So I played myself.

(soft music)

Hey I'm Mei and I'm about to stay up for 24 hours straight.

- If someone told me I would stay up for 24 hours,

I think my instinct would be, horrible idea.

- I (beeps) up because I was gonna go to sleep early

and then it ended up being 2AM and I was on Tick Tock

and I looked on my phone and I was like, okay,

I've stayed up pretty long for school

but never just for fun.

I feel like I'm dying.

I think the hardest part is going to be just finding things

to fill the night with.

This is like not looking good for me,

I'm really trying to stay up.

All my friends are gonna be sleeping,

there's only so much Netflix I can binge.

Right now I'm feeling okay, like I'm on the awake scale

of like 1-10 I'm probably at like a six.

So I'm definitely already feeling like I need a coffee.

Which is a red flag 'cause it's hour one.

- We spend many years in our lives sleeping.

And what people don't realize is that what happens at night

really affects what happens during the day.

(smooth music)

- It's like that, look it kind of looks like that, I think.

Okay, all right, okay, it's fine.

Okay so we just got done filming

I'm literally on route to get my first cup of coffee.

Hour one down.

Thank you.

Let's do this.

- What do I think about taking caffeine and stimulants,

that's the right word.

When we talk about how much caffeine you should take,

you know actually the FDA has a recommended amount.

So when people think that that nine cups of coffee

is gonna make 'em super alert, no, that's wrong.

- On my third cup of coffee.

How do you guys feel, do you think I can do it?

- Yes, I think you can do it,

I think you should be cautious though.

If you pass out like you shouldn't be driving anywhere.

You shouldn't be handling any motor,

machinery is that what they call it?

- In college, stayed up all the time.

- That's where I'm at so I feel like I'm fine.

- Um, just stay on YouTube and watch playlists

of BTS dance practices, that's what I do in my spare time.

- Okay, solid.

Okay, this is like the worst day of my life.

Tapped out.

The sun is officially setting

over west Hollywood, so it is almost night time.

But we're feeling good.

- Just speaking about the baseline first,

just after a normal work day, most of us come home

and we're a little pooped, you know, I can say

we have excessive sleepiness,

we want to hit the bed right away, want to kind of you know

turn the engine off, put it in neutral

and just sit down and relax.

- It's hour 13, I just bought three different types

of cold brew, so if this doesn't keep me up tonight,

I don't know what will.

Midnight check in, feeling a little bit tired.

It's gonna be a night for sure.

Taking Lindsay's advice and we are doing

BTS dance practice watch party.

(moans) This is my life now.

It's 2:30, (sighs)

so we have like, I can't even think,

we have a lot of hours to go still.

And I'm getting very tired.

- So after 3AM as you're approaching the sunrise,

I think it's gonna be really painful,

they're gonna show signs of what I call hypersomnolence,

mean that that sleepiness is kicking in.

- It's three.

I was really like about to fall asleep

so I decided I needed to get up and do something

and also I realized I'm wearing this sweatshirt

that literally says I'm so tired and like, mood.

And I've decided I'm gonna clean my room

because it's a disaster.

Here's the before.

Honestly, not loving staying awake,

but loving my room right now.

(laughs) Like look at this, the transformation, wow.

So I was gonna say something about having a midnight snack

and then I realized it's literally 4AM,

4:22 to be exact.

We're having a snack, yum.

Super normal to be eating peppers at night is it,

feels like four in the morning.

Hey team, it's 5AM and I feel like I'm dying.

- I think they're gonna be troopers in the beginning,

I can do this, this isn't as bad, you know,

I can do more staying up.

- (chuckles nervously) I thought I was gonna be fine,

like honestly I thought I was gonna be

like kind of tired or whatever.

- It's gonna be a delusion they can do it

but they won't realize that maybe they're starting

to not be as accurate, maybe they're starting to

you know get a little eye strain.

But they won't feel it right away.

- I was wrong, I was very wrong.

(birds chirping)

Kind of nice being like the only person awake

and just like having all this time where like,

nobody's on any of my social media.

Like I couldn't really scroll anymore

because everybody's asleep.

It's officially 8:30 which means I have been up

for 24 hours now, I honestly feel okay,

which is really weird and kind of alarming.

Yeah, I just made this breakfast quinoa.

It has apples, berries, quinoa, cinnamon, sugar.

Normally I would never make a breakfast like this for myself

but I had time this morning, I did

and it's really nice so that's another pro.

Hey, I'm so ashamed.

But desperate times call for desperate measures.

And this is what we're doing.

I ended up having six coffees here,

a red bull at happy hour, and then,

those three cold brews.

A disgusting amount of caffeine but now I'm here.

And I did it.

- When you're sleep deprived my analogy is,

always a blood alcohol limit,

think about this, in California it's .08

if you are sleep deprived almost one full night,

that's like having a blood alcohol level of .1.

- It's been 24 hours, I'm awake but like really barely

at this point.

I think I did like a 1-10 scale yesterday,

I said I was like a six.

I got on the awake scale of 1-10 I'm probably at like a six.

I'm definitely like a solid like 1.5, right now.

Like right above asleep.

(laughs) I feel like I'm going to cry.

- So when you're sleep deprived,

it definitely affects your memory, your recall,

your accuracy, your precision and just, you'll start

second guessing yourself quite a lot.

(dramatic music)

- God, see I feel like I can't do this

no matter how awake I am.

Oh wait, wait,

I think I got it, is that it, is that all I had to do.

I don't wanna.

Okay this string actually looks like harder

than it did before, what the (beeps).

It was like way nicer before.

Ah, got it.

(dramatic music)

I have the worst memory, okay.

Okay.

- [Man] Time.

- God.

I wrote one but I can picture it but I don't think

this is what this animals called

but I, (laughs) went for it.

I'm ready this time, (laughs)

- [Woman] Okay, three, two, one.

(playful music)

- [Man] Time.

- Okay.

I remember armadillo.

(laughs)

I thought too long about the armadillo name

and then I (beeps) up.

And I like as soon as like stopped focusing

really hard, when I was like, oh what was the name

of that animal I just lost the rest, so.

(dramatic music)

- [Woman] Do you feel like you have good balance?

- No, (laughs) I do not feel like I have good balance

but I think it will be my best right now

compared to tomorrow so, I'll give it a shot.

(laughs)

So what's up everyone, how's it going?

Okay, my ankles starting to hurt but it's not a balancing

just apparently I have weak ankles, okay, no,

that's it, tapped out.

I got too cocky.

All right, let's do this.

All right so now I need to balance on one foot

and I already like fell over trying

to just bend down earlier

so this will be interesting I think.

Are we ready with the timer?

God, yeah this is really hard.

All right

I'm feeling much less confident.

No I got it, there we go, okay, honestly

I thought I would be out by now.

But, this is really good, to be honest, it's really good.

(laughs)

okay.

That's respectable, I feel like.

(dramatic music)

All right, so yeah like I said,

least artistic person in the world.

We're gonna go with colored pencils because

crayola seemed not sophisticated enough.

So if we're gonna start with like a nice little out,

okay, that's really orange.

Oh yeah, nice shoulders, there we go.

That's what's happening there, okay.

Yeah, a nice luscious hair.

So we're just kind of outlining everything right here,

we're gonna go into some detail, after,

because I'm a professional.

Wow, artists really just do this huh, this is hard.

It's like that, that looks like that, I think so.

If you want to commission me for something.

I'm open to it.

So this is the final product.

This is me, I'm her.

And I think it's really good,

I think it's beautiful, solid work.

Yeah, all right, second self portrait I wore

an easier shirt today.

So I didn't have to put as much detail.

And as much fun as I had yesterday

I just don't have the energy today, so

and we're going straight crayons, 'cause,

okay, already, okay, it's fine, I feel like

you're like doing, I can't talk, I don't know what to say,

'cause I'm just, my mind is not here.

Oh yeah, nice hood action, is that what I look like.

Going again with the nice luscious hair.

Yeah.

Perfection isn't everything, you know?

Then,

oh facial features, (laughs)

eyebrows, yeah, there we go.

(laughs) It's a little lopsided but it's okay.

Okay, I just need to color in my shirt

and then I'm done.

Its okay, everything's fine.

Okay.

Tada!

Just like a pillow.

So, this is me.

And my beautiful art.

(Soft music)

Yeah, I've been thinking about my bed

and sleeping for hours now so I really can't wait

to go back especially since I like made it all nice

and it looks like it's from a commercial,

I just want to fall back and fall right to sleep.

It's gonna be like a dream.

I'm very excited.

(jazzy music)