Over the Christmas holidays, like all good students I've been staying up stupidly late. Then there came one day when I was about to go to sleep and realised it was 6am and thought, screw it, I'll stay up and go to bed at 9pm. What I noticed was that after a certain point, about 15-20 hours, I stopped being tired all together.
Though I did eventually go to bed after about 30 hours I felt like I could stay up forever. Now that brought to mind a few stories I've heard, mainly of Chinese online gamers who stayed up several days straight and died from exhaustion or something.
So I was wondering, how unhealthy is it to skip a day or two of sleep and how many days in a row is it practicable to stay awake?
Tell me what you think.