Changing phases

2 hours of sleep and I'm up now heh.

Couldn't sleep for some reason other than it's Friday morning and I can rarely sleep.

When I was in college, I'd change phases frequently.

I'd be at school from 8 til 2pm work from 630 to 5am.
Go to school at 2pm to 5pm work from 630 to 5am.

Somedays when we had big projects, there was no time for sleep before work.
My classmates often said I looked like a zombie. Got good grades, tho! :D

When my wife does the night shifts ( 22:00 till 06:00 ) I rarely go to bed before 03:00
Can't seem to stop playing with C / php or some weird net stuff..

Three of those nights and I really start to feel it..

When you're up a long time.... It's weird. Depending on how much sleep I had before I stayed up, sometimes I get into this state where it's like.... WTF.

You guys ever get so tired you're lamost sleeping but awake? You can't think to well, you want to sleep but you can't, and you're like..... Almost stoned.
What do you guys do to stay up? Ia sked that but no one said anything.

Personally, I drink RedBull, or Full Throttle, or maybe a cup of coffee, or AMP.

Right now I'm pretty tired, but once I wake up, I can't fall back to sleep. If I've slept two hours, like I did today, and I have to go to work, I can't fall back asleep for some reason. I can't sleep for at least 10 hours after. And usually 16 hours is how long.

Like right now I could not fall back to sleep because I've been up for about 2 hours so heh...

A few semesters ago for my Security + class. I came to school, sat down and asked why everyone was studying. They said "Dude.... You look tired!" And Is aid well yea I haven't slept in like 30 hours. And they said "Dude, today is the last day.... last etst"... Heh, did the whole thing in 20 minutes and Aced it. Did that for quite a few of my classes then drove home half asleep and then slept. Staying up is easy but once you see sunlight it's harder.

Caffeine etc...
Ephedrine (people tell me it's dangerous combined with caffeine (never had any trouble))

Also.. Just a walk in fresh air... works great !!

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Originally posted here by the_JinX
Caffeine etc...
Ephedrine (people tell me it's dangerous combined with caffeine (never had any trouble))

Also.. Just a walk in fresh air... works great !!

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Ephedrine is pratically legal tweak. They used to put it in some of those cheap caffiene or energy pills you can buy at licquer stores and gas stations. Bad stuff. Used to take it from time to time when going to all night parties. Mountain Dew and Penguin Mints are more my style.

Longest I have stayed away was 48 hours on a trip to Germany.

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The FDA has received more than 800 reports of adverse effects associated with use of products containing ephedrine alkaloid since 1994. These serious adverse effects, include hypertension (elevated blood pressure), palpitations (rapid heart rate), neurophathy (nerve damage), myopathy (muscle injury), psychosis, stroke, memory loss, heart rate irregularities, insomnia, nervousness, tremors, seizures, heart attacks, and death. The agency has proposed to prohibit the marketing of dietary supplements containing 8 milligrams or more of ephedrine alkaloids per serving.

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I've done 100 + hours in a 'twi-light' state when working .............

abroad, setting up radio beaons for seismic survey ship, team of three.
one sets up base 1
2 - 2
3 - 3
as boat passes, 1 breaks down 1 and drives to 4
2 breaks 2 and heads to 5 etc etc

did that over the course of a week, drove over 1000KM too :eek:
then the boat turns round and reverses course ...................

we had pills from a 'chemist' to keep us up..............
plus coffee LOTS of coffee.

did an easter weekend at a local car factory - thursday 20:00 till tuesday 08:00
and THAT was NASTY

and for seven YEARS we did 7day weeks 12 hour shifts where ever I worked

money was rather good
but wife #1 managed to use it up without me :( :D