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So last week on Wednesday I come home from school feeling pretty tired like I usually do. I eat, browse TL, etc, then go take a nap at 4 pm. I nap till 12:01 am, so now it's Thursday. I figured that since my Georgetown and George Washington U apps are due on Saturday, I'd get them done. I end up procrastinating till around 4 am, and start writing my Georgetown essay. Get about 80% of that done by around 6:15 am, so now I gotta get ready for school.
I wasn't really feeling tired since I had just gotten 8 hours of sleep not too long ago. School ends, my friend and I drive to get Chinese food before our math team meet. I did pretty well, won our division, beat the school that gotten second place by 1 point. It's around 5:30 pm now, so I've been up for 17 hours 30 minutes; I should be feeling a bit tired...but I'm not. Weird.
Drive back to my friend's house have dinner. We burn Ip Man (only knew about it cuz of the thread here of course!) on a DVD and watch it; unfortunately, we had downloaded the Mandarin dub. Oh well, I'll get to practice my Mandarin with English subs. The movie had probably the best fight scenes I've seen in any kung fu movie - I especially liked how the fight choreographer differentiated wing chun from the other styles used in the movie. We play a shitload of Flash Flash Revolution, then I drive back home.
Get home around 11:40 so I've been up for almost 24 hours now. I'm not tired. What the shit? I eat a small meal consisting of various chinese veggies, shower, check my email, etc. and end up going to bed at 1 am. I lie in bed for maybe 2 hours before I fall asleep. I don't understand my body. 
Fast forward to last Sunday. I wake up at 2 pm, I've forgotten what exactly what I did that day, but I know I go to bed at 12:30 am Monday, but I cannot fall asleep so I just lie in bed listening to music. Around 6 am, I still haven't fallen asleep, so I get up and read my Econ textbook. Later I go downstairs, have breakfast, get ready for school. Go to school; after school I stay behind and chat with a teacher, then go home and eat. I go to my friend's house again and we hang out for a bit, have dinner, watch some Elfen Lied (for like the 5th time), whatever. I think at that time it's around 9 pm, so I've been up for 31 hours. I fall asleep that night around 2 am, so I was awake for 36 hours that day. wtf? I wasn't even feeling tired at any time.
I've always had a messed up sleep schedule since like 6th grade (in 12th now). If a usual sleep schedule would be to fall asleep at 10:30 pm and wake up at 6:30 am, mine would be shifted anywhere from 3 to 6 hours forward, but I'd still have to wake up around 6:30 am, so I'd get like 2-5 hours of sleep. That's why after school, I'd take a nap that lasts 3-7 hours, cuz I'd would feel so tired.
But these 2 days were an exception - I didn't feel tired at all. I was up, alert, awake, doing things. I didn't have any significant change in diet, I didn't suddenly drink coffee (I never drink regular coffee, so even half a cup will keep me up all night) or some energy drink, no drugs or medicine.
So what's wrong with me?
tl;dr version - i stayed up for more than a day without feeling tired. a couple days later, i stay up for 36 hours without feeling tired. what's going on???
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Baa?21247 Posts
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Not sure, I've never had anything similar to what you're experiencing. Even if I stay up late with something to keep me preoccupied, I fall asleep so quickly when I get into bed.
Maybe your body is used to being unusual... if that's even possible
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Did you get any exercise? That could be the problem. Jiu-Jitsu always made me soooooo tired.
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Wow, that's so awesome. Like seriously.
You're not much different from me though. During winter break i would go to sleep at 2AM, wake up at 8AM feeling ready to conquer the world, and then sleep at 9PM that day, and wake up at 3PM the next day. It's just the body getting back the hours that it missed, I guess. And then when school started it basically fucked everything up and it became like yours.
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Probably not doing enough important things...
Read some more math book, that'll sure cure it by making you drowsy and knowledgeable!
On the side note probably all those kids u ate make u extra awakeful
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Maybe its all that kid eating you are doing.
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INSOMNIA SON.
don't worry, i have a similar sleep schedule on school days as well. Its almost 2am now and i'll probably go to sleep at 3am even if i have nothing to do. I'll wake up at 7am and go to school, come home and take a nap from 4pm to 6 or 7pm. Then wake up, and go to sleep again at 2-3am. The cycle continues throughout the week. It's a pretty bad habit but i've gotten used to it. It now seems inevitable not to.
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because of the random nature of my work I don't do crap most of the week but all of a sudden there's a few days where I have to work like mad man... I once got into the office a Tuesday at 7am and left a Friday at around 10am... and I was still so energetic that I actually went to sleep Saturday at 4am after clubbing a bit. Basically I sleep when I'm tired... it may be 6 hours each day of the week... or just 2 complete days while staying awak e the rest of the week... but I'm weird like that....
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Bad sleeping habits and irregular sleeping patterns cause your body to become confused.
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confused body leads to bad decisions xD
more seriously though, you might not feel tired now, but i bet that your body will crash on you at the worst possible time.
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Take melatonin supplements.
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On January 14 2009 20:05 HeadBangaa wrote:
Take melatonin supplements.
Also Valerian Root is a all natural sleep aid.
I am a night person and if I dont fall asleep by 10-11pm I can stay up until 4-6am very easily. I am 23 years old now btw. When I was a teenager and going to high school I learned that I was a night person and would stay up until the wee hours of the morning and end up missing the first half of class time b/c I would stay at home to sleep late b/c obviously I would stay up late.
I cannot drink coffee either b/c of other reasons. I can't drink nomore then 1 cup b/c then I will get wired and jittery for a good 2-3 hours then have a bad downfall. If I drink 1 cup (which all i can drink) I end up just wanting to fall asleep. Pretty weird but thats meh.
So yea your just young and I am sure after so long of doing this you'll have a sleeping regimen.
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I have a weird sleep schedule from winter break and being moved out (free to do anything i want for a month with no job/school and my own house) and ill stay up for like 30 hours then sleep for 6 and stay up for 30 more and somehow be fine. are you exercising? Sometimes you can just stay up and feel fine if your focused on something you want to do i dont know. Im sure your tir but after awhile your body will go into a trance and you wont feel tired. get delirious?
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It's weird how on weekdays I can't stay up past 10 p.m. and I'll fall asleep in 2 mins. But on the weekends I'll stay up till 3 or 4 no problem and it takes 30 mins for me to fall asleep. I never had anything drastic though, but staying up that long without sleeping isn't good. Maybe you are stressed? Doesn't seem like it, but that's one big thing that affects people's sleep cycles.
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On January 14 2009 15:27 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Probably not doing enough important things...
Read some more math book, that'll sure cure it by making you drowsy and knowledgeable!
On the side note probably all those kids u ate make u extra awakeful
Don't do this.
This reminds me of my friend. He get's up at 5 AM to get ready for school (he lives far away), comes home around 12 hours later and sleeps until 10 PMto 12 AM. He then wakes up to do homework and either sleeps with however much time he has left or doesn't.
You should try to get a healthy, consistent sleep cycle going, and I've heard that the best time for sleep is from 12 AM to 3 AM.
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ya I have really bad insomnia which is what it sounds like you have, I don't sleep for 2-3 days at a time usually. What I recommend is after about 18 or so hours lie there with your eyes closed listening to music for about 6 or so hours, you may not feel tired but your brain starts working more slowly and this gives it at least some of the relaxation that your brain usually gets from sleep.
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