What happens when you don't get any sleep at all?
 

This got me thinking about what sleep deprivation can do to a person. For example, for some reason after an all-nighter, I have a weird habit of making everything I say rhyme. After I get a nap, it disappears though.

So does anyone else have any weird habits when they had to stay up all night? How long does it take you to recover?

When Diablo II came out, I got off work Friday morning (after working all night since 10), came home, installed the game, and my buddies and I proceded to play until Sunday morning around 8 or 9 ish. I promptly fell asleep, woke up for work that night, and went to work.

My body is pretty used to that sort of thing, although nowadays I enjoy getting my sleep, but if I don't get it for a night or two because something is calling my name in ominous and demonic tones, I don't fret too much.

I get rather loopy if I stay up all night. My body can barely function at the end of the day when I do that. Therefore I crash early on those days.

If I don't get any sleep at all at night, I end up falling asleep during my classes. It doesn't take long for me to recover because I AM in public and my actions would probably cause my grades to plunge. Oh yeah. My eyes also get swollen and it takes a considerable amount of effort to keep them open.

After the first 24 hours, it simply becomes a matter of staying active and replacing sleep with calories. If I remain active, I can remain focused. As soon as I stop, fatigue comes rushing over me and I might start to hallucinate.

I've had to pull lotsa all-nighters for studying. I'll go all night, the next day I might be a bit groggy, but I keep energy about myself, still. But for some reason, 4pm-5pm hits me like a freight train and that often knocks me out in a matter of minutes irregardless of what I'm doing. I had to cram like hell for a test once. Got it over with and had to go to another lecture from 5-6pm. I was out ten minutes before it started, passed out, and snored throughout class o__o;

Eventually I'll get a second wind and be alright, but before that I start to frequently nod off, and if I'm talking to someone sometimes what they're saying to me is incorporated into a mini-dream before I wake up again seconds later, and I get really confused and have no idea what's going on. Occasionally I'll respond while I'm still asleep with total nonsense.

I have an urge to go to the bathroom. Why? Hell if I know. The least amount of sleep I've had was about 3, so, yeah..

When I pull all-nighters, I have insatiable urges to play the piano until my fingers hurt. And even then, I sometimes don't stop.

If you stay up long enough you will start to hallucinate, along with the fatigue that accompanies sleep deprivation, it inhibits your ability to think clearly.

I get rather loopy... strangely enough, ill either be.. hyper or ill just be a complete zombie... it happens all the time.. going to school and having sleep problems dont mix too well... ._. ive never stayed up long enough to hallucinate, i only stay awake till i start to feel nauseous, then ill stop whatever im doing to sleep... not too healthy, i kno...but my brain doesnt know when its time to sleep... lol

After about 50-60 hours of being I started to hallucinate. Also after the 5th week of only getting 3 hours of sleep a night I started to hallucinate and fall asleep while standing up.

Usually my face and ears get pretty hot. Then i usually have a bad stomach ache and I have to go to the bathroom.

I've only pulled a full all nighter once. Me and my friend stayed up all night and then in the morning we started to play video games and I kind of just fell asleep in the middle of it.

Headache, then I slowly dwindle to my bed, and try to lie in positions where it's "impossible" for me to fall asleep, but I always fall asleep anyways. ex. Sleeping with one of your arms standing up.

Errr..... well, I think I just play games for about 4 hours. Haha, I just play until its impossible to fall asleep, and then I just asleep on the ground or on the couch. It all works out good.

The most I've ever done was an all-nighter, and that was when I was like 11 or 12 years old at a sleepover. I was moderatley tired the next day, I think I took a nap for about an hour or so, but it didn't really effect me that much.

I generally try to get as much sleep as possible. Just last Saturday was the first day that I can remember that I actually woke up refreshed. I usually get up around 11 on Saturdays and I'm still groggy- this time I woke up at 6:30 and felt awesome. I'm going to do everything I can to get that feeling again.

I fall down when I stand on the second day a lot. If I push it, I'll hallucinate. I've never stayed up more than two days, so I'm not sure about after that.

I do this pretty frequently, actually. For me, it's a special occasion to grab a bunch of caffiene... "things," (Fraps, starbucks double shots, actual cups of coffee... whatever I can get my hands on) leave the windows open so it's cold as hell, and blast some vocal trance.

It helps me into an "altered" state that I write in, sometimes. A bit like the beatnicks, except I make more sense.

I generally become woozy and very unstable when walking. My emotions become exaggerated and anything that feels soft becomes a blanket. I have never stayed up long enough to hallucinate, but I have almost fallen asleep right where I was sitting (or laying as commonly the case).

Umm, hehe. It depends what type of all-nighter I pull. If it's for school for lets say, a lab or an essay, I go completely braindead. It's like I'm drunk, basically.

When it's an art project or I just played games for the whole night, I can still function but can no longer tell whether or not I'm dreaming cause it constantly feels like I'm dreaming. I also loose all feeling to my body at times.

If I stay up through the night and goto class tomorrow, after class i'll be dead and sleep around 4pm for a few hours. After that, waking up and goto bed at a normal time again like 2am.

I've never made it to the hallucination stage; although I am eager to experience hallucination at some point of my life. My personal record is 36 hours, at which point I just start to feel icky with myself and the adrenaline no longer seems to be pumping and the taste of coffee sickens me.

I pulled all-nighters frequently in high school when I neglected to write papers until the night before they were due. Strangely, I got better grades on these papers than papers into which I actually put effort, research, and actual editing. But if I slapped together some random facts and made up a false bibliography by mentioning pages of books I looked up on Amazon.com, boom, instant A.

Maybe sleep deprivation hinders my brain just enough to keep me from thinking too hard.

I've never gone more than 20 hours without sleep. I usually try to get at least a few hours of sleep if my workload is full instead of going all night without any rest.

If I can't sleep at all for any reason, I don't get up to do something. I tend to remain still and wait to finally fall asleep.

If I get past the hump of time in which I'm really tired, I get a second wave of energy and will be good to go normally from around hours 24-48. Then its time to get some rest. Also, its wierd, but when I feel really tired, the world kinda closes around me, but I enter a super focused state in which I can do homework or art with more ease than in a more rested state.

- WraithTwo -

takes about a good days rest, maybe 14 hours of sleep , did about 2.5 days without sleep and crashed hard 0_o

Well, everytime I've stayed awake whole night, the next day is really weird, like I'm high or drunk, but only in my mind, everything else works fine. Also I tend to say pretty stupid stuff. I've never managed to stay awake for long though, usually by the time I'll come back home I'm dead tired and sleep 12 hours, maybe more.

The other day I had zilch hours of sleep, and I was REALLY grumpy.

when i do an allnighter i do feel sleepy at some point, but after awhile it just disappears and it's as if i've had my sleep, but then i'm easily affected by daylight, if i wake up earlier than i should but it's light outside i won't be able to go back to sleep, i also can't sleep while it's light outside.

though if i do sleep but don't get enough, i turn into a zombie, i do things, but sometimes forget what i'm doing; i might go to the bathroom but end up in the kitchen and have no idea why for a few minutes before i remember.

After all-nighters, it reaches a point where I'm not even tired anymore. Sometimes I'm still pretty much "normal" and aware. Other times I truly am in zombie mode. The longest I've stayed up was about 120 hours. That was during my early years of college (2-3 years ago). I doubt I could pull off such a stunt now, but all-nighters sometimes happen still, as well as nights with not much sleep. For example, this morning: ~2 hours.

Think of when you're tired and you've got it done. Besides, I always get 8+ hours of sleep. I'm a sleeper.

I usualy just can't speak to save my life. If i haven't had enough sleep, i won't be able to string together a proper sentence until i get some sleep. I just end up stopping talking altogether untili get some sleep.

My friend goes really weird when she doesn't sleep though. She becomes extremely hyper and crazy. It's pretty damn scary

If I stay up all night, so long as the sun is out for my second wind, I get about 10 times more productive. I become EXTREMELY aware and I get kind of crazed. Problem is, I never really REMEMBER what I did after I finally get some sleep.

I've gone about 50 hours without sleep - I was driving in the middle of the night with a carload full of people. By the time the 50 hours was up, I was literally falling asleep anywhere I could. Nodding off right next to the fire, trying to just close my poor eyes. At that point, not even coffee can save me.

My longest is about 72 hours without sleep. In that time I was used to barely sleep and hadn't a lot of problems catching up either but now... I get some weird kinda stomachache, sometimes hallucinate, finally start to laugh like hell until I roll over the floor and then fall asleep. It's almost as if I'm catching up on all the sleep that I've missed in the past right now...

One of my friends told me that he once went for 2 and a half days without sleeping and he said he would see shadows everywhere that would be standing under trees and stuff and then they would disappear and they freaked him out.

It seems when I was younger and into video games I could stay up forever. Now my tolerance for sleep deprevation is low. If I dont get sleep, I just pass out for a good 12-14 hours.

I forgot to add that the one place I'm hit hardest without sleep is my speech. I won't be able to form a word correctly, much less a full sentence.

- WraithTwo -

After the first week, I started hallucinating. After the third week, I woke up in a hospital bed. Final Fantasy Tactics is superbly involving.

I dunno. I usually just get pretty active for a bit. Half way threw whatever "active" activity I'm doing (Raking Leaves, Mowing the Lawn, Washing a Car, Cleaning my room, whatever) I'll decided it's bedtime. If I have to work, It's usually one of the worst days of work ever where minutes feel like hours.


I pull all nighters often enough to hate them. I just don't see the fun in doing it anymore like I did when I was 12 and had sleepovers and stuff. Now it's just non-stop dragging day after bullshit.

I once stayed up for 36 hours and did it on the worst possible day--Saturday. When it came time to go to church, I was already up and awake. I couldn't pay attention to save my life and I kept falling asleep every minute. I also started seeing things and I was forgetting little stuff. Somebody asked me my name during that time and I got all confused.

When I got home, I went to sleep and stayed asleep for 18 hours...

Happened once last term...never again.

I tried very hard to keep my eyes open in class throughout all of the next day, but instead my head kept drooping, and I would always twitch awake like a spaz after one minute or so. I tried to use cold things to keep me awake, and would bob around funny, and I wasn't walking perfectly straight because I would zig zag after I close my eyes.

Just watch The Machinist. That'll answer all your questions.

When I don't get enough sleep, things said in one ear, goes out the other. I react slow and I'm usually in my own world. If I catch enough sleep, I'll be ok. I usually have to nap to recover.

I've been diagnosed to be an insomniac. I rarely feel tired when I go to bed and rarely feel awake when I get up. Every week I try to get on some sort of schedule, but fail. No matter how long I sleep I still feel tired. As there is such a thing as getting too much sleep, I've fallen into that trap too.
I'm on a bunch of pills to try and sleep better, but those haven't been very successful.
I'm not really an insomniac in the traditional sense where I get no sleep, but it's been known to happen with me. I go without sleep and get way off during the week.
I can still get up and go places I need to be, but oftentimes I struggle with it, am really grumpy, or really hyper or loopy.
everything's funny when I haven't had enough sleep when I'm with the right crowd.
As for Eleo who says he's eager to experience hallucination . . . why? It's not as fun as you think.

Yes, actually hallucinations are quite terrifying (depending on what you get).

I guess my hallucinations were more of a delayed reaction. I was seeing people and things that were there about a minute or so ago. It was really weird because I would run into stuff and trip over my own feet a lot. I tried to eat before I fell asleep for 18 hours and my face was mere inches from falling in my bowl of cereal... :(

I seem to concentrate better, but that usually wears off after around 20 hours. The super-concentration skills are almost always accompanied with strange behavior similar to that of a sugar-loaded nutcase.

Wow, seeing my quote up there did surprise me a lil bit. Didn't know one simple fact that happened in my life could bring up a topic like this, lol. How honored. ^^

I try not to pull an all-nighter as much as possible. Because if I did, the next day I won't be functioning right (like falling asleep in classes), and for some reason, I'd start to talk a lot and get really hyper if there are people around me. Coffee doesn't wake me up either because I drink so much of it and now my body is used to the caffeine.

My longest period of not sleeping was 6 and a half days done purely to see how long I could if I forced it. It's really not bad if you force cafein and sugar constantly and keep yourself occupied as boredom = the end after 3 days or so. You also really learn about your natural cycles and when your second winds come in as they will give you the energy to relax a bit for an hour or two with less risk of passing out. Lets see after about 2 and a half days I was getting audio halucinations of people talking at me from behind. At about 5 I started seeing things moving in my peripheral vision regularly with the occasional flash of motion darting in front of me. At the last bit I was roughly a zombie in that I could barely respond to anything. I could understand everything that happened around me but reacting to it was nearly impossible. I probably could have forced it to a full 7 days but I was in summer school and working at the time and I had become completely useless at both so I figured I'd best just get back to normal. Course back then I used to sleep roughly 4 hours every other night so I had a lot of practice at the whole thing.

Dude you serious? Nearly 7 days? That's insane. I've never gone more then 2 days BUT then again I've never really tried. Maybe I'll try this... I mean I have the opportunity right now being on break and all. The main problem would be to find things to do without getting bored.

Oddly enough, I can pull a all-nighter without much trouble, beyond feeling like shit the next day. I tired to stay up for 48 hours once, on account of it, back when I was younger and a friend from LA was over... that was a huge mistake, as I felt pretty sick from the ordeal in the end.

There's a point in time where if I get tired enough, I'll I usually lose all feeling in me and end up staying up for about a full day, on average, which can be helpful sometimes when doing homework. The longest I've ever managed to stay up for was about 3 days straight, and that was in Hawaii with my cousin on a bet to see who could stay up the longest. I ended up losing that bet.

The thing is though, I"ll completely crash afterwards. Sleep for a good 10-12 hours after about 2 days of no sleep.

For me the most is 38 hours. Never had any strange things happen though, I was just ridiculously tired and felt like falling on the ground sleeping. I don't have very good tolerance for sleep deprivation either :(

I often pull all-nighters, I think my very first time pulling an all-night was when I got into the World of Warcraft beta. Didn't sleep for a day and half. I felt like shit though afterwards, and took me a couple of days to recover. Now though I recover just right away really. I'll stay awake for 30-40 hours, go to sleep for like 8 hours and wake up as if nothing had happened at all. The first 24 hours are really easy for me, after that though it becomes a game of me trying to stay active. I start to nod off to sleep but wake up as soon as my head drops, but after a certain amount of time has passed, like 28 hours, I end up getting like this second wind almost always and I'm no longer tired at all. I find it rather weird.

Not like I'm saying I don't believe you, but the world record for staying awake is 11 days. That seems... extraordinary to say the least. It must take incredible willpower.

One day, I've participated with my clan to a CS:S marathon contest (we won). It was a whole night gaming with only 30 minutes of pause. We drank so many red bulls to stay awake that I've been to sleep 76 hours later... Instead of falling straight in a coma, it had been super-hard to fall asleep... I was dead tired and, as I thought, once I was at the office, it all came at once. @_@''

My head and eyes begin to hurt and the sleep spell feels like large wave of hot water is puring over my head. Once I hit the bed, 12+ sleep guaranteed. I contracted insomnia somehow and went 2 weeks without sleep - having experienced this sleeping disorder, I really feel bad for perma-insomniacs.

The last time I didn't get enough sleep, very bad things happened, although it was combined with a lot of stress from Uni work and a lack of any breakfast for three consecutive days. You see, I had only been allowing myself about 4 hours per night for three night.

So there I was, in the computer lab walking to the laser printer to pick something up. The next second, I was sitting in a chair with people staring at me; apparently i'd had a fatigue-induced seizure and been flailing around on the floor. At first I thought nothing of it and tried ot get up but promptly fell back on my ass because I was so weak. I also had grazes on my head and wrists from the carpet as I was flailing.

Some nice guy there took me to the hospital, and they did a blood-test of some sort. They found nothing wrong so I just went home and had the rest of the day off. I didn't feel bad after a few hours, but I was worried at first that it might be some form of chronic epiliepsy, which would have effectively made me useless for anything in my life that involved machinery, driving, or crossing the street.

I also can't imagine what it must have looked like to my friends; it was so embarrassing.

One of my friends has the habit of taking caffeine pills when she needs to pull an all-nighter to study for the exams. What she told me was that once she took the pill, she could stay awake for a very long time without sleeping and quite awake when she took the exam. But once after the exam was over and she wanted to rest, she found it was tough for me to fall asleep. She was extremely exhausted, but couldn't fall asleep, and heart skipped every other beat or so, and even beating fast then slow from time to time. I was going to take a pill from her when I had to study for my last exam, but after hearing the side-effect of it, I decided not to.

Pulled an all nighter in grade 8, and haven't right since. Have horrible times sleeping, hard to get to sleep, always feelign tired....might not be from that though, but whatever.

I think my body works in weird ways with sleep. First off, when I Sleep, I can sleep pretty much anywhere and not remember any dreams (In fact It feels like I go to sleep and the next moment I'm waking up). Secondly I am a Dead SLeeper. A nuclear bomb can go of and I won't be affected.

I believe that I can run for a very long time without sleep as long as I have something my mind can concentrate on. If I don't (Even if I did get a lot of sleep recently) then I go into sleep mode no matter what.

As long as I remain active, I can usually sluff off an all-nighter or a night where I get very little sleep. A lot of times, my 1230-2PM Macroeconomics class is where my tiredness catches up to me, and I spend the majority of it nodding off.

I cant see how it's possible for some of you to stay up so long. How do you keep going without any dreaming or sleeping going on? Your body and mind cant recharge if you never sleep.

I've been up past 24 hours in the past and I just drop flat. I will fall forward and sleep. Then when I wake up I feel exhausted and drained. Even if I go back to sleep the energy drain remains. Only after a few days do I feel normal again.

I'm good with 3-5 hours of sleep a day.

Some people condition themselves though.

Geez... Stupid question but how do you condition yourself?

I'm not sure about others, but if I sleep 5 hours each day for about two weeks, I tend to get used to it and no longer have trouble waking up in the morning. During the weekends though, I tend to sleep longer than that.

Generally you'd want to sleep for the same amount of hours and time of sleep (Like what time you go to sleep and get up) for about 2-3 weeks. after that, your body will be used to sleeping that way and it will be generally very easy, at times almost 'automatic' for you to run on low sleep, or odd hours.

There are no (That I know of) quick ways to have your body memorize sleep patterns, but a couple cups of coffie or soda can help you break off a previous sleep pattern as well.

You stay awake. *rimshot*

So, if someone's had a very off pattern for say, years, then what? How much more longer do they need to get used to a sleeping pattern?

Just want to interject that I have not slept since I got up at 9am on Thursday. It is currently 3:39 AM saturday morning.
No hallucinations yet.
Although, I feel too tired to go to sleep. ;_;

Why are you staying awake so long?

o_o Dude, go get some sleep or something! Take a sleeping pill if you have to!

I was up for a day and half once and good grief I was falling alseep all over the place, giggling at anything, talking random nonesense. I do poorly when I have little sleep. It also affects my grades too, so I try not to stay up too late. :|

Well, you eventually start to hallucinate.
I find operating on little to no sleep is a problem for me. The world starts to get all spinny and I make very stupid decisions I wouldn't usually make.

I find it takes me about 2 or 3 days to fully recover from sleep deprivation.

I usually just drift in and out of sleep during class the next day. Getting up at 5 every morning sucks. :(

Basically, the night before I posted that, I had to stay up to work on several school projects that were due on friday.

And lucky for me, I managed to sleep until 230pm today, so it is all good.

Me and the band from school went to Banff in Alberta for a concert, and we hardly slept for about 3 days, only about 5 hours total I think. Anyways, one on my friends who was sleeping im our room had taken about 3 more energy drinks than was the healthy amount and he was very hyper for about 15 minutes and then he started acting like a fool so he had to stay in the hotel bathroom by himself for about 15 more minutes. He overdosed pretty bad.

Headaches, Stomach aches, and generally feeling like crap.
And I end up with the attention span of sperm, which makes for a smashing conversation.

I can easily stay up 24 hours straight as long as im doing something and not sitting around. However, my eyes will start to feel sore. 48 hours I did twice, I was tryin not to fall asleep where I was.

When I get too tired, I simply can't concentrate, my eyes get sore and tired, and I end up eating loads of stuff I shouldn't (ie, junk food!) I always try to avoid driving, since I've had a few near misses in this condition. >< Not good.

So friday night at the theatre………

I can stay up as long as I absolutely have to, but I seem to get snappier and really ill-mannered the longer I stay awake. And after a while everything starts moving around, and I start taking longer blinks...it's what I think being drunk is like, especially when I have to drive.

I pulled all-nighters writing term papers, something I'd rather not do again. If I don't get enough sleep, I end up going the next day pissed off, drifting in and out of sleep with a sort of scowl on my face and biting anyone's heads off who make any effort in communicating with me.

Takes about a day and a half to recover from it.

When we had to rush our Thesis to meet the deadline. Revisions galore! Was not able to get enough sleep. After that, I got headaches and the flu >_<

Got to recover after a week of resting. Heh.

My sleep patterns are really, really weird and chaotic, no thanks to my rather high caffeine usage. My body seems to decide that it's time to sleep without any rhyme or reason; sometimes, I'll be sitting in class or at the computer just a few hours after a good night's sleep, and I'll suddenly feel very tired. OTOH, as of right now, I've been up for almost two days straight, and I'm much more energetic than usual right now. o_o

something tells me that I'll probably sleep all day tomorrow, classes be damned.

For some reason, if I stay up for more than a day straight or so, I start to feel much hungrier than usual for some reason. My speech and writing become a bit unfocused and wordy, but I'm usually guilty of that even when I'm well-rested. ^^;

Hey, I'm pulling an all nighter right now! But weird thing is, I'm here in GFF... hmmm. I should get to work. But first,
I always 'plan' an all-highter. I make sure I get home really early afternoon, sleep for at least two hours and at six, I know i'm wide awake the rest of the night. Oh, and it doesn't hurt to have a bit of turkish coffee to help me out.

Not getting any sleep isn't the best feeling in the world. At a certain point, I can feel my entire body shut down but my eyes are too bloodshot to close by themselves. That, plus the once steaming pot of coffee gets my hands so jittery it becomes impossible to get half of you to sleep when the other half's wide awake. Definitely not healthy and definitely not recommended.

You guys might want to check this site:

http://www.sleep-deprivation.com/

Personally, my longest time of sleep deprivation is 4 days. I had to work long days and couldn't sleep at all.
After that I got sent home and forced to rest. I think I slept about 17 hours a day for about 2 days.

Longest time I went without sleep was... 80 hours? I was cutting weight for wrestling (had to cut 25 in 20 days and the last 3 days I still have 8 pounds to go that I couldn't keep off to save my life, even with just drinking water and eating celery) and I couldn't sleep I was so hungry and in pain. And eventually by the start of the third day my body was numb to the pain and I was pretty much a zombie at school. The fourth day I weighed in at 170.7, ate a banana, threw it up (stomach shrank), wrestled my match, pinned my kid (first match of the season) midway through the second period, couldn't sleep then because of built up adrenaline, went home and ate a handful of potato chips and fell asleep with my head on the kitchen table for 3 hours. I woke up completely rested and couldn't sleep again for another 36 hours I guess because my body wanted to maintain...

Wierd if you ask me...

The longest I stayed up was 24 hours....I usualy get the giggles....a lot of giggles. And then strange random habbits just start from there. They change each time I stay up late....So I can't really give you an idea for the simple reason is I don't really remember myself :ashamed:...

When ever I don't get sleep, I feel extremely sick & sometimes I wish I was dead... although I never get headaches or anything of that nature... Its always stuff like my joints are sore & my muscles are killing me.. Stuff like that!

Hallucination actually happened to me once before, when I pulled an all-nighter studying and went straight to the exam in the morning. On the way back to my car, I thought I saw something or whatever was weird, but turned out to be there was nothing moving, not even a noise. lol...

And yes, it usually takes me about 2-3 days to recover from a bad sleepdeprivation too.