What happens when you stay up too long?

[TJ rock 101]

I tend to play Guitar hero at about 7AM hardly ever at any "normal" time

going off-topic here but i need to know this-
is guitar hero III worth getting?
coz my friends say it is not that good but i am going to get it soon so i need to know
is it that kind of game that you start playing for a while and find out its five hours later when you stop?

 

[Kovash86]

I suffered from serious insomnia when I was a teenager and still do occasionally. However, my time of service in the army cured me from the worst of it. I remember when we were marching through the woods, in the winter, from sundown till sunrise, with only a few hours of sleep during the entire week previously, I had some nice hallucinations. When we stopped for a few minutes to wait for road to clear or something, I would fall asleep standing up and then wake up just in time to stop myself from falling down face first. I guess the hallucinations were due to my subconscious intruding on my conscious mind, because I did not get the usual dose of unconsciousness we get during sleep.

EDIT: After a year in the service, I have not had as much trouble falling asleep as before.

I went for three day without any sleep one time. That was not so bad actually, since I did not have anything really physically demanding to do at the time.

Yes the army is a decent cure for insomnia, however my sleep schedule is set to what can only be Australian time, which is odd I've never been there.

I become twitchy and I start thinking bizarre thoughts, most of which I can't remember. I also seem to feel more things, like the wind from cars or subtle differences in temperature and humidity, which I don't notice these things normally, the way I figure out if I'm uncomfortable or not is by determining if I am sweating or if my skin is getting goosebumps, or if my joints are not moving as fast as I am ordering them to. Then again my nervous system is screwy anyhow, I don't even have pressure points.

 

[exocel]

i regulrly stay up for days on end, i dont drink, dont drink coffee, or smoke or anything really except dr.pepper, my tooth rotting anti drug, normally 48 hours is a breeze. but once during a very hectic week during college finals i was up for 5 days and i swear to god that i was riding the bus home and it stopped at a ....stop next to a cemetery and i honestly "saw" grim reapers like the bad guy form the frightners weaving between the gravestones.

not done that since.

 

[aaron552]

Sometimes if I've been playing or watching a game for too long and it's the last thing I see before going to bed, I'll continue to see the tetris blocks falling, or the Rock Band notes coming, or the scenery going by like in racing games or what have you, when I close my eyes. It kind of sucks.

I get this all the time... particularly when I'm tired, most recently I've been playing Darkstar One, so I've been seeing spaceships shooting at me

When I am extremely tired (read awake for more than 30 hours) I start to get the strange feeling of not having weight, or not being properly attached to my limbs and closing my eyes makes it worse. Sometimes, with my eyes closed I feel like I'm not actually 'in my body', like my mind is a few feet from my body or something. Visual hallucinations with my eyes open are rare, but my judgement of distance gets screwed up, so things look much further away or closer than they actually are, followed by vertigo, because perspective is screwed up and the slightest movement makes it change again. That said, I've never been awake for more than 3 days in a row, so I can't say how bad it gets for me.

also everything becomes 80% funnier.

I'm really tired right now and I burst out laughing when I read that.

 

[Russian Redneck]

I become shaky and irritable, and I have little control over my emotions or thoughts, lashing out at any sign of hostility or going into a brooding state where my only thought is, "Everyone's out to get me". I also don't have a care in the world and will just say whatever's on my mind, regardless of what others think or care (but that's relatively normal for me). Basically, I become my alter-ego, Jerk Man.

Speaking of staying up late, I once stayed up for 25 hours in college weeks before I dropped out. It was the most unpleasant day of my life there; I was frustrated, woozy, depressed, and I was nearly praying to God to take my life so that I wouldn't have to deal with it anymore. I also became a loud-mouthed, stuttering, mumbling maniac. It was a hard time for me, but I somehow stuck through it.

To sum it all up, when I become tired my mind falls into a state of apathy.

 

[KamikazeSailor]

I'm a natural insomniac, something I inherited from my mother... even during high school I wouldn't go to bed until 2 or 3 in the morning, get about 4 hours of sleep and be good to go...

Since I joined the Navy I've learned to get a better sleep schedule, but on weekends i still tend to stay up all night just cause I don't like sleep, I never sleep well, usually waking up in odd positions, rolling around and such...

And it sucks living in Greece cause when I was younger and couldn't sleep, I was a Mama's Boy, since she was always up too, and we used to play video games But man, that was a decade ago, crazy how time flies...

 

[Anarchemitis]

Nowandays I'm a bit more resilient to being sleepy, but I am extremely sure that's a really bad sign.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

I can keep myself awake aslong as i'm entertained, IE I stayed up all night the day before going to a water park.

 

[Lord Harrab]

I remember once while on camp with Cadets, i stayed awake for four days straight.

i hated everyone and everything

 

[Kehan Wann]

after an entire 24 hours of playing halo i went for a ride with my parents.... i started to see things man...

 

[Labyrinth]

I had insomnia, progressively from mild to chronic for about 7 years. The worst bits were in the first half of this year, and in particular one where I was unable to sleep for about 4 days. By the fourth, I was seeing flashes of light, shadows flickering in my peripheral vision and hearing odd noises. Various snatches of conversations flashed through my memory as though they were repeating, with people I hadn't seen in months.

Not the most pleasant experience.

 

[Ares Tyr]

This shit:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.67984?page=12

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

This shit:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.67984?page=12

So your proclaiming your love of male codpeices? Your finally out the closet? Groovy.

 

[Ares Tyr]

This shit:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.67984?page=12

So your proclaiming your love of male codpeices? Your finally out the closet? Groovy.

Have you seen my profile? Do you know what I look like? Do I look straight to you? No... no, apparently not. Guess the secret's out. I better go tell all my ex-girlfriends what they did...

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

This shit:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.67984?page=12

So your proclaiming your love of male codpeices? Your finally out the closet? Groovy.

Have you seen my profile? Do you know what I look like? Do I look straight to you? No... no, apparently not. Guess the secret's out. I better go tell all my ex-girlfriends what they did...

You know you could have just went with it, and used a dash of sarcasm instead of getting defensive at a joke.

 

[Ares Tyr]

This shit:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.67984?page=12

So your proclaiming your love of male codpeices? Your finally out the closet? Groovy.

Have you seen my profile? Do you know what I look like? Do I look straight to you? No... no, apparently not. Guess the secret's out. I better go tell all my ex-girlfriends what they did...

You know you could have just went with it, and used a dash of sarcasm instead of getting defensive at a joke.

I was. I was trying to imply that I am a girly looking individual and that my ex-girlfriends all turned me onto penis because they were so bad to me.

Guess my humor was lost... Damn, I'm losing my edge. Let's start this over.

Yes, my name is Mike and I am a homosexual.

Is that better?

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

This shit:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.67984?page=12

So your proclaiming your love of male codpeices? Your finally out the closet? Groovy.

Have you seen my profile? Do you know what I look like? Do I look straight to you? No... no, apparently not. Guess the secret's out. I better go tell all my ex-girlfriends what they did...

You know you could have just went with it, and used a dash of sarcasm instead of getting defensive at a joke.

I was. I was trying to imply that I am a girly looking individual and that my ex-girlfriends all turned me onto penis because they were so bad to me.

Guess my humor was lost... Damn, I'm losing my edge. Let's start this over.

Yes, my name is Mike and I am a homosexual.

Is that better?

Fight Club refrence, I like it.(Not in a gay way, har, har -.-)

 

[yourkie1921]

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.

Oh my god, I get that to...the dropping feeling

 

[Ares Tyr]

Fight Club refrence, I like it.(Not in a gay way, har, har -.-)

Well damn. Now everyone's just gonna think I'm gay...

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

(that's a reference to something also, and 100 internets to whoever guesses it).

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

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.

Oh my god, I get that to...the dropping feeling

I get that feeling also, Mostly when walking into a new place.