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Well I think you're talking about something different. From what I've heard (and in my experience), I can skip a full night of sleep with Modafinil and then fal

Well I think you're talking about something different. From what I've heard (and in my experience), I can skip a full night of sleep with Modafinil and then fall back into my normal sleep schedule the day after. You'll probably fall asleep earlier in the day, but you'll only sleep for 8 hours. This is why it's useful for offsetting your rhythm. Ritalin/Adderall is very different. If you use it to stay up for 8 hours, you'll sleep for 16 hours the next time you pass out. Again, though, the data is ambiguous AFAIK.

vidarh 11y ago
If you fall asleep earlier in the day, you're paying offf your sleep "debt" right away. When I use it I go to bed at roughly normal bedtime the following night. At that point 8h sleep is certainly not enough. Though I'll usually not "catch up" more than 1-2 hours extra that night. If I want to I can push through and continue as normal, and even do multiple more cycles, but over time I do end up tired enough that I need to catch up with more sleep. I tend to prefer to use it to offset sleep for relatively short periods - e.g. get an extra night of work, and then sleep a bit longer for the next couple of nights - as I feel it's more productive to get a longer block of time where I'm fully alert, and give up late evenings when I'd feel tired anyway to recover.
rudolf0 11y ago
>Ritalin/Adderall is very different. If you use it to stay up for 8 hours, you'll sleep for 16 hours the next time you pass out. From my subjective experience, this isn't necessarily true. All-nighters with modafinil vs. all-nighters with adderall require the same amount of catch-up sleep for me. Modafinil just gives me a less jittery wakefulness.