Current Events > I just woke up after 3 days of not sleeping - AMA

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Still groggy btw

I've been awake since about 10pm last night. I have some really weird bouts with insomnia sometimes.

garan posted...

I've been awake since about 10pm last night. I have some really weird bouts with insomnia sometimes.

When do you start to hallucinate?

^I've only had that happen once many years ago.

Mostly I just tend to run on small, crappy amounts of sleep that leave me feeling tired and cranky.

Like 3-4 hours... So my normal amount...

I can go about a day without sleep before I start fading in-between our world and wherever the fuck my mind goes. I don't hallucinate visually but I do start hearing things.

Why did you stay up for 3 days?

One time when my doctor was testing out different anxiety/depression meds one had an awful side effect. It made me super antsy, I couldn't still for even a minute. It was awful, all I wanted to go was to sit down but it was driving me to not even be able to do that much.

After about 4-5 days with no sleep or rest at all, I started hallucinating. I was seeing shadow people from the corner of my eyes. I finally called my doctor and they said to stop taking it immediately. So I did, but it still a day or two to clear out of my system enough to be able to sit still.

Sounds like some coke bender you were on.

Lol I actually never slept last night, because I slept in yesterday. The old stay awake all night and go to bed at a decent time trick to try fix your sleep schedule

You live an interesting life

Umbreon posted...

Why did you stay up for 3 days?

No idea. Time zone change, and adrenaline dump I suppose

Friends,

This makes sense, if you have not slept, how did you wake up???

To wake up, you had to be asleep.

Maybe the wording is fishy. sorry.

Make me think of " waking up dead"

I enjoyed a nice 9 hrs and 30 mins of sleep last night, feel very good and ready for the remaining 6 hours of work.

A few months back I was awake for around 40h straight, including a 24h trip to get back home, which included 12h of airports+2 flights and 12h drive home.

It was around midnight on Friday when I got back home, I slept for like 12h, then slept for 12h again on Saturday and 10h on Sunday. I was completely broken, lmao.

Then a few weeks after that I was awake for 40h again, including a 16h drive home. Recovered from that one a bit easier because I didn't change time zones.

STEROLIZER posted...

When do you start to hallucinate?

Honest question? More than a week at least. My friend that I took care of couldn't sleep because of 2 factors. In pain and took medication that wasn't what you call helping you get to sleep. I think she went 10 days once. Sometimes it wasn't even a issue. You could not give her sleeping meds because of the pain meds she was on

vycebrand2 posted...

Honest question? More than a week at least. My friend that I took care of couldn't sleep because of 2 factors. In pain and took medication that wasn't what you call helping you get to sleep. I think she went 10 days once. Sometimes it wasn't even a issue. You could not give her sleeping meds because of the pain meds she was on

My record was around 50 hours and that was without any kind of caffeine or other supstances.
A few hours before I fell asleep every sound felt like I was underwater, couldn't hear anything clearly. And I started hearing things that weren't there. No visual hallucinations, tho.

GunmaN1905 posted...

My record was around 50 hours and that was without any kind of caffeine or other supstances.
A few hours before I fell asleep every sound felt like I was underwater, couldn't hear anything clearly. And I started hearing things that weren't there. No visual hallucinations, tho.

I got paranoid, and started spending way too much time talking about nonsense in Twitter spaces. Everything past Tuesday morning is just blur.

Last thing you drank?

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Halo 3

BlingBling22947 posted...

Last thing you drank?

C4 Pre Workout