Methods to stay awake when you've been up over 18 hours?

[TitanDiddly]

If you can't do it, don't. Personally, my awakeness threshold is 36 hours. After that, things turn to nonsense. I can eek out a few more hours- maybe even up to 48- but those nothing gets accomplished in those 12 extra hours. Caffeine etc can help, but in the end you're just going to pay for it later.

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
short nap,works for me,

If I am stuck at work; due to a snowstorm,
I will at times park the truck and take a 10 min nap.
Safer than crashing into a parked car,or a person.

:laugh: Best way to stay awake? Short nap, definitely... :laugh:

 

[BurnItDwn]

Mountain Dew + Penguin Mints + Coffee

 

[StrangerGuy]

Originally posted by: cavemanmoron
short nap,works for me,

If I am stuck at work; due to a snowstorm,
I will at times park the truck and take a 10 min nap.
Safer than crashing into a parked car,or a person.

Wow so you can nap while awake huh? Teach me how!!

 

[Cobalt]

For LAN parties, Bawls. When you start to feel your eyes closing or that urge to sleep, drink one or two bottles and it will last you for the rest of the night. If not, repeat as necessary.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Why would you want to stay awake that long? I think the longest I've gone without sleep was close to 48 hours. That wasn't fun.

 

[xospec1alk]

public void StayAwake() {
...
}

 

[TheBDB]

coffee :thumbsup:

 

[Antoneo]

World of Warcraft has kept my friends going for hours. And hours.

 

[Bassyhead]

18 hours aint much, I was awake for 36 hours once with no problem.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

18 hours? That's when you start falling off? Sweet Jesus, I'm usually awake for 20 hours every day and I feel fine

 

[tyler811]

PORN

 

[Platypus]

18 hours is nothing, drink mass amounts of coffee .

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

damn, you're having trouble with 18 hours? I do that pretty often just on water

 

[OverVolt]

Meh, i can go about 48hours being fully functional, but then i crash hard for about 12hrs of wholesome sleep.

 

[xEDIT409]

It helps if you're trying to stop a presidential assination while your family is being kept hostage, or maybe if you're trying to find a nuclear bomb hidden in L.A.

 

[0roo0roo]

accupuncture needles.
just jam em in nice and deep.

 

[SacrosanctFiend]

Just stay awake? It's not that hard to stay awake for 24-30 hours without any help.

 

[DyslexicHobo]

For 50+ hour LANs I just keep a constant flow of Bawls in my system. Sometimes I resort to Adderol (no, not illigally. I have some leftover from when I was diagnosed with ADD).

 

[BaboonGuy]

My friend gave me this herbal energy boost stuff that you can buy at 7-11 I think. Anyway I ate two packs (mistake) and I ended up staying up for 72 hours straight completely wired. Then I slept for 17 hours.

 

[Paratus]

Surfing Atot

 

[jagec]

OK, here has been my schedule since Friday.

Get up at 7:45 Friday morning (about 5-6 hours of sleep), shower, go to class.
1.5 hour nap
First meal
class, project planning meeting
Second meal

stay up until 7:30 Saturday morning
Sleep for a half hour
Go to my uncle's house
Eat a small bowl of oatmeal
Load over three tons of yard waste, fertilizer, etc in the rain. MASSIVE landscaping project.
Go back home

Sleep for 15 hours, get up at 9:30 Sunday morning
Third meal

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: xEDIT409
It helps if you're trying to stop a presidential assination while your family is being kept hostage, or maybe if you're trying to find a nuclear bomb hidden in L.A.

:thumbsup:

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

i usually stay up all night at least once a week doing homework. once i went for 2 days without any sleep...
lots o caffiene and lots o homework

 

[sharkeeper]

18 hours? Geeze I wish a single day went by where that's all the time I was awake.

Back in 1989 I was working on a project that kept me up for 106 hours straight. I almost died doing that.

Cheers!