How many days of missed sleep do you think you could hide from people?

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    My misspent youth included methamphetamines. I spelled it out because “meth” seems worse somehow.

    Anyway, about 3 days without sleep comes with debilitating brain fog, hallucinations, and wild mood problems. You could probably pass for the fist day, because meth intoxication isn’t as obvious as others, but people will notice that you lost your mind.

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      1 hour ago

      My youth was like yours. Stayed up for 7 days once and ever since, I need a full night of sleep or I can’t function at all. I think I broke my brain.

    • HeHoXa@lemmy.zip
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      7 hours ago

      Similar story here, and I have a lot of regrets centering around the crazy stuff I did while out of my mind.

      In retrospect, I’ve come to believe that long periods of little or poor quality sleep led to much more insanity than any specific substance.

      It didn’t necessarily have to be stimulants. Anything that kept me up all night getting high or prevented “real” sleep, even computers or video games to a lesser degree, could lead to this state.

      Sleep is important.