Once, in grad school, to finish a paper. It really sucked.
Yes, I have but not for many years. Apart from not getting to sleep until 4:00 am.
I’ve stayed up all night because I’ve worked an evening shift, gone out partying and then got home just in time to shower and go back to work. That was many years ago, though. I couldn’t do it now.
The other times I’ve stayed up all night have been mostly, “I’ll just read this one more chapter”, which turns into an all night read-a-thon. I still do that from time to time.
Ride da bambulamps and keep the boogeyman at bay…
A handful of times as an undergrad, to finish papers that were due the next day.
A couple of times for work, way back when I was a paralegal. The OT was good money. One of those times, I worked the next day too, then went home and slept about 12 hours.
Once when I was a grad student, to study for a test in a class the next morning.
Only once or twice for recreational reasons; IME, being up from 2-6am really kills the whole next day. Sleep half of it, then groggy and out of it the other half. Not a worthwhile tradeoff for me, so I haven’t repeated that experience in a few decades.
And despite being inflicted with insomnia, I’ve never been awake all night due to it. I’m mostly an early-a.m. insomniac, which means I usually get at least half a night’s sleep before I run into problems.
My most recent all-nighter of any sort was in the fall of 1983, IIRC.
Throughout high school I rarely went a week without at least 2 all nighters. Since then it’s just a couple nights a month that I’ll be up all night.
I routinely had to do 30 hour calls for residency (I’m a doctor). That was definitely the worst part of residency. Admitting someone to the hospital at 5 am when you’re tired and feel crummy is no fun.
There were times in college when I pulled all nighters to finish a paper or do last minute studying for a test too, but that seems like nothing in comparison to the calls because I was younger then.
I stayed up all night far too often as a resident and also early in my medical career when I did Obstetrics. Now it’s a rare event to stay up all night, and I hope to keep it that way.
I chose ‘stay up all night more often than once every six months, because I like it’. But I often stay up all night simply because I can’t sleep. If the rest of the world would get over this silly 24 hour cycle thing, I’d only do it because I like to.
Depends on how you define all night. If you just mean from sunset to sunrise, I do that all the time. If you mean 24 hours, then for 3 days due to insomnia, and I used to do it in college if I had a project. At that time I had a medicine I had to take to make me sleep, and I would just not take it, and I’d feel fine. I also did it when I stayed over in a girl’s dorm.
I’ll vote for once every six months or more, since that’s what it averages out to.
I stayed up all night because I liked to party. You step out and the sun is high in the sky. You flinch like a vampire and do the walk of shame all the way home in your wrinkled party clothes.
As I’ve gotten older, I still like to party but I like to sleep even more. I have gotten a new videogame, started playing and, before I knew it, the sky was streaked purple. This is why I won’t install a new game after 9 pm. I’m serious.
I used to stay up all night a lot. When I was a teenager I worked the night shift at a gas station, went to school all day and slept for a couple hours between 4pm and 10pm. Oddly my grades dropped during that semester ;). At this point I was staying up all night more than once a week due to work.
Later I would get caught up in a book or a game and stay up all night, go to work the next day and get caught up on sleep the next night. At this point I was staying up all night a few times a month because I liked it.
Unfortunately I’m now completely unable to function the day after having no sleep so this is vanishingly rare now. Now I would say that I stay up all night once every 6 months or less for a variety of reasons.
With all this in mind the poll option I chose was - another option which is significantly different.
I used to stay up all night on occasion, but it’s very rare now. When I was in college, I would sometimes pull an all-nighter before a big exam or to finish a paper, and once in a while stayed up until dawn partying. I’ve also had a job or two where I worked the night shift. There have also been a few times when I’ve been up all night while traveling. But nowadays I try to get at least a few hours of sleep if possible. I chose the last option.
Several times when kids were sick, but the time that sticks in my head is when a truck driver gave me some speed (or something) at a house party, in 1962 or thereabouts. I didn’t sleep for two days, and my teeth hurt, but the first 12 hours or so were pretty cool. Now that I think about it, it may have been meth. It was wonderful, but it scared me away from illicit drugs. Me to truck driver: “I could get used to this!” Him: “Um, no more for you.”
I stay up all night (until 9 a.m.) two or three times per week for work. It sucks sometimes but getting a break from managers and their idiocy makes it worthwhile.
A work project, or a game of Civ, or a road trip. Long stretches are wonderful to drive through at night.
It’s shitty on the internal clock and I try to avoid it more and more as I get older and older.
I haven’t done it since college, but that was due to drugs. We were still new to them and didn’t realize that if you keep on doing lines (coke, ritalin, adderal etc) until 11pm, you’re not going to sleep that night…and if you do the same thing the next day, you’re going to go two days without sleep…and after three sleepless night you get hallucinations in your peripheral vision. I’ve since learned my lesson, nowadays, I try not to even take Sudafed after 2 or 3 in the afternoon.
To this day the line “If I get home before daylight I just might get some sleep tonight” still reminds me of laying in my dormroom watching the sun come up and thinking 'okay, if I don’t fall asleep in like the next 5 minutes I’m going to stop trying…aww who am I kidding, might as well get up and enjoy the morning"
During college I probably had 10-20 sleepless nights some in 3 night stretches, sometimes from drugs, sometimes just plain insomnia. Since college, if I had any fully awake nights, I can’t even remember them. I have night where I have a hard time falling asleep, but I don’t think I’ve gone a full 24 hours without at least 2 or 3 hours of sleep (at night).
There’s no check box for “I was a computer scientist in college in the days of punched cards, so yeah, of course.”
In the last 30 years, though, probably not more than a handful of times. Some due to anxiety and, most recently, because of a red-eye flight from California. I’m pretty sure you can’t call the tortured writhing I did in the non-reclining seats to be actual “sleep” because I remember every horrible millisecond of it.
Used to sometimes in college when I had to study and had early morning classes.
Now I have insomnia from time to time and can’t sleep at all.
I’d be up every night except for the miracle <for me> that is Tylenol PM <or it’s generic variants>. 
Otherwise, I don’t miss sleep unless I have to.
There have been many times I’ve sort of had to, though.
Most prominent was in college: worked two jobs, one of them overnight. So I’d work, go to school, work my second job, do homework, go to work…then crash the next day. Did that a LOT. The scars on my fingers and hands attest to the fact that a job requiring knife skills is not a good one to be performing while under the effects of sleep-dep. :smack:
Three times that I can recall. Once on a fire line as a Forest Service employee. Once on a drinking/whoring/gambling trip to a Northern Nevada town (a friend provided some chemicals that made staying awake a breeze but did nothing for my card-playing skills). And once on New Year’s eve/day. I’d seen in the new year, closed down the bar, and was at home pouring myself into bed when a carload of carousing friends pulled in having decided “let’s go to SeldomSeen’s place and keep the party going!” We played cards and drank 'til dawn and celebrated New Year’s day by sleeping for twelve hours straight.
I’m much too old for such things now. If I don’t get at least 7 hours of shut-eye each night it just makes me…sad.
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