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| What's the longest you've ever gone WITHOUT SLEEP? |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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 Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 2:11 am Post subject: |
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| Axl Rose wrote: |
NEVER AGAIN! If you get ZERO sleep, call in sick and say you got a stomach infection, diarrhea etc etc.
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In my previous job back in England, I hadn't slept all night and called in sick. I was completely honest and said "I can't come in today because I haven't slept a wink". They accepted it at the time (they can't force me to come in can they?) but when I returned I got a written warning because APPARENTLY not sleeping a sodding wink doesn't qualify as actual sickness! Ludicrous. A person who hasn't slept at all is a liability.
I tell you what though...tis better to go to work having had NO sleep whatsoever than go to work with a soju hangover. The latter is too horrid for words!  |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 3:30 am Post subject: |
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Adding the "finishing touches" to my degree thesis.
-awake 2 days 2 nights.
Surprising thing is that I was fine: a constant supply of strong coffee, cigarettes, cold showers, jogs outside in the cold winter air- kept me wide awake. I finally handed it in, and after that I wasn't even tired.
I broke the sleep barrier on the first night, then I sort of went into a hyper-awake mode. It was actually difficult to fall asleep after that. |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: |
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I only sleep three or four hours a night.
Down at 1AM- Wake at 5AM and go to the gym.
The less sleep you have- The less you need.
Have the odd few nights in a row every month that I fail to sleep. |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:02 am Post subject: |
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| Noel Gallagher from Oasis once attempted to stay awake for over 48 hours. He'd heard that if you manage it, you never need to sleep ever again. He collapsed of exhaustion. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:27 am Post subject: |
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| rapier wrote: |
Adding the "finishing touches" to my degree thesis.
-awake 2 days 2 nights.
Surprising thing is that I was fine: a constant supply of strong coffee, cigarettes, cold showers, jogs outside in the cold winter air- kept me wide awake. I finally handed it in, and after that I wasn't even tired.
I broke the sleep barrier on the first night, then I sort of went into a hyper-awake mode. It was actually difficult to fall asleep after that. |
Too familiar. The stimulants, the bracing cold showers and air. And there is that "sleep barrier" one breaks (or one doesn't), after which it's not as punishing as you'd think. It can loosen you up and enable you to approach burning problems with... if not exactly greater clarity and focus, then at least a composure and calmness that can be very useful and productive.
Likewise, when I finished my thesis I didn't rush right home and crash for two straight days as I'd planned. No, I met friends by chance in the street and we went off to drink, party, whatever. It was in the early afternoon. A great weight had been lifted off me and I wanted to sit on the grass and laugh and look at girls and the blue sky and hear birds chirping. Sleep?!! I was too busy living for the first time in weeks!
| peemil wrote: |
I only sleep three or four hours a night.
Down at 1AM- Wake at 5AM and go to the gym.
The less sleep you have- The less you need.
Have the odd few nights in a row every month that I fail to sleep. |
Agreed, less you sleep the less you need. It's a pattern you form. But I'd recommend five hours. I have no scientific studies to cite, just my gut instinct and experience talking.
A few nights in a row that you don't sleep??? So what is that? 48 hours up? I have one friend who manages that, but he doesn't have a regular job. He'll reach a "drinker's nirvana" where he, in effect, coasts on a steady supply of social interaction and beers for a few days. He doesn't pound it, just maintains an even keel... for two, even three days straight. "It's hard work drinking the way I do"
We'll meet him for dinner on a Friday, then drop by his place on Sunday lunchtime, and he'll not have slept in between. He's a freelance designer, and he'll throw himself into a project for days, with amazing intensity and results. You can't actually be around him then, as he won't talk. I don't mean he isn't talkative -- I mean he _will not talk_ to you. Won't answer the door, won't answer phonecalls from clients. 
Oh, and his "last supper" (just before he finally crashes for two solid days) is invariably a packet of bacon -- the whole thing fried up at once -- along with half a tray of scrambled eggs with salsa.  
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Hobophobic
Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Location: Sinjeong negorie mokdong oh ga ri samgyup sal fighting
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:31 am Post subject: |
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...from a Thursday late evening until an early early Monday morning in 1992...and yes i saw things that weren't there...a black kitten running by in my peripheral vision comes to mind...  |
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peemil
Joined: 09 Feb 2003
Location: Koowoompa
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:35 am Post subject: |
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About that. It just depends on how much work I have to get through. |
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