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Wrote this up on Facebook, and figured some folks here would find this interesting.
Next 3 or 4 day weekend, I'm staying up for 48 hours. To break my current 42hr max. Which really isn't a lot. If I had more things to do, I could have easily stayed up later. I wasn't tired until my head hit the pillow.
The problem is running out of things to do and getting bored. No shit, that's why I went to bed, and why I normally stop around 36hr. Your body/brain is used to sleeping for 5-8hr and being active for 16-18hr.
24hr isn't bad at all. The equivalent for waking up for school/work, and staying up until you can see the sun again (though in these months that's closer to 25-26hr).
Then the next day begins. For me, once I see broad daylight, it's game over, I'm not sleeping until it's dark again. Not the daylight of sunrise, but the animals are awake and most stores have opened, and hangover drunks are drinking bloody maries. If I'm awake to see two noons, then I'll be awake to see 2 moons. Simple as that. That's about 36 hours.
Then your room gets dark, most places are closed, you don't really have the motivation to be up and active. Simply due to laziness and the fact that your entire body, by this point, is fairly fatigued. Not really muscle-wise, but brain and vital organs are exhausted.
Then 40-42 hours hits (my max is 42) and you get BORED. During the day, 24-36 hours, you may be a bit bored, yes. Though there's an incredible difference between daylight boredom, and night time boredom. You can still order a pizza during the first one, mainly. That's the main piece here.
I just ran out of things to do. You can't really research, or really read at all at this point. Your brain just sees the words and goes "yup ... those are words, show 'nuff." and you can only play video games for so long. You just RUN OUT of things to do. Sleeping is the last thing left.
However! I will not let this prevent me from breaking 48 hours! Probably 50 since it's a nice solid number. After that, 60 hours. Though that's not even on the radar yet!
I might even document this .... rumor has it (my friend that's done 72hr+ "sleep studies") you begin hallucinating around 48 hours.
The worst part, honestly, is trying to sleep. Your body is so tired that it's working overtime to repair. You're stuck in REM sleep, and you can feel it. Your body is like super saiyan sleeping. It's just going ham, sleeping so hard you can feel it. The whole night. By this point, your blood is pretty much replaced with adrenaline, so you are tired and wide awake at the same time.
It's a good time ... So just stay up anyway, because the sleeping is going to suck!
This became a much longer post that I originally anticipated.....
Next 3 or 4 day weekend, I'm staying up for 48 hours. To break my current 42hr max. Which really isn't a lot. If I had more things to do, I could have easily stayed up later. I wasn't tired until my head hit the pillow.
The problem is running out of things to do and getting bored. No shit, that's why I went to bed, and why I normally stop around 36hr. Your body/brain is used to sleeping for 5-8hr and being active for 16-18hr.
24hr isn't bad at all. The equivalent for waking up for school/work, and staying up until you can see the sun again (though in these months that's closer to 25-26hr).
Then the next day begins. For me, once I see broad daylight, it's game over, I'm not sleeping until it's dark again. Not the daylight of sunrise, but the animals are awake and most stores have opened, and hangover drunks are drinking bloody maries. If I'm awake to see two noons, then I'll be awake to see 2 moons. Simple as that. That's about 36 hours.
Then your room gets dark, most places are closed, you don't really have the motivation to be up and active. Simply due to laziness and the fact that your entire body, by this point, is fairly fatigued. Not really muscle-wise, but brain and vital organs are exhausted.
Then 40-42 hours hits (my max is 42) and you get BORED. During the day, 24-36 hours, you may be a bit bored, yes. Though there's an incredible difference between daylight boredom, and night time boredom. You can still order a pizza during the first one, mainly. That's the main piece here.
I just ran out of things to do. You can't really research, or really read at all at this point. Your brain just sees the words and goes "yup ... those are words, show 'nuff." and you can only play video games for so long. You just RUN OUT of things to do. Sleeping is the last thing left.
However! I will not let this prevent me from breaking 48 hours! Probably 50 since it's a nice solid number. After that, 60 hours. Though that's not even on the radar yet!
I might even document this .... rumor has it (my friend that's done 72hr+ "sleep studies") you begin hallucinating around 48 hours.
The worst part, honestly, is trying to sleep. Your body is so tired that it's working overtime to repair. You're stuck in REM sleep, and you can feel it. Your body is like super saiyan sleeping. It's just going ham, sleeping so hard you can feel it. The whole night. By this point, your blood is pretty much replaced with adrenaline, so you are tired and wide awake at the same time.
It's a good time ... So just stay up anyway, because the sleeping is going to suck!
This became a much longer post that I originally anticipated.....
