Disclamer: I haven’t slept in over a day and idk if what I write makes any sense, I will adjust it after I wake up. Sometimes I do dumb stuff and end up not sleeping, other times there simply isn’t time to sleep/rest as needed(assignments and lack of planning ahead). Any advice on how to stay awake for longer periods of time(preferably functional/not in a zombie state, I’m looking for 1 and half day of not sleeping max) and your favourite way of recovering from these sleepless stretches of time(other than sleeping of course).
Sacrificing sleep time will affect your cognitive performance and increase risk for a lot of diseases. “There simply isn’t time” is usually an excuse used when you have poor time management skills, you can try an exercise of writing down what activity you have done each hour segment. This will allow you to be mindful on which activities are wasting your time.
Polyphasic sleep schedules are also not recommended, Huberman has a good episode on sleep w/ Matthew Walker: https://youtu.be/gbQFSMayJxk