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This is very much a personal thing and the article is only showing one end of the spectrum. While I have issues staying up past 48 hours and my longest ever st

by pravus 7y ago

This is very much a personal thing and the article is only showing one end of the spectrum. While I have issues staying up past 48 hours and my longest ever stint was 56 or so, I can go for 36 hours easily without any real dramatic adverse effects. I certainly don't feel drunk and am quite capable of performing complicated work even after 24 hours of being awake. As long as the sun is up my body generally wants to be awake and when going for long periods of uptime I only have an issue with tiredness between 2am and 4am. After 4am I can convince myself that the sun will be up soon and once I can actually see the sky brighten I become energized rapidly. The one time I did go past 48 hours I never hallucinated but simply felt like a zombie. My mind basically shut off and I felt very detached and remote to my own consciousness. The odd thing is that when I finally got into bed it still took me something like 2 hours to finally fall asleep because I felt too tired to actually fall asleep. Anyway, that's my experience. When I read through the article I kept thinking it was missing the mark for me completely.

eyegor 7y ago
> when I finally got into bed it still took me something like 2 hours to finally fall asleep because I felt too tired to actually fall asleep Oh I can absolutely relate to that. On low sleep I found it incredibly natural to fall asleep sitting on a bench with no back rest (without falling over), but purposefully trying to sleep in a bed was always difficult. Up until about 35-40 hours awake I can easily fall asleep in a bed, but it becomes challenging past that point. I'm guessing my brain is pulling some c4 trickery there since that's roughly when my coordination starts to deteriorate.
- vraivroo 7y ago
  I developed a trick of sitting on the edge of my bed when I'm in this state. Sooner or later I nod off, and then I can just _literally_ fall back into bed.

by pravus 7y ago

eyegor 7y ago

> when I finally got into bed it still took me something like 2 hours to finally fall asleep because I felt too tired to actually fall asleep Oh I can absolutely relate to that. On low sleep I found it incredibly natural to fall asleep sitting on a bench with no back rest (without falling over), but purposefully trying to sleep in a bed was always difficult. Up until about 35-40 hours awake I can easily fall asleep in a bed, but it becomes challenging past that point. I'm guessing my brain is pulling some c4 trickery there since that's roughly when my coordination starts to deteriorate.

vraivroo 7y ago
I developed a trick of sitting on the edge of my bed when I'm in this state. Sooner or later I nod off, and then I can just _literally_ fall back into bed.