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secondpillow

Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:12 am Post subject: How to stay awake |
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| Does anyone have a secret? I need help avoiding sleep. Coffee, tea, and energy drinks won't work. I must work late into the night, and I need your helps. |
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Panoptic

Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:16 am |
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| Slap yourself. Really hard. |
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rabite gets whacked!

Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:26 am |
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What about good old no-doze?
Alternately, get up and run three laps around the outside of whatever building you're in. _________________
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| People who seek novelty will inevitably eventually succumb to ennui. |
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Rud31 forum ruler of Iraq

Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: SanAnTex
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psiga saudade

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:38 am |
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| Rud13 wrote: |
sleep when you can.
Keep note, this week I've been sleeping in 2 4 hour intervals a day.
Doing this will DRIVE YOU INSANE. |
Usually takes a week to ten days for the autonomic system to figure out the new pattern.
I keep wanting to get into a Fullerian polyphasic; 30 minute nap every five and a half hours. But I don't. So there. Guh, I've been sleeping too many hours lately.
ON TOPIC: I dunno. You probably can't justify a prescription to Provigil, so I got nuthin'. _________________
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Eudaimon

Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Location: Space City
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:41 am |
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| If I'm driving and trying to stay awake I turn on the radio to any station playing some kind of rock and attempt to scream along with it. Screaming really helps keep you awake. |
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wasted potential

Joined: 19 Jul 2007
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:44 am |
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1, 2, Freddy's coming for you..
Love that movie. Fucking love it. _________________
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Rob

Joined: 22 Sep 2007 Location: Denton
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:51 am |
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| I was once awake for 34 hours, a 3 hour portion of which was driving across the state, and felt absolutely no side effects whatsoever. I don't know how I did it, but really wish I could do so again. |
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internisus shafer sephiroth
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 4:55 am |
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| Play Silent Hill. |
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haze la belle poney sans merci
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:00 am |
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if you have a phobia of ____, keep ____ around to scare you?
I once played DDR at a point when I had been awake around 30 hours. I didn't do too bad either. after a certain point it gets easier to stay awake. you go insane and turn into a mindless zombie, but your body can stand it. |
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Renfrew catchy, and giger-esque

Joined: 31 Dec 2006 Location: Hometown: America
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:01 am |
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| Rud13 wrote: |
sleep when you can.
Keep note, this week I've been sleeping in 2 4 hour intervals a day.
Doing this will DRIVE YOU INSANE. |
This is my normal schedule.
Maybe it is a Mississippi thing? _________________
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secondpillow

Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:12 am |
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| Many of these are not things I can do while sewing. Some are! |
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PianoMap

Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: victoria, british columbia
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:20 am |
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Play God Hand _________________ o-/< --- o-\< --- o-|-| --- o^-< |
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internisus shafer sephiroth
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:23 am |
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| secondpillow wrote: |
| Many of these are not things I can do while sewing. Some are! |
Watch scary movies.
Fear and laughter are good at keeping you awake because emotions energize the mind and those emotions are easier to come by and less subtle than joy and sorrow. |
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secondpillow

Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Location: Orlando
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:40 am |
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| I'll take the no-doze. |
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internisus shafer sephiroth
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:13 am |
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| But if you're just sewing, you need something else to do, don't you? |
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evnvnv hapax legomenon

Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: the los angeles
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:29 am |
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| wasted potential wrote: |
1, 2, Freddy's coming for you..
Love that movie. Fucking love it. |
mixing instant coffee powder w/diet coke: instant anti-freddy potion (ala F3 dream warriors) |
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slipstream hates LOTR films

Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:31 am |
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Redlines and stackers do it for me. _________________
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PianoMap

Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: victoria, british columbia
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:51 am |
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Have a deadline of some sort the next morning. _________________ o-/< --- o-\< --- o-|-| --- o^-< |
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Eudaimon

Joined: 08 Sep 2007 Location: Space City
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:55 am |
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| Set up some kind of alarm clock for 10 minutes from the time you set it. Every time before it goes off, set it for another 10 minutes. If you fall asleep it'll go off and wake you up, and you set it for another 10 minutes. |
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sync-swim

Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: scissorgun
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:49 am |
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| meth |
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Dracko a sapphist fool

Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:53 am |
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Get in a fight. _________________
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Hot Stott Bot banned
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:53 am |
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| amphetamines |
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PianoMap

Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: victoria, british columbia
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:58 am |
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See I have a deadline for tomorrow morning so I couldn't sleep but the reviews are done and sent to the editor and now I just plain can't sleep. Works like a charm. _________________ o-/< --- o-\< --- o-|-| --- o^-< |
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internisus shafer sephiroth
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:01 am |
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| Dracko wrote: |
| Get in a fight. |
i like this answer.
it is very practical. |
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bleak wizard life

Joined: 31 Jul 2007
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:49 am |
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running around the block also jogs your adrenaline gland! (no pun intended)
meth is the best answer actually
followed by no-doz or other no-doz substitute. we've got longs brand Stay Awake tablets at the moment! they work well if you need to stay up up to 30 hours. |
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Dracko a sapphist fool

Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:57 am |
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Take a scalding hot shower. And I do mean hot.
Wakes me up like nothing else in the mornings and it feels damn good. _________________
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bleak wizard life

Joined: 31 Jul 2007
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 9:59 am |
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| Dracko wrote: |
Take a scalding hot shower. And I do mean hot.
Wakes me up like nothing else in the mornings and it feels damn good. |
and for those of us who can't withstand being cooked alive the other setting i.e. extreme cold also works very well. |
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Dracko a sapphist fool

Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:01 am |
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I don't want to catch a cold, man. :O( _________________
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Greng

Joined: 27 Sep 2007 Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire, Engerland
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:20 am |
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You wont GET a cold, you may get hypothermia though. Colds are viral not temperature related _________________
Steam ~ Be Preying | Resident Evil.net ~ ElSpank |
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Dracko a sapphist fool

Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:22 am |
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shut up!!! _________________
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rabite gets whacked!

Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:32 am |
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If you're doing stimulants though, mind the shakes when you try to thread that needle. _________________
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Ashura

Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: Far East of Eden
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:27 pm |
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I do this often. In fact, I pulled a lot of 30 hourish days and then a few 3 hour sleep days on the Disgaea: AOD guide before I finished it this week.
Generally I listen to fast music and comedy routines. I also ended up rewatching (well, relistening.) to season 2 of Supernatural. |
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sawtooth heh

Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: flashback
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 3:58 pm |
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the problem is not staying awake overnight, it's being able to stay awake the next day. I can survive a lot better on two hours of sleep than 4 hours. Staying awake the entire time is generally not an option, though. _________________ ( ( |
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ajutla

Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: kansas city
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:26 pm |
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| ritalin guys |
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Mr. Apol king of zembla

Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: a curiously familiar pit
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 5:49 pm |
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cocaine _________________
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BalbanesBeoulve Malicious Bastard

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:54 pm |
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| I've been having trouble staying awake in my classes because I'm not used to them starting at 7am. The secret I've found is candy. If I eat some candy before going to class I have no trouble staying up anymore. |
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Daphaknee a whole shitload of class
Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Location: nickel dime
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:58 pm |
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methamphetamine
oh, i mean adderal _________________
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EmX banned
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:45 pm |
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| stephen king once wrote an entire novel in a weekend on coke |
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Focus

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:47 pm |
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do you guys remember that pete and pete episode where they are all trying to break the record for most time awake? all the kids had their own ways of staying up, though, the only one i remember was one guy had to SNEEZE in order to get back to normal.
yes. _________________
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falsedan

Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 8:26 pm |
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| psiga wrote: |
| polyphasic [sleep schedule] |
but since you don't have a month's work of time to get into sleeping every 4 hours…
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methamphetamine
oh, i mean adderal |
LSD will keep you awake but make have OTHER SIDE EFFECTS
Take more no-doze ever 3-4 hours to avoid caffeine crashing/building up tolerance too quickly
seriously, speed PROVIGIL!! _________________
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