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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

i suggest branding your genitals

48 hours is nothing I did a week and It gave me a bad migraine.

genital branding will come no later than 24 hours.

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.

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)

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...

This sounds like a great idea. I'm gonna do this over one of my vacations. 5-6 days here i come!