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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Death Gulp on August 20, 2008, 11:51:18 pm
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This has probably been posted before, but you know.
Alright so I'm in a bet with a friend as to see if I can stay up for 48 hours. More of a personal bet with myself though. I've wanted to try this for a long time, and since I don't have to work the next couple days, plus the weathers going to be shitty - I'm going to try it.
I've read that you can start to see hallucinations and shit after awhile, and am kind of interested to see what it's like. Feelings of euphoria and so on (we all probably know other ways to get it) I mean I've done all nighters before but this is a NEW LEVEL (For me)
Anyway I need some advice on how to keep myself occupied and how I can stay awake (Masturbating?) . I got tea and coffee, and might get some energy drinks. I just found the original Star Wars trilogy, that's probably going to help. So have any of you guys stayed up extended periods of time? For projects, work, or just, like me, the 'lulz'? Seriously though any advice
would be cool as I just go to sleep when doing this kinda stuff just because I get bored.
Right now I'm on 14 hours, which is pretty normal for most people. This is the beginning! I'll update this as I go, as much as I can. It'll probably keep me occupied too.
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Hallucinations after 48 dont sound likely, but we can hope!
You're going to get a lot of 'this is bad for you man' which it is, but i'm all in favour of doing class things for no real reason. I wish you luck.
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not going to be worth it at all. I guess it's something you want to do SOMETIME in your life just to say you did but yeah, after having some kinda serious insomnia I don't see why anyone would ever willingly do this.
I wouldn't masturbate btw, the spread of endorphins/serotonin after climax might put you to sleep.
drink your tea/coffee black
watch eraserhead, rubber johnny, etc stuff like that. they're great when you've been awake for hours, buzzed on stimulants and paranoid
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yeah i know it's not exactly healthy to do, but i mean i've read that once in awhile it's not all that bad, its just something you gotta do once. thats just shows you how i think i guess.
health risks would be what? I'm no doctor, and not only in my case but just 'not sleeping' in general. I know we need sleep, and apparently you can live longer without food compared to sleep. On tv once there was a guy who 'allegedly' didnt sleep for 25 odd years, he just meditated.
as long as i dont start seeing shit it's okay with me, im not planning on making this a regular habit.
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wow 30 times, seriously? theres gotta be some kind of risk doing it that much. why have you done it so much? I'm doing it, like i said, just to say "i've done it", and I know full well ill regret it in the end.
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yeah 48 is nothing, hallucinations don't usually kick in until at least around 72. Staying up for 48 hours is like taking a couple of caps full of nutmeg, you'll just be kinda out of it, but you'll be able to function normally.
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oh god, I dont know if I could handle living in my house for 48 hours awake. my family is way too intense and demanding of me, I would fucking snap after about 18 hours awake probably, plus my job is fairly physically demanding so with that on top and probably loads of cigarettes and joints I would be a walking fucking trainwreck at the end heh
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Try getting poison ivy. you might have a chance to get around 72-76 hours, the itching will keep you occupied. Trust me!
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i suggest branding your genitals
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i suggest branding your genitals
knock you flat
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48 hours is nothing I did a week and It gave me a bad migraine.
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genital branding will come no later than 24 hours.
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Most I've gone is about 44 but four hours is like no difference. And it's not really all that bad. From what I remember you'll be energetic up until hours 36-40 and then you just crash and have to fight to stay awake if you're not occupied, but if you are it's not too bad. And then you'll sleep for awhile.
But 48 hours should not have any major tolls on your body. Nothing that's not quite easily reversible.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've done this naturally before, just by going to work, partying all night, having to work the next morning, then just not getting around to sleeping until much later.
However, I think I've surpassed the 48 (maybe closer to 50-60) hour mark with the assisstance of Adderall. I took a good dose two days in a row and didn't even think about sleeping. Towards the end, my mind was just haywire, extremely fatigued, even if my body wanted to keep on. I remember lying in bed with the lights on, playing Gameboy, waiting for some wave of physical fatigue to take me to sleep, but it didn't happen until much later. After a while, I started to hear conversations in my head. Also, I'd get visions of movement in the corner of my eye where there was nothing. It's not really vivid hallucinations, just your mind under a lot of stress, definitely not enjoyable.
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Man, I get hallucinations when I stay wake up at 7 AM and stay up 'til 4 AM. It doesn't take much for me. Sometimes I stay up late just for the hallucinations. One night I could've SWORN I saw a cheeseburger with legs on my front porch. I've never gone longer than 24; I just get too damn sleepy :(
I find it incredibly hard to keep my mind moving when I'm tired. It's just impossible for me to think creatively or use any kind of clever logic that my brain would normally be capable of. I can't read books because I can't visualize what I'm reading in my head, and I can't play video games because I tend to go blank and sit there pressing a button over and over again in some sort of trance-like state. I once played Halo after staying up 24 hours and didn't feel like playing the actual game. I thought it was much more fun to walk into a wall repeatedly, and make bullet hole circles. I did this for probably an hour.
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The most I've ever been up is like 60 and I started having mild hallucinations. It really fucks you up while you're awake, but then the sleep you get is like the best in your life.
Like when I stayed up that long it was the night before going to India, then with time differences by the time we got done touring london it was just shy of 60 hours, and then I just passed out on an airport bench that was the most uncomfortable thing ever but I still woke up feeling refreshed as hell.
If you take a caffeine pill every 4 hours or so you'll win the bet easily.
IIRC staying up for more than like 5 or 6 days straight causes insanity or psychosis or something.
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its the hallucinations for me. i dont know when or if ill experience them in 48 hours or even 36 or less. I've only ever done about 30 at a new years party, and i was only really tired. things like sleep paralysis regarding lack of sleep is also in the back of my mind (i've never had sleep paralysis happen to me)
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The most I have stayed up was 36 hours, the night I was supposed to sleep I stayed up the whole thing playing Cod4 then at 7am went to a store and bought a bunch of energy drinks, drank one stayed up for another while, drank the second and I was set for the rest of the day until like 1am when I decided to just go to bed because I had to wake up early that morning to get picked up to go to the gw meet ;D
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Man, I get hallucinations when I stay wake up at 7 AM and stay up 'til 4 AM. It doesn't take much for me. Sometimes I stay up late just for the hallucinations. One night I could've SWORN I saw a cheeseburger with legs on my front porch. I've never gone longer than 24; I just get too damn sleepy :(
I find it incredibly hard to keep my mind moving when I'm tired. It's just impossible for me to think creatively or use any kind of clever logic that my brain would normally be capable of. I can't read books because I can't visualize what I'm reading in my head, and I can't play video games because I tend to go blank and sit there pressing a button over and over again in some sort of trance-like state. I once played Halo after staying up 24 hours and didn't feel like playing the actual game. I thought it was much more fun to walk into a wall repeatedly, and make bullet hole circles. I did this for probably an hour.
I dont know why but I am laughing really hard at your post...maybe im just too tired on my being awake 11 hours...
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This sounds like a great idea. I'm gonna do this over one of my vacations. 5-6 days here i come!
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48 hours isn't that bad. I did way past that back when I was younger. Basically, I always fell asleep around like 2-3pm on the third day (I did it maybe 4 times in total over a few years)
It's not good for you at all, and you feel like total crap. It's pretty much not worth it.
I learned a long time ago that if you need to get things done, or you want to play your game or whatever the hell you do, it's best to not stay up all night doing it. A lot of times I need to finish things up but if I stay up late then I am dead the next day, so I just save it for the next day.
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Hah! You're lightweights. One of the side-effects of the medications I took as a child running out was insomnia. Occasionally, I was awake 72 hours straight because I was out of meds and my body wanted a fix. There was one such occasion in which my mother did not refill my prescription for a week. Maybe I shouldn't be talking about this so much, though. My owner mother doesn't know how bad that week is, she only has a hint. However, there were hallucinations. And I did talk to them.
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48 hours is nothing, I've done around 80 hours four or five times I guess.
The last one was at a LAN sorta thing, I was up for so fucking long (probably nearing 80 hours) with the help of beer, energy drinks, pizza, and more beer.
I suppose if you aren't actually doing anything you might get hallucinations around 70 hours, but it's never happened to me.
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Well I'm at 18 now, which still isn't much. I'm wondering about these hallucinations though, are they full fledged seeing figures or just like fucked up colours and blurriness.
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Well I'm at 18 now, which still isn't much. I'm wondering about these hallucinations though, are they full fledged seeing figures or just like fucked up colours and blurriness.
48 hours won't do much to you unless you're tripping on something or glaring at a computer screen and dehydrating yourself. That, and you won't last even 24 hours if you have a heavy meal. I used to pull 48's, maybe 72's to catch up on gaming. I will again once this military deployment ends.
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i haven't slept since may.
you're going to regret this.
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Well the plan is not to go nuts, I've been playing guitar and doing other random shit so far, its 3:30am here. Yes I know I will regret this. but it HAS TO BE DONE
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48 hours is a bit of a strange target because it's enough to be uncomfortable but not enough to say "YEAH, 48 HOURS, WHUT" because it's not really impressive. 72 is where shit would start going bad, I think. I highly doubt you'll get hallucinations from 48 hours awake. Mostly you just feel blurry and out of it and shit.
I have a mate who is pretty insane and he seems to love functioning on little to no sleep. I'll regularly go out to a bar or something with him, only to have him basically become unresponsive after midnight because he hasn't slept for the past couple of days.
Alcohol is a weird thing with staying awake because it keeps you awake sometimes (usually if it's a caffeine drink I spose) but other times it just makes you crash like hell.
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I know 48 hours isnt exactly impressive, but im not really trying to just 'impress'. I'm at 21 hours right now, and still feeling pretty much the same.
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i suggest branding your genitals
This was more exciting when I read it as "braiding"
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Unless you're getting something beyond bragging rights out of this i don't know why you're doing it. I've done sleep deprivation a couple of times and my longest was 39 hours, it gets really bad for me around 26-28 hours, then goes away for a while and just keeps coming back in waves.
Also my therapist did a bunch of psychiatric testing/evaluation in the 80s and one of the things he focused on was sleep deprivation, he'd give the subject 2 random words out of the dictionary (ie flip to a page put your finger down) and tell them they couldn't say the word. They'd do pretty good until 45+ when they'd say it at the drop of a hat, and some people would just say it over and over again. He told me he would offer $10 to people that could make it 24, $50 to people who could it make to 48 and $100 to people who made it to 72, which no one ever did, your body just shuts you down.
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I used to do triple 12 hour shifts all the time, be up for almost half a day before I start them because I start on the odd shift and I wake up for the even one.
Last new years I was up a total of 50 hours. As long as you have something to preoccupy yourself like games and other known 'stimuli' then you can make it. Just drink nearly twice as much water and eat a fistful of food every hour to keep up your energy.
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Yeah man don't drink caffine and don't masturbate. They will make you sleepy. Also don't really eat that much and don't eat any greasy food.
I suggest drinking lots and lots of water (so you need to pee like every two hours) and going for a jog when you start to feel completely dead. Stick to stuff like fruits for energy.
The trick is not physically staying awake for a few days - that's easy. What you want to do is make sure you don't feel like shit. That's why you don't want to like sit still doing nothing and eat well while you're doing it.
But how old are you man? Most of us that are in our 20s and 30s are like "lol we have to stay up for days at a time like twice a week".
Also shit I just got a text message from my girlfriend she had to have emergency surgery see you guys later!
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at 20-25 I'm slightly drowsy, at 26-35 I become oddly bubbly.
I start falling apart at 36 to 48. but no hallucinations. I can't really do anything. All I can do is function at that point, no critical thinking.
never reached 72 and don't intend to ever do so.
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After the 24 hour mark I get really bad vertigo, I feel like I'm in an elevator constantly and eventually it gets to the point where my body goes cold and starts shaking, it's unfortunate for myself because I'm a Night Owl by nature but physically my body won't let me stay awake, I feel so sick if I try, so I think the longest I've stayed awake for is about 32 hours tops.
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yeah 48 hours is nothing. and you definitely wont be seeing any hallucinations. at most, you'll just feel tired. i dont seem to need much sleep... i've gone to bed at 8am before and woke up naturally at noon, and i was fine for the whole day. the next night, i went to bed around 7am. during the school year, though, i have lots of times where i stay up for several days at a time. sometimes i'll be working all through the night on a project. the next day, i'm fine. it seems like if you don't go to sleep at all, you dont get used to the fact that you need sleep, and you'll stay awake. i know its bad to not get much sleep, but i cant really help it sometimes because i have very bad insomnia. besides, i still get straight As in school and it doesn't seem to affect me.
my only suggestion for staying up would be to keep active. anything else is probably going to end up backfiring (energy drinks, caffeine, etc...).
also, the world record for sleep deprivation was 11 days, set in 1964: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)
40 years later, someone else came close. i dont know if they broke the record or not though, but here's their blog about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2007/05/15/aboutcornwall_sleeplessdiary_feature.shtml
those will tell you a bit about the effects of sleep deprivation. around day 4 was when Randy Gardner started having hallucinations. so yeah, 48 hours will do nothing for you other than give you the right to say "i stayed up for 2 days" which really isnt much.
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Way to make me look like a light weight mkk :(
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everyone who hasn't done this acts like they're getting initiated into some kind of club, but everyone in the club hates it and thinks you'd be better off not trying.
yeah 48 hours is nothing. and you definitely wont be seeing any hallucinations. at most, you'll just feel tired. i dont seem to need much sleep... i've gone to bed at 8am before and woke up naturally at noon, and i was fine for the whole day. the next night, i went to bed around 7am. during the school year, though, i have lots of times where i stay up for several days at a time. sometimes i'll be working all through the night on a project. the next day, i'm fine. it seems like if you don't go to sleep at all, you dont get used to the fact that you need sleep, and you'll stay awake. i know its bad to not get much sleep, but i cant really help it sometimes because i have very bad insomnia. besides, i still get straight As in school and it doesn't seem to affect me.
my only suggestion for staying up would be to keep active. anything else is probably going to end up backfiring (energy drinks, caffeine, etc...).
also, the world record for sleep deprivation was 11 days, set in 1964: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)
40 years later, someone else came close. i dont know if they broke the record or not though, but here's their blog about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/content/articles/2007/05/15/aboutcornwall_sleeplessdiary_feature.shtml
those will tell you a bit about the effects of sleep deprivation. around day 4 was when Randy Gardner started having hallucinations. so yeah, 48 hours will do nothing for you other than give you the right to say "i stayed up for 2 days" which really isnt much.
that's for people without insomnia I suppose. both the record and the part about hallucinations
I've had insomnia for at least five days. I think I slept a little the next night but it's hard to tell, sometimes I just round it off to a week because of the next two days (not anything to brag about, this was some of the worst shit) but I didn't get hallucinations. I THINK this is because the hallucinations come from theta-wave patterns in the mind, and with insomnia your brain never even gets to make theta waves.
I do however get some mild hallucinations whenever I'm really tired, now that I'm on SSRIs. I THINK this is because of the extra serotonin swimmin around, my brain goes into theta waves while conscious much more easily. the hallucinations aren't that bad and they've only shown up when I'm not doing anything. they're also really weird and clearly not real to me, I've seen cartoony monster faces and even kinda boring stuff like strange nonexistant plants
every highschooler thinks it's cool to stay up (I did before I got insomnia), but once you're at the age where it almost becomes a necessity every now and then, it's no longer something you'd ever willfully do. think about that cyborgasm.....or whoever wrote this topic...........
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IIRC staying up for more than like 5 or 6 days straight causes insanity or psychosis or something.
I was always under the impression that about 5 - 6 days of no sleep fucks your brains and you die. I have no idea if this is even close to the truth or if its insanity and shit instead. 48 hours doesn't sound too dangerous to me though.
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Yeah man from personal experience 48 hours is not all that bad the best advice I can give you is drink lots of water to keep yourself hydrated or tea (because it gives you energy but doesn't crash as hard as energy drinks or soda or whatever) and eat LOTS of bread. The bread will also give you energy that your body can use while you do whatever you do and it will keep you feeling good. Just don't overload on the stuff or you'll get tired. Pretty much never let your stomach get full, bring it somewhere close to full. Another important thing is HANG OUT WITH FRIENDS. They will keep you awake pretty effectively (nobody wants to fall asleep when they're hanging out with friends, and if you do, you have shitty friends) and they'll entertain you.
So yeah, water, tea, bread, and friends. Those are the keys.
Oh, also Youtube helps. 99% of the shit on Youtube isn't funny, but after being awake for more than 36 hours, it is ALL going to make you laugh your ass off.
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Getting lit up really helps but it may be out of your price range/ethics.
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Before I was medicated, I used to not be able to sleep on a regular basis, easily getting under 10 hours for an entire week on occasion that it would be so bad. Falling asleep would be hard, and staying asleep even harder [waking ][/waking]. So good luck, with this. I havn't really felt any negative effects other than feeling like shit due to lack of sleep.
but now I sleep easily thanks to my bi-polar meds Heh.
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After a while, I started to hear conversations in my head. Also, I'd get visions of movement in the corner of my eye where there was nothing. It's not really vivid hallucinations, just your mind under a lot of stress, definitely not enjoyable.
I remember when I started my SEAMAN training they put us through a sort of sleep deprivation program for a month where we had to work in a galley all day from 4:00 in the morning and didn't get to sleep to about midnight, being on your feet all day busting your ass and then not getting a good night's sleep will take it's toll on you QUICK.
After the first week or two I started hearing this guy's voice in my head and all kinds of odd shit in general, I'd be sitting on my bed and would hear someone saying my name and when I asked the nearest person what they wanted they thought I was fucking crazy.
I didn't get that, that was what I was experiencing until now so thanks I don't feel as odd about it anymore.
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After a while, I started to hear conversations in my head. Also, I'd get visions of movement in the corner of my eye where there was nothing. It's not really vivid hallucinations, just your mind under a lot of stress, definitely not enjoyable.
Actually, I hear conversations if I'm alone and the place I'm at is completely silent or I keep think someone is trying to talk to me but as soon as I 'realize' it, it goes away. one of the main reasons why I listen to music when alone, don't like the idea of creepy disembodied voices talking to me in my head.
so shit I don't even have to be sleepy for that.
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I've done several 36s but it is pretty awful
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Yeah, the most I've ever stayed up is probably 36-40 hours. My body is just not meant for sleep deprivation. 24 hours into it I feel fine, but at about 30 I start to really shut down.
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Yeah it's just... not very fun, idk. When you're young it's HELL YEAH REBEL AGAINST THE SYSTEM but then you just stop caring about that shit. I always feel so dirty after pulling a 30+ hour 'marathon' and I can't feel clean unless I sleep for like 2 days. Even showering doesn't help that shit.
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get a job
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Ive been awake for 82 hours once. I was in Saskatchewan, got up 7am there, Got ready did a full days of stuff came to my exchange home got packed and I say it was 11pm by then, Our flight left at 4 so I decided to stay up and have a chat with my exchange family. Our bus didn't leave the town till 3 and we where rushed into the security to be on the plane but alas it didn't take off till 5 due to wing trouble. We flew around YYZ for a while waiting for a place to land. We finally landed, but missed our connecting flight so had to wait 7 1/2 hours in YYZ before boarding we took off and Landed in NL finally but it was like 8am Newfoundland time when we did so I didn't get to sleep, the whole day. The exchange students came here the next night and So I was too exited and rushing around doing last minute things to sleep and I went and got them. Me and My Exchange buddy stayed up all that night talking and helping her arrange her room we had for her. I went to sleep like 8 or 9am the next morning and slept the WHOLE DAY(well maybe about 20hours)
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Nnnnnot worth it. Have you guys played a complete Monopoly match? Seriously, i had this most intense and epic Monopoly match with my friends during those two days. It lasted for eight hours (i recall? Guana was there too). After that i deciced i will not try 48 or Monopoly for a long time.
i mean jesus when you are a kid everybody just kind of give up at some point because nobody trades cards or anything. the official rules are very hc, the game is comparable to russian roulette.
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Longest Ive gone for.. about 50-60 hours(Don't know the exact amount just know I went longer then 2 days) I was with some mates of mine and we all just decided to stay out for the night. Which then became 2.. then 3 haha. The first 2 days & Nights I stayed up but was feeling like shit(It was very cold and I had hardly eaten)and just caught the bus home.. And my GF at the time was pretty pissed at me for supposedly making her do it. She could have gone home if she wanted haha.
It was raining one of the night as well so we all just fucked around under the main bridge that connects Lower Hutt to Petone.. You guys have no idea what I'm talking about. Anyways good luck with this man and.. Don't try and cook around the 30 hour mark.
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Huh? Before I went to college I use to stay up for around 3 days playing online games, from my own experience I can say that the only times I can really recall hallucinating is when I was playing FF Online back then and I was playing but I was looking at my hands while playing (PS2 version) and I remember recalling looking at the chat battle logs and able to see when refresh ran out on the paladin and white mage or black mage or whoever was in the party. It was like my mind was so fixed on doing the same repetitive action that I unconsciously got the timing down perfect as to when the refresh buff was running out.
I also do remember one night of doing drawings and I have a pet peeve believe that if I go to sleep before doing a really good picture I will lose all the motivation and energy to finish it the next day, so I stayed up for around 4 days drawing something and looking at blue orbs flying all around my room… probably being at the computer so close for so long. There us also that annoying thing as to when your eyes have blood on them and itch and every time air hits them you want to blink. Energy drinks make me go to sleep really badly, but the energy shots seem to work pretty decent if you get the right ones, I do recall those extended me for some hours and I didn’t have a crash effect afterwards.
The aftermath for me is normally really deep sleep and then waking up feeling weird, like my body has extra weight or something, but my mind feels light headed and I normally am sluggish for a few hours, I miss those days. Anyways, it really will mess with your sleeping habits, my only way to fix that was to force myself to sleep during the night so I wouldn’t end up waking up at night like I normally do if I where to stay up like this again. And… doing something you truly absolutely enjoy will help you stay up, I use to lose track of time playing online games and the sun annoyed me at around 6 a.m, btw the sun will hurt your eyes too. This is just based on what use to happen to me it might be different for you or something.
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Cocaine. You won't sleep on cocaine. You'll just want more cocaine. You won't sleep until you're out of cocaine. I'd suggest dropping 300 bucks on a bunch of cocaine. I'd go through that much cocaine in a day but if you've never done cocaine you'll be able to make it beyond 48 hours..... on cocaine. Don't worry no one will notice you're high on cocaine, just say you've been up for as long as you have been and you'd never do a drug like cocaine.
Cocaine.