...So whats your tip to achieving these awesome hallucinations, and how do I get there! ;-)
The goal isn't to be at 100% awareness during these moments -- it's to not micro-nap and relieve the lack of sleep.
I remember once playing a game of go with a friend after 40 hours of no sleep (drug-free), and seeing purple electricity radiating across the stones and outlining the boundaries of their activities against one another. Walking down the hallway I experienced that recession of reality like when Frodo first encounters the Nazgûl in the forest and the path pulls away from him.
Lack of sleep is incredibly psychedelic. Take this from someone who has done many -- and good luck ;)
Did you… read the comment you’re replying to? Or just skip straight to writing the one-upper reply?
Do you mean besides intentionally because of the effects of drugs and/or alcohol?
(Before people come for me: I’m not saying alcohol causes hallucinations, more that it affects perception and makes it very difficult to figure out if you’re tired enough to hallucinate)
Early into my investment banking career, I once worked about 130 hours in a single week and started hallucinating in the office, hearing voices as if my relatives were speaking random sentences to me
Sample size of one, but I can definitely attest to the effect
Is it really necessary to do so many slide decks in order for IB to be as productive?
Shit compounds when there's a deadweight on the team, or a managing director that doesn't know what they want / has poor planning, or everyone's busy on other projects or the situation is actually complex. In that particular case, it was a combination of a deadweight analyst on a very lean team (I was the only associate, no VP, one very senior director trying to make MD and 2 other super senior MDs... for a $2B M&A deal), poor planning and an actually complex situation (crossborder, post-bankruptcy former public company with public debt still outstanding, multiple tax jurisdictions, CFIUS issues, you name it) leading up to a board meeting on Friday (to which I took a flight to deliver the books, which added to the hours...)