Yeah, I did this over the week of my final medical exams. No Red Bull in them days, so I used ProPlus and subsisted almost entirely on Diet Coke and Mars bars. I allowed myself up to three hours each night and, on the sixth night (before the great biggie written exam) didn't sleep at all.
I have quite a vivid memory of the exam itself, held in a beautifully sunlit church hall, with beams of light shafting down through stained glass onto my paper. I kept getting distracted by the patches of colour, and would spend five minutes at a time moving my hand through them: green, blue, green again... I also remember blanking out mid-sentence and having to struggle to remember what I was writing. Like you, I felt giggly and euphoric (absolute sleep deprivation actually works as an effective, if uselessly short-lived antidepressant), but also wanted to just put my head down on the desk and doze off with the sun on my face.
Amazingly, I passed that exam - and the sleep deprivation proved a useful primer for the pre-registration Year of Hell... |
