What is the best way to stay awake?

[PUURO]

Many suggestions. Drinking coffee or tea can help stay awake.
Eating something sour can also help.

[penelope]

I usually drink coffee to stay awake at night time. You may also drink tea or any hot beverage to keep you awake. you may also listen to the music or your favorite music on your ipod.

[FreshHealt]

Coffee or Tea does help..but I believe if you are not feeling bored you can keep awake yourself. But if you are really feeling bored and dull even coffee won't help.

[bodil4o]

I think the best way to stay awake is drinking something!
For example drink COLA + COffee or Red bull , shark and other such drinks!
And you have to make something nice, I mean interesting!
For example play some computer games or go away with friends or just go jogging for five minutes and you will be awake!

[Susan]

I have to stay up many nights to work or study, also. I drink espressos, black coffees, or green tea every hour or so. I make sure I eat enough to keep me energized. Vitamins and supplements can keep me up for hours. I take caffeine pills once in a while, if I have alot to do. Stay hydrated and snack on fruit or granola, and it will be alot easier.

[Padalda]

First task you should do before going for studies is to wash your face with cold water. This will help to get rid of drouziness and lazyness. Next you should have tea at regular intervals on hours basis.

The best way to stay awake is to sleep as much as you can because nobody can cheat nature. There is time to sleep and there is time to work. Don't try to kill yourself. Go and sleep when you feel sleepy

[ranger]

Well, Jessy, I advise you to better get good sleep. Your body needs rest to function properly, and if you learn overnight, it might result in lapse of concentration and you may even forget what you know when you are in the exam hall

So if you still want to continue and stay awake, keep your feet immersed in cold water. Have a good face wash, preferably with cold water. Do NOT bath - bathing will make you more sleepy. Cut down the sweets and eat more vegetables. Chew some vitamin C tablets (really helped me in staying awake :p) and have some black tea. And finally all the best for your exam Jessy!

Originally Posted by Cermet

I'm sure you realize that forcing yourself to stay awake either naturally or taking some type of drug(legal or not) is horrible for your body. The best solution is to start studying early, instead of cramming... what's the point of school if you're going to cram just to get past an exam, then forget it all? If you have to stay awake, you might want to try circular sleeping, where you sleep half an hour and are awake for 4 hours that should get you the extra time you need.

Regardless of whether or not he realizes that lack of sleep is bad for you and studying in advance is the superior studying method, it's too late for that thus the post. Please, just be helpful in the future

Originally Posted by zowie

Red bull is a great energy drink to keep you awake. it has a lot of caffeine in it. they say the caffeine content in a Red bull is equivalent to that of 20 cups of coffee. it worked great for me. there are some other brands of energy drinks too. You can experiment among them and choose the one which suits your taste.

Redbull does not even come close to having the equivalency of 20 cups of coffee in respects to caffeine, Redbull has about 90mg of caffeine per can, Coffee has anywhere from 65-100mg of caffeine per cup. So as you can see sometimes Redbull actually has less caffeine than coffee. The only reason it is more effective is because of the additional ingredients in the beverage such as ginseng and guarana

Okay I think we all get it that coffee, tea, supplements, and other caffeine beverages keep you awake. Can we got some more original ideas in the thread, maybe some sort of mechanism?

[Mindmaster]

There are so many other ways which make you awake the whole night.

• Do 5 min of dance on the floor. (Drowsy brain needs some activity)
• Drink a lot of water i.e. a litre or more. (Excessive water maintains the body cycle when awake throughout the night )
• Have a chewing gum and start chewing it with a pace. (Jaws activity helps brain to be active)

I, personally, followed these tricks and succeeded.

[Kwamina]

you can't cheat on nature. sleep when it is time to sleep and wake up when it is time to wake. sleep is the best gift you can ever give your body so sleep when it is time to sleep. coffee destroys your body and weakens your brain. avoid coffee.

[Essau]

the best way to stay awake is to sleep. If you are feeling very sleepy at work, take a little sleep at lunch time. that sleep can go a long way to keep you awake throughout the day. I have been doing that for a couple of months now and it works.

[kennymevrick]

Well Coffee is good but too much coffee can kill the brain cells. These days there are decaffeinated coffees which is better but can't keep you awake though. I also recommended remember that think:
1) sleep well before the exams start. Your body will account the extra sleep you get.
2) Tea and coffee will help.
3) Always keep food that you like eating at home during these days,

Drink some coffee but not too much. don't make it a habit. if you are having an exam and you need to stay up late then take some coffee but quit taking coffee after the exam because too much coffee is not good.

[Jennifer.lara]

Drink a cup of tea and there should be some gap while doing your studies and do some activity in which you have interest.