Comments on: Synonyms for the feeling after an all-nighter.

Question: Synonyms for the feeling after an all-nighter.

hobbes — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:16:41 -0800

What's another word for the feeling you get after an all-nighter? It's not euphoria, giddiness, silliness, or simply high.. (Too many all-nighters have screwed with my memory recall.)

By: Pants!

Pants! — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:23:53 -0800

exhaustion?

By: tmcw

tmcw — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:26:09 -0800

nauciousness?

By: cosmic osmo

cosmic osmo — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:26:41 -0800

We usually call it "cracked out"

By: silby

silby — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:27:39 -0800

Sleep deprivation, man. It's the most powerful drug of them all.

By: Fiasco da Gama

Fiasco da Gama — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:27:59 -0800

Whackiness?
(PS. Are we talking all-nighters for business or pleasure? If the former, it sounds like yous are a lot more fun than mine).

By: PinkButterfly

PinkButterfly — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:29:00 -0800

delirium

By: pazazygeek

pazazygeek — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:32:19 -0800

I call it "loopiness" -- but I don't think that's a technical term. I have it right now.

By: rancidchickn

rancidchickn — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:36:37 -0800

irritability

By: zsazsa

zsazsa — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:38:27 -0800

Slap happy.

By: stefanie

stefanie — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:38:29 -0800

If you're referring to the state of being goofy because you're overtired, I've always called it "punchy" (probably derived from punch-drunk, I'd guess)

By: lannanh

lannanh — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:43:59 -0800

Ditto Cosmic Osmo, that's what we call it too cause that's how you feel: totally cracked out.

By: hobbes

hobbes — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:45:28 -0800

Thank you PinkButterfly.. it's been bugging me for the past hour or so.

stefanie, my friend uses punchy, too, but delirium was the one on my tongue.

Thanks everyone!

By: GregWithLime

GregWithLime — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:54:07 -0800

Does anyone else find that after they have been up all night and into the next day, they experience strong anxiety once they do finally get in bed and try to fall asleep? I experience that as well as stressful dreams where I am trying to wake myself up but can't.

By: PinkButterfly

PinkButterfly — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:59:25 -0800

Thank you PinkButterfly.. it's been bugging me for the past hour or so.

No problem. I've pulled many all-nighters.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:48:41 -0800

I suspect this is a regional and generational thing. It's a feeling you first experience and describe with your peers, not your parents.

(At my high school, in Michigan in the mid-90s, it was "cracked out.")

By: ISeemToBeAVerb

ISeemToBeAVerb — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:52:57 -0800

I usually have a feeling of lucidity after going without sleep for a long period.

By: krautland

krautland — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:56:29 -0800

hangover ;-)

By: Stewriffic

Stewriffic — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:10:40 -0800

punch drunk

By: afx237vi

afx237vi — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:20:15 -0800

Spaced out.

By: Pater Aletheias

Pater Aletheias — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:56:58 -0800

When I was in high school we used to call that being "simpled out," but I haven't heard that in years now. Haven't stayed up all night in years, either, so I guess it wouldn't have come up.

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:24:26 -0800

Another "punchy" here.

By: clockwork

clockwork — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:38:29 -0800

The best name I've ever heard for it is "pumpkin time."

... in a study of simulated driving performance, impairments in lane-keeping ability after a night without sleep were equivalent to those observed at blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.07%.

By: Class Goat

Class Goat — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:29:31 -0800

I've heard it referred to as a "fatigue high".

By: rlef98

rlef98 — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:29:31 -0800

"Fuzzed out"

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:58:29 -0800

I disagree on "delirium" for me it's always been (in English, anyway) "frazzled." For it to be "delirium" there would need to be hallucinations.

I have pulled many an allnighter and suffer from insomnia.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:34:39 -0800

Yeah, we call it "slappy."