when i was snorting lines of math there was a period of two days where i didnโt get any sleep at all and i got a *ton* of math done those two days, it was very weird
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iโve been waking up at 8 or 9am randomly the last few weeks (despite continuing to go to bed between 1am and 3am) and it just seems to be working fine although i occasionally need a nap
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a theory i came up with a friend -- oversimplified from all the neurobiology aspects of it -- basically boils down to "when you're sleep-deprived, you genuinely lose a lot of the ability to inadvertently sabotage your own functioning [that is such a hallmark of ADHD]"
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I can't sleep because thoughts but if I stay up until I'm UTTERLY exhausted they go away and that's when I can finally relax
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This also happened to me. I had the best ideas of my thesis in two insomnia nights.
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in the past weeks or so I've been really productive with a software project by working on it (on paper or at the keyboard) whenever I would wake up.
Wake up at 6? Work.
This also meant sleeping 6 hours a night max, with maybe a nap in the late afternoon.
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I also worked on this enough I reached saturation point. Now my "background cognitive noise" is related to this project, so it propels me forward.
Writing stuff in this condition is amazing.
Tiniest violin playing the soundtrack of poor little me being trapped in the Zone.
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There're similar reports of short term benefits from depressed folks
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Main issue with this is if you sleep deprive yourself enough you are predisposed to develop chronic pain conditions, visual snow, and migraines.