OK, here's a new forum game. Maths people are meant to be night owls (what I've heard anyway), and I certainly fit into this category. But who's the best at staying up late?

The rules are simple - you can only post on this thread if you are up later than the previous poster. So, its about 2:50am atm here, so a person up at 3am can post. Use the forum timestamps as the official time. The winner is the last person to post :) Please don't post if you have woken up really early! Although I doubt that will apply to anyone here. And, you can't post twice in a row.

2:52am now - good luck!

Oh yeah, and this can run over several days :D

Yeah I was just about to say I love the fact that it's 3 AM and there are 4 online users :p.

I'm winning!

Daniel
El Presidente

Not anymore :p.

I really want sleep, but I also really want victory!

Daniel
El Presidente

Me too :D

This could get silly!

Daniel
El Presidente

Victory is mine!

Daniel
El Presidente

Here's another one :p.

Ass

Oh well i acheived somthing in staying up,

1 people do not inhabit the maths block 24 7.
2 doing stuff

Im too much of a winner to stay up for 10 mins just to beat cosmin. I have to be up
at 9 tomorrow to do the assinment sheet and drink and stuff maybe.

And you know what, i will be.

In fact I was up around that time as well (probably a little earlier), but I admit its much more impressive if you have to post from the computer room :p

Gotta love the Maths by Computer all-nighters.

Me too CJ is playing dance dance revolution online and has got less work done than me.

There are 7 people here.

I have been up since 8.30am. The insomniac game has now been changed to hours awake.

I am winning. Woo.

Nah, it hasn't, its still about how late you stay up :p

Right this is my true effort for the insomniac title. I have been up all night and have not slept till now. CJ or Cosmin might steal it but this is all i can do from the linux room, still working.

Beat that. 33 hours up, and working.

No, I slept from about 10:30 to 4, so I can't beat it now :D

I haven't been asleep, and I'm writing my Mathemagician article now :)

I haven't slept yesterday night so I predict this one will last a while :p
(plus, I'm actually still in the computer room working on Maths by Computer...)

Im rolling over and calling cosmin the winner of this forum game.

3 days and we pass out or die and i just can't be arsed doing somthing thats
difficult when i love sleep so much. So i lose but i win, in not being a loser.

Sleep for all MbC is over for me!

Cosmin must keep working...

You're declaring the winner now? I thought it was MY forum game sulks

But yeah, Cosmin should win. I logged on last night at 4am because of trouble sleeping, and he was still on MSN tapping away, so he is definitely the true insomniac

Unless someone beats my three consecutive days without sleep that is... :p

Like that gaming Korean...

Yeah but that guy probably didn't eat or drink. I'm pretty certain you can't directly die from sleep deprivation except after insane ammounts of time without sleep (and even then, its from not being able to control your body temperature and stuff like that, according to an experiment on mice I've read about). The world record is in fact 18 days, 21 hours, 40 minutes, and the guy who beat it is probably OK. :p

I thought that those records had to be safetyed, like they hav to have like an hours sleep every so long the point being they dont do massive harm to themselves but still go through much hardship related to sleep deprivation. I may be wrong.

I am quite sure that the gaming Korean did die of sleep deprivation.

It's hard to die from sleep deprivation because after a while you just pass out involantarily.

Also there are some monks whose religeon escapes me who can live without sleep because they can meditate so deeply it counts toward REM sleep.

I banked like twelve hours of sleep so I'm good

It's about 4.30 a.m. I'm in the Maths Building pulling an all-nighter to get the Algebra II revision guide finished. And I've been working since 10 a.m. yesterday.

I so win the Insomniac Mathematicians game.

Daniel

Nopes. :p

In terms of helping the society, i think you win but i think the maths by computer all nighter went on for longer.

/bump :P

Good grief, 4am! If only I'd known about this when I stayed up till 6, fell asleep and almost failed to hand in my analysis workbook.

It doesn't actually matter, I'm pretty much unbeatable at this game. My record is about 2-something days and today I went to sleep at 1 PM (after getting up yesterday at a normal time). :P

I have a good mind to try to beat you during week 10. I will stock up on sleep on Saturday, get what I can on Sunday, then go for it.

I like to prove it prove it.

Really? I don't think I've ever seen you awake all the time during any 3 hour time span. :D

I don't stand any chance this term with intro to geometry lectures. It's the only lecture I've fallen asleep in.

I did stay up for 40 hours once, however I was so tired by that point that I ended up eating shreddies for lunch and passed out on the sofa, I have normal limits y'know :P

I will never get a record in this area, I don't function well without sleep, but i do old the record for most time spent asleep. I got around the region of 36 hours asleep.

36 hours in a row ? Wow, that's quite incredible.
I thought I was quite good, I have done a few times something like 22 to 26hours in a row asleep, but 36h is just baffling.
How did that happen ? :D

Over summer I sacked off two night's worth of sleep in a row, simply because I didn't want to stop what I was doing in the day. It's pretty easy to stay up indefinitely, you just need music and fruit juice.

Also, THIS ISN'T A DISCUSSION THREAD. It's a game thread.

Bunch of savages in this town...

Also,

I HAVE BEEN AWAKE FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS

Balls of steel you son of a...

Anyway, we already have a winner

Yep... :P
Really, guys, don't bother, you have no chance to survive (make your time). The thing we should do instead is invent the "narcoleptic mathematicians" game, which I'd have no chance of winning but would be very interested in seeing. Alex vs. Ben in an epic sleeping match: awesome.

I see I'm not the only one staying up so late!...

The win.

Damn, I was awake until 9:30am this morning. But didn't think to post!

If only i could post when asleep. That'd really screw this thing up.

/me wins atm, still up for a while yet though, got into a silly sleep pattern...

And i'm still up now, but to be fair i woke up at about 9:30pm yesterday, so i'm not sure it counts :)

Jamie

Didn't we decide it wasn't the time of the post technically but how long you'd been up for. With Cosmin level ability you need to define something like that. I think Cosmin was up for 48 hours+? Has anyone beaten that?

Around 48 yes, two consecutive nights without sleep. It could count for about 64+ if only I hadn't slept for an hour and a half before the prob B test... :P

Yeah, and you got more than the rest of the second year on the forums on that test. Darn you. You only did that test because I woke you up via text once the test had started.

I'm confident I got zero on that test.

You only did that test because I woke you up via text once the test had started.

Essay all-nighter FTW...

Damn, we missed the anniversary for the insomniac forum game.

Balls of steel

That's worse than swearing, someone delete the post

Balls of steel...

Feeling compelled to say... balls of steel...

BoS

OO

getting back to the matter at hand, I think I would actually hold the record if we extend the definition to include time where there were no periods of sleep exceeding 20 mins (occuring less than once every 2 or 3 hours). I went four successive weekends in term one with no sleep at all on saturday night, little or no Sunday napping, and only a few scarce power naps (ocassionally none) on Sunday night. I then continued like this throughout the day and served hot chocolate in the evening 'til 3am. This must amount to at least one 72+ hour period with no non-trivial sleep.

Also I remember that there was a period of two weeks during the last term where there were only 2 nights in which I slept in a bed. All other sleep in that fornight was on the maths department floor. I felt physically sick. A lot of Christians told me that they had been frequently praying for my sleeping patterns. God must have listened as I can now stay awake even in (some) lectures. Also I have slept every night this term, except the night before the Excursions essay deadline.

Ha, you know you've done well when friends and family worry about your health.

And the big man upstairs

Which floor? And why?

Good to hear that your sleep patterns have returned to some normality.

Good to see line

breaks

still

work.

Often the Undergraduate Workroom floor. Also there were times after lectures/seminars when I would say "I'll catch you up in a minute, first I'll have a quick lie down since this place seems to be empty now"

Also, I remember a lot of times when I would feel so tired that, when I looked down at a stone pavement, I would think "Oh how soft and comfortable it looks". By the time I actually climbed into my bed, it seemed like the greatest comfort ever.

Oh dear, I didn't sleep last night. Silly me

The MATLAB and G&M deadlines had nothing to do with it I suppose?

Err, got it in one. Perhaps I should have at least made a start on them before 1 am, that would've helped.

Old thread,

If you want to play again, start a new one.

Locking.