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Hey guys, i've kind of considered blogging a few times before because i've been really trying to up my starcraft game.
Anyway, i finally decided to make this because i've recently bet 125 kuna (according to google, 125 kuna = roughly 23 US dollars) with a friend on who could stay up the longest.
The rules are simple, you must stay up the longest without the use of any hard drugs (caffeine pills, cocaine, methamphetamines etc.), and you must send an IM roughly every 15 minutes.
I'm currently at 2 days, 9 hours, 23 minutes. This is really difficult, and i'm not thinking clearly.
I will post every successive 12 hours until i give in to the stress. Right now i'm on my 3rd pot of coffee.
Wish me luck!
  
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This is a very bad idea. You should just take the 125 kuna loss, and let you and your friend sleep, for both your sakes.
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Korea (South)11570 Posts
only a few more hours until you start hallucinating!
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if its enough to cover your hospital bills then go for it...
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On March 23 2009 01:30 CaucasianAsian wrote:
only a few more hours until you start hallucinating!
i'm not really worried about hallucinations, from what i'm read, they appear to be rather mild (although the trip is almost always "bad"). What i've seen so far is just a faint sparkle when i move my head. And i keep hearing snatches of faint music etc. All in all, i dont think this will be so bad. I've got atleast another 12 hours in me.
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I remember in junior year of high school some kid tried to do this and felt like he was gonna die when he nearly made it a week lol
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The longest I've gone without sleep was about 60 hours, I didn't feel to great at the end of it. My friend managed like 3 and a half days or so I think and he was seriously freaking out by the end of it, like falling asleep in the middle of a conversation, waking 5 minutes later and continuing to say what he had been when he fell asleep when we were now talking about something completely different.
You'll probably last a while longer and end up falling asleep at your computer lol, good luck with the bet.
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I bet your friend is sleeping atm. 
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stay up the longest without using meth or coke for 125 kuna/23 USD?..........
are drugs really that cheap in croatia?
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get someone to I M him for you and go to sleep
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I'm wondering why a caffeine pill is considered a hard drug but coffee is allowed.
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On March 23 2009 02:12 BottleAbuser wrote:
I'm wondering why a caffeine pill is considered a hard drug but coffee is allowed. Yeah, doesn't make much sense. At first I thought maybe caffeine pills had a ridiculous amount of caffeine in them, but apparently the average pill has the same amount of caffeine as 1-2 cups of coffee. Then again, you could take like a fistful of pills and wash them down all at once so you get the effect of a pot of coffee without actually having to drink it...but that still doesn't seem like too much of an advantage compared to coffee.
Unless caffeine pills are slang for something else in Croatia.
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On March 23 2009 02:12 BottleAbuser wrote:
I'm wondering why a caffeine pill is considered a hard drug but coffee is allowed.
Caffeine pills are higher concentrate pills/ larger doses than you could buy at the store. These are the doses/ concentrations taken for recreational doses, and they are MUCH stronger than coffee. (ala erowid: http://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=43308)
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start doing nothing and you wont need to sleep.
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gl lol. Whatever you do, DONT WATCH VIDEOS THAT WILL MAKE YOU SLEEPY
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You should watch a TvT imo.
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On March 23 2009 02:40 Boblion wrote:
You should watch a TvT imo.
But i think TvT's are exciting. TvZ is nasty boring :V
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United States4126 Posts
I've never forced myself into staying up for multiple days in a row, but the only times that I 'accidentally' didn't sleep for one night, I spent the next day taking a nap everywhere I went (even in public.
Have you tried forcing an adrenaline rush into you? I've always found that helpful when I'm dozing off in class or something.
Also, are you a masochist? 
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I did this in my last blog once like a year ago O_o.... I went 6 whole days with out sleep and even made videos to show people :O
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On March 23 2009 02:51 ShoCkeyy wrote:
I did this in my last blog once like a year ago O_o.... I went 6 whole days with out sleep and even made videos to show people :O
how did you survive? i'm sooo tired already (2 days, 10 hours, 58 minutes atm)
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I kept myself busy... Do active things but things that don't get you tired.
Talk on the phone, walk outside, play some kind of video game for about 30mins, DONT STARE AT A SCREEN TOO LONG. hang out with friends, eat, don't eat to the point were you feel lazy. Do chores around the house. Make shit, like with legos or w.e you have around your house. Go to the nearest store buy like model cars and stuff. Take up drawing lessons by buying a book. stuff like that man :D
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make a script that sends a randomized IM for you every 14-16 minutes
then go to sleep
what the hell there's no way i'd do this for 20 bucks lol
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On March 23 2009 03:02 JeeJee wrote:
make a script that sends a randomized IM for you every 14-16 minutes
then go to sleep
what the hell there's no way i'd do this for 20 bucks lol
Yea you're going to get tired way more easy with this 14-16min i.m because you will be looking at a screen to much. The screen makes your eyes get heavy.
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It's probably not for the money and just for competition. Otherwise, kind of foolish yeah for so little.
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haha you guys act like 25$ is a lot to win in a starcraft game but when i do it via sleep deprivation its not enough?
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United States24615 Posts
In college I stayed up longer than I probably should have on many occasions... but don't go out of your way to stay up for several days in a row... it's taxing on your body (and potentially dangerous) and just plain dumb. Find some other way to bet on who is more macho.
On March 23 2009 02:40 Boblion wrote:
You should watch a TvT imo.
hahahaha
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Canada7170 Posts
There was a Kenny vs Spenny on this, and the doctor tells Kenny to continually clench his anus.
Good luck.
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On March 23 2009 03:27 mikeymoo wrote:
There was a Kenny vs Spenny on this, and the doctor tells Kenny to continually clench his anus.
Good luck.
haha that would probably be much more easily accomplished were i in prison
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On March 23 2009 03:02 JeeJee wrote:
make a script that sends a randomized IM for you every 14-16 minutes
then go to sleep
what the hell there's no way i'd do this for 20 bucks lol
^ this
On March 23 2009 02:48 Kinky wrote:I've never forced myself into staying up for multiple days in a row, but the only times that I 'accidentally' didn't sleep for one night, I spent the next day taking a nap everywhere I went (even in public. Have you tried forcing an adrenaline rush into you? I've always found that helpful when I'm dozing off in class or something. Also, are you a masochist?
no good cus the crash comes after will 100% make u sleep
On March 23 2009 03:24 ghermination wrote:
haha you guys act like 25$ is a lot to win in a starcraft game but when i do it via sleep deprivation its not enough?
dude starcraft's just a game... sleep is ur health man... u can die if u don't get enough sleep (it's fuks really badly w/ ur brain)
this about it this way... sleep is the time when ur body heals itself, grows, and organize its thought
even when u eventually go to sleep ur body nvr recovers from lost sleep and u'll fill it forever (in parts)
also bad sleep habits put u at a higher risk for heart disease
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R3condite, i'm not really worried about heart disease at this point lol, i'm a completely healthy 20 year old, this is not something i do often, and i doubt i'll start losing limbs from skipping a few nights of sleep.
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Some people may appear perfectly healthy when there's some sort of health problem that may have been missed during a check up or something.
I'm not saying you have any sort of problem, just be aware that it's possible. So be careful and hope you win soon ( or else the lack of sleep will really start fucking with you >_> )
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Cheat, I would bet you $23 he is.
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in high school when i started playing wow( ) i didint sleep for like 3 days (during the school week) i was going crazy lol. i could see the green guild chat text on the bottom left of w/e iwas looking at. I thought people were talking to me when no one was talking at all
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You should combine this idea with the other retarded blog about pulling a "prank" where you wear ski mask and use water gun to fake rob a store! Would be lol for sure and you can bet on that too!
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Keep going SCers have an innate advantage over other people~
One time I didn't sleep for like 3 days when I went into a crazy anime binge and real life would randomly switch into "bullet time" and everything would be slow/fast as fuck at the same time. It was real weird. Went to bed after that pretty much.
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The key is to have bring lights going all the time, your chances of staying awake are much better.
The world record was set by a guy who was in a room with really bright lights.
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On March 23 2009 04:58 thunk wrote:
The key is to have bring lights going all the time, your chances of staying awake are much better.
The world record was set by a guy who was in a room with really bright lights.
bright lights drive me insane when im sleepy
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u should learn how to sleep with your eyes open.
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I once almost stayed up for 24 hours without falling asleep!
I'm on a nearly 19 year long no all-nighter streak.
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I've gone nearly 48 hrs w/o sleep. And that was way too much for me. I literally couldn't wake straight, my hands shook, and I would massively overreact to tiny noises. Someone's phone rang? HIT THE FUCKING DECK.
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I'd be no good at this, last time I started hallucinating after 36 hours.
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Netherlands6142 Posts
When you're near breaking up do something exciting, doesn't adrenaline work as an antisomnia? Then again your heart might break down lol.
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just cheat...take 10 minute naps and wake up to IM and then sleep again
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Here's a rough idea of symptoms you can expect depending on how long you stay up.
by day 3-4 you'll be like a woman on her period, constant mood swings and general irritability.
by day 6 you will have memory lapses and difficulty speaking
by day 9 your thoughts and speech will become incoherent
by day 10 you will have severe memory difficulties and blurred vision almost all of the time
That's if you make it anywhere near this long. Have fun though.
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I did this last LAN with a friend of mine we had 60hours or something and then the freaking internet died so we just went to bed hahaha
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I rarely do this kind of thing since I'm REALLY bad at it, at 30 hours I feel sick and like just falling down and sleep regardless of where I am, even when I have things to keep myself busy.
I guess it varies from person to person.
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i think this is a bad idea
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i dun think i ever went passed 30 hours lol
I always want to nap whenever
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I have a better bet. See which one of you guys can run the longest 
It won't last as long, it's less dangerous, maybe you'll get high on dopamines and stuff, and it definitely proves who is more macho
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On March 23 2009 06:45 shavingcream66 wrote:
just cheat...take 10 minute naps and wake up to IM and then sleep again
I say this. Set an alarm SUPER LOUD but you'll probably be too tired to wake up so that's a flaw..
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Just listen to death metal.
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Those "hallucinations" are very mild , the can barely be called hallucinations if you ask me.
When I was in the military, we had a field exercise where it was so god damn cold that none of us could sleep, so I was awake for 3 straight days before I fell asleep during a liturgy (if thats the right word, priest was talking about jesus and stuff)
Allthough I was almost always doing something to keep myself warm, and I believe its a lot easier to stay awake if you're doing physical stuff, rather than just sitting infront of a computer or whatever, so I might be wrong.
And I really doubt its harmfull to do this every now and then, it gets to a point where you just cant stay awake no matter how hard you try
I remember one night I was on guard..so I sat in the most uncomfortable possition imaginably, and I just fell asleep and woke up when 3 sec later, rolling down a hill.
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Set an alarm to ring every 14 minutes and take naps
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omg i did this in high school without the aid of caffeine for approx. 3 days and i felt like i went surfing in the fucking street naked upside down in snow into the ocean which was 400 miles away.
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looks like our hero went to sleep
good
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We used to go 2-3 days when we were younger. I haven't needed to stay up for long periods of time recently.
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On March 23 2009 07:40 FragKrag wrote:
Just listen to death metal.
death metal?
+ Show Spoiler +
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Why do people on TL do such stupid things?
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Netherlands6142 Posts
I know right, PX could fill a section with 'people doing stupid shit' XD
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hey man keep it up for a few more days! your neurons will then stop regenerating, and I heard that's fun.
stupid bets
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I listen to death metal before going to bed. Unless you're paying attention, it becomes white noise and is very dangerous if you're trying to stay awake.
Maybe 80s pop dunno?
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I dunno why everybody makes such a big deal about this. I stay up 48hours + once a month i'm kinda used to it but still. I mean if you just keep drinking water and eat something there is seriously nothing that can happen except falling asleep -.-.
People have been awake for 12days without getting any symptoms they could die from.
and those those koreans that died after 2 days not sleeping is because they didn't drink/eat at all and had a really shitty health to begin with.
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How have you been entertaining yourself for so long? I would be hella bored after 30-40 hours
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I kind of want to agree and kind of want to disagree...I don't really see a problem with staying up for a few days in a row, I stayed up for 60-something hours a few years ago...
Hallucinations DO happen even though I was eating on a regular schedule and drinking water/gatorade/soda and whatnot. Mainly I started hearing bits of music (someone said that before too) and would fall into almost like a waking dream where I would think about someone saying something and respond to it when no one really said anything. I never really lost my motor skills.
It's certainly not healthy and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone though
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Pro tip: your friend has created a script that sends an automated message every 15 minutes and been sleeping normally
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I remember the last time I made a road trip from Germany to Bulgaria. It was one of my toughest experiences ever. I drove roughly about 24 hours, having a small breaks to take a snack and a coffee. After one hole day without sleeping I finally got home. I felt like I was fucked by a train, so went to sleep right away. My brother came to cover me with some blanket because it was a bit cold in the room, but somehow he woke me up. He scared the shit out of me and I punched him in the head with my fist, it happened very fast, like a natural reaction. He didnt say anything, but after that he told me he was sorry about waking me up and that he knew that I was not responsible for my actions. I feel enormous guilt about what happened that day. So pls dude, go to sleep. Ppl need to rest
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Try to get to 5 days so you go completely nuts!
+ Show Spoiler +retard, how about you just gauge your eyes out instead, wtf is the point of this.
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well, my friend had fallen asleep a few hours after i made this, so i instantly went to sleep when he told me i won. Time awake? 61 hours, 13 minutes.
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On March 24 2009 13:02 ghermination wrote:
well, my friend had fallen asleep a few hours after i made this, so i instantly went to sleep when he told me i won. Time awake? 61 hours, 13 minutes.
It's ok, you were already starting to hallucinate anyways.
On March 23 2009 02:45 ghermination wrote:But i think TvT's are exciting. TvZ is nasty boring :V
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Is this stupid and not worth the money? Yes.
But who cares. He isn't going to have any health problems as a result and has an interesting story and experience to tell. Grats on the win.
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i'd rather make a bet to sleep for as long as possible sleeping > being awake
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I've been up for the last 24 hours and I do this regularly. Its easy to stay awake when I have ICCup + Teamliquid.net.
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On March 24 2009 23:38 Marradron wrote:i'd rather make a bet to sleep for as long as possible sleeping > being awake
Agreed! Except, you'd probably both stay up a long time before going to sleep...
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On March 23 2009 08:46 Kwidowmaker wrote:I listen to death metal before going to bed. Unless you're paying attention, it becomes white noise and is very dangerous if you're trying to stay awake. Maybe 80s pop dunno?
tolly agreeee. I use to listen to cannibal corpse before going to bed cus it made me sleepy lol
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are you atleast playing iccup while doing this? I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate some easy-wins.
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