Quoth the Descendents… “Thanks to modern chemistry, sleep is now optional”.
Kriss- I have a feeling that you’ll be disappointed if you’re expecting some wild sleep-deprived hallucinations. But, hey, everybody is different. For me, I only get the things darting in and out of the corner of my eye, and this sets in at only about 24 hours for me. I’ve been up for 50 or so hours without even a 10-minute nap when I was 13, so it’s certainly possible for you to stay up. What I experienced is just a weird pulsing sensation, as if the room was “breathing,” and slowly expanding and contracting. I wasn’t purposely trying to stay up this long and, believe me, I wouldn’t take the trouble of trying it.
One cool effect I do get from time to time, and it has as much to do with sleep deprivation as it does mental exhaustion (eg. studying for university finals) is intense auditory hallucinations. It sets in as early as 20 hours without sleep, but I really gotta be mentally wiped. When this happens, I swear I hear full orchestral scores of original melodies. In fact, if I’m working on a song I could just start off the phrase in my head and it instantly composes itself and I hear it, as I would hear a radio or any other sound in the room. However, I cannot control this and I cannot predict when it will happen, so I don’t go out of my way to attempt this. I happen to like sleep.
Besides, there’s plenty of sleep deprivation ahead for you in college.
15 year olds need more sleep than older folks.
Well I just thought I would try it cause it summer vacation. Some of my friends are on vacation and we hang out and stuff but it gets boring after a while. Anyways I thought it would be cool to hallucinate without some drugs or something. Maybe I should take some caffeine to try and stay up. Thanks for the cool suggestions. Later
You require sleep deprivation for this? I hear music–some original, some not–in my head all the time, although full orchestral arrangements are fairly unusual. It’s too bad that I really suck at writing it down.
Kriss, listen to wise old Balance, who has nearly twice your tender years in experience. Don’t do it. Even if you do manage to get some genuinely impressive hallucinations, as opposed to a few fuzzy auras and gneechees (little creatures so fast that you can only see where they’ve been–great fun to go with the paranoia :rolleyes: ), I promise that you will feel too crappy to enjoy them. I’ve gone 72 hours on nothing but willpower and a too-busy schedule, and it sucked–I hurt everywhere and it felt like I was scraping the marrow out of my bones. You’ve probably read the description in the other thead–however cool it may have sounded, it wasn’t.
If you do it anyway, at least remember that you will be functioning at reduced capacity–please don’t do anything that relies on your concentration or reflexes (like driving). Deep breathing will help a little.
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Get a job you hate, max out your credit cards, and get your wife and your girlfriend pregnant in the same week. You’ll have more than your share of sleepless nights.