ever pull an all nighter?

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Have you ever pulled an all nighter?

Oh! definely.


I and the roleplaying group in Sunnyvale did 8pm to 6am Denny
visits on a regular basis. At the various conventions
I use to be a dealer or volunteerr at we all pulled all-nighters.

When you are a volunteer for (at that time..) 15 hours you
get horribl food, a large crash room, and plenty of parties.

As a matter of fact if I had all night options down here like
in San Francisco I still would do the until 6am thing in a
public establishment.

Night owl be I--Whooo! Whoooo! Flap! Flap!

Sincerely,
Nocturnal Ghoustiehunter

me its the computer that will do it, when my dad is working at all hours of the night doing snow duty and plowing i will in case if he calls and im asleep. i sleep heavily nothing really can get me up. the computer keeps me stimulated because of how unpredictable things are in chats and forums ill chat or keep my self busy until he comes backhome. my actual all nighter was satuurday night, i didnt go to bed until umm, 7:30 am then about 3 hours later i went back on. then yesterday did it again he went back then his puter screwed up while online looking at weather.com. i found out when my dad did return home from work he had a MAJOR puter problem with his windows 2000, he blames aol. i think its the windows startup files currupt or something. my opinion is he needs an update service pack 4. at least this time he wasnt yelling at me becuase he coudn't get online. he must be dead tired his work hasnt let him sleep good since about friday night. im tired to at times but i sleep

sorry if sounds off topic or boring


jess

Naturally more often then I'd like.

Once I did it through euphoria. The others out of hypomania.

Yes, often. Simply I'm too engrossed in what I'm doing that I simply don't sleep, and when I realise what the time is it's too late to go to bed so I don't.

My brain doesn't like sleep. Though my body craves it... So when my brain is unconscious, my body takes all the sleep it can, I often wake up and 1pm...

Do you mean an all nighter on a computer, or an all nighter out, or an all nighter in general? I can't say I've pulled an all nighter on my computer, I crash just before 5am. But I have done all nighters when at parties/out with friends and such. Usually I don't have anything to help me stay up, just eat a little when I get hungry and drink if I'm thirsty but no caffine or anything!

Between 10 pm and 4 am is my optimum time for writing. The world around me is asleep (apart from a sodding owl who sits atop our chimney and hoots down it!) and the cats keep me company.

However, it's not easy to keep those hours and remain social to the spouse, so I don't do it all the time.

I used to my best school work , papers and studying between 12 and 6 when every one was asleep strangly enough in the dorm laundry room as it was empty and could do laundry too
Once I stayed awake two days writing my final papar for a class. Back then though i didnt like coffee like i do now and drank tons of coke.

Ill often stay up all night if im hyper-focussed on a new project, or discovering a new special interest - i might take a mild stimulant* occasionaly, but usually the project on its own is enough.

I did two consecutive raves/squat-parties once without using any stimulation on night 2 (unless you count acid/shrooms & weed). Im old enough to know better now!

*I used to prefer the effects of tea, but im gluten/casein free now and rice-milk doesnt mix with tea, so its coffee.

Sometimes I work midnight shifts at work (midnight-8am). I work in a group home so all the residents are asleep and there's not much for me to do, but I have to stay awake all night. (It's a great job if you can stay awake - for the most part you're getting paid to watch TV all night.) I prefer coffee and energy drinks, but I have used caffiene pills too - all the benefits of coffee without the full bladder. I find coffee has the most effect though - maybe I'm just making it too strong and getting more caffiene than I thought. I don't just use it to stay awake at night, I find it helps a lot during the day with ADHD stuff and even some aspie traits - it makes me more sociable and I talk more.

You know you're addicted to something, when you start staying awake over entire weekends to keep at it. I used to stay awake for days at a time playing my computer roleplaying games. It's addictive stuff, as I'm sure Jayshaw and Ghosthunter will attest.

Cough syrup - works like amphetamines.

Actually, according to people in the military who are trained for this kind of thing, the best way to get energy for skipping sleep is not to go for caffiene or sugar, but just make sure you get lots of normal healthy food. That'll be more long-lasting than the temporary high from stimulants, and won't come with the annoying side effects like tremors etc.

I've tried it at college... it works fairly well.

I've pulled far too many all nighters in my day.

During college, I had many cases where I had a program to write and I left it till the last minute. In those cases, it was a mix of caffeine, marijuana and ritalin (dont worry, I have a perscription) keeping me awake.

After college I went thru a massive World of Warcraft addiction (which I'm still recovering from). Then I didnt need anything to keep me awake, the pure stimulation of playing could keep me going for days. I once woke up on a friday at 12pm and didnt stop playing (other than to eat/piss) until late sunday night. Funny thing is I remember virtually nothing past noon saturday, its like the brain cant store the memories if you dont get sleep.

And of course there's been the odd partying all nighter... last saturday I didnt crash until about 6 or 7 am when the party died out. Usually in those cases I ended up sleeping half the next day, its rare that I can make it thru the second day and not go to bed until a normal time.

the three C's

caffiene
cannabis
carbohydrate