What do you do to help you stay awake?

The Scientician · 18-05-2011 02:09AM #1

I'm working to a deadline of tomorrow evening. What can I do to stay awake and/or re-energise? (No self-pollution jokes please

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Witchie · 18-05-2011 02:10AM

I play scrabble on Facebook...but that wont help your deadline!

Schism · 18-05-2011 02:10AM

Coffee?

TheDukeOfEarl · 18-05-2011 02:12AM

Self pollute yourself

The King of Moo · 18-05-2011 02:13AM

Apparently listening to music helps.

Caffeine of course.

Contemplating the square root of -1.

TeddyTedson · 18-05-2011 02:14AM

The Scientician wrote: »

I'm working to a deadline of tomorrow evening. What can I do to stay awake and/or re-energise? (No self-pollution jokes please )

I lucky fecker ya! I take sleeping tablets to get a few hours sleep, and they don't usually work too well anymore!
To stay awake though, coffee, coffee and more coffee. I'd stay away from that RedBull ****e.

Aoifey! · 18-05-2011 02:14AM

I eat those sugar stick things. I normally have a stock of them for when I have an essay or exam.

Feelgood · 18-05-2011 02:15AM

Superglue your eyelids to your eyebrows

lalee17 · 18-05-2011 02:16AM

Constantly drink water/some form of drink.. It'll keep you peeing/awake.

However if you DO fall asleep, it could be disastrous :eek:

KeithM89_old · 18-05-2011 02:18AM

Naked star-jumps in the street. Keeps the adrenaline pumping.

Yakult · 18-05-2011 02:18AM

Fap

TheDukeOfEarl · 18-05-2011 02:19AM

Raze_them_all wrote: »

Blast myself with piss........

I did that wrong didn't I?

No that's fine. I blast myself with piss when I find myself nodding off too.

digme · 18-05-2011 02:20AM

The Scientician wrote: »

I'm working to a deadline of tomorrow evening. What can I do to stay awake and/or re-energise? (No self-pollution jokes please )

take a 30 minute sleep. it will refresh you more than the bs coffee comments.

Aoifey! · 18-05-2011 02:21AM

TheDukeOfEarl wrote: »

No that's fine. I blast myself with piss when I find myself nodding off too.

Nodding off on the toilet?

TheDukeOfEarl · 18-05-2011 02:24AM

Aoifey! wrote: »

Nodding off on the toilet?

Not really, once or twice maybe. I usually just do it wherever I am, be it in bed, in the kitchen, on the bus etc.

The King of Moo · 18-05-2011 02:27AM

Think about all the starving children in Africa.

or

Start a thread on AH late at night asking about how to stay up all night, and stay up all night waiting for replies!
Go on, give it a try

Kojak · 18-05-2011 02:37AM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Contemplating the square root of -1.

Is that not an imaginary number entitled i

To stay awake, you could always start farting uncontrolably. Very unlikely you'll sleep while at that.

The King of Moo · 18-05-2011 02:42AM

Kojak wrote: »

Is that not an imaginary number entitled i
.

Yeah, i discovered that just a few minutes ago. Very disappointing. I preferred the mystery that was there before they just slapped a letter over this mathematical black hole.

Little Acorn · 18-05-2011 02:44AM

digme wrote: »

take a 30 minute sleep. it will refresh you more than the bs coffee comments.

A power nap is a good idea. A few cups of coffee will help too, but if you drink too much, you might start to get migraine and twitchy muscles around your eyes, and come tomorrow you might not remember the work you are doing.

The Scientician · 18-05-2011 05:34AM

digme wrote: »

take a 30 minute sleep. it will refresh you more than the bs coffee comments.

Trouble is 30 minutes can easily sneak into 8hrs.

Azureus · 18-05-2011 07:45AM

Red bull + tangfastics. Sorted me out for many all-nighter assignments.

Failing that, buckfast will keep you awake forever, but Im not promising anything about the quality of your work. Inspired genius from some, endless ****e from others

Dave! · 18-05-2011 08:02AM

Set yourself on fire

JohnMarston · 18-05-2011 08:29AM

The Scientician wrote: »

Trouble is 30 minutes can easily sneak into 8hrs.

Set more than 1 alarm, 1 out of reach so you have to get up

tbh · 18-05-2011 08:32AM

Cup of coffee followed by a 30 min sleep. By the time you wake, the caffeine will be kicking in and you're good to go.

Coriolanus · 18-05-2011 08:32AM

Caffeine and light excercise every 15 minutes. 10 star jumps or pushups or something. If you're a fat fucker, walk up and down the room, no point giving yourself a heart attack.

alexa5x5 · 18-05-2011 09:20AM

Whenever I had to cram the night before an exam Id take a pint glass fill it 2/3 with coke and add 2 big spoones of coffee. I usually kept me bouncing off the walls till morning.

18-05-2011 09:21AM

coffee coffee coffee

themadchef · 18-05-2011 09:24AM

bluewolf wrote: »

coffee coffee coffee

..and slap yourself in the face a few times while standing at the mirror telling yourself what a failure you will be if you dont get your head down! Should work, therapy might be a bit expensive in years to come though.

ElleEm · 18-05-2011 09:33AM

I don't drink coffee so when I'm on night shifts I keep the temp really cool, take breaks away from the PC and drink cold drinks. Fizzy drinks with sugar are probably a good idea. And eating a few sweets- even a pack of Haribo on the desk beside you should help.

GavRedKing · 18-05-2011 09:36AM

Cocaine, its a hell of a drug.

Korvanica · 18-05-2011 09:39AM

The Scientician wrote: »

I'm working to a deadline of tomorrow evening. What can I do to stay awake and/or re-energise? (No self-pollution jokes please )

Don't drink coffee, you'll crash and burn hard.

Keep the room you're in cool, and drink loads of orange Juice.

What do you do to help you stay awake?

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