So what is it with getting only two hours of sleep and being more alert

[da_chimperor]

than if you had a full eight hours? I woke right up, not sleepy at all, and I've been wired since then. This was about 8 hours ago. I've only had one cup of coffee and somehow I'm still going strong. I'm totally fucking wired and it's awesome. I'll likely be a zombie by dinner time, but I still don't know why/how I manage this. Is my body just weird, or does this kind of thing happen to anyone else? :shrug:

Edit: to fix something my English teacher would not be happy with.

[Huckebein the Raven]

1. That was me yesterday. Stayed up 36 hours.

I finally crashed about 6 am yesterday morning

[xmas74]

2. Very little sleep is the story of my life.

If you do it often it will catch up w/ you.

[tjwmason]

3. That works with me for about 2 days

Then I'm completely damn useless.

Also I have to have less than 4 hours, or around 8+. The human body certainly is a wierd thing.

[freeplessinseattle]

4. Is this the first time it's happened? if it's regular you may be

a bit bipolar. or like me, an insomniac who can make it through the first part of the day with vigor, but feel like I've been hit by truck by later in the afternoon. sometimes sheer anxiety and the promise of a long sleep soon keeps me going.

[Dogmudgeon]

5. It's normal to a great degree

Especially if you are under 30 or over-stressed.

Your profile said you were in the Netherlands. If there is a much more intense seasonal variation in sunlight, that will do it. But I don't think that Holland/Benenlux is far enough north for that to really kick in.

If you have sleeping/waking disorders, it will be "normal" for you. I have them from chronic pain. I can take a Percocet tablet and get wide-awake for five or six hours.

Enjoy the weirdness ... just make sure that you average enough sleep for your health.

--p!

[da_chimperor]

7. I don't really have any sleeping disorders

I'm usually pretty good on very little sleep for a day or two, but today was unreal. I'm still going strong, but I'll be making up for it all this weekend. A good 10 hours during the weekends will do. Ahhhh, i'm looking forward to that already.

[LynzM]

6. Been there and done that

I'm good for about 10-12 hours, and then crash. But not weird, in my book. 'Course, I went to college for engineering and lived in a dorm full of engineers, whose sleep habits could amuse all sorts of sleep-study people... :D

[leftofthedial]

8. eventually it catches up with you

and you'll spend some time time paying for it.

It's some brain chemical

It also has to do with which stage of sleep you are in when you awake, I believe.

[da_chimperor]

9. Makes sense. It was more like waking up from a good nap than anything

I'm just getting curious about something I've taken for granted for quite a while.

[leftofthedial]

10. I chronically get insufficient sleep four days a week

(due to the necessity of working four jobs)

I'f noted the same phenomenon. For example, a 15-minute nap is great--30 minutes and I wake up groggy. Six hours of sleep and I'm usually good--seven hours and I'm foggy.

[Guaranteed]

11. Your synapses are saturated with seratonin.

Careful, though. Keep this up and you'll start hallucinating a little.

Your brain's actually kind of frying. :P

[da_chimperor]

12. Yay! So that's where that yummy smell is coming from!

:silly:

I'll be lucky if I last more than another 4 hours.

[Guaranteed]

13. Mmmm.... brainy.

:)

[DrGonzoLives]

14. It's equivalent to a nap

It recharges you briefly, but in the long run, as someone else said, it's going to get you. You're wired because you've been awake longer than your body is used to, and it's kicking out hormones that make you more alert for the time being.