Oh so have I, when I was younger I used to do 2-3 nights with no sleep plenty. It's terrible for you though, like really bad. Worse than it feels like it is.
It used to be so easy. After 2005 though I got accustomed to going to bed and sleeping every night, snd just the idea of going one whole night without sleep seemed like an impossibility.
I rediscovered the art in time, acquired some super endurance for tiredness and consciousness maintenance.
I’ve years of sleep to catch up on, for even the times I do sleep poorly and never enough.
I remember when I was a student, age 19 and full of energy.
My housemate Vicky, also 19, couldn’t understand how anybody could stay up for one night without sleep. She never had even tried to swim the impossible gulf.
I on the other hand found it bizarre that such a concept seemed so astoundinding and impossible to her. She confessed to never having gone without sleep.
She was one hell of a woos though, sounds bad I know, we were awesome friends but the world was like a ghost to her, so ridiculously self disempowering to the point of being mega introverted with zero self confidence.
I respect a little balls you get me. We all feel, are sensitive. It just takes some strength in the imagination sometimes.
Of course Vicky was straighter than the equator, had never touched a drug, the girl who would sip wine, act all silly, feel humiliated and hide herself in shame for days like she’d sinned and soiled herself in public.
I went without sleep long before I ever took a drug though.
I wonder when Vicky first did it. I must have skipped at least 800 sleeps at a grab.
That’s impactful over a life. Sleepers have less time to think things though so abs tenancy can serve a philosopher too.
