Originally posted by: Cal_kashi
I've done four days once, studying for finals a few years back and shit got weird after the third day, I started seeing shadow figures in my periphery as well as hearing sounds when I was alone and in a silent environment, it was scary, nothings like pleasant halucinations, it was scary.
Pacing is a great idea, im jealous that you have that option available to you.
Whoa, I'm not the only one! I was extremely stressed and sleep deprived last year at one point (probably a natural consequence of taking 7 engineering courses and having two major lab reports due right in the middle of exams) and I hallucinated like shadowy bugs/spiders. It was one of the freakiest things that's ever happened to me. At one point, I was so convinced there was a giant spider in my room that I got one of my housemates to come look for it. Then I realized that I'd been hallucinating.

I don't drink coffee, so I need to find other things to keep me awake. Food for sure works well. I used to drink vanilla coke to keep me awake too until I had a bad experience with drinking too much vanilla coke at once after not consuming any caffeine for a month. In the past year or so I've started powernapping too. Sometimes, I just can't figure out the answers to assignment questions at night if I keep working on them. But if I sleep for a few hours then get up early in the morning to continue, my mind works better and I can get more accomplished. Of course, that also brings the deadline much closer and takes away all the buffer time, but more often than not it pays off for me. Likewise, I also surf around my favourite websites once every hour or so to break the monotony.