For me it's forcing myself to only sleep 6 hours so I get through my day with loud music, caffeine and self hate.

plenty of people force themselves to stay up all night once in a blue moon for mental health reasons, all without blogging about it.

Really, this is a thing? I’ve never heard about it.

I used to stay up late sometimes when I was younger, but that was because the world went to sleep and I felt at peace doing my own thing. It wasn’t because I was trying to feel better the next day, in fact it tended to screw the next day up.

There's something to it. Also with dissociatives. Something about these substances or practices can help "reset" you like pulling the plug on an electrical device and forcing it to reboot with refreshed state

pushing the system to a point where it flips over to a different operating mode. overheating your phone until it reboots. ctrl+alt+del.

it usually feels a little precarious. maybe not for others. but there’s definitely an aspect of futzing with your mortality, with your primary systems.

but if it works…

I think there's some shared aspect of "too many background processes running—must reboot in safe mode!". Its also a bit impairing to the point you're not exactly "you" so you have a better chance of viewing things with different eyes which might be all it takes for someone to get to that point where they are aware and able to act on incremental changes in-line with that which appears in such a state

the second day, you slept poorly, mistakes don’t matter. and that’s just an added bonus on top of the biological changes.

it is more about the third day.

not surprising to not hear about it. it isn’t permanent, so catching a “practitioner” in the right moment to bring up the topic, while being in the right moment, is unlikely.

plus, bodies are weird, and laws are scary. should everyone do this? probably not, and probably for differing reasons.

Just sharing an anecdote - I noticed this effect in college for myself. Since then i do one or two all nighters a year specifically for this

this runs counter to what i understood, we had allnighters for productivity or bonding among friends. But i never wouldve guessed not sleeping for a night would make you feel better under some circumstances, always figured the health drawbacks would worsen the issue

That's exactly where my brain went. Now I need a Huberman Labs podcast telling me how I can incorporate this with my supplements and cold showers to achieve my maximum potential.

Don't forget to microdose shrooms as well, please.

Forget the microdose, sleep deprivation and macrodose shrooms go together like PB&J. Never met someone who could fall asleep under the effects of psychedelics.

I know you're joking but I'm seriously wondering how the OP fits the research Huberman regularly cites (sleep is good for dopamine levels, willpower etc.)