Sleep deprivation.

Im miss.crabby pants without any sleep. I neeeed my sleep. I think its to do with my school routine. I'm set to wake up at 7 and go to sleep at 10. If i don't get my set amount of sleep then i really get nasty.
I remember when i got back from NY i slept for 18 hours sraight.

Darn was just typing up a post and lost it, anyway, I'll start again.

So my experience with sleep deprivation is quite extensive. I've been an insomniac all my life flip flopping between long periods of next to no sleep and crashing. At uni I had a 36 hour up 12 hour down cycle going which averaged out at 6 hours per 24 sure but it was an odd way of doing it and got me used to the tale end of sleep dep.

My record is four and a half days of no sleep at all. I hear people already saying "but 72 hours is around the halucination deadline" and yes, yes it is. It's Quix's comedy story time again.

It was quite recently my record breaker, on a long weekend to London. I didn't MEAN to stay up so long but I was clubbing a lot and partying at a friend's flat warming and I just didn't get a chance to get downtime. At first quite a few people were keeping up with me, then fewer (and most of them powered by speed btw which I do NOT condone and do NOT do myself) and then it was just me that had had no sleep.

In the end it came down to me sat in Slimelight at around half past four in the morning and I was halucinating very badly. This was nearing the end of my fourth day or the very start of my fifth depending on how you want to look at it.

I'm sat on the side of the dance floor whilst my friend enjoys the music and dances her rear end off when I suddenly get the most absolute conviction that my hat is too tight and too hot, I can feel it digging into my forehead and I can feel the wool lining of it causing me to sweat a lot. So I reach up to take it off.

I don't own a hat.

I wasn't wearing one either.

This prompted me to send a text message to a friend (who was tucked up in bed at the time) that simply read "I have no hat, why?"

After the hat incident I'm sat playing with my lighter, the way people play with lighters. I'm turning it over in my hands, flicking it, sparking it, admiring the pretty flame. After 20 minutes or so of playing with it I raise it to light the cigarette in my lips.

No cigarette. Come to think of it, no lighter.

More lovely halucinations.

Right then I suddenly realise I'm seeing double.

Now if anyone's been to slimelight they can imagine just what a fun experience it is to be halucinating that strongly surrounded by people dressed that outrageously.

When I finally got back from the club (which closes at 7am) I crashed.

So how do I cope with sleep deprivation? Very well, up to a point. After that point things are just very, very amusing. Though perhaps a bit scary at the time.

i can't cope anymore. i fall asleep in the middle of whatever i'm doing. i've found i truly need a decent night's sleep or else i just can't work. i think grad school is what killed it for me. and i don't drink caffeine whatsoever. gave it up like 8 years ago.