And if you do, how often have you? I believe that I have done so about four or five times in my life, usually because I have had a deadline to meet for some reason or another. Only once have I decided to go out on a weekday, stayed out too late, and then went back to work wearing the same thing I did the day before.
So I’m just curious as to how often this happens.
Whoops. I need to change mine to “I stay up all night more often than once every six months, but due to illness and so on.” Insomnia is a regular guest at my house, but not that regular.
My last semester of college I stayed up through the night about once a week to get things done. I haven’t done it much otherwise.
Just did it today because of insomnia.
Hard to believe there are people who have never stayed up all night. Besides the usual university experience, I have greeted the morning many a time from a Bangkok beer bar, although those days seem to grow farther apart the older I get. And I remember one particularly eventful night in Waikiki, but that’s a whole other story.
You should have allowed multiple choices. It the past I have been up all night because of:
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[li]illness or insomnia[/li][li]medication issues[/li][li]work+too much to do[/li][li]video games[/li][/ul]
Now a days it just insomnia and drifting sleep patterns.
Never went to university/college and I don’t drink/bar hop/party.
I did not mean to imply that those are the only reasons one would stay up all night.
You left out “Always.” In fact, I’m doing it right now.
I have always woken up in the middle of the night for at least an hour for as long as I can remember. This is generally considered ‘segmented sleep’ which if oyu look into history was actually normal, but is now considered an illness [for lack of a better word.]
This is made much worse by medication I am on, that makes me have hard core nap attacks after I take meds in the morning [I wake up at 5, and am tanked back out by 6 for at least 3 hours, and I take meds at 1 pm that have me tanked out again for about 3 hours at about 2 pm.] I go to bed at 10 pm, and wake up about 1 am, and consider it a good night if I can manage to get back to sleep by 2, usually I get back to sleep by 4 am to get up again at 5.
I would absolutely adore the ability to crash at 10 pm and sleep solidly until 5 am without recourse to drugs. Only times I have been able to sleep like that were when I was seriously ill and literally sleeping for 20 hours of the day.
Both in college and in my early days of programming it was common for me to pull all-nighters.
Now I couldn’t even if I wished to. I struggle with staying away all day, let alone all night. (Yes, I’ve seen tons of health professionals.)
I did it last weekend - went out Friday night, got into bed about 6am Saturday. I dozed a little until 11am. It was fun but the rest of Saturday was a write-off, so this is not a common experience for me anymore.
I have done it many times for college deadlines, more recently for work deadlines, and would probably go out on all-nighters quite often between the ages of 17 and 25. I’m 29 now and, as above, it’s a little harder to cope with!
If I’m left to my own devices, I generally sleep during the day and I’m awake at night. This makes it rather hard to schedule appointments, though. And I suspect this isn’t what you’re talking about.
I’m also a segmented sleeper. It’s very rare for me to sleep more than about 3 hours at a time. I usually need to get up to pee, or I hurt too bad to lie down any longer, and I need to take a pain pill (usually Advil). So I’m up a few times during the day, for anywhere from 1 to 5 hours.
Now, there have been occasions when I’ve stayed up more than 24 hours at a stretch. I don’t do bars, and I never really needed to cram when I was in college. When my husband was in the Air Force, though, and we were living in Spain, I’d sometimes go into base with him when he was pulling the midnight shift. I’d pretty much camp out in the TV room for a while, then when it closed down I’d go to the cafeteria, which was open 23 hours a day. They closed for an hour at 2 AM for cleaning. My husband and I would eat lunch there, at 1 AM, and just hang out.
I also used to stay up WAAAAAY too late when we lived in Las Vegas. There’s always something to do, even if you don’t gamble. We lived there in the 80s, when there were 24 hour arcades. And that was just about the time when there were online services that were starting up for non-computer geeks. I was on QuantumLink, USVideotel, and AOL (not all at the same time), and I’d frequently stay up until 6 AM, which is when QLink shut down for the day.
I’ve stayed up long enough to get a buzz from fatigue toxins. I wouldn’t do it these days, but I was very young then.
I/m up all night five nights a week working the desk at a hotel. the other nights I try to stay up just to keep balance.
Yes a number of times. I was up all night a few times in college, nothing that wild, just chatting, drinking, having a laugh.
More recently I’ve had to stay up all night for work purposes a few times a year. Significant event looming with many tasks to be completed in a short space of time, under severe pressure, combined with reluctance on the part of more senior staff to sign off on items until the very last minute, equals all-nighters.
What do you consider all night? Until the sun rises? 24 hours without sleep? 40 hours? I stay up until dawn several times a year, but I also rarely wake up before 11. A full 24 hours is less frequent, but probably happens over once a year. Only a handful of times (mostly high school and college) have I missed a sleep period completely (i.e., a full 40 hours).
Same here. I’m pretty much nocturnal.
Family members in the hospital.
Or dying.
Only a handful of times as an adult, mostly in college (pulling all-nighters to get a paper done the night before it was due) and in my early 20s (back in the days when I could actually stay out all night drinking). Now, I generally only stay up all night once a year, being New Year’s Eve (out drinking all night and walk home around dawn when we get thrown out of the bar).
As a kid (around ten years old, up to around twelve years old), I used to stay up all night every Friday night to watch TV (my favorite show was on at 1am so I stayed up watching all the other crap on TV to get to it). Once the show was cancelled, I stayed up just because I could. I’d get to sleep anywhere from 3am to 5am, then be back up again around 7am to go watch cartoons or play outside. I have no idea how I ever managed it! :eek:
The longest I’ve ever gone without sleep is about 40 hours, twice. Once when I was about 20 or so, writing a paper (pretty much spent most of that 40 hours writing it). And the night of my 21st birthday (much more fun all-nighter :D…after that I slept for about 18 hours straight).
Once a year. The NHL Booster Club Convention has a tradition of having the rookies stay up till 0700 on the last day of convention.