have you ever noticed yourself being MORE alert after all-nighters?

Pre-College Topics High School Life
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<p>yes, i know, for MOST people, all-nighters and sleep deprivation hurt performance. but there are always outliers, and there has been no scenario where i have not been an outlier</p>

<p>i've noticed that when i'm sleep deprived, my variance in alertness increases. i'm sometimes super-alert and out of the brain fog that I'm usually in. i'm also more prone to napping, but the naps are revitalizing and then I wake up from them in a super-alert state (rather than in the state of brain fog that I'm always in whenever I get what people consider to be "adequate sleep"). 8 hours of sleep per day has always been a recipe for brain fog for me.</p>

<p>not only that, but i'm actually MORE tired when I get more sleep. i know it's maybe the stress hormones keeping me up, but man, stress hormones are awesome.</p>

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<p>I agree until about 2PM where I hit the wall…</p>

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<p>yes. its happened to me a few times as well.</p>

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<p>Adrenaline plus the fumes of whatever stimulant you partook in keeps you buzzing until you slam into the wall and go down in flames…must sleep…zzzzz</p>

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<p>I’ve never pulled an all nighter…don’t study. Must be tough though. How possible is it to be ‘NOT’ tired after one.</p>

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<p>^ I don’t pull all nighters to study but I do pull all-nighters for travel (I can’t sleep in a car, on and airplane etc.) you don’t feel tired for a while but you have a dry mouth. Then at about 2PM you hit the wall and can’t think of anything but sleeping…</p>

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<p>haha…oh!..( i didn’t read) and yeah! i know how you feel although i have slept in a plane before.</p>

<p>I didn’t sleep at all when i was going to and from heathrow.</p>

<p>Traveling = fun (sometimes)</p>

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<p>Through Heathrow: Traveling =/= fun</p>

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<p>From JFK…by myself: Traveling = fun</p>

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<p>Generally, the less I sleep, the more hyper I am the next day. However, at about 3, I start feeling tired.</p>

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<p>You know, it’s funny you say that today. I’m the same way. I was up until 3:30 last night and got about three hours of sleep. I was wide awake today. I aced a test I didn’t study for (didn’t know we had it…long story). Usually, I have to fight to keep my eyes open but days like today where I had little to no sleep I’m always feeling fine. </p>

<p>I don’t imagine that getting three hours of sleep a night is a very good way to be more alert though.</p>

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<p>No. If I stay up all night I die the next day.</p>

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<p>lol, i remember last year I had an AP World essay to do, and I had no choice but to pull an all-nighter. The next day in school, I was fully alert until about 1 pm [math]. We were doing something with a graphing calculator so I had it on my lap and was looking down at it. After about a couple of minutes, I just dozed off. Next thing I know, the bell rings and I literally jump a foot or two. Luckily no one really noticed since I was in the back of the room.</p>

<p>This year the latest I have stayed up is like 4.</p>

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<p>More alert than having stayed up until 3am and slept 4 hours? Definitely… I regularly get high on sleep deprivation. I usually crash at around 2/3 pm too, though.</p>

<p>More alert than having slept a full 7/8 hours (i say full because this is the most i ever sleep on a school day)? No way.</p>

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<p>Sometimes when I get my second wind. Sometimes I feel more tired after sleeping like 12+ hrs lol.</p>

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<p>I think you usually feel the effects on an all-nighter the second day after because of the adrenaline + whatever other else is exciting you after an all-nighter.</p>

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<p>I stayed up for 2 nights in a row last week, which I normally can’t do. I was very alert until around 1:00 the second day when I fell asleep in the middle of a math contest.</p>

<p>In general, I stay alert until around 5:00 in the new day.</p>

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<p>If I had a screen in front of me the whole time, I’d be fine. And it would depend a little on what I was doing, I guess.</p>

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<p>the only time this has happened is when i pulled an all-nighter the last night of winter break.</p>

<p>and i think it was because i had been getting like 10 hours of sleep the last 2 weeks.</p>

<p>during normal times, i just get completely f**ked the day after an all-nighter</p>