Lack of sleep causes ... wait I can't remember. Oh yeah - it prevents the creation of brain cells and affects memory. Keep that in mind as your next charette goes into the wee hours. That is assumiing you have any memory left after the last allnighter.
Yeah... you'll grow out of that. Part of being a good architect is learning shortcuts that won't keep you up all night - make it your goal to never go sleepless because of Architecture by your 3rd year. Brainpower, not horsepower.
I found getting in the studio as early as possible worked best. So I'd get there at 6 am or so, then be comletely done by 6-8pm. A long day, but I'd get a good night's sleep and actually put in more hours than many that didn't show up until 10 or 11.
Took me till grad school to get it down and continues to this day.
i went on a sleep deprivation experiment many years ago. wasn't related to school, or work, or anything like that.
it was clearly more of an 'altered states' type of experience.
i went 4 1/2 days completely without sleep. about 110hrs.
after 60 or 70 hours the brain starts working very slowly. no longer tired though, i had surprisingly large amounts of energy. i spent a great deal of time walking around. talking on the phone. attempting to read. the occasional smoke.
pushing 100 hours and normal tasks like speaking, tying shoelaces and what-not became VERY difficult. once i broke 100+ i knew i wasn't going to last too much longer. i was hallucinating wildly and was starting to get pretty panicky.
i had set out trying to get 5 full days, but by 110 hours i was freaking out.
after all was said and done, it was a pretty interesting experiment, though not one i'll be doing again soon.
i only slept for about 14-15 hours afterwards, but was in a decidedly altered state of mind for about a week. kind of like jet-lag.
I once tried to drive for 18 hours strait, after an all nighter. About eight hours into the drive (3am) everything started to spin and the next thing I knew the car was stopped half on the highway, half in the ditch. Lucky for us it was a Volvo, so the car was ok and we continued on our way.
lack of sleep causes ....
Lack of sleep causes ... wait I can't remember. Oh yeah - it prevents the creation of brain cells and affects memory. Keep that in mind as your next charette goes into the wee hours. That is assumiing you have any memory left after the last allnighter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6347043.stm
yeah, the 30+ all nighters i pulled first year definitely made me retarded.
oh - just noticed that someone posted this already. clearly too many allnighters in my past.
ok now i'm really worried. last semester i spent TWO 60+ hour days without sleep and countless all nighters
Yeah... you'll grow out of that. Part of being a good architect is learning shortcuts that won't keep you up all night - make it your goal to never go sleepless because of Architecture by your 3rd year. Brainpower, not horsepower.
I found getting in the studio as early as possible worked best. So I'd get there at 6 am or so, then be comletely done by 6-8pm. A long day, but I'd get a good night's sleep and actually put in more hours than many that didn't show up until 10 or 11.
Took me till grad school to get it down and continues to this day.
i went on a sleep deprivation experiment many years ago. wasn't related to school, or work, or anything like that.
it was clearly more of an 'altered states' type of experience.
i went 4 1/2 days completely without sleep. about 110hrs.
after 60 or 70 hours the brain starts working very slowly. no longer tired though, i had surprisingly large amounts of energy. i spent a great deal of time walking around. talking on the phone. attempting to read. the occasional smoke.
pushing 100 hours and normal tasks like speaking, tying shoelaces and what-not became VERY difficult. once i broke 100+ i knew i wasn't going to last too much longer. i was hallucinating wildly and was starting to get pretty panicky.
i had set out trying to get 5 full days, but by 110 hours i was freaking out.
after all was said and done, it was a pretty interesting experiment, though not one i'll be doing again soon.
i only slept for about 14-15 hours afterwards, but was in a decidedly altered state of mind for about a week. kind of like jet-lag.
no long term effects.
my $.02.
why are architects masochistic?
I once tried to drive for 18 hours strait, after an all nighter. About eight hours into the drive (3am) everything started to spin and the next thing I knew the car was stopped half on the highway, half in the ditch. Lucky for us it was a Volvo, so the car was ok and we continued on our way.
Ben Franklin was a man who went with little sleep....cause he had no time to sleep cause he was either busy inventing things or making babies.
I hit 70 hours and started having backspasms...which made hand rendering my first year assignment entertaining to say the least...
...back-spasms is a gerat incentive to learn time management :)
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