Haven't slept at all and I still feel energetic.

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I have been awake all night and I don't feel tired and sleepy at all. Despite the fact that I haven't had any sleep last night, not even for a second, I still feel energetic. I just did the dishes and in thirty minutes or so I am going to do my weekly house cleaning. This is really scary. I have never used amphetamines in my life so I can't know for sure but this is probably how people feel who have taken speed or cocaine. I have never felt this way before after a night without sleep and I wonder what is going on because this is just too weird. I have no idea what causes this surge of energy and I find it quite worrying. Besides the fact that I have lots of energy I seem to be in a really good mood as well. I am not prone to manic episodes so that can be ruled out as the cause of this weird episode.

Does anybody have any experience with this phenomenon because I have no idea what's going on. What scares me most is that I am probably going to pay the price during the rest of the week which is very inconvenient.

I have ordered B5 vitamin pills and Zinc tablets online recently. I received the package on Friday or Saturday, I can't really remember the exact day but I am sincerely begining to wonder what's in these pills because this is abnormal. There is something odd going on here. I don't think I have ever felt this way before and I have to find out what's happening. It's like I am functioning on fifth gear. Just did some ultra fast house cleaning.

It's normal to feel energetic due to lack of sleep. I experienced it too at times, only to crash in the afternoon.

Yes I know but this is of a different nature.

Your bad english doesn't matter by the way. I am not an english speaker either and I always have to edit my posts because of the many mistakes I make.

I've had really bad sleep for almost three weeks now. I'm lucky if I get more than 4-5 hours of sleep. I usually wake up from a semi-lucid dream or even nightmares. I also am supposed to use a CPAP.

So far, I've held it together, but with each day that goes by. I resist sleeping in the afternoon. There are days, where I'm a zombie on autopilot.

I don't do coffee or caffeine, but I do take Vitamin B pills to initially get me through the day.

I am very familiar with the feeling you describe of being energetic despite lack of rest. I describe it as being wired up. You've got current running and then a switch at some point is flipped and there is no power for anything and you then crash.

I recognise the dream part of your story. I don't have nightmares but weird dreams that seem so real that I, subconsciously, wake myself up because the situation in my dreams has become unbearable. That's probably a side effect of the medication that has been prescribed to me but since the medication does me a lot of good as well I'm willing to take the cons.

This is different though. I haven't slept in 36 hours and I am still wide awake, wired up and even a bit aggressive. I feel like a bodybuilder on anabolics. This is something I have never experienced before as far as I can remember. I am not overreacting by the way, it's very true. Everything sets me off at the moment. I have been putting myself on a strict regimen of physical exercise for the past four weeks, something I have not done for 20 years or so. Maybe that has something to do with it as well. As soon as I hear loud voices on the street I run to one of my windows, ready to call the cops. Ridiculous!

I used to be able to duplicate the effect of being wired when OTC cough/cold medicine had pseudo-ephedrine in it. On a full-nights sleep, I could take some in the morning, and I would feel the same wired feeling, and then crash.

Have you tried a sleep aid like Melatonin or Benadryl? If you exercise to the point where you're tired and you take those, you could be successful in forcing yourself to sleep even if it's for a few hours.