<p>What are some of your best strategies for pulling all-nighters and/or getting through the next day? Is there any good way of cutting down the amount of sleep you can run on total?</p>
<p>I'm currently running on 4-5 hours nightly, which is fine during the week except it builds up so that I crash as soon as I get home Friday afternoon and sleep through Saturday morning - not fun, especially with weekend homework and such. Suggestions and stories are welcome :)</p>
<p>It's not the staying-awake that's hard for me, it's the next day that kills me. So I do things that are unsual for me, but they keep me awake. Like I eat breakfast (I never eat it otherwise), I eat something sugary at lunch (i know bad but I start to slide downhill if I don't get a sugar high), and I drink water throughout the day. I have a study hall on tuesdays, thursdays, and every other friday, so I take advantage of limited sleep that way too</p>
<p>If I don't get enough sleep, I'm usually tired the next day, but tell myself to suck it up and just wait until Friday to crash.</p>
<p>If I pull an allnighter, I'm hyper as hell throughout the day. Then I crash in the evening.</p>
<p>I used to be immune to sleep deprivation. That was two years ago. I guess this is my body's way of *****ing about needing more sleep. Psh.</p>
<p>if you dont sleep that much, i think your body gets used to it, so if you can really try to sleep 4 hours or whatever it is each day for like a week or two (even on weekends), then it should get easier</p>
<p>4 hours on the weekend? I understand what you're saying but I think you should sleep in a little bit on weekends. Maybe 6 hours weekends / 4 hours weekdays?</p>
<p>Just because your body can adjust to it doesn't mean it's healthy, it's not. I think that it should just be an occaisonal thing, when it becomes everyday it can have harmful effects on you. I'm going to laugh when you're all decrepit and I'm not</p>
<p>Celebrian: we're a bunch of psychocompetitve machoists. Health is overrated.</p>
<p>Well when you're dead when you're 50 I'm going to laugh. Who wins then? I do yeah!</p>
<p>Pulling one all-nighter may cause you to be hyper the next day, but that's just for new people. Once you start doing it often, the hyper-ness wears off quickly.</p>
<p>Are you a procrastinator? Or are you just always busy and swamped with work? :( Or both? :(</p>
<p>Try taking some naps throughout the day - especially during any busy-work classes or whaevahhh. Eat small meals at regular intervals. </p>
<p>If you're up at 4am and you had been staying up - DON'T GO TO SLEEP!!! DO NOT SAY "OH jusT A 15min nap." It doesn't work. -_-; </p>
<p>When I pull all-nighters or near-all-nighters, I'm usually a mess in the morning - the awful feeling lasts for my first class and usually, I will get better - albeit, I will be anxiety-ridden and tense and panicky ---> stressed. </p>
<p>TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Water and healthy food (cliff bars, carrots, and peanut butter are some of my favorites)..... I find that going to bed earlier (11ish), then waking up at 4:30 and working for 2 hours is more productive than staying up until 1. When absolute lack of sleep is necesary (term papers, finals etc.), I would do it sparingly. Sleep is important and without it you are much more likely to become sick. Then you can't acomplish anything and might miss school.</p>
<p>going to bed around midnight and waking up around 5 works better for me than forcing myself to stay up.</p>
<p>Yes, the body can operate on less sleep if you get used to it. I had a chem teacher that told us you only need 4 hours of sleep a night. He had programmed himself to go to bed at 2:30 and wake up at 6:30 every night and said he never had problems.</p>
<p>Personally I think it's dumb to do that, but that's his problem not mine. I get an average of like 5.5 hours of sleep on a weeknight and 8 or so on the weekends.</p>
<p>Best solution?? School goes from 10:30 to 5:30. But that will never happen around here. <em>pouts</em></p>
<p>celebrian, who would WANT to live past 50? come on!</p>
<p>attitude is everything. if you think you need more sleep, you will. have a rough man attitude and you can thrive on less.</p>
<p>Be sleep deprived all week. Then Friday right after school, play street hockey for 2 hours and crash at like 6 PM. Wake up the next day at noon and you'll be back to normal :) Repeat as necessary.</p>
<p>I used to do the crash on friday thing. It worked. Except now I work untill 11 every Friday night...</p>
<p>Don't go to sleep right after school...I used to do that but then I wake up at 3 AM (which is really spooky), because my body can't handle that much sleep :P</p>
<p>I sleep after school (my classes finish at 2:00) nearly every day, and do the "crash on Friday" thing. It's a pretty awful system, and I definitely wouldn't recommend adopting it.</p>
<p>I only do the "crash on Friday." I usually get 4-6 hours of sleep all the other nights (2 AM - 6 AM).</p>
<p>I just plow through the week and crash on Friday... And then wake up on Saturday and start with more homework! This isn't a good way to live.</p>
<p>Caffeine makes it great. Make sure to stock up on bawls for those late nighters & mornings you wake up with brain farts.</p>