Topic: Ways to stay awake (Read 24707 times)

pwhodges · « **Reply #50 on:** 16 Aug 2009, 14:46 »

I got wrecked for quite a while when I did a stint at the BBC on the following rotation: 8am-4pm, 8am-4pm, 10am-6pm, 12am-8pm, (next day) 8pm-8am, (next day off).

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #51 on:** 16 Aug 2009, 21:47 »

I don't pull all-nighters. I just go to bed at 5 and sleep for two hours before being forced to wake up at 7 to take my mother to the hospital for a checkup. But of course, the next night, I go to bed at 6pm and wake up at noon.

Staying Awake:
coffee and a bright screen in front of you. that is all I need.

De_El · « **Reply #52 on:** 16 Aug 2009, 21:56 »

Usually when I've pulled an all-nighter and it affects me badly the next day, it is difficult to stay awake from one moment to the next. In between coffees and munching on food, I tend to resort to biting my hands.

ZJGent · « **Reply #53 on:** 16 Aug 2009, 23:10 »

A bout of insomnia brought on by anxiety over having to meet a ladyfriend's mother today has rendered me incapable, baggy of eye and in a right headstate. Lord knows what the old dear will think of me now.

In short: best thing to keep you awake is nagging but not too acute stress, level yet incalculable.

calenlass · « **Reply #54 on:** 17 Aug 2009, 00:39 »

Man I do not know how loud music keeps people awake. I think I am just weird in this, but I hit a certain point of exhaustion and become almost narcoleptic. Like, I could be in the middle of a live Marilyn Manson concert and just drift off, or someone could be trying to carry on a conversation with me and I am suddenly incapable of holding my eyes open. It is really weird.

MadassAlex · « **Reply #55 on:** 17 Aug 2009, 00:43 »

Quote from: calenlass on 17 Aug 2009, 00:39

Like, I could be in the middle of a live Marilyn Manson concert and just drift off

you say that as if its odd

JD · « **Reply #56 on:** 17 Aug 2009, 00:48 »

I've almost fallen asleep at a pep rally. That shit was boring.

calenlass · « **Reply #57 on:** 17 Aug 2009, 01:06 »

Dogg they are loud though. And fans can get violent.

JD · « **Reply #58 on:** 17 Aug 2009, 01:14 »

My friend had to punch me in the shoulder.

calenlass · « **Reply #59 on:** 17 Aug 2009, 01:16 »

Ok fine how about some example of something else that is ungodly loud and potentially violent, which was the point.

scarred · « **Reply #60 on:** 17 Aug 2009, 01:38 »

http://windward.hawaii.edu/facstaff/nuckols-j/KentState.jpg

I don't really know what the joke was you were going for here, but I've changed your image to a link because I don't think people should have to be confronted with a picture of a injured or dead guy and a highly distraught woman from the Kent State massacre when they click in this thread. Or just about any other thread, for that matter. - Inlander.

JD · « **Reply #61 on:** 17 Aug 2009, 01:39 »

That pep rally was loud, I was just smashed from a previous night. Was that unclear?

PS GWAR is ungodly loud and potentially violent.

Masterbainter · « **Reply #62 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 04:29 »

DON'T DO METH, just saying...

I currently going to school and work 10 hour night shifts after 5 hours of straight classes.. Luckily I ca--should be able to get 7 hourish of sleep, however like a douch today I didn't sleep so i'm suffering what you are all talking about at this very moment. I have taken 1 5 hours energy shot the whole time. I'm a little spacey right now and things are going by at an amazing rate, like i'm fucking superman or something I dunno. I'm gonna go try to pick up cars on my next break to test my theory. Also, DON'T FUCKING DO METH!

never done cocaine, but not opposed to people doing it. However, I truly believe if there is anything that should always stay illegal that is meth(even though you can pretty much get the prescription equivilant of such medication from where I work and other pharmacies

LeeC · « **Reply #63 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 04:42 »

drinking water and keeping active. Also having music or the TV on helps too while staying active. If its too quiet and I am trying to stay awake I might fall asleep.

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #64 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 04:48 »

Quote from: Zombiedude on 17 Aug 2009, 01:39

That pep rally was loud, I was just smashed from a previous night. Was that unclear?

PS GWAR is ungodly loud and potentially violent.

I once dozed off sitting in front of the speakers at a metal show. I can sleep through just about anything though so I was the only one who wasn't really surprised by it.

jhocking · « **Reply #65 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 13:14 »

Yeah I did that once at a rave. Then some girl dressed in a leather bikini woke me up by making out with me. ah good times

Liz · « **Reply #66 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 13:16 »

Was this back in college by any chance?

jhocking · « **Reply #67 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 13:21 »

fuck you

yes

LeeC · « **Reply #68 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 13:22 »

man I cant wait to go back to college in 2 weeks.

Reed · « **Reply #69 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 13:30 »

Quote from: jhocking on 20 Aug 2009, 13:21

fuck you

it was last night

FYP

Jace · « **Reply #70 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 14:11 »

I stay awake by keeping my mind occupied

with how long it is gonna take me to do all this cocaine.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #71 on:** 20 Aug 2009, 15:04 »

i stay awake by trying to go to sleep. it's fucking frustrating.

All_¥our_Bass · « **Reply #72 on:** 21 Aug 2009, 23:08 »

T3h internet and the caffeinated beverage of your choice.

It's what I do anyway.

JD · « **Reply #73 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 00:50 »

I find with too much caffeine I start to act exactly like a squirrel.

Drill King · « **Reply #74 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 01:19 »

Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 20 Aug 2009, 15:04

i stay awake by trying to go to sleep. it's fucking frustrating.

tania · « **Reply #75 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 17:33 »

drive all the way to your friend's birthday party in another city an hour away to see old friends and relax and right before falling asleep, have two of the drunken residents of the house you are staying at get into a screaming violent freakout fight literally all goddamn night before you then have to wake up the next morning and drive another hour all the way back to the city you came from to work all day

not that this happened to me last night or that i'm bitter or anything

JD · « **Reply #76 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 17:35 »

You don't sound bitter at all

nichidani · « **Reply #77 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 18:43 »

adderall.

definitely adderall.

my friends used to go on adderall binges and stay up for like two and three days without meaning to. not my cup of tea (i can sleep on adderall, i am the super-sleeper), but whatever works.

bicostp · « **Reply #78 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 18:52 »

How about not letting things pile up to the point where you have to pull an all-nighter?

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #79 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 18:57 »

Quote from: bicostp on 22 Aug 2009, 18:52

How about not letting things pile up to the point where you have to pull an all-nighter?

..........Nope. I'm not getting it.

I just use coffee. Once I had to go to a way out-of-town gig, leaving really early and getting back late at night. I drove the whole way there and back. I barely made it back, too. Coffee was absolutely necessary.

Ikrik · « **Reply #80 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 19:27 »

I've always had problems sleeping so I don't really have too much to contribute. Coffee or pop is always suggested and is usually a great idea. Start drinking it during the middle of the day and then you won't really feel tired at all. Avoid energy drinks as much as you can, the crashes from those are absolutely horrible when you're trying to pull any kind of all-nighter. The only time I'd suggest using energy drinks to fuel that is when you only need to stay up for maybe another two hours or so, then feel free but when you crash, you'll probably fall asleep.

I've heard that singing out loud helps. My old roommate used to do that and woke me up at 4-6 in the morning constantly.

If you have friends in radically different time zones than you try calling and talking to them, that can really help as well (skype is your best friend for this). If you don't have friends in radically different time zones see if you have a friend who's kind of in the same situation as you are and stick with them.

Snacking also helps. Go to the store and pick up like, a 12 pack of pop, a couple bags of chips, and some cookies. If you snack periodically you'll be able to keep going. Just don't eat a huge meal.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #81 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 19:33 »

Quote from: calenlass on 17 Aug 2009, 00:39

Man I do not know how loud music keeps people awake. I think I am just weird in this, but I hit a certain point of exhaustion and become almost narcoleptic. Like, I could be in the middle of a live Marilyn Manson concert and just drift off, or someone could be trying to carry on a conversation with me and I am suddenly incapable of holding my eyes open. It is really weird.

I fell asleep at a Puddle of Mudd concert. When I woke up, I thought the washing machine had been loaded lopsidedly and wash shaking away from the wall - it was the band

nichidani · « **Reply #82 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 20:46 »

also, it is pretty easy to stay up really radically late if you are playing the SHIT out of a video game.

see: final fantasy.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #83 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 20:50 »

Final Fantasy always bores the crap out of me, but that's my feeling. I've just never enjoyed that style of game. Though, I do agree with you in principle. The day Mass Effect came out was the day before I was supposed to go visit my parents for Thanksgiving. Luckily, my roommate was driving. I stayed up until I had to leave, because the game was easily engrossing enough. It's exactly the type of RPG I like.

nichidani · « **Reply #84 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 20:54 »

i don't play final fantasy either, but my boyfriend stayed up for days playing final fantasy seven when he was younger.
(i got final fantasy and returned it and bought cooking mama.)

but i can say that left4dead has consumed far too many hours of my life, most of those being late-night and morning hours. that game can keep one up.

Bastardous Bassist · « **Reply #85 on:** 22 Aug 2009, 21:13 »

I stayed awake into the wee hours playing Halo 3. The thing is, I was studying for the Physics GRE that month (a month is not nearly long enough to study) and I had banned myself from playing video games. Then one of my friends knocks on my door and wants to try out Halo 3 (my roommate had bought it). I figured that I'd like to try it, and since I kind of hate how repetitive the story is in all of the Halo games, I never wanted to play Halo 3 again. So we kept playing until we beat it. I haven't touched the game since. Also, when I first started playing Half-Life 2, I kept saying "I'll stop when I get to the next stage." It was light out when I went to bed. Video games help keep your mind going. Well, some of them do.

Ballard · « **Reply #86 on:** 23 Aug 2009, 17:12 »

Quote from: est on 15 Aug 2009, 23:52

Meth!

loco_banana · « **Reply #87 on:** 23 Aug 2009, 17:58 »

Not laying down. As long as I am sitting up in a chair, or standing, I can usually go on. [THE CHAIR CANNOT HAVE ARMS - VERY IMPORTANT]

Fucking and eating are both bad ideas, don't listen to them.

Whatever McStuffpants · « **Reply #88 on:** 24 Aug 2009, 02:00 »

Nothing more effective to me than having to finish a project for the next day

No "artificial" aid used, ever.
In addition, I don't play it but World of Warcraft is a hell of a way to stay aaaaall night up. Some friends of mine have proved it several times.
Last time I spend a whole night up was this July, chating with two friends after a party. At 8 am my eyes began to close, and then what really worked was drinking one gulp of curdled milk (totally unintentional, but my brain and my stomach might took it as a threat, hehe).

Hat · « **Reply #89 on:** 24 Aug 2009, 05:26 »

Pulling an all nighter tonight cause I forgot I have a small assignment due tomorrow morning at 8 am and also I have to go to the dump at 6 am. I don't have an alarm clock lately so I find I've just been pulling all nighters to compensate for the lack of anything to wake me up that early.

It sounds bad just doing this shit because I'm too poor to go out and spend 10 bucks on a clock radio, but since I work nights anyway this isn't really a big deal. I'll probably hold off on caffeine until about 4 am when it might have a chance in hell of helping me achieve the things I have to achieve tomorrow.

The best part about this is I have work at 6am on Wednesday morning so basically tomorrow I will get home from uni at about 10am, fall asleep, wake up about 8pm and need to go back to sleep immediately to get back up for work again the next morning (I suspect another all nighter coming on!)

The worst work/sleep schedule I have ever had, by the way:

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday: Work at 6 am, uni from about 12-6.
Thursday/Friday: Work from 8 am till 6 pm
Saturday: Work from 6pm til about 5 am
Sunday: My only day off: wake up at about five pm, get blind drunk until about 10 pm, go out clubbing till 5 am, roll into work still munted at 6am and repeat.

Basically a normal working week except slightly longer and with the Saturday night shift thrown in to keep me perpetually off balance. I do miss day shifts for one specific reason though, and that is because sleeping during the day in Summer is FUCKED.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #90 on:** 24 Aug 2009, 05:36 »

I once worked a week of 6:30am til 10:30am, then 2pm til 10pm Monday to Friday, with the worst flu I have ever had in my life (I'm sure the not sleeping thing did not help the flu). That was fucking brutal.

My typical work week at the moment is

Mon: 2pm-10pm
Tue: 6:30am-10:30am + 2pm-10pm
Wed: Day off
Thu: 6:30am-10:30am
Fri: 6:30am-10:30am + 2pm-10pm
Sat: Day off
Sun: 2pm-7:30pm + 8pm-12am

I have often found that it is 4am when I am on Meebo, and I have no idea how.

All_¥our_Bass · « **Reply #91 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 00:00 »

POWERTHIRST!!!!

Melodic · « **Reply #92 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 03:14 »

Masturbate all goddamn night.

MadassAlex · « **Reply #93 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 03:51 »

Doesn't work. At least for males. Your body is designed to get sleepy after ejaculation.

phooey · « **Reply #94 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 10:26 »

Go to sleep, all of you.

MadassAlex · « **Reply #95 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 21:34 »

But seriously guys this thread is more about staying up throughout the day after the night itself.

I mean, an all-nighter isn't an all-nighter unless you can pull through the day, too, otherwise it's just delayed sleep and a fucked-up sleep schedule.

A Shoggoth on the Roof · « **Reply #96 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 22:07 »

guiz they have caffeine in pills now. it's like 4 espresso shots in one pill and it works REALLY well.

amok · « **Reply #97 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 22:20 »

4 espresso shots is way tastier than one pill

it's 6:20 am do I do the 'fucked up sleep schedule' thing or the 'this thread' thing

Jace · « **Reply #98 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 22:59 »

We are entering hour 24.
How is he doing?
I think he is fine for now, but is probably going to completely crash in the next two or three hours.

Hey I am describing my situation in italics.

A Shoggoth on the Roof · « **Reply #99 on:** 26 Aug 2009, 23:37 »

for someone who does not particularly enjoy coffee, pills are a nice option if I absolutely need to stay awake. also less expensive overall, four espresso would probably cost as much as the entire bottle, if not more. I generally try to avoid caffeine in general, but whatever, sometimes I need to stay awake. like for school or the like.

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