#30

The longest I have gone without sleeping. I feel like when people are going to read this, they won’t think that its that long, but I am used to my sleep hours. So for me it felt wild. My days of no sleep were actually a week ago, and I blame it on the college life. I still live with my dad, stepmom, and sisters. My sisters are in elementary and middle school, and my dad/stepmom work early in the morning. Everyone goes to sleep by 9pm usually. I don’t sleep til 12 which I feel like is typical, but for three straight days I only got five hours of sleep. Why? You might be asking yourself. I have no idea, I still my pineal gland was compromised for three days. The pineal gland is the only gland that controls sleep, and produces  melatonin. Anyways I tried everything to get myself to sleep, I got up and had a whole hour long quite dance party to try, and tire myself out. Didn’t work, basically did the opposite and woke me up even more. Also all of these days I was going to my classes and working nights at my job. I was busy these whole three days but my body was not allowing me to sleep. Now I have got back to my usual six to nine hours a night. But during this time on the last day, especially my coworker who is like one of my moms. Asked me if I felt okay because I looked so out of it. I responded that I was fine just a little bit sleepy, and basically told that I looked like the walking dead. Now I know this isn’t a full no sleep thing, but I can certainly tell you that it felt like I didn’t sleep. I drank bangs, coffee, and it definitely made me a crackhead to say the least. When I say crackhead I mean my personality but on steroids, so I was tweaking because of caffeine.  But I survived this basically no sleep week, and even though I felt like death it was kinda fun. I could see myself doing it again. I do not suggest it though for health reasons, because it messes up your natural circadian rhythm.