OT Poll: Amount of Sleep...

[Suicide Junkie]

alarikf said:Wow. Burly. I stayed up four days once, and you're right, it totally messes you up. I often find, even today, that I stay awake a couple days at a time to get things done sometimes.

I once went 9 days without eating, and only drinking water with a bit of salt...does that count?

Quick! Write a book, and make piles of money on "The Alarikf Diet"

[AgentZero]

Heh. If people ever ask me bout losing weight (lost 60kg in 1.5years), I always swear by the Fork Diet. Goes by one simple rule: PUT DOWN THE FORK!

alarikf said:Wow. Burly. I stayed up four days once, and you're right, it totally messes you up. I often find, even today, that I stay awake a couple days at a time to get things done sometimes.

Yeah, but I'm not able for that sort of thing anymore. Used to stay up a 2-3 days in a row when I had loads to do, but I found sleeping just 4 hours a day made me able to do way more, since it kept my mind fresh.
But if you want a real challenge, try solitary confinement. Makes sleep deprivation seem like a cake walk. And yes, I did that too, again for the Psych department (hey, I was a student, they were offering money. What else could I do?). Now THAT screws you up nicely. Went five days without seeing or hearing anyone or anything, and when they let me out I went racing around the place hugging everybody I saw and crying for joy when they spoke to me. Everyone always says solitary can't be that bad, but trust me, it's worse.

[Randallw]

thats another thing I can't comprehend. People speak of making do with 4-5 hours of sleep every few days. If someone tries to wake me up after 6 hours I....well if I had less manners....would tell them to "<censored> off", or at least I might, if I used that sort of language, if it wasn't for the fact that I am half asleep. Someone can wake me up and if they don't keep an eye on me I will be asleep 5 seconds later, and have no memory of them even trying to wake me. Oh and a Clock is uselss. Maybe once a week otherwise I just ignore it, by which I mean it does not even register as a disturbance.

[Gandalf Parker]

Randallw said:
thats another thing I can't comprehend. People speak of making do with 4-5 hours of sleep every few days.

I make fun of my mother-in-law saying she is from some alien moon and never got used to Earth hours. She does an entire day in 8 hours. Sleeps, works, etc etc.

Oh and a Clock is uselss. Maybe once a week otherwise I just ignore it, by which I mean it does not even register as a disturbance.

Its been proven often enough (and Ive seen it personally many times) that you either want to get up or you dont. If you want to get up you wouldnt need the alarm, if your trying to sleep then no alarm will help.

[Traskelion]

Wow, I feel like a weakling compared to you oddballs. I sleep about 9 hours average, with a record of 16 hours. The longest no-sleep-straight was 36 hours, which seems to pale in comparison to you wierdos.
I don't know how anyone can live on 4 hours of sleep a day. After 3 days of that, I felt big-time hallucinations. Interestingly enough, I think that loosened my sense of reality or something, 'cause now I get hallucinations if I stay up for only 24 hours in a row.
By the way, when you people mean hallucinations, how much interaction is there? Because I find myself having conversations with people who aren't there, and I don't think that's normal.

But again, my record feels small now thanks to you people. However, I knew someone at the cannery with ADHD, so he got 0-2 (2 more often)hours of sleep for like...2 weeks in a row. He was kinda funny.

P.S. How normal is this: I've seen the words on a comp. game begin to contort and change colors......turned out the game didn't HAVE any words! This was while walking around in Morrowind, then shortly after, I could swear the NPC's in the Mages' Guild started dancing. What kind of things do you people see in your hallucinations?

P.P.S. I disagree Gandalf. Although I will gladly sleep in 'till 11 A.M. if allowed, when my alarm goes off at 7 A.M., I leap outta bed to push the "button to make the noise stop", and my mind is gone for a while. But that's little, considering I used to wake up at 3:30 A.M., and I did NOT want to do that. And if it matters, I've never pressed that "Snooze" button.