, and before long it circles back around. When I was living at college but had already decided to drop out, my sleep schedule was completely fucked. Fortunately, Whataburger is open 24 hours a day and serves its full menu at all hours. That was my saving grace.

HOWEVER, despite my tendency to stay up late and sleep in when not at work, I cannot stay in bed for a full day. I did that once during my aforementioned college days, and I felt AWFUL afterward. It literally made me lethargic and sick for the entire day. I don't recommend it, regardless of your lifestyle.

 

[karma9308]

That was an awesome conversation.

So older people are going to laugh at me when I say this, but I can't seem to stay up as much when I was younger. I'm not that much older but damnit, I can't sleep for only 2 hours a week anymore. Hell I still remember going 82 hours without sleep before finally crashing. Now I get tired and if my sleeping schedule is fucked I go to bed, but if I fixed it then I stay up and fuck it up again.

But actual reaction to it? Before I would find work to do and power through that with my extra time. Now I just watch Lps or listen to a podcast until I go to sleep.

 

[Yopaz]

Sleep deprivation. It's one hell of a drug.

I find the best way to fix an abysmal sleep pattern is to pull an all nighter and go to bed at a reasonable time the next day.

Yeah, I always try to do this if I have messed up my schedule during the summer. It works wonders!

OT: I have weird reactions to sleep deprivations sometimes. I sometimes react by getting incredibly focused and relaxed meaning I concentrate much better than I normally do. I once went 2 days without sleep and I spent it all studying. Last year I had a period of one week where I slept 18 hours total and I got so much stuff done. The last day of that messed up pattern was hell though. The sleep deprivation caught up to me and I had some mild hallucinations causing me to wonder if the houses were moving around me. That's both the worst case o sleep deprivation and insomnia I have ever had.

 

[Gameguy20100]

I drink large amounts of caffeine and sugar.

I don't really need much sleep anyway I can go a whole day with only an hour and a half of sleeping

 

[Angie7F]

I usually sleep 7 hours.
The past week or so I get five hours max, and sometime none at all with a massive hang over.
I even tale sleeping pills but it makes me happy, but not sleepy.

last sunday i finally reached a point where I was not sure if i was awake or a sleep and started seeing things on the computer screen that were not supposed to be there.

I fought it off by listening to podcasts, drink caffine and getting up to walk every thirty minutes.

But my god, I so wanted to do cocaine for the first time in about three years.

so lesson learnt. If you are trying to stay clean, you have to sleep well and keep your mind SANE.

 

[krazykidd]

I'm 24 . When i was 16-22 i could sleep for like 3-4 hours a day and pull all nighters once or twice a week and be fine. As soon as i hit 23 it was all over. I needed 8-9 hours of sleep to feel fresh and in shape . Sometimes i now suffer from insomnia . So many times during a week , i'll sleep less than 4 hours or not at all . If that happens DO NOT TALK TO ME . Do not look at me . Do not come near me . For your own safety . Because i tend to be pretty verbally agressive . While i won't actually attack you , i will make you feel like you will be attacked . Or if you are a woman ( because i can't hit women , and can't even pretend i can ), i will verbally abuse you until you cry .

So not good

 

[lRookiel]

I sit and yawn for a while. EDIT: I'm yawning a lot right now, because the last few nights in a row have been DARK SOULS NIGHTS YEAAAH.

I'm usually fully concentrated when I stay up, since during the early hours is the only time I can play Dark souls PVP without GFWL being shit and disconnecting on me. So yeah, full concentration required for killing all the CASUL 'muricans who are the only ones up at the time.

I'm 24 . When i was 16-22 i could sleep for like 3-4 hours a day and pull all nighters once or twice a week and be fine. As soon as i hit 23 it was all over. I needed 8-9 hours of sleep to feel fresh and in shape . Sometimes i now suffer from insomnia . So many times during a week , i'll sleep less than 4 hours or not at all . If that happens DO NOT TALK TO ME . Do not look at me . Do not come near me . For your own safety . Because i tend to be pretty verbally agressive . While i won't actually attack you , i will make you feel like you will be attacked . Or if you are a woman ( because i can't hit women , and can't even pretend i can ), i will verbally abuse you until you cry .

So not good

Sounds like me all the time

I'm such a ****, and I know it...

 

[Realitycrash]

I have to be awake more than 24h straight before any of the 'fun' side-effects kick in (like the pointless humor or absurd decisions). If I just get less than optimal sleep, I'm mostly just grumpy and angry. But a common side-effect for me is auditory hallucinations. Those can get...Odd.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Well I found out my brother was in the hospital last night, so I haven't slept yet and it's now 8:49 am. I mostly just feel tired, but LotRO has gotten me through the night so far.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

I answered this thread because I'm awake in the AM now without having slept. Two other Escapists and I started played Borderlands 2 at like 7PM, and all of a sudden it's 5 in the morning and we lost a guy because he was about to facedesk. Host was in Australia, so he didn't have to do this.

It's like a mild drug for me. Stand-up comedy is way funnier, and I also kind of enjoy it because my mind races way less (a typical occurrence for me). I also have less inhibitions, and am willing to say things and be more loose-lipped than usual, not really care so much about it. Definitely more rambling. I intended for this post to be much shorter, and I just made another post that went on much longer than I anticipated it would. It's all just something for the lurkers to read anyway, I didn't realize how not sociable forums are until I finally got Steam friends.

 

[RevRaptor]

Pretty well I think, With out my meds I can stay awake for 3 or 4 days at a time (chronic pain is a *****).
Thing is though I had so much experience with not sleeping that it doesn?t even bother me. obviously mental and physical reactions suffer but as my CFS makes me feel like I need a week of sleep even after a good night of sleep, My mood usually stays pretty high

 

[Saregon]

Basically..

I'm pretty used to being awake for long stretches, having served in the army, and driving a taxi in university vacations. I rarely have sleep deprivation, but if I do, I get this pattern of alternating very sleepy/very awake. Usually takes about 24 hours before I feel really tired. Most annoying thing is that usually my eyes really sting when I get too tired. Personal record for staying awake is about 72 hours with no sleep, and a lot longer if you count small naps.

 

[Autotelic]

When I'm tired enough I lose my social inhibitions and just say whatever I want. Apparently I act drunk. I've never been drunk, so I honestly have no idea.

 

[HorrendusOne]

Well....Idk Pretty sure I also have some dose of it on a day to day basis!
Record I think is 96 hours then 4 hours sleep into another 75 hours
THE RIDE NEVER ENDS!

on a seriousness note... I never did really get used to my insomnia..
Drunkenness/ eye pain/ very little memory

 

[DSK-]

I ignore it. Almost 7 years of no decent sleep/disturbed sleep for me now. Cyan patches under my eyes, dead fish eyes, inability to remember things, difficulty in conveying thoughts and putting words together, pronouncing words backwards, stuttering/stammering, constant headaches, constant pain in the eyes, eyes watering a lot, dizzy spells and the worst thing: Having your eyes melted by 60hz refresh rate monitors. I could never do work in University because of that, it felt like my eyes were bleeding.

 

[an annoyed writer]

Sleep deprivation has odd effects on me. when I'm with my friends I usually come up with some of the weirdest and most absurd humor ever, and that's super-fun. Other times I get a strange bout of concentration that is super-helpful in developing models and editing films. I can usually go running for about 1 day straight and not have a ton of negative side-effects. However, any more than that and I become very compromised, making it very dangerous to drive and operate heavy machinery.