insomnia
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- chook0
amphetamines.
copious amounts of.
- ********0
gave up on the chemicals a long time ago m'n, too hyper as it is
- petzi0
long work IS sometimes a result of bad planing. well it is in advertising - suits seems like they do not care, i mean they leave on 5, do they? ...
- silver0
Still awake. Will NOT try to push the 11 day border, but will hang in some hours still.
bad planning IS a big part of it. my partner has wife and kids and are far more structured than single, solo me. and the fact that I work smartest under preassure makes me wait too long before I start on a job, but sometimes ALL the deadlines just fall on the same hour/day/week, and you just have to run the race.
btw I started and own 50% of the company I am working for so some late hours are expected...
- neeko0
11 days wont be so bad...
- quik0
I feel your pain.
The worst is when you're at your desk at home, working away, you look to the clock, its like "6" you think "but its it AM or PM?" you look to the window, it could be overcast morning, or night, without a doubt, you have to walk around the house or check the PC clock for AM/PM before you realised, its scary at times and it hurts.
You depend on caffeine and feel alone -- none of your other friends are fulltime freaks, one night maybe two if they're on a bender, but never more-- especially sober.
- petzi0
hey, don't!
- force0
i read somwhere about this guy in mexico.
he had some kind of sleepingdisorder, and COULDNT fall asleep.
He had been awake for about 30 years...he sometimes lay down and rested a bit, and he also had headaches once in a while.
but apart from that he was just fine.
- quik0
maybe the worst is driving in the mornings.. or any time of day actually.. your eyes sting, drinking caffeine as you drive.
Closing one eye at a time to ease the sting.. then for a second you close them both and think "fuck it, I can rest now".
Then you come to realise "I'll die", open up and keep driving, it sounds suicidal, but really its just another pain, just another day.
It can be the center of your woes, or the center of your jokes.
Stay happy & Safe.
- silver0
ok, I go home. I will be far more productive after some hours of sleep, than I will working another night now. I am just staring in the wall now, my eyes are hurting and I have catched a cold.
good night everybody!
- Seph0
Day sleeper, R.E.M
Lovely song.
- ********0
"It's a biological fact that after 11 days and nights of no sleep you will die."
I have seen about people who really did not sleep for month(s)...one claimed even years. Hard to believe tho, but some of those were affirmed...forgot the source to this tho__
so it is ok if you don't take me seriously....
but there seem to be folks like that around__especially older peeps need very little sleep, my grandfather can easily do with 2-4 hours per night, he is in his eighties and remarkably fit...(not "fit' as some UK citizens interpret the word...mind you!)
- Seph0
After an intense non stop 24 hours session I got a tick in my mouse arm that you could actually see outside my clothes, it was alienesque !
then I found Powersleep, you too should let powersleep into your life. If you have to do say 20 hour days you have 4 hours to sleep. Break them down into 8 - 30 minute power naps spread out as equally as you can throughout that period.
Leonardo Da Vinci spent his whole life sleeping in this manner, its actually supposed to be good for you. Well that is what you can tell yourself when the hullucinations and evil thoughts kick in.
Good luck, just keep thinking of the finishing line.
- PIXELRANGER0
How much sleep do you really need?
I gett 4-5 and find i'm fully functional for the most part...my wife gets like 9... I think she is crazy.
- chilaquil0
when i was in college after 2 nights of no sleep, i (about noon of the 3rd day) suddenly passed out on my way to my dorm room. I was very near, and the thing is I just felt tired, but that was it. From what I *think* happened, I somehow lost consciousness before I reached my room, but somehow made it. I have no memory of opening the door, entering the room or nothing. I woke up much later laying on the floor with my backpack still on. And I had one of those weird moments of it being six o'clock and not knowing if it was A.M. or P.M. It actually took me about 5 minutes to figure it out...
- PIXELRANGER0
Wow..never been that tired before.
- quik0
I have a friend who works 16 hour days doing psyical work, so obviously he gets really tired..
anyway, he went to a sleeping clinic, paid like 600AUD and now can sleep on command for as long as he likes.
(if he thinks he needs a 30 min powernap anytime during the day, he can have one, and wake up when he wants to)
- jtmdesign0
Becareful.
I once pulled a series of all nighters and at the end of it I was driving my car and had a seizure. The doctors had come to a conclusion that it was due to exhaustion and stress. It sucked because I lost my license for 6 months and had to go through so many tests to rule out that I had epilepsy for the insurance company. I almost freaking crashed my car so huge but was very very lucky.I know it is hard to sleep sometimes when the demand is so high to produce the product but, if you can make sure you rest and eat right because it helps so much. Time management is key. I used to suck at it, learned a huge lesson.
- ilmarine0
about three months ago i was one of the two guys responsible for visuals for a theatrical production. anyway, along with web and all the video stuff, it took us about four weeks to make everything that was asked by the director. i believe that the "normal sleep-time" of that period was 3 hours. the last week went even crazier. at one point we calculated that four people responsible for the show had altogether slept for six hours in the previous 58h.
finally it developed so far that we put the timeline together in after effects, started render queue, closed our eyes, and woke up the next moment when that ringing sound signalled completion in our headphones at max volume. every minute was precious.
anyway, by christmas i was so f*cked up that i took a two week break from everything and spent it doing mostly nothing. this was and experience i don't want to have again for a long time.
now, it is usually two days in a row max. but someone posting before me was right, me and other designers i know are the only ones who live like this...