Insomnia

[Erasmas]

Finally, you can always look for a long chadz's posts on forum and try to read them. This job is boring and difficult enough to put someone to sleep ;-)

[SixThumbs]

Try not staring at a bright light, computer monitor/tv, right before falling asleep.

[Tomas_of_Miles]

Get Flux. if you have to use your computer a lot. It changes the tint of the screen depending on what time of day it is and can ease you away from the computer.

[Teeth]

Hah I remember once I didn't sleep for 5 days or so, that was really tiring at the end, I just fell into my bed and slept for the rest of that day.. haha.

5 days without sleep can kill.

[Peppovitch]

I found out that I have the flu.  Those three days were because of the nausea and headaches. Couldn't lay down.  I'll tell you right now, after two days of no sleep, Dilirium starts to kick in and things get shitty real fast. By the third, everything became surreal.

[Christo]

5 days without sleep can kill.

Was many years ago, let's say it was 3-4 days then.

I don't remember it exactly.

[Xant]

Can we bargain it down to a day and a half?

[Christo]

Can we bargain it down to a day and a half?

No

Was way more than that, Xant.

At least 3 days, I am 100% sure of that.
I recall four though, but it was many years ago so yeah.

[Leshma]

When I'm awake for longer than 24 hours, my body feels like it's gonna fall apart and my heart rate is a lot faster. Also if I try to exercise (running for example) I feel like I'm about to die from a stroke.

Headache, muscle tension, shaking, impaired mental ability, that's what happens when I don't sleep for longer than a day.

[[ptx]]

I once spent a week with maybe a couple of hours of blackout somewhere inbetween, felt completely delirious by the end of it, couldn't walk straight, lol

[Angantyr]

If you dont sleep do you feel shit then? I would really like to need less sleep so I could have more time.

Yeah, pretty much, it usually gets better the next evening however and then it's no real problem to take yet an all-nighter, though not recommended.

Being tired or having for example an exam, a 'vacation' with the parents-in-law or a long work day and not being able to sleep is torturous in any definition of the word and you quickly become slightly insane from too little sleep. It's not something valued by partners, either..

As you draw closer to 30 you'll only need about 5 hours of sleep a day, though, so you'll have more time on your hands if you're not engaged, have children, a busy career or whatever.

[Karrypto]

24 hours without sleep have the same effect as 1 per mil alcohol in your blood.

[Overdriven]

My girlfriend falls asleep within a minute of her head hitting the pillow. I however, have to read to sleep. If I don't read I can lie awake for hours but within 10mins of reading a book I'll be out of it (unless it's an incredibly good book  ). I'd definitely try it. Mind you I think that's because I've been reading books before I sleep since I was 8 so it's become a habitual necessity. Using your computer is certainly not a good idea though, and definitely not gaming.

Drink some alcohol. Apparently, it's not overly healthy, because it fucks up your REM phase etc etc. But you sleep

Alcohol induced sleep makes you feel like shit in the morning (even just a little). As do sleeping pills pretty much for the reason you stated. You do sleep, but I hate that groggy fucked up feeling you inevitably get in the morning.

[BlindGuy]

When I was 19 I stayed awake once for 5 days, by day 3 I was craving a smoke constantly, always thirsty, day 4 the headaches kicked in, day 5 I really thought I would die so I fell asleep, but 2 other guys in the unit managed another 2 days. Hallucinations after day 4 though, I would never recommend it to anyone, my head has started hurting just thinking about it now 10 years later.

[Tomas_of_Miles]

My old housemate said she had an exam she hadn't revised for and got through cramming the whole week by staying awake on Speed. At least 5 days there...