What happens when you stay up too long?

[TonyOfPlimith]

Generally if you go without sleep for constant long periods you will develop illnesses later in life. For example narcolepsy which gives you the inability to sleep properly. Anyway I'll leave a wikipeadia page for you guys to read... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_disorder ...

 

[Logan Westbrook]

Funnily enough, this month's PC Gamer (UK) has an article about this. They had a staff member try and stay up for 48 hours. He didn't make it all the way through and felt wretched towards the end.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

You go insane.

 

[nightfish]

Apparently staying up for 17 hours is scientifically proven to be equivalent to 1 unit of alcohol. Do the maths for longer.

I just get tetchy and feel bad until I get sleep.

 

[madaseyer]

My eyes start to widen, i easily lose balance
then i get chills then all of my senses go numb
till i fall asleep

 

[madaseyer]

and then sounds become amplified

 

[Break]

My distance perception goes screwy, and everything goes faster. Things feel weird, too. Once, after a particularly long time without sleep, I saw green triangles cascading down my eyes, and heard a painfully loud beep. Freaked me out.

 

[The Potato Lord]

My eyes start to water if i do anything more strenous than glancing, also everything becomes 80% funnier.

 

[Phantom6]

I start getting all the symptoms of a common cold. Nose runs, headache, cough, etc. And the longer I go without sleep, the worse it gets. Also, cold medicine has no effect on it whatsoever.

 

[Jenkins]

its funny. every time i do it while on an MMO, for an example. when i was playing FF11 and i was up for 37 hours straight. near the end before i passed out on my keyboard (during a group) i kept on thinking my guy was riding a bicycle and was a clown. ahah

 

[OnyxHand]

I begin to get paranoid, see and talk to people who are not there. become violent to said people. see hand prints and faces start to press out of the computer screen. see the patterns on the wall start to move and rearrange. see monsters peeking out of the closet which no longer has a door because i shot it to kill said monster(side note my friends have not stayed over since). i also start to laugh at things that i never would have before. become insanely hungry and thirsty. and finally do a complete sweep of my house before saying i need to go to bed before i start shooting things again.

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

You know that feeling when you are on an elevator and it just starts or stops? That little "whoops!" feeling? I feel like that continuously until I get some sleep. I also start dreaming while I'm awake. Apparently the dreams are perfectly happy to kick in whether my eyes are shut or not. I also get very noticeable muscle spasms [http://www.rls.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?&pid=477&srcid=471] which my friends find very amusing.

I do the elevator thing EVERY TIME I GO TO SLEEP. Not even after a long period of staying up. Just me, drifting off to sleep, then my body somehow thinking my bed's not there. My body's so used to it, I don't even jerk myself out of it. lol

I generally don't stay up for days at a time. If I get too tired, I go to bed. Or crash on a couch, or the floor... for someone who's such a light sleeper that she wakes up when someone leaves or enters the room, I can sleep pretty much anywhere as long as I have a blanket. Or a coat. Or a towel.... SOMETHING over me. lol If I stay up too late my allergies will kick in and my asthma will get worse because all of my meds are wearing off.

 

[zacaron]

I enter a hightened level of gaming when i dont have enough sleep (i dont remember much after but my friends said they were wearing there ass's for hats by the time i went to sleep.) and i can prove this because awile ago my friend brought a game that i had never played before over to my house and he had already beten so about 3h later at 4A.M. we stoped playing because it was just a slaughter instead of a duel.

also i think my extra skill comes from paranoia I think everyone is trying to kill me (and in the games i play they are) so i am more aleart.

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

I try and watch DVD commentaries.

If I've seen 'em once, they cease to interest me, so I tend to nod off.

Don't help if you're with a boring **** with a million & one topics.

 

[Smiles]

If I get any less than 8 hours of sleep a night, well, how to put this nicely? I'm called cold and irate when I get enough sleep...

 

[Alotak]

When i go for long periods without sleep (59 hours is my record), i become very paranoid and see things which arn't there. Also i can hear a high pitched noise if my TV is on but only when im tired.

When i stayed awake fo 59 hours it was during a War Game, (paintballing, hiking and camping) me and my friend stayed awake for the entire weekend with Energy drinks, Energy boosting gel stuff and Adrenalin tablets which my dad gave us. That was insane we won but were unable to stand for the photo of the winners with the prize, two very expensive paintball guns.

 

[Arntor]

I become tired, obviously.

But if I'm writing something, my style becomes more assertive and kind of "show-offish" so to speak. I come up with bizarre metaphors and similes. I wake up the next morning rereading my essay and I say "Damn, what was I trying to do with that metaphor?'This fallen Humpty Dumpty'? Shit." Nonetheless I received a B+ for that essay due to punctuation errors. I guess staying up late opens me up a bit to my more creative side and I'm more willing to take a few more risks.

 

[TJ rock 101]

i stay up all night watching movies sometimes on weekends and then fall asleep the next day at the computer or TV
if its more than 24 hours without sleep for me i start to loose control of my mind... it gets harder to stay focused on stuff and you close your eyes for "5 mins" and wake up after 5 hours without knowing
i have been told if you dont dream you go crazy after 5 days or something (including the dreams that you dont remember)