What is the best way to stay awake?

chuckywang

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Say you've been up for 12 straight hours and need to be up for 12 hours more. What is the best way to stay awake and alert during that time?
 

NissanGurl

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Have people poke you in the eye with a stick? Seriously, caffine, run around (not jogging, just for circulation), have conversations with people, pretend the floor is lava....you know, whatever trips your trigger.
 

Orsorum

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Keep working hard!

<--- finishing an analysis... really only needs to be done by 5PM PST so I COULD go to sleep, but if I get it done now and then sleep, I can wake up at 1 or 2, proof it again, then submit it. Woo.
 

mcvickj

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Why fight it? Sleep is you friend.

Buy some caffine pills at the gas station.
 

VTHodge

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Drink a Red Bull every two hours and walk around for a few minutes whenever you feel tired.
 

lavaheadache

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staple your eyelids to your forehead. I'm pretty sure sleeping would not come so easily after that
 

sharkeeper

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Up just 12 hours? LOL

Learn how to fly. Take a long trip. You will learn to stay awake or crash.
 

Ilmater

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Originally posted by: EngenZerO
rub one off
NO! THAT WILL PUT YOU TO SLEEP!

Drink lots of caffeine, and then when you feel tired immediately afterwards, drink some water to move the caffeine through your system. That will fvcking do the trick, I assure you.
 

chuckywang

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Originally posted by: Ilmater
Originally posted by: EngenZerO
rub one off
NO! THAT WILL PUT YOU TO SLEEP!

Drink lots of caffeine, and then when you feel tired immediately afterwards, drink some water to move the caffeine through your system. That will fvcking do the trick, I assure you.

Yeah, that did make me sleepy.
 

teckmaster

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this doesn't sound that good but I did it once, and I was awake forever it seemed. I took a glass of milk and poured some Jim Beam in it. Didn't taste bad, but I wasn't going to sleep after wards.