All-nighters

It's 5am Monday morning here in the UK and I've accidentally found myself in the situation where I stayed up much too late playing video games. When I realised it was 3, I thought, hell, I might as well stay up all night. My first class of the day is at 9am and will be on the riveting subject of Thermodynamics and Kinetics. I'll finish for the day in about 12 hours time. Will I make it? Will I pass out in about 30 minutes? Who knows?  
  
Has anyone here ever pulled any ridiculous all-nighters? Before exams or some such. Do you often find yourself with a sleeping pattern more suited towards owls than humans? 
 
Who knows, maybe you've become fully nocturnal and even work during the night. LET US GET TO KNOW YOU.

i havn't pulled any all nighters with gaming, with drinking however...
several times i have been to bars and karaoke and around 5-6 in the morning realizing what time it is, and since my school is really close to the bar district and it takes around 45 min for me to get home, i usually go to school and sleep there, or stay up until the school starts

Since Jan 5th(Darksiders and Bayonetta) my sleep schedule has been wake up at 11 PM, go to sleep at 4 or 5 PM. I cant stand sleeping.
Longest "all nighter" I pulled was 2 and a half days without the help of cocaine or other such things.

Several times, but never doing something unnecessary like playing video games. 

i pull all nighters all the time, wether its for fun or cuz of insomnia, either way i sleep in the day. (rarely for gaming tho)

I've pulled plenty of all nighters, but they definitely weren't entirely spent playing a game.

My first playthrough of Silent Hill 2 began at around 7 pm and ended around 6 am. What a crazy night.

i am usually good with sleeping, i am a night owl. i usually go to bed at 1:30am and wake up at 9:30ish.

i pulled this one all nighter when my friend was over and went through 6 liters of mtn dew and 10 packets of kool aid and about 5 or so packs of ramen... it was bad lmao

No. You're completely fucked. Might as well stop going to school altogether. I'd recommend taking up a drug habit instead.

There's already a thread on a similar them, I believe.
 
However this belief could be based on my own insomnia. My worst in recent memory (last week) is 60 hours awake. I have done more. I don't do them for pleasure. They just happen.

I read somewhere that because staying up at night messes with women's Circadian rhythms, women who work night shifts are more likely to develop breast cancer. Dunno if there's a similar effect on men. Usually with all nighters, I have a rule that after a certain point, sleep takes priority over anything I could possibly be working on. Infer what you will about the importance of my labors in life. 
 
EDIT: I am totally breaking this rule right now. I guess I must have jinxed it... or something. Yay 3 am chinese homework! 
 
And by yay I mean fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

I think the latest I've crammed for a big test was 2AM. I know it's not as late as some people on this thread, but it was for me.

Duder... too many all-nighters to even begin taking stock at this point. I recommend coffee and television. 24-hour fast food joints are also your friend. Good luck.

When I started college I was able to pull all-nighters all the freakin' time. But after that first year, I was barely able to stay up past 2 am. Can't pull all-nighters anymore...

My schedule is so messed up. 
 
Went to sleep on Saturday morning at 6 AM after a night of doing some random photoshop stuff, woke up at 6 30 PM.  Stayed up all night last night, fell asleep at 1 PM today. woke up at 8 PM.  I'm now staying up all night, hopefully staying up till tomorrow night so I can actually sleep at night for once. 
 
More on subject, I often pull at least one all nighter a week.  The main list of things that cause this... 
 
Warcraft 3 
Civilization 4 
Guild Wars 
Street Fighter IV  
Mass Effect 
Team Fortress 2 
Counter Strike Source
Random bursts of creativity, drawing sketches, writing songs, photoshoppin'. 
Adult Swim/Comedy Central/Discovery Channel 

I feel i should add, I am in the UK, it is fast approaching 6 am, I have currently been awake for approximately 40 hours.

I have been up for a day now. My record is 5 days straight, something I don't recommend because I started to hallucinate.

I have to get up for work in three hours. I'm definitely going to be dragging my ass in the morning. Hopefully all that damn snow was enough to convince the suits to cancel work. I've pulled all-nighters in the past, and they were never a good idea. Well, except for this one time when I was up all night kicking ass on Wolf ET. That was totally worth it. Anyways, I'm definitely going to bed right the hell now.

It's very unwise and should you avoid doing it if you value your health.
 
That being said, I use to do that a lot.. to the detriment of my health and activities during the day - and days following.

" I have been up for a day now. My record is 5 days straight, something I don't recommend because I started to hallucinate. "

" Anyways, I'm definitely going to bed right the hell now. "

" @Raven_Sword: My advice is don't try, you don't have clinical insomnia. More than 5 days awake, I need to go to hospital now, as it has adverse psychological effects now. "

Most nights I go to bed at 2-3am playing games then wake up at 7:30 for work. But in terms of gaming I haven't done a lot of all nighters recently. Sure when I was a few years ago, but not anymore, except ME2 did that to me. But a couple years back, when Oblivion dropped I played that all night with a friend, and same when COD2 came out.  
 
But most all nighters I've done were all night video editing sessions for my school's film class. Those were epic. I'd listen to Rush and Kraftwerk to stay awake and edit a piece together, often chatting with another person editing their work. The worst was waiting for rendering to finish, and also the next day how you'Re a total zombie. That part sucks about all nighters.d

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Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance co-op. That's the only time.   On topic though, dude get some sleep. Seriously, going all Jack Bauer will start to make you feel like total shit.  "

I usually pull at least one all-nighter per week, often two.
 
 
I don't know, I guess I just enjoy something about losing track of time, looking at the clock and it says 7:16 AM, and my roommate's getting up to get ready for the day.

" @Origina1Penguin said:

" Anyways, I'm definitely going to bed right the hell now. "

Still awake? "

I pulled a lot of all nighters and it sometimes it works out fine yet sometimes I crash and burn. For example, I've stayed up all night, drank a lot of coffee, and than went to school and was able to function okay but once I had to take the train to Manhattan and got to a two hour photography class on a Saturday after staying up all night and I couldn't focus at all. I was so out of it.

I just now (literally) wrote a quick blog bout insomnia.
 
All I can say is, if you choose to do an all nighter or night, do something productive with it. If you don't you'll lose your mind.

When I'm on a big deadline at the office...and occasionally playing video games

I'm pulling a All Nighter tonight playing MW2 PSN ID therv 18 if you want to join me.

Red Bull, my friend. Red Bull. Or any energy drink, that's just the one I prefer.

You should get even a few hours of sleep, at least that way you will be able to stay up until the following night and not mess your sleep schedule.

Waking up at midnight never feels too great. 

Yep I've stayed up till 5.30.. that was the max..
Once I had played GTA Vice City with my cousin bro till 4:30.. and I was confused whether it was night or afternoon..
I occassionally play till 3 in the morning, but nowadays have stopped it due to heavy studies and upcoming exams.

*walks down stairs* WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!!?

Yeah, I have done so, whether it be due to the internet, or my extreme determination to finish a really hard mission/chapter/dungeon/boss in a game.

You will reach a point where you feel like complete and utter shit so get some kip.

I've had only one all-nighter. Watching anime, listening to music and chatting with friends. Twas a Friday night, of course.

Well I usually take Tylenol PM to help me sleep on nights when I have school or work, it's a really bad habit.  But If I didn't I would probably pull all nighters all the time.

I lasted barely half an hour before deciding that I was being ridiculous.  
 
Just woke up (almost 3pm) and will email my lecturers saying I was ill and asking what I've missed. Woops.

I need sleep, the last all nighter I remember was before Australia day, and spent the night Mount and blading it with a mate asleep on each shoulder, I was dropping in and out of conciousness by 6 30  the next night

" i pulled this one all nighter when my friend was over and went through 6 liters of mtn dew and 10 packets of kool aid and about 5 or so packs of ramen... it was bad lmao "

I do it all the time this year unfortunately. 
 
That happens when you have so many awesome games, and you're taking the year off college, and you work in the evenings. Guess its a habit now.
 
Next year i will have to change this lifestyle :S