Twenty four hours without sleep and you're drunk

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Aside from not giving a crap, being generally grumpy and a bit slower than usual, I get a bit "tingly" in my face and hands when I go for loooong periods without sleep. Similar to the effect that you feel when you take a drowse medicine by mistake before a test

 

Not a Hellion, but I did enjoy my alcohol and weed. I even toyed with LSD and other Halucinogens. That's all behind me now, but the memory remains--no matter how screwed up or embarrassing...

 

Congrats on leaving it behind.

 

Thanks, Chev. My mind is sharper now, but not what it once was...

 

I never really got into weed, I disliked the feeling of laughing at something but not understanding why

never hit any of the major hallucinogens though. some ecstasy but thats it. now I drink so much that it compensates for all the stuff I've stopped/never taken

gnarf, did it really leave noticeably lasting damage?

 

Noticeable to me, but perhaps not to others. I used to be really fast and accurate with math. I could look at the average equation and get the answer in seconds--then have it confirmed by others that had to get a pencil and paper or a calculator (this didn't work with irrational numbers, mind you). Now I'm not as fast, and screw it up more often...

 

Personally, I'd throw that in the use-it-or-lose-it category. If calculators and computers have taught me anything, it's that computation skills fade when you aren't using them. I can't even remember the last time that I actually needed to do long division or multiplication in my head....

 

Sometimes my best ideas come when I'm away from a computer or calculator. And Toilet paper is hard to write on...

 

ditto, haven't had to since i graduated nearly a year ago

 

Over indulgence of alcohol causes damage to the brain cells. Don't know about the weed but LSD can cause permanent injury according to reports I have read. Never tried it myself. I wonder if continuous lack of sleep harms the brain too. Loss of oxygen?

Theoretically we never lose what we have learned unless the brain is injured in someway. But like any muscle the brain needs to be exercised or it gets soft and flabby.

 

According to what I've heard, Nakia, lack of sleep is indeed capable of inflict permanent injury on one's brain. I can't give you the specifics, though. I don't remember if it was related to oxygen, but I think there was more to it.