Going without sleep

[MelancholyBliss]

I suppose this could go in the writing thread since it kind of deals with something I'm writing.

Anyway, what are some situations in which it's actually not that hard to go without sleep? Not things that are easy to do on little sleep but times when you're body has kicked in and adapted to being awake because you need to be. They can be vague or specific.

Some examples:

- Being a new parent
- When your child is sick and/or can't get to sleep
- When someone you love is missing
- When someone you love is in the hospital and it's critical
- Planning a funeral for a loved one

Oh! And they can be positive or negative. Some positive examples:

- First day of school
- Night before getting married

[LadyAbby]

All nighter for a test or huge paper due the next day. At least for me it's pretty easy.

[Tundra]

Just having that much fun with someone.

[MichaelB]

Long parties, especially the not-loud-and-alcoholic type of party. I can stay up for hours longer than usual with no hint of sleepiness.

Playing an engrossing videogame like Baldur's gate, morrowind, phun (more engrossing than you'd think), Starcraft, etc. etc.

[pkgirl]

Well it's not that hard for me as I do it for Kicks (http://www.notebookinhand.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5447), but the thought of seeing someone the next day that you havent seen for a while

To anyone that doesnt already think I am crazy: I went 100 hours beating my old record by a long shot. :

[Gholam]

Playing an engrossing videogame like Baldur's gate, morrowind, phun (more engrossing than you'd think), Starcraft, etc. etc.

Go a step further and say all night LAN parties with lots of people and lots of computers, so much damn fun with the right group of people. Requirements must be 1 large pizza per person so can snack throughout the night on it and have it in the morning plus lots of beer/caffeinated drinks.

Night before a job interview
Waiting for test results (academic/medical)
Moving house/going on holiday and wondering what was not packed/forgotten
Younger (and older) kids on the night before their birthday/christmas day

[butterfly]

Having a really deep discussion with somebody that just doesn't end. Somehow you just don't feel sleepy...

[snooze]

If you're going on vacation or a long journey to a new place the next day.

Also when I make the mistake of watching A Haunting or similar shows around midnight.

[Gene]

Watching an entire season of 24 in one go more or less forces you to go without sleep unless you start at 6:00 in the morning.

[Heywire]

New Year's Morn.

the first several hours of this year I spent with my best friend, and we just didn't feel like sleeping until about midday. good times.

[cat_lover_4113]

Having a lot of work to do, and having not got to bed about 1 the night before. Then you sit down and it hits you.

That's what a friend of mine, a teacher, said today at school.

[vindemiatrix]

A really, really good book. I have lost so many nights of sleep to books...

[Gene]

Last book I lost sleep to was one of the Edge Chronicles. OK, so for my reading age they're as basic as they come, but the plots are pretty damn gripping. Excellent childrens/early teens literature.

[Shona]

As an experiment?

*cough*

Also, to writing.


PK: O_O Sweet mother of Zeus...


Um. Painting. I've lost countless hours of sleep to painting as well.

[Nessie]

If I'm really into a drawing, I'll often stay up until 6 AM without noticing or tiring.

[LadyAbby]

Playing Guitar Hero III! I could probably play that for 48 hours straight.

[MelancholyBliss]

As an experiment?



Not necessarily. But that would work.

Originally, I was thinking more of moments you've had to go without sleep or when you just couldn't sleep because of some outside influence (not insomnia or depression or anxiety or something like, and also not inolving anything consumed to aid in not sleeping) and found that you could actually survive on very little of it. You're aware of your body shutting down and massive fatigue setting in but you needed to be awake and something in you clicked to make that happen.

[Schu]

When there are relationship problems that you know exist but your partner won't talk about it. I stay up all night worrying and wondering what it could be about. Also, the night after getting dumped.

And frankly, for me to fall asleep around a girlfriend, I have to be really tired or drunk. I'm most certainly not like the stereotypical guy that falls asleep straight after sex :P

I often can't sleep when I have a new philosophical concept in my head and am mulling over it.

When I have no reason to go to sleep (i.e. nothing that I need to rest for the next day) I almost never sleep.

One word: minesweeper.

This (http://youtube.com/watch?v=VZrFH6ZNml8) is the result of much lost sleep.

[Eefje]

When the last Harry Potter is released. I woke up at 8 AM friday, the book was released 1.00 pm saturdaymorning, and I didn't go to sleep until 1 pm sundaymorning. And I didn't notice how tired I was.

[AXJ]

When you're in a lot of pain. You're very aware you need sleep, but you know it's just not going to happen.

About 4 years ago I ended up with some really bad second degree burns all over my arms and torso due to a mishap with a pressure cooker, and after about three sleepless days I finally loaded up with enough lortab and benedryl to put me down for nearly 24 straight hours. Towards the end of the awake period I was literally hallucinating.

[schultzie]

when you are so tired that you actually start thinking clearly... and then you don't want to lay down because you KNOW what you're going to start thinking so you need to totally exhaust yourself so you can eventually just sleep and not think about anything... so you do mindnumbing things like sewing and reading and force yourself to finish the last 200+ pages of a 1000 page book that is very VERY plot driven.

[KeinesV]

Plain jane insomnia.