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plasticwingsband · Post by **plasticwingsband** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 4:47 pm

Thanks for taking the time to type all that, it was quite interesting. My friend is going to be buying some shrooms in several weeks, and he invited me to try some, so I'm definitely gonna check that out.

Should be fun.

Post by **Popcorn** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 4:59 pm

We'll start our own little drugs community and rename this place the Mushroom Hill Zone. Tell me how it goes.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:40 pm

Meh. I can experience most of those effects just by staying up till 5 AM in the morning.

I'm an insomiac, and after a certain amount of going without sleep (usually 20 hours is enough), I just loose all sense of reality and start dancing around the house going "whoosh". And spinning, and playing with flashlights and having deep conversations with cats.

The next afternoon I'll wake up with a headache and a 20-page story about a devil/cat hybrid being consumed by a frozen tapir in a floating sea of boobs, candy, and toast. Also, there was a robotic version of the White Rabbit who shot missles out of his neck.

God, I wish I was joking or being sarcastic.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:52 pm

Yup, lack of sleep is the cheapest, most legal high you can get.

I've been pulling alot of all-nighters over the past year or so. It seems that whenever I have to get up a few hours early, I usually just don't go to bed at all. I tell myself: "I'll get stuff done then go to bed early tomorrow night." Then I spend all night at the computer researching interesting things that have absolutely nothing to do with what I'm supposed to be working on. I generally don't start getting sleepy until around 6:00 or 7:00 AM, by which point it's too late to catch even the hour of sleep I'd be considering.

The first couple of times I did that, it was kind of cool. I'd be extremely relaxed all day long and crash at about 7:00 PM, then sleep for about 14 hours straight. But the more you do it, the worse it gets. The past few times I've really been all like: "Man, I've got to get this done tonight, I've got to get this done tonight," then I'll have more important stuff to do the next day and by around noon or so, I will have absolutely no juice left whatsoever. Now it just makes me cranky and every time I vow I will never stay up all night again, but shit always happens and I always end up doing it.

I can't wait to graduate.

BlazeHedgehog · Post by **BlazeHedgehog** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:33 am

Sleep deprivation rarely effects me. I typically, being a laze-about with no job, pull 18 hour days just working on projects (most of which I'm sure residence of the GHZ aren't fond of; things like fangames and fan art and maybe writing an article for my website, and sometimes, maybe a small corner of work dedicated to more original and productive things with the aim of slowly trying to break me in to the game industry the completely wrong way).

Never hallucinate, or anything like that. At about 17 or so hours I can feel all the energy slowly drain from my body until I'm so tired I can barely type. Generally I can shake this off if I get up and move around a little bit, get my blood flowing, but usually I take this as a sign to "Yeah, I think it's time to go to bed". Unless I'm nursing a bottle of Mt. Dew, then generally that feeling never really creeps up until the bottle's empty. (which is how I usually push through to 24 hours and onward)

I get about 8-12 hours of sleep a night. Infact, I just woke up 2 hours ago. I tell you, there's nothing better in the world than sleeping by your own rules. (Except I'm desperately trying to force myself to sleep back around to normal hours so I can go with my family to see fireworks on the 4th of July, as well as be awake for my Birthday on the 6th)

Post by **Segaholic2** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:45 am

I don't think lack of sleep has ever given me hallucinations or whatever. I guess the closest thing was when I'd skipped two nights of sleep in a row and was on my third consecutive day of being awake and active, thanks to plenty of Mountain Dew... My parents were out of town and I'd been playing games and doing stuff on the computer and watching movies the entire time, stopping to piss and eat and that was about it. My friend came over on the third day and brought a downloaded copy of the Resident Evil movie (which had just come out in theaters at the time) and so we watched it on my TV via some lame computer/TV connections. I think most of the movie went over my head since I was drifting in and out of half-consciousness the entire time, not that I was missing too much. I passed out (not so figuratively) afterwards and slept for who knows how long. I don't think I've ever stayed up so long since.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:51 am

Heh, I remember that. You were giving me updates on AIM and I still don't get why you didn't go to sleep. I don't think I have ever hallucinated, but everything is a lot funnier after being awake for 20 hours. I have several examples of this where I would say the same stupid phrase over and over on Xbox Live while playing with a friend and we would just laugh and laugh, then I would do it the following afternoon and we're just like, " Hmm, that was stupid".