I had that problem last summer. at one point, I was going 50 hours without sleep, then sleeping for a normal 8 hours, and then staying awake for another 50 or so hours.

it was weird.

Right? Longest I've ever gone was 8 days, give or take a few hours. I've had sleep studies done and they always went back to basic principles and knowledge of sleep in general and told me "well technically speaking you don't NEED to sleep, the only medical evidence necessitating sleep is fatigue..." and all that crap. Sleep aids don't help either, I just have unescapable nightmares for about twenty or thirty minutes then wake up feeling blurred. I think I'm just gradually requiring less and less sleep.

damn dude. I never get nightmares (I've only had maybe three since middle school. I'm in college now)

it was weird. I wasn't tired at all, I was just awake. I'd lay down but I wouldn't feel any need to sleep, so I'd just get up and do whatever

sometimes I just space out and stare into the dark, I've slept more than 5 hours in one sitting only three times in my life, it felt crazy waking up from that

sometimes I'll sleep for 2 to 4 hours, wake up for about 10-24 hours then sleep about the same amount, best I've ever done was 5 hours straight, bathroom, then back to sleep for another hour or so, but that was after a lot of sex so maybe that's the key to sleep haha

interesting. I guess you're healthy, otherwise?

I was a state champion wrestler, marathon runner (not competition), work out like a fiend, so it doesn't effect my physical health and my IQ is 188 so definitely not effecting cognition. More than anything I think it has interesting effects on my perspective and abstract thought process.

that's definitely interesting.

I know that feel. Every time I get it fixed and dandy, in a few days, it's back to falling asleep at 5 in the morning and waking up in the afternoon. I'll probably never be able to have a proper fucking job because of this shit.

I have gone days without sleep and things just see to get more detached and distant, after 3 days I get loopy and my logic and reasoning becomes very abstract. I'm still able to work with computers and such but in my other job where I'm expected to interact with people it becomes challenging. Ultimately I have to hope I can work from home so my work is unaffected by my nonsensical sleep "patterns"

masturbate,