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Ways to stay awake
Drill King:
Break your heart into a thousand glass shards.
phooey:
I'm serious, though, why do you have to stay awake? Just recently I had a lot of jetlag and ended up staying up for about 45 hours straight. I wouldn't recommend it more than once in a lifetime if it can be avoided. I'm a huge proponent of power naps - chug a caffeinated drink of your choice, fall asleep, and wake up 20-40 minutes later just as the caffeine starts taking effect. That and a shower, and I'm ready for whatever the day throws at me.
I'm still pretty young though, so words like 'circadian rhythm' and 'beauty sleep' don't often cross my mind. Basically I live (on the edge/like a feral creature).
JD:
Power naps always sounded like a misnomer to me.
phooey:
Only because you've never experienced the power.
Lunchbox:
--- Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_nap ---The caffeine nap
A caffeine nap is a short nap that is preceded by the intake of caffeine. In a driving simulator and a series of studies, Horne and Reyner investigated the effects of cold air, radio, a break with no nap, a nap, caffeine pill vs. placebo and a short nap preceded by caffeine on mildly sleep-deprived subjects. The last mentioned was by far the most effective in reducing driving "incidents" and subjective sleepiness. Caffeine in coffee takes up to a half-hour to have an alerting effect, hence "a short (<15min) nap will not be compromised if it is taken immediately after the coffee
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