The previous night, and my previous attempts at pulling an all-nighter

My school hosted an event in which you were supposed to pull an all-nighter in the building. It was pretty cool, there were a couple of activities you could do and I managed to stay awake all night. Towards the end, I actually didn't feel much more tired than as if it was around midnight. I wanted to go to sleep, but could still stay well awake. I wasn't dozing off or anything.
This is my third attempt ever at pulling an all-nighter and my second successful one. The previous one was two years ago on New Year's Eve. I wanted to play video games all night with my friend who was spending the night at my place. I felt like a zombie towards the end. We were successful, but I was so tired in the morning that I went to bed as soon as he left.
My very first attempt was three years ago. It was the same situation, but we couldn't stay awake so we went to sleep at 4 am.
Back to the present. When I stepped out of the building, saw the bright sky and smelled the morning air, I started feeling pretty energised. Maybe I could even stay awake and not spend half the day sleeping. Who knows. I'm still thinking about what I should do.
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Dust2dust
Kids these days! :lol: All joking aside, it's fun to pull your first all-nighters (la nuit blanche, in french) when you're young. But as you get older, and especially if you work the night shift on your job, then it becomes nothing special, really.
 
smileyhead
@TotalInsanity4 Yeah, actually. The entrance was locked and we weren't allowed to leave at all until 5:30 am.
 
DeadlyFoez
I have many times ended up not sleeping for 5 or 6 days. No matter how hard I tried to go to sleep, it just wouldn't happen as my mind tends to race at night. It is terrible.

One time a buddy gave me some adderall and it caused me to stay up for nearly a week. I was maybe 18 a the time. By the end of it I was having full blown hallucinations. I was working at KFC and I started seeing chicken legs dancing in front of me. Sounds like fun, but it was a horrible experience. When you get that tired, your mind starts to mix your reality with an awake dreaming. It is extremely dangerous.

I don't sleep much normally, but I suffer because of it with my mood and social interactions.

Get some sleep man.
 
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SirNapkin1334
Jeez, i would fall asleep on the floor by 1, and I’d be exhausted the next day but be mostly unsble to take naps because my body. Gotta love strict internal sleep schedules. (And never ever EVER sleeping in)
 
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HaloEliteLegend
I've pulled many all-nighters, all for various reasons. I pull "all-nighters" when I travel overseas to combat jetlag. Typically on my bi-annual trips to India, I'll stay up for a full 24 hours to jolt myself 12 hours ahead body clock-wise. Sometimes I just have a lot of work and stay up all night working on that. Sometimes I just feel like staying up, or my mind starts racing and I just can't sleep. There's something about 4am that just makes me feel super creative. I get all my best ideas at 4am tbh.

The best all-nighters are the ones spent with friends! A friend and I love to play horror or story-heavy games together, and so we'll go to either of our homes and play whatever game we've picked out late into the night. We'll load up on snacks to keep us awake, and record ourselves. Great fun, every time!
 
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drenal
Whenever I pull an all nighter I always end up crashing in the middle of the next day and sleeping a long time, so I don't do those anymore.
 
Lightyose
I remember that when I used to play Xbox 360 with my cousin, we put a challenge to stay awake 24 hours.... I was up till 6 am... Then I said to myself: "I'll just go to sleep." It was a great accomplishment.
 
smileyhead
Oh, by the way, I went to sleep 5 hours ago and woke up about an hour ago.
I don't feel as refreshed as if it was a good night's sleep, but I think I can keep going until the night.
 
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Get on my level! /s
The longest I've stayed awake was ~4 days
Idr the number of hours but it was somewhere around that amount
I ended up sleeping because I got really bored
 
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The Real Jdbye
No way in hell could I get up after only 4 hours of sleep after staying up all night. And even if by a miracle I did I'd be half asleep and likely to fall asleep on the couch.
For me the only option is to stay up until night again, unless I feel like sleeping all day every day because it's really hard to fall asleep at a somewhat normal time when I've slept for most of the day.
 
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AxlSt00pid
I've never actually done one myself, and if I did I think the bags under my eyes (it's that how it's called in English?) would grow even more :/
 
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dimmidice
I used to love doing all nighters. Just skip an entire nights sleep and go to bed early the next evening. Now that i am older though i just can't do it anymore. I always tend to crash and just lose consciousness around 5-6am.

Hell, i can sometimes barely stay awake some days even with a bad nights sleep :P
 
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@THEELEMENTKH
Nah
We call them severe eye infections in english /s
But after awhile the bags under the eyes stop growing
It think its just dead blood
You can cover them with makeup or avoid them by not putting much strain on your eyes
 
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DeoNaught
I've pulled a couple, I usually fall asleep at 4am until 6 am.

Last one I pulled I went completely through the night. the day before Easter, we went to an event that was late at night, got home around 11 at night, and I got Zelda dlc to play for a little bit before I went to sleep, well mom said that I could play until 12, which I was mad, because I didn't get the wii u on until like 11:30, and all the Dlc still needed to load. so I played a small bit that night, I was mad as all hell. so when I got off, I went to bed, But stayed up all night, and around four I got out of bed, and played Zelda for like three hours until someone got up. But I was so mad at her, I couldn't even fall asleep if I wanted to xP.

Tl;dr I stayed up in spite of my mom.
 
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Don't know of this counts, but during the summer, I was completely nocturnal. I would get up at 4 in the afternoon, and I'd stay up until 6 or 7 in the morning.

While it probably wasn't the healthiest thing I've done for myself, and while going to sleep at sunrise was downright uncomfortable, I did have fond memories of just watching anime and playing video games while everyone else was asleep.

I did have to fix my schedule as school drew closer, however, so I guess I did have to pull an all-nighter in order to get my sleep schedule back in order. Though, in that case, would it be an all-nighter or an all-dayer? You get the idea, though.
 
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