Quote from: Ben on November 27, 2012, 03:07 amWell, not sleeping for a week can certainly make people do crazy things, regardless if that lack of sleep is drug induced or not.Skipping one night of sleep is something most people can cope with fairly well. But anything longer seriously impairs function and judgement for the vast majority of people. If you managed to stay awake for 72 hours using only legal drugs like coffee, you'd probably be messed up to the point where you cannot drive a car without hitting some poles and parked vehicles, even if completely sober whereas alochol is concerned.That's something I often wonder about, actually; I mean whether that I'm right and meth does actually suppress a good deal of the effects of sleep deprivation outright or what. I suppose they wouldn't still use it in the air force when necessary if all it did was wake you up but not improve functioning at all when exhausted.Personally I find that 2 days is fine, I can function nearly as well as I can well rested; but at 3 days, I just start falling apart at an exponential rate. When I end up going for 4 days, I'm useless. I can drive, I can perform necessary tasks and all -- just not very well. Very little depth to my understanding of things as well. I make a lot of typos, anything but basic math becomes impossible, that sort of thing. And social interaction is out of the question: I misunderstand nuances or get the wrong idea, or just don't follow the thought the person is getting at. It can be pretty humiliating and awkward, so I try not to get that carried away. It's not like it's healthy anyway even if I could function at that point.I'm still sane and pose no danger though, heh.