Whats the weirdest thing you did to stay awake?

faceman

Some AA roadwatch bloke was on the radio talking about fatigue while driving and said that some people were known to stick their hair in the sunroof or wrap elastic around their wrists with thumbtacks attached to try stay awake. That all seemed a bit drastic.

Whats the most mental thing you have ever done to stay awake and why did you want to not fall asleep?

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Mrs JackDaniels

faceman wrote: »

Some AA roadwatch bloke was on the radio talking about fatigue while driving and said that some people were known to stick their hair in the sunroof or wrap elastic around their wrists with thumbtacks attached to try stay awake. That all seemed a bit drastic.

Whats the most mental thing you have ever done to stay awake and why did you want to not fall asleep?

Years ago in my wild days was at a party and had a interview for a summer job the next day, the party turned into a all nighter so I decided to take a few e's to stay awake and somewhat refreshed for the interview, needless to say I did'nt get the job on my way to the interview I fell flat on my face, cut my chin was pumping blood but i still went into the interview. I'll never forget the look on the poor mans face.


Thank god I've grown up!!

frag420

one time at college we were challenged to stay awake for as long as possible. We just ended up pouring coffee powder into the kettle, filling it with water and boiling it. Leave it to cool down and then did shots of it with whiskey. Kept us going for a while. We then stated mixing the coffee powder with Jolt Cola..............bad idea as we were bouncing of the walls for ages and then the come down was terrible. Decided enough was enough when i started to hallucinate on the third day. Slept for two solid days after that.

When i am driving i use a wee thing i made myself. Its like a collor that you put around your neck and attached to it is a cuved spike that curves out and back in towards your face so that if you fall asleep the spike should wake you up fairly lively.

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SEPT 23 1989

faceman wrote: »

Some AA roadwatch bloke was on the radio talking about fatigue while driving and said that some people were known to stick their hair in the sunroof or wrap elastic around their wrists with thumbtacks attached to try stay awake. That all seemed a bit drastic.

Whats the most mental thing you have ever done to stay awake and why did you want to not fall asleep?

Come to Freddy.

OldGoat

I called Mrs. Goat "a trollop" and you just know there is no sleeping after that.

Snowie

drank 5 cans of red bull one after the other....

Fajitas!

Nearing my thesis due date, I'd drink about 3/4 cups of the strongest roast coffee I could find... each cup being about 5 espresso's worth in itself (It was coming off the stove top pot like tar). That was bad enough to cause minor hallucinations and odd noises in my head. I'd stick on records then, knowing I'd have to get up to change sides after a few songs... That was probably as extreme as I got. Pretty trippy come 7 or 8 in the morning tbh.

builttospill

Stuck a gerbil up me arse.

OldGoat

hope you were man enough to leave the claws on.

Zadkiel

builttospill wrote: »

Stuck a gerbil up me arse.

"Everyone knows the erotic effect of a Gerbil in the rectum, but to put him up there without a leash!......thats just crazy!"

Walken - Stephen Lynch

SV

Emptied a bag of coffee beans and ate half of them..
We didn't have any water, god knows why we had coffee beans..but I felt very very sick, for a few weeks.



kept me awake though.

dublinario

I murdered a litter* of hobos, to court the inevitable guilt that would keep me awake to see a Tyson fight that was starting circa 4:00 am.

* - have I got that right? Is it a 'litter' of hobos? Or a 'gaggle'? I'm not sure what the grouping lexicon is for homeless people.

ibarelycare

dublinario wrote: »

I murdered a litter* of hobos, to court the inevitable guilt that would keep me awake to see a Tyson fight that was starting circa 4:00 am.

* - have I got that right? Is it a 'litter' of hobos? Or a 'gaggle'? I'm not sure what the grouping lexicon is for homeless people.

A nuisance of hobos?

dublinario

ibarelycare wrote: »

A nuisance of hobos?

Perfect. Makes sense.

Sofiztikated

Working nights in a 24 hour restaurant, and not sleeping during the day, awake for roughly 37 hours, and decided to mess with the splash coke machine. With some time i managed to get it to dispense just premix coke, which is essentially just sugar and colourings. A glass of that had me awake for quite some time, but the sugar crash was worse than heroin jonsing.
Another was doing a line of crushed proplus. That made me vomit. A lot. Not as cool as i had imagined.

DazMarz

Back in the day, I had to do a heap of studying for some exams. It started harmlessly enough with some very black, very sugary coffee. Then it escalated to coffee grounds dissolved in Red Bull (absolutely mank). Then Red Bull, Pepsi and coffee grounds. Then some lines of Bolivian Marching Powder. After three days of that, I nearly ended up in the hospital. On the plus side, I did well in the exams.

Super-Rush

bag of skittles poured into a bottle of red bull and it worked

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frag420 wrote: »

When i am driving i use a wee thing i made myself. Its like a collor that you put around your neck and attached to it is a cuved spike that curves out and back in towards your face so that if you fall asleep the spike should wake you up fairly lively.

What if you have to brake suddenly?? I'm sure that would feel lovely

Worst thing I ever did was have 3 spoonfulls of kenco before work at 7 o'clock in morning(was up til 5 watching a boxing match) that was pure rotten..

Ann22

I used to work a swing shift...days, evenings and nights rotating weekly. I was pure boll*xed all the time. I remember sometimes we'd have immensely boring quality meetings, when they happened at night it was torture. This one time there was a table of about 10 of us sitting round at a particularly important lecture and my eyes were straining to close, it was as if my eyelids were magnetised. I tried holding them apart with my fingers but my eyeballs were rolling back into my head...i must've been losing consciousness every few mins 'cos there were gaps in what the superviser was saying. I started to slap my cheek gently...but after a while my sleepy brain started to accept it and program it into my dream. I had to start hitting myself harder and harder...I was still drifting off.....then...I suddenly gave myself such a smack my whole head went flying sideways. I suddenly became aware of a silence and I became awake to see everyone staring at me......................'are you alright Ann?' Said the superviser. I dunno what i said...embarrassing moment actually.:o

Senna

use to be scared of falling asleep went driving 2 hours home from college, i'd be completely knackered so i'd drink a can of red bull about an hour before leaving. Always made it home ok, but would be so buzzed on the sugar i'll just lay awake in bed for hours after i got home, even though i'd be up for 24/30 hours at that stage.

Tyler MacDurden

Fajitas! wrote: »

Nearing my thesis due date, I'd drink about 3/4 cups of the strongest roast coffee I could find... each cup being about 5 espresso's worth in itself (It was coming off the stove top pot like tar). That was bad enough to cause minor hallucinations and odd noises in my head.

This has just given me flashbacks to my own thesis horror. I'd been up for the best part of two days, mainlining the blackest coffee this side of Coulmbia. Towards dawn on the second day, I started sketching gargoyle heads on my notes and scribbling gibberish in mirror-writing. I've kept them as a memento. A sample thereof:

I think I'm going f**king mental, I've even started writing backwards - F**k you Leonardo Da Vinci.

tony1kenobi

2 grams and 10 beers.

starling

Best way to stay awake is fresh air and coffee IMHO. Keep warm too as you feel the cold when you're tired.

The Pontiac

starling wrote: »

Best way to stay awake is fresh air and coffee IMHO. Keep warm too as you feel the cold when you're tired.

The best way to stay awake is to take a load of speed..

Kiera

My weirdness happens at this time of night hense why AC, Java, Terry and the Bollox ban me every weekend. I'm a whole lot of crazy

javaboy

I saw one of those gadgets for keeping you awake while driving for sale in Spain before. You know the ones that fit on your far and buzz if your head drops to a certain angle. The blurb was hilarious: "great for drink driving" and something about truckers driving over their allowed limits.

Overheal

builttospill wrote: »

Stuck a gerbil up me arse.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z33XTvfId-I

Kiera

javaboy wrote: »

I saw one of those gadgets for keeping you awake while driving for sale in Spain before. You know the ones that fit on your far and buzz if your head drops to a certain angle. The blurb was hilarious: "great for drink driving" and something about truckers driving over their allowed limits.

Drunk much? :P

javaboy

Kiera wrote: »

Drunk much? :P

Anyway it was basically something like this: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/iconics-wake-up-call-wants-to-help-you-stay-awake-alone/

I just loved the way the packaging was encouraging you to break the law.