Sleep is for the dead

[Zerobanshee]

So I just totally pulled an allnighter, not because I chose to, but because I was physically unable to fall asleep. Haha.

So, this thread is dedicated to those that have troubles sleeping, choose to stay up late, derive themselves of sleep for the nets, games, music, whatever is the fancy! Why do you stay up late? Is there any specific reason? Or are you like me?

When is the last time I pulled an allnighter, speaking of which? Why am I rambling on when the purpose of this thread has already been established? Do I still have pizza in the fridge?
The secret weakness of the endboss is waffles.

[Leon]

It's 3 AM over here, but I'm about to turn in. It's been hard to sleep lately. I hear sleeping late makes you tired, which is not good when you got a job.

The title of this thread reminds me of a coffee pic I found. It said "Drink coffee. You can sleep when you're dead."

[Treize]

I was just thinking about pulling an allnighter!

Usually the reason why I pull an allnighter is because I'm preoccupied with something, and lose track of time. I then get to that point where I think is it really worth going to sleep? If you sleep for a couple hours you feel so much more tired when you get back up in the morning, but if you do sleep for just that little bit, you feel so much better later in the day. It is usually a tough choice to make.

Perhaps the reason for tonight is just because my sleep schedule is off because I've had so many days off over the holiday season. When I don't have anything to do, sometimes I don't really care what time of the day it is and just stay up all night and sleep all day. It is quite nice once in a while.

[Unknown Entity]

I have difficultly falling into a regular sleeping pattern, and it's been this way since my GCSEs. Coincidently, it was about the same time as my GCSEs that I got my own laptop (a school loan, but never the less it was mine for almost a year).

The stress of my GCSEs with the internet usage at the time probably didn't do much good, and I've completely fallen out of the loop. College didn't help either as all of my coursework was computer based - so I was on the computer for longer. As well as that, my college timetables were really screwed up - there were days when I could sleep in, and other days I'd have to be up at a sparrows fart. Finally, I was under so much stress at college and I worked so hard, that I found myself unable to switch off sometimes.

My only way to switch off was to chill doing things I thought were fun; playing video games and surfing the good ol' world wide web. And by then, I was having so much fun, I became engrossed in playing my games... so I couldn't switch off again.

When I'm not doing anything else, I'm talking to people on msn. I have few friends who I talk to often, and my partner. There's days when I love a good conversation, and there's days I'm not in the mood. There's days when we have fun conversations and there's days when all we can think about is drama. Fun conversations keep me awake because I'm having fun; drama keeps me awake because I get stressed and worked up, and I'm in too of a bad mood to sleep. At 3am in the morning I should just turn it off because THAT'S when people want to talk to me or are able to. I don't think a lot of people realise the time difference. -_-

So stress, lack of any sort of schedule, entertainment (be that gaming, films, net, etc) and friends have granted me my insomnia.

On that note... I have a long few days ahead of me... Got an appointment at 8:30am tomorrow, then come home and sleep in for as much as I can so that Wednesday morning at 4am I can go with mum to the airport to pick up my grandmother, to come home and catch up on sleep so that on Thursday I'm up for another appointment at 9:25am. -_-

Fun.

[Lily]

I've had sleeping problems since as long as I can remember, I hate it. I like to have a good nights sleep, and it rarely happens, I either can't nod off, or I wake repeatedly, or i wake up at summat daft like 4am and I cant get back to sleep

I'd like to sleep, I like to feel awake the next day and not like utter shite. I also dont like how it affects my general complexion, I just look half dead when Im tired. A well rested me is a happier and (somewhat) better looking me

Hate insomnia ]:

Though, Ive slept well the past few nights, shame Ive gotta get up for work the morn. Bet I sleep like shite

[loaf]

I used to have big troubles sleeping. Now I don't, but I am still able to pull of 2 all nighters in a row.

[Dodie16]

Well, my schedule is pretty lax here lately, so I sleep whenever I feel like it. That kind of threw my sleep habit in a loop though, so I've pulled a few all-nighters. Nothing like I used to do when I was younger though. My record is ~30 hours, and I do NOT want to do that to myself again...unless I just have to for whatever reason. Main reason I stay up late would be, yeah, games. Sometimes other things, like movies or art, but more often is games.

[Tallulah]

Lately I've had a right hard time sleeping. I hate going up and down the stairs because of my leg, therefore I don't like going to bed, and I can never get comfortable. I don't get to sleep until about 4.30am and sleeping in until 2.30-3pm, which I hate doing, as I feel like I've wasted a day.

I only have to put up with the cast for another 2 weeks now (I hope!) so after that's come off, I hope stuff will get better.

[SOLDIER #819]

I love my 8 or 9 hours of sleep. I would always get it even if I woke up repeatedly, but since I always went to bed so late it didn't feel like it at times. Nowadays I need to go to bed at a decent hour. When it gets bright I basically lose all chance of getting back to bed. But because of winter break and little to no stress I'm able to go to bed relatively nice and early. It feels pretty great.

Back when I was 13 or so I couldn't stay up past 9 PM and woke up at like 6 AM everyday. That was some pretty incredible sleep. Wish I could do it again.

[Josh_R]

Sleep haha, wtf is that. I literally run on like 4 or 5 hours of sleep a day. I usually go to sleep between 1-2. I wake up at 5:30 on the dot. I workout, then later work, and starting next week I go to school again. Then repeat.

I will pull an all nighter for video games sometimes. If I don't have school, and work the next day then it is on. I will pull an all nighter no problem.

[Meier Link]

Over the last 16 something years I have not slept what people consider to be regular hours.

I tend to get 2-4 hours a night and if I get more then that I am extremely lucky. It doesn't matter what time I go to bed it still equates out to about that many number of hours. I will generally run off that many hours of sleep for months on end until my body goes into over load and eventually will shut down on itself causing me to sleep for 5-6 hours.

When that happens I wake up feeling like crap because I have over slept and my body is not use to being idle for that long.

I blame my lack of sleeping on 2 different things;
1: habit. I have done it for so long that it is hard to change.
2: my mind. it is constantly racing, there have been nights where my mind will keep me up for hours on end or all night. I just can't get it to shut down properly for proper rest.

Even when I do sleep it is an uneasy sleep and I am easily awoken. Then again if you do wake me up instead of letting me wake myself up watch out because if it isn't for sex I am a cranky son of a bitch. Then again I am cranky in the mornings until I get my first cigarette out of the way.

[Lily]

2: my mind. it is constantly racing, there have been nights where my mind will keep me up for hours on end or all night. I just can't get it to shut down properly for proper rest.

thats my issue, it drives me mad, i tried sleeping tablets when i had a really bad week once, and that did pig all bar relax my body, but my mind was still racing. Help you fall asleep naturally my arse, by the end of the week I was ready for having a nervous breakdown

Also. Knew I'd sleep like shite last night. Grr. Well, thats not completely true, seeing as I nodded of pretty quick but i woke up at 4am. Grr

[winterborn86]

I'm a sleep lover, but the other night I just couldn't sleep at all. I had the sickness bug, so spent half the night in and out of the bathroom and the other half of the night tossing nd turning, trying to get comfortable, was a very rough night

[Taco-Calamitous]

On a normal day, since I am swing shift, I go to bed between like 1 and 3 and wake up between 9 and 11. If I have to get up early, it sucks for me, because I can not go to sleep until at least midnight, unless I'm really tired. There have been periods of my life, I suppose, where I've had to get up at 6 or some damned early hour every day, and my body has adjusted accordingly at those times, although generally it takes a long time, and it has to be pretty much every day that I get up early, or else my body just goes back into swingshift mode.

Often on nights when I know I need to get up in the morning the next day... I can't sleep. It's not that I'm worried I won't wake up, it's that I'm worried I'm not gonna get enough sleep and then be miserable all day the next day. And so I guess it's kinda a self-fulfilling prophecy. But even when I try not to think about it and just rest, I can't sleep sometimes. I'll wake up in the middle of the night, and be like, "DAMNIT!" Suxorz.

Dodie: 30 hours?! Seriously?! WOW. That's quite the skill. Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom

[Dodie16]

Dodie: 30 hours?! Seriously?! WOW. That's quite the skill. Anyhoo...

Wuv, Yer Mom

I didn't do it by choice. It was my punishment for staying up all night playing a video game. I wasn't allowed to sleep at all until the sun went down, and when it finally did, I'm pretty sure I fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

[Zerobanshee]

The most I've ever stayed up was 50 hours, give or take 30 mins here and there from falling asleep standing up, or sitting down for brief moments. I was unable to sleep due to nervousness. It was a crazy time in NNPTC, and I was studying for comp. It got to the point where as soon as I got to my friends, I fell to the floor, curled up under his bed, and went to sleep.

[OceanEyes28]

I stayed up 27 hours once working on an art history final. Exhausted. But I got an A.

Recently, I stayed up all night because I couldn't sleep because I was worried about my mother... but it all worked out.

And I've stayed up late talking to people....... and having relations. God. One time I was up until 5AM with this one boyfriend I had... actually, more than one time.... and it happened with more than one boyfriend.....

.......Sex is better than sleep.

But most of the time, I just get sleep lol.

[Meier Link]

.......Sex is better than sleep.

Hmmm. Interesting and true. Then again the best sleep I get is after sex or pulling an all nighter. Seems like the only time I can really sleep well or wake in a good mood.

Funny thing is that I am always in a good mood for a full day or two after a good night of adult interactions.

[Robbo]

I usually stay up a long time at the weekend talking to most of you guys. SCREW YOU TIME ZONES!!

Although i have college in the morn and i got a new PSP game so i will compromise i will get in bed and still play the game MUAHAH my genius has yet to fail me.

[Alpha]

Just before Christmas, I had to work two twelve hour shifts in two days (12pm-12am both days). After the first shift, a couple of workmates and I got together at one of our houses, played instruments, PlayStation, got drunk. By about 5am, the Sun was appearing, and we just could not be bothered sleeping -- the whole 'a little bit of sleep will make us more tired' idea.

So we popped No-Doz (which are 100mg caffeine tablets). I was buzzing until lunchtime, when I had a bottle of V (not sure if this exists elsewhere -- just think Red Bull and similar products). That lasted me until 4pm, when I really began to crash. The four of us were at work, zombie-like. They really should have sent us home, but we stayed on until 12am.

Given I had gone to the gym before work the day before, the total time I was awake was 39.5 hours. The worst thing about it was that, because you haven't had the reference point of sleep, the second day feels really, really long.

I'm not going to forget how I felt then. I am always going to get some sleep.

[Crazy Chocobo]

I can have problems going to sleep, especially when something is on my mind but I sometimes just can't get to sleep for no reason. It's rather annoying but I haven't been too bad as of late. Over Christmas I was fine because I was very busy and it took me a very short time to go to sleep. It was rather nice. I'm just grateful I don't work 12 hour shifts, that can really muck people up. My brother often does 12 hour shifts and I can tell it screws up his system. I take my hats off to those people because I don't think I could physically or mentally do it.

I usually stay up sort of late; 11-11:30 non work nights or I usually will go to bed at around 10-10:30 on a work night, so either way it's not really early but I've always gone to bed late. If I know I have to wake up early the next morning, I still don't go to bed any earlier lol.

[Kuja]

I've always had problems sleeping, so I barely ever get enough sleep. I've always tried going to bed early, to get more sleep, but that never works, since I can never fall asleep, and I tend to stay up until at least around 2:30 or so in the morning, before I can actually fall asleep, only to wake up again in 3-4 hours later because of school.

I think one of the reasons why this is, is because I have the same problem as Meier Link. My mind keeps me up, from thinking a lot. And sometimes because of this, I have pulled all-nighters.

[jcsimpson]

I got 11 hours of sleep in total last week due to me being an idiot and having my girlfriend over so we stayed up watching movies and stuff. I go to her place on the weekends and wake up at four in the p.m. so on Monday I'm screwed for work. I pull an all nighter every Sunday night, go to work and then come home and crash and then my sleeping pattern is good for the week. After my Monday with no sleep I then get to bed at 9 to wake up at five until I mess it all up again and sleep the weekend away and pull an all nighter on Sunday. I've been up for 26 hours now seeing as it's Monday. I used to suffer from insomnia, the taking hours to fall asleep no matter how tired kind, now I'm just messing mine up cause I'm an idiot which I find really dumb cause when I couldn't fall asleep due to insomnia I'd pray and beg for sleep and now I'm depriving myself of it. I think I'll win first prize at the Dumb ass awards this year in the self punishment category*.

* There is no such award or category. I'm trying to be funny you see.

[Azuteor]

All Christmas break, I've been sleeping at 4 A.M the next day. One of my friends said that it is a waste of time to sleep during the break as you can use that time doing something else. I've kept up with that ever since. On school days, it depends on how much homework I have. Procrastination puts me up to 2 A.M and if I do them on a timely manner, I can get to bed at 10 P.M.

[Chez Daja]

Lets see... it's 12:38am and I'm not asleep.

Does that spell it out?

Yeah, I have trouble sleeping. Moreso now that I sleep next to a very aggressive bed-taker-upper every night.

[yuki]

i actually for the bast maybe six years havent got what u may call sleep
i dont sleep at night at all mom calls me avampire i sleep for 3 to 4 hours daily than its coffe time and if somthing on my mind i may end up an allnighter but after it i sleep even in the toilet
alot of people told me its becouse of coffe but i cant leave it T__T
so i go with my routine as aliving zombie
but on the other hand my sis sleeps like 24 hours some times realy???
somtimes i just stand watching her sleep and say wtf is fun about sleeping in normal days she sleep 10 or more hours ....
some times i just get mad at her and say YOU STOLE MY SLEEP GIVE IT BACK.....
and her usual answer is no one told u not to use it if u leave it i take it....PISSES ME OFF
thought about taking sleep bills but i was scared that i may never get up (silly,,,)

[Meigumi]

I stay up until 1 AM or more on holidays/weekends. I don't have a specific reason, I just want to stay up and relax for a bit, do stuff I enjoy~

Like drawing, listening to music, or just lay down and play with my DS.