Okay, so you know how when you stay up at night you pretty much have “windows,” or shorter periods of time which present opportunity, to fall asleep? The accumulation of ignored “windows” (for lack of a better term) causes your brain to feel more or less like you are on drugs.
Why? Because when you get tired and you ignore that feeling, that opportunity to fall asleep and continue to stay up your body registers it is “Shit, okay. Im not supposed to sleep right now,” which by an evolutionary standpoint probably meant you were keeping watch over the village to make sure someone doesnt get mauled by a damn bear or raided by the enemy or something. As a result, your brains dumps in a variety of chemicals, like dopamine and adrenaline, to help you cope with needing to stay up, to survive rather than make you tired and possibly get you killed.
Now, this is where the accumulation bit comes into play. The more “windows” you miss, the more chemicals are dumped in (y’know, to keep you going.) Also, consider that you are probably still running off of the previous dump of chemicals. You usually dont have that many “feel-good” chemicals going on in your brain unless you experience something like orgasm, are in love, or are on drugs.
This is probably why, after staying up so many hours straight, you are legally dubbed as “crazy.” You can pretty much do anything illegal and get off comparably easy as “mentally unstable,” because when you stay up for that long, you begin to create a state of manic in the brain, similar to what many people with bi-polar (and a variety of other mental illnesses) suffer from. (This feeling is also why those suffering with bi-polar do not want to take their medicine, because mania really feels like a glorious state to be in, but that’s another conversation for another time.)
*If I got anything wrong, please correct me. But I got this information from a therapist, so Im pretty sure it’s accurate.
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