DOn’t worry - They just play the Star Spangled Banner. It’s all static after that. 
If I don’t have to work first thing in the morning, I quickly devolve to a schedule where I’m up reading until 6 or 7 AM, then nap until noon.
39 and 3/4’s here - the latest I’ve stayed up in many, many years was 3 am last May, which was very unusual for me. I get physically sick when I stay up too late - I start to feel like barfing at around 11:30 - 12. Even when I was younger I couldn’t work night shifts without feeling truly awful.
My body knows what it likes and when it likes it. Sleep is between 11 pm and 9 am (with some leeway on each end), and that’s that for me.
I’m 39 1/2, so I thought I would go ahead & answer. I love to sleep…I don’t remember ever staying up all night voluntarily. The only time I remember doing it was the night my daughter was born. She was sleeping in the bassinet next to me, but I was so freaked out by the whole thing, I couldn’t sleep at all. I finally took her out of the bassinet and just held her & looked at her all night. I don’t remember feeling all that tired, either, which is pretty weird considering all the hard work I did that day! Must have been pumped full of adreneline or something.
If I’m not already sleep-deprived, when I do pull an allnighter these days I feel fine up until sunrise, then get sorta winky and crash hard. I also seem to sleep best in the couple hours prior to sunup, strangely. Maybe connected somehow.
Ooops, in my post, I forgot to say that I just turned 48. :smack:
What the hell? Am I the only Cowboy Angel around here? Yeah, I like to go out drinkin’, dancin’, and listenin’ to third-rate bands until daylight. I’ve done this five or six times in the past few months.
It’s been my habit to hang out in low-life bars since I got my first fake ID at age 16.
I’m 63 now, and I ain’t tired of it yet…
I’m 39 and stay up almost alnight very often, including frequent international flights. Most often, it will be because of marathon computer gaming sessions when I realize it is getting light out, sad.
I’ve always been a night owl an if I had my way, I’d stay up until 1.30-2.00 am and go to work around 10.
I am over 50, and I do it three or four times a year. No ill effects if I get my sleep in the next night.
BUT…
A couple of years ago I took my kid to New York. I had a meeting with my agent and some other stuff to do. We flew out on the red-eye, me thinking the kid would get some sleep and I could read (since I can’t sleep on anything moving). He didn’t. We got to NYC at 7:30 am, dropped our stuff off at the hotel, met my other son for breakfast, did some sightseeing, then I took the kid back to the hotel and suggested he take a nap (so I could take one) and he said he was too old for naps and resumed jumping on the bed. That night my publisher took me out to dinner, then I met an old friend and we went to a bar, where we stayed until closing. New York bars close at 4 a.m. I caught about three hours of sleep and then the kid woke me up wanting to get going–We went sightseeing, I met with my agent, then I went to a couple of bookstores and signed books, and at 7:30 pm we got on a plane back home, where once again the kid and I did not get even so much as a bit of a doze. (Although the kid had not closed the bar the night before–he and his big brother went to a Yankees game and got back to the hotel at a reasonable hour and went to bed.)
After this bout with The City That Never Sleeps we got home around 1 a.m. I slept until noon, and then went back to bed and basically slept the rest of the weekend, and was still a bit foggy on Monday.
I’m 44 and pulled an all-nighter three weeks ago. I was very nervous before a presentation and couldn’t sleep, and I didn’t want to take any tranquilizers because I didn’t want to feel all loopy. Went to work, gave the presentation, came home and went to sleep at 3:00 PM. The secret (for me) is to drink lots of water – don’t ask me why because I don’t have the faintest idea.
Voluntarily, was one of our last nights in Germany where I had the delight of watching my husband and his cousin get completely shitfaced. Nothing like coming in when his other cousin is just getting in from her shift as a baker to see me push my listing husband up a set of stairs smelling like beer and cigerettes.
Involuntarily, take prednisone and discover the joys of never sleeping and hearing your mundane thoughts 24/7. For about 3 weeks. (This was the weeks prior to zee German trip mentioned above.)
Now, its just insomnia.
Last night and the night before. But you said for fun and that was for work.
Because I work a couple overnight shifts a week I tend to stay up until 3 or 4 am the rest of the week when I’m not working. But a few weeks ago I was doing 3 overnights a week and I’d have a tendency to stay up until 5 or 6 am on my days off because I was used to that schedule and I tended to stay awake longer when I was playing a new computer game, so I guess that was for fun.
That’s my husband’s cure for everything, and he’s right more often than not. Have a bad headache? Drink a glass of water. Bad tummy? Drink a glass of water. Unless you’re drinking gallons a day, I guess a little more water never hurt anyone.
Yahh, I’ve been doing that for a while now, works better than anything else I’ve tried.
Ha! It has been so long since I’ ve been up late that I really don’t know if anybody still does that.
I knew there was a reason why I like you
I frequently stay up all night, watching TV, surfing on the net, reading…
I work odd hours, I go in anywhere from 5am to 3 pm and get off anywhere between 2pm and 12 midnight…needless to say my sleep schedule is as eratic. I also have a very hard time falling asleep.
Next time I come through Alabama, which I do a couple times a year, I’m calling you.
Ain’t it nice to be loved! Or liked, even.
So you got in just as your husband was getting up to cut hay…Y’all got a farm? My farm’s way back in the sticks. Got some cattle here, a few horses, like that. The missus and I love livin’ out in the boonies.
Bring it on! There’s this dive called the Rodeo Club… 
Voluntarily, probably never. A few months ago, I was having a bad night - I just could not fall asleep. I went to the family room to watch TV (man, is the selection bad at 3AM!!) and I think about 4:30 I gave up and showered (since I normally get up at 4:45 anyway) and went to work. That was one looooooooong day.
I think I pulled one all-nighter in college and that’s only because back in the old days, before PCs, you had to sign up to use a computer terminal on campus and my team was only able to get one at a ridiculous hour in the middle of the night. Yes, children, we also had to sign up to use the card punch terminals. Yes, I wrote Fortran IV programs on punch cards.
Now get off my lawn, you kids!! 