I usually get incredibly paranoid. Also I get alot better at burnout:paradise. I dont get better at any other game just paradise for some reason.

Pie:
I hallucinate, And freak out I get uber paranoid about pretty much anything, I see something creepy on tv, i freak out and start to hyper ventilate.I also start to shake and forget things that i've just said and ask people if i had infact said those things.

For instance:
At one point last year, i had spent up to 4 and a half weeks with only occasionally sleeping, Apart from fucking up my eating habits and stress, I started to see stuff that wasn't actually there. So i thought to myself, "Screw this, imma go to the doctors..." So off i went. I booked in and was waiting in the lobby. The lobby was carpeted with a weird patten and if i stared at it for long enough, it started to move and look like water as in the whole rippling effect.

Also, for a period of time, i kept seeing people as what i can only describe as cardboard cutouts.

the point of it all is, INSOMNIA IS BAD MKAY?

the ripple floor thing happens to me aswell. But i see the floor completely rise up like waves. thats when i decide it would be best to go to sleep. i also believe i can do things that are not humanly possible ( take for instance standing in the toilet trying to flush myself down.) and i get paranoid believing things are about to jump out of my computer like a screamer. even when it's only on standby

I end up getting into frustrating, repetitive arguments with people I don't even know.

I play games better.

I don't notice the other stuff people have stated, but I've been legally dead since 86.

I have a large collection of plastic transforming robots that cover pretty much every flat surface in my room except for a clear patch in front of the keyboard allowing me to type. If I've been up for too long they tend to start shuffling around at the edges of my vision. When the toys start to move, it's time to go to bed.

-Nick

Duck Sandwich:
Once after a night without sleep, I played a game of hockey in gym. I felt just fine. I had as much energy as I usually do when playing hockey. But when doing regular mundane activities, I feel like I had almost no energy at all.

Same with me, as long as Im not bored I feel fine, as soon as something get mundane I just hit the wall

Oh and I become better at objective games because I don't really think I just go and do what were supposed to do

I run out of coffee then sleep :) lol thats what happens

Usually my eyes start to flicker rapidly in short bursts, then I become incredibly paranoid that there are inhuman things in my house. I also have these random desires to bust out my Trombone and jam by myself.

I get tired. But it's odd.

I get less scared of video games. I.E., Ravenholdm in HL2 or BioShock.

Also, I function better with no caffeine or very little caffeine in my system. In CoD4, I got 17 kills to about 9 deaths with no caffeine. Compare that with the usual 7 kills to 25 deaths with it..

Well in HM:Wonderful life, you instantly beat the game and get to see the ending, and by that I mean you have a heart attack and die.

In real life however, after the first 30 hours, you cease to become tired and usually become generally irritable and muffled feeling, often accompanied by short energetic bursts that aren't really of much use for anything productive.

The longer I stay awake, the sharper the world becomes. I stayed up for three days once: I remember playing football and seeing everything in slow motion. Problem was I was moving in slower-er motion. Eventually a guy takled me and knocked me out. Slept like a baby.

'pologies abound.

I can't be the only one who gets the "Night Laughs". After stayin up for a day or 2 everything starts getting hilarious. It doesnt matter what it is, the sound of a chair squeeking when you sit on it could put you in histarics until you finally pass out on the floor/couch/lawn. One of those natural high things, a great feeling if you dont mind sleeping until around 4 the next day.

scoHish:
I can't be the only one who gets the "Night Laughs". After stayin up for a day or 2 everything starts getting hilarious. It doesnt matter what it is, the sound of a chair squeeking when you sit on it could put you in histarics until you finally pass out on the floor/couch/lawn. One of those natural high things, a great feeling if you dont mind sleeping until around 4 the next day.

Yeah, I think everyone gets that... I have twice on road trips... Once when My ex-wife and I were moving across the country. I made it from Indiana to New Mexico, and at 2 in the morning We stopped at a hotel and I just crashed...

My head asplode.

I get the paranoia

I just get... really tired. Nothing else happens.
When I stay up longer than normal, I go through a roller-coaster of 'sleepy/not sleepy'. One minute I might be very tired, the next I could be like I was rested, and the one after that, tired again.

Once, I remember, I was staring at my computer screen, and, in my peripheral vision, I could see the edge of my rug and the armchair across from me. The rug and the armchair's colors suddenly switched to harsh black and white, and over the armchair floated a large mask with closed eyes and a wide smile. It lasted for a second before I jerked my head up to stare at it; it was gone by then.
I don't know what I would've done if it was still there.

Omnidum:
I get the paranoia

I shall report this to the mothership.

I suffer from periodical insomnia. during these episodes I get twitchy, nervous, paranoid and strangely enough very energetic. this may sound reasonable, but it is actually horrible, because i no longer notice how tired i am and i constantly screwup with almost everything because although i have a lot of energy and am fully awake, my concentration level is as it should be (i miss even the most obvious things).

also i get gamerelated hallucinations. i had an episode of insomnia when i was playing Half-Life 2 and could swear headcrabs where hiding all over the place...
it's horrible, because after a few days i can no longer distinguish reality and hallucination. i've tried sleeping pills, but they just won't work.

1 minor positive point: i can catch up with my homework in the first 2/3 nights.

I've had rather severe insomnia for as long as I can remember so I've adapted to take in any rest (ie: curling up in my chair while gaming, laying in bed awake, ect.) to work as some sleep so I function normally even with my average 4 hours or so of sleep a night. But during times when I've not slept at all for 2 or 3 days the only thing I notice is I start to keep my eyes closed for minutes at a time and not notice unless I'm actively engaged in something.

Paranoia, more pronounced agressiveness (I can keep my anger in, most of the time). See, the problem is my body is used to some sleep, to the point that an hour-long car ride can cause sleep (even in the middle of the afternoon after a good night's sleep). Due to this, my body seems to send me off to sleep extremely easily with the usual head-bobbing sleep-awake state, so staying up is kind of a hassle (unless of course I have something to preoccupy myself with).

i getting the feeling im about to pass out, but then i drink a monster and get back to my pheonix wright gaming

I occassionally pull an allnighter at work, typically 22 - 26 hours but up to 30 hours. I alternate between brief (15 - 30 minutes) periods of extreme sleepiness, just feeling tired, and feeling incredibly sharp and on my "A" game. I haven't noticed any additional errors during that work, but have noticed my overall productivity goes down.

As a teenager (16) I once drove to my paternal grandmother's in Daytona, Florida (about a twelve hour drive then) after a full day's work. I had 3 - 4 hours of sleep between packing and getting up early, then my parents and maternal grandparents decided to drive down with me for the weekend (I was going for a week) so I had to work that day and then wait for them to get packed before we could leave. I was up maybe 28 hours and well into Florida before I began to hallucinate an alien-looking man with a ball cap turned around backwards running beside the car. I *knew* he wasn't there - but I couldn't stop seeing him. Kind of freaked me out. I had to pull over and get my grandfather to drive the last hour because I was literally running off the road, sleeping with my eyes closed. Had it just been me I would have had to sleep on the side of the road, I was just too tired to safely drive.

In college I often stayed up studying all night before a big test, and I'd just stay up until the next night without getting sleepy at all. I've read you need less sleep as you get older, but I definitely get sleepier now from missing a night. At least during the night; the next day I'm fine and often stay up late the next night as I get kind of wired and it's hard to sleep.

I think though that significant sleep loss combined with the combination of high adrenaline from gaming can be deadly, as I've read several stories from Korea and China about sudden death from prolonged gaming sessions. Probably it's more dangerous because work doesn't cause an adrenaline rush, and more physical activities probably either wear you out and put you to sleep, or burn off more of the adrenaline.

i have one rule: i need 6-9hrs of sleep
do i get it? noooooooooooooooooooooooo
always staying up on my computer.
i feel that going to be around 1am-1:30am is a bad idea, but i dont fall asleep during the day (much)
I guess it just takes you a few years to get used to it..........

i stop blinking and just stare at the screen

coverfire:
I was under the understanding that if someone stayed awake with absolutely no
sleep (including power naps etc) for more than four days one can expect
hallucinations, and as many as six days could cause mental breakdown and with
suicidal tendencies.

Proven fact coverfire. If you go without sleep for six or more days, you will most likely be clinically insane. No joke kids. Go out and get some sleep.

I become more aware of the world. Everything slows down. I start moving slower, though. Got hit with a football once...

'pologies.

I'm not sure what happens to me when sleep deprived. Although, it's 7am here now, and I forgot to sleep last night, so I'll keep you guys posted on any hallucinations and/or apparitions.

Voodoo Child:
I'm not sure what happens to me when sleep deprived. Although, it's 7am here now, and I forgot to sleep last night, so I'll keep you guys posted on any hallucinations and/or apparitions.

same here I have been up since 8am yesterday and im going for the rec........z z z z z

I usually find I can't concentrate and I put what little concentration I have left into concentrating on being able to concentrate.

If I was sleep deprived I probably wouldn't have been able to read that sentence I just typed for example...

my record was this summer, i went 6 days on about 6 or 7 hours of sleep. I downed multiple full-throttles each night to stay awake. Why? Because i could. Me and some friends did it, stayed out every night, doing stupid things. Most fun ever.

The result? You feel fine during the day as long as there is seperation (an hour-long nap, for example,) your speech starts becoming dyslexic in nature, weginning bords with the wrong letters. Also, the slightest things make you upset or angry or burst out laughing.

By the end of the week, i'd started hallucinating, i would, say, be walking straight and dodge violently out of the way of projectiles that DIDN'T EXIST.

Worth it?

Yes. Nothing else to do at the beach anyway.

After about 24 hours or so of staying awake, I tend to start seeing things. I usually take that as a good sign to go to bed.

Nothing serious happens to me, my reflexes get slower, I feel cold more easily.
However, I am so damn used to my usual "get up" Time that my body wakes me at that particular time no matter if I slept for 8 hours or 20 minutes. When I was up to long I usually wake up being too goddamn tired to do anything but stay in bed unable to sleep.