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<p>how is redbull supposed to keep a perosn awake. I had it a few times and it had no effect whatsoever.
That's like saying: To stay up, drink coke.</p>
<p>Oh, pardon me, I forgot one recipe: about quarter of cup of coke+rest filled with coffee == monstrous cocktail; from it, you won't be able to sleep :)</p>
<p>ew! coke and coffee in the same cup. How vile and disgusting! I'd rather drink gallons of crude oil!</p>
<p>My question is: How do you guys NOT stay awake?</p>
<p>I can never sleep at night. And I'm most productive around 2 or 3. =P It just means that I sleep a whole lot on weekends and sometimes after crosscountry practice or at lunch. Works for me!</p>
<p>Coffee, caffeine mints, tea, diet soda. CAFFEINE para mi.
I actually have trouble sleeping anyway so it isn't that hard.</p>
<p>Oh god. I think today will be my first all-nighter. :)</p>
<p>With all nighters I don't get tired until evening strikes the next day.</p>
<p>you guys must be nocturnal.</p>
<p>but then again, I don't get much sleep either - I just burn and crash the next evening, lol. And I nap when I get home from school :) </p>
<p>I go to bed at around 1:30AM - wake up at 6:30 so... 5 hours on average...</p>
<p>Precocious, you need more sleep. Lack of sleep gives you ludicrous ideas, like trying on purpose to get 200s on SAT sections.</p>
<p>I love how people are sacrificing sleep for schoolwork, lol! Health is more important than making sure you get 100 on every single assignment!</p>
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<p>That's hilarious. :) I see it's a reference to his SAT thread.</p>
<p>Ditto, what good are you in school if you can't focus because you're so tired from studying the night before? It's a bad cycle that you can avoid if you just pay attention and do homework at a reasonable hour(like after you get home).</p>
<p>With me my biggest problem is falling asleep before 11, it's not about staying up. Although I did procrastinate on my AP Government notes and had to stay up pretty late. Still, I didn't push it past midnight, that's just not good for you.</p>
<p>I have to say, I have all-nighters at least twice during the week.</p>
<p>Weekends = catch up on friday and sunday night.</p>
<p>Saturday night = ;) [what happens there, stays there.]</p>
<p>I haven't pulled an all-nighter for mearly 3 months now. I forgot what it was like to stay awake all night and fall asleep in class.</p>
<p>1 everynight basically, but thats because I start homework at about 11-12</p>
<p>staying up all night studying is actually not a good idea.
People needto sleep at night; that's what's natural. When people try to g against nature and try to force themselves to stay awake, it'll backfire on them. Think about it: you are tired and need sleep. But you flood your body with unhealthy amounts of caffeine to try to keep your eyes open. So even if you do manage to get some information in your sleep deprived brain cells, it would be fruitless because of a lack of cencentration due to sleep deprevation.
The best thing to do is to go to bed early and wake up early like 6 or 7 AM when you are still fresh and study then. After a long night's sleep you would feel more up to it and would actually benifit from the whole thing.</p>
<p>Here is an example:</p>
<p>I had a history test today so I started studying from 8 til 1:30 AM last night. I was really tired by 1 AM and I could barely read a couple sentence without the words moving and floating across my vision. I knew I was too sleepy and couldn't concentrate any longer. So I told myself to get a 10 mins nap and I drifted off almost immediately as I laid down but then I woke up at 1:30 and felt like I couldn't go on. So I slept and woke up at 5:30 instead and studied until 9 for the test. (We had to memorize 4 chapters and other documents and I'm just not a "memory" person so it took me a while) but my friend pulled an all nighter. When the class drew near, she felt so tired and drained that her brain was totally empty. She had to go to the school health center and canceled the test, ironic though that she studied all night just for it.</p>
<p>So do whatever you can to start studying for your tests early, if you know there is lots of information to remember and try to go to sleep by 11:00 PM. Get a few days headstart if necessary. Definitely get at least 7 hours of sleep. It can backfire, like whoever says above and my friend is a good example. You may study so hard for it that you don't even sleep but when it comes to taking the test, your brain should have become so weary it can't function properly, therefore you are more likely to fail your test.</p>
<p>or just study stuff on time so you wouldn't have to cram for the test.</p>
<p>Do jumping jacks at regular intervals throughout the night.</p>
<p>I don't. The latest I stay up is generally 12:30, which I can achieve without much caffeine, if any. If it's that late and I have more work to do, I either get up a bit earlier (5:00-5:30 instead of 6:30) or simply eat the loss on the assignment. (I shouldn't have to do that, though, since I'm not assigned a terribly impossible amount of homework, even with 4 APs and 2 college courses. I'm just very weak-willed and prone to distraction by classical music or the internet.)</p>