Ok let's say you sat up playing video games/milling about all night
It's now 8, 9 or 10 am.
Do you do the sane thing and sleep for a few hours before work? Or the risky double dare challenge attempting to go back onto a normal sleep schedule?
I went with choice A yesterday. I'm starting to wonder if it's time for B.
SO, my question, is staying up ever a good idea?
Dear mrpeanut,
Learn from my mistakes... if it's less than 2 solid hours, just don't go to sleep. You'll wake up super fucked up. You'll be even worse if you had any caffeine or sugar.
I remember in High School I took AP Comp Sci and had to code something in Pascal... I stayed up all night trying to do it (because I suck at coding) and took like 2 or 3 NoDoz since I don't drink coffee... Eventually I went to bed for an hour and a half and when I woke up and hopped into the shower (if you're going to stay up late, you totally need that morning shower) I literally was thinking in code. I was all "writeln soap, readln soap." It was surreal and fucked up. I couldn't get it together for hours.
I will tell you though... I had a friend in the Army who said when he was on long marches, the military would let them have "power naps." They's sleep for no more than 20 min so they couldn't get in too deep, but they'd wake up much more refreshed. I've never actually tried this myself, but it might be worth a shot.
Love,
jammie
