How To Beat The SLEEPLESS APOCALYPSE In "Awake" 

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Funny, the cure for the whole thing is "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

Imagine waking up from a several year long coma just to die of sleep deprivation lmao

I went 76 hours without sleep when I was in HS. I started to have audio and visual hallucinations. It was the strangest feeling Ive ever had.

As someone who has suffered with insomnia for years, I feel like the most frightening part is the uncontrollable emotions. I have experienced everything from blind rage because I stubbed my toe to hysterical sobbing because I didn't have ice cream in the freezer. It's like being a passenger in your own body, you know it's not a rational reaction, you know it's not that bad, but you can't control your emotions and you can only watch as your ID responds first.

“You’re never gonna want to sleep late again” oh no, anyways

"She sacrifices herself" Others : how heroic Cinema summary : that was a terrible idea

If "dying resets the effects" is a reliable, functioning method of surviving this apocalypse, there would be MUCH more people that could sleep just like the girl or the woman. After the power outage and insomnia, a lot of accidents and crashes would happen, people would be electrocuted back to life, and their numbers would be more than 2, it would not be such an uncommon event

Honestly this seems like a genius plot line. Im definitely going to watch it.

Honestly the setup of "they're so sleep deprived that they're gonna make dumb choices" is a great way to excuse characters making particularly stupid choices that make a movie interesting. They gave themselves a way to make character choices believable--I respect that setup tbh.

Isn’t anyone going to talk about how he’d rather have everyone wake up from the dead and kill everyone and use survivors as meat shields, than stay awake

Fun fact for people who don't dip or chew snuff: the reason for sticking tobacco and coffee grinds in between the teeth and gums is because the gums are an easier way for effects of both to enter the bloodstream so that way it all goes to your brain within a few minutes. Also in the military sticking coffee grinds in between your gums is called Ranger Dip

This is probably the most terrifying premise of a movie I can imagine. Horror typically has elements that are so improbable or out right impossible that they don’t freak me out that much. But I’ve experienced bouts of insomnia, pretty sure most people have. Which makes this pretty damn scary, imho.

"This woman is the only person on earth that can sleep!" "Um.. my daughter can too" "These two are the only people on earth that can sleep!"

Power: *goes out* People on life support: “My time has come.”

The main thing I feel like How to Beat guy forgets is that she was only taking her daughter to the research center to find someone to help her survive. She the whole time says she doesn’t trust them at all and was more than willing to hurt them to protect her. She was planning to just get the lady and escape.

Has anyone considered meditation as a possible way to beat it? It would be the closest form to sleep I can think of. Laying still with your eyes closed drifting could be the closest alternative to sleep. Think of it like capping out right before sleep but using that as your form of sleeping.

“This was terrible logic” Well she is too tired to think clearly so...

Okay but hear me out: How to beat the Total Drama Island

Love how the solution boils down to have you turned it off and on yet.

Outta curiosity, doesn't get knocked out count as sleep???? Like, could I just have my friend knock me out with a frying pan and get a couple winks that way??

Imagine pulling an all-nighter before hand

“The woman gulps in a breath of air and realizes that a mother can never get any sleep” I’M CRYING 😂😂😂

I'm pretty sure, like me, most people figured out that the girl could sleep because she was clinically dead before being resuscitated and that was the solution to the problem. How a defibrillator was still working after the solar flare, I've no idea!

I wonder if someone with bipolar disorder experiencing a manic episode might survive longer considering they experience a decreased need for sleep

I like how the cure was “have you tried turning it off and on again?” for humans.

This is one of the movies where I don’t blame the protagonist for being braindead

Fun fact: there is actually a syndrome that slowly gets worse which will kill you from sleep deprivation. It starts as normal insomnia and slowly gets worse until you can no longer sleep an then you die. There is no cure and sleeping tablets don't work. The only way you will be able to sleep is by being put under anesthesia. Luckily it is pretty rare.

"1 second after" an awesome emp scenario book written by a college professor near my area (Asheville NC USA) pretty realistic. All 18th century tech like steam engines and old knowledge are valuable disease addiction kills people they go off their meds. New local laws are made. Groups form. It's so awesome very realistic. Mass migration and starvation happen all because of grid and transportation failure. I don't want to give away too much but "1 second after" is the book that will save ur life and is an excellent story and read. Thumbs up if u have read this book 👍👍👍

“You’ll never wanna stay up late again” Me staying up late to watch this: *interesting*

Sleepless apocalypse: exists People with insomnia: "First time?"

First time I’ve ever watched a sponsorship ad attentively without skipping any part

I love your videos man, I watched all your HOW TO BEAT videos

Finally my years of 48+ hour gaming sessions are gonna pay off...

"And realizes a mother can never get any sleep" that line hit hard to an exausted dad.

Did anyone try chloroform? Or choking? I think if you choke out just long enough, you can hit reset. Idk though. I also have chronic fatigue so that could kick in.

Usually these videos keep me up all night, but not this one. I’ve never felt so tired 😬

College students: _I've been training my whole life for this moment_

How to beat AWAKE: Step one: Sleep. Step two : Revel in your brilliance

I liked the lead up to the Bespoke ad. Nice job.

this guy makes the smoothest sponsor transitions

“If you were stranded on a deserted island, who would you bring?” Me: well…there’s this dude on RU-vid…

Girl: Has a breakdown because the world as she knows it has been flipped completely upside down. Cinema Summary: And that’s where she made the mistake. If I were her, I would stop crying like a little bitch and start surviving

I only watch these for the cheeky narration lol. I love these!!!!

I'M READY FOR THAT

Sometime we forget that people in Horror movies are in panic mode and can't think straight.

"After 24 hours without sleep, you lose critical thinking" College Students: "Haha, I've never had that"

Perfect video to watch since i can't freaking sleep. 2a.m guys and couldn't sleep yesterday... Fun

An apocalypse I would never thought of and something I am extremely terrified of

Teach your daughter how to survive: Normal people: Cooking, Gathering, Hunting, Shelter, Common Sense. Americans: How to Shoot 101.

“if i was this little girl i would steal the car and abandon my family” EXCUSE ME WHAT

I love these videos

If dying resets the effects, wouldnt using defibrillators work just fine?

I went from not knowing this movie existed to being more terrified of this version of the apocalypse than anything ive ever heard before in 25 mins.

Doctor: This old woman is our only hope, she must be the cure! Old woman: *Fuckin dies*

I watch all of these I love them

Watching this during a bout of insomnia is a bit spooky! lol Thank you!! That last line about moms not being able to get any sleep had me holy crap LOL True enough!! Also really appreciated the line about the zombie apocalypse and samurai swords a;fdlk Also the 'without even a fragile sticker on the box' line had me legit laughing out loud. Too funny! I also really enjoy the way that you do manage to build suspense while summarizing the movie and offering alternatives. It struck me that some of the suggestions presented here would have, in the long run, been potentially less advantageous. While I appreciated the suggestion that the kiddo should book it actually, if she hadn't, would they have realized the clincher is turning it off and on again, for example? As a 12 year old, kiddo is going to have the best chance in a group, so her lightbulb moment was really invaluable. I've also heard of people being technically alive for months on total sleep deprivation, albeit with dementia and such, so the 11 days record did confuse me. I wonder what systems were in place in those months long cases and if they could've managed some of that without power? Either way! Not really a critique I just thought it was interesting insofar as story telling goes. I haven't seen this movie but I'm not sure I understand, based on the footage shown, why more people aren't laying down to conserve resources. I feel like those soldiers especially should've been laying down tbh, with a fuckton of eyedrops too, and I'm surprised that's not something that looks like it was put into place while the doctors at this sleeping facility still had their faculties. As far as they know this is a life threatening situation so I don't know if the tobasca training would be the best fall back here insomuch as going into resource conservation. It's not like they're gonna fall asleep on the job, and shooting from a laying down or seated position isn't impossible. It does make it hard to get up again so subduing someone might be harder, especially if they take advantage of the positioning, but that also means it's harder to act on hallucinations and they're still going to have more resources than the other guy cus they've still been getting rest. Sleep is a resource. When you're low on resources you need to go into energy conservation mode whenever possible, and spending resources is a decision that needs to be made as mindfully as possible, same with utilizing external resources like caffeine etc as is mentioned in the video. I can understand why not everyone would be doing that, but those guards sure as shit shouldve been, not draining themselves faster. Idc if they need to do rotations, they're armed and dangerous and a military complex would surely have some motorized equipment that was protected by EMPs that could make up for the gaps. I've had insomnia all my life and sometimes it can mean going some days with zero sleep or running on microsleeps. My body isn't healthy so my threshold is much lower, which means sleep deprivation catches on quicker so I'm pretty familiar with how it feels like. I've been lucky to figure out some ways to cope for short term experiences. It is a horrible feeling and your body really just wants to lay there and it's really important to listen to that urge - the body wants to lay down for a reason! Even mimicking a sleeping posture and closing our eyes, while not as properly restful as sleep, is still restful, and saves on the body's resources. Same with limiting the amount of stimuli you take in cus there's so much nonsense in the brain that's not getting purged by sleep. Anything at all that is relaxing needs to be done as often as possible, comfort needs to become a top priority because discomfort just means more stress on the body, and the body is stressed enough as it is. It also helps manage mood just a little bit, but just a little bit can go a long way. I'm a lot less reactive when I'm able to prioritize relaxation during a bout of insomnia. I'll still be jumpy, 100%, but I'll be slightly less prone to reacting out of emotion. For example, mom might've been less likely to jump the gun and almost shoot her kid, and waste bullets, if she'd even just been coaching her youngest from a seated position. I'm not saying it definitely wouldn't have happened, but chances may've been somewhat lessened enough to make a difference, even if that just means one wasted bullet instead of three. Likewise, mistaking a pinecone for a grenade feels very possible to me, especially for a soldier for which armaments are already top of mind, during the dark - hard to say if that's even a hallucination so much as misinterpreting the stimuli which is so easy to do when cognitive functions are sleep deprived. I've flinched at my own hair a;df Not prioritizing their ability to rest above all else when they have the guns feels a bit much for my suspension of disbelief!!! I'm also a little surprised they went with a solar flare instead of a government experiment, if I understood that part right. Felt like it would've tied in pretty nicely to those, uh, spicy sleep studies. I also can't help but wonder if there would've been more people at that hospital who got their reset button tapped recently given it's a hospital, and what the likely statistics would've been. Would there be enough remaining people to support a population or would it have been a true extinction? smtn smthn.... Alright i guess i should stop rambling now a;sldkf ty for the content.. im gonna try and sleep again ;)

"i'd be scared if coma patients all started waking up at the same time." woahhh... hot take

movie characters: *does literally anything* cinema summary: “and that was their first mistake”

6:28 never laughed harder in my life, earned a sub

Ive gone 3 days without sleep when I was in high school and decided to finally go to bed because I DIDNT feel tired and that scared me a little.

Guy:Breaths Cinema summary: Okay this is a terrible waste of oxygen

Freddy Krueger is probably bored in his dream dimension during the events of this movie.

I need a Cinema Summary & Nerd Explains collab

love your videos

"How to beat an apocolypse where no one can sleep and people are slowly going crazy" In other words, high school.

Cinema Summary really ensures our survival even in the most specific circumstances

Cinema summary: use code Howtobeat20 Me: *types Howtobeat100* Cops:PUT YOUR HANDS UP

Why is it that i LOVE watching ur videos then im sad when I watch the movie lol

"Dying resets the effects of the solar flare" so basically just videogame logic

Me: Pulls an all-nighter Cinema Summary: "And in four more days, he'll be _dead_ "

falling into the water in a car is my worst fear. i hate driving over lakes rivers or oceans so badly

I once had to pull a double all nighter and it was terrifying. I was already experiencing hallucinations after 2 days. Never again!

Kids who took 3 Sleeping pills: “I don’t have such weaknesses”

*5 days without sleep Gamers: Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

Have you ever seen Pontypool?? It has one of the most unique (imo) zombies virus and the way it transfers to others. I haven't watched it in a while but it's a zombie movie where no one on screen gets eaten. More suspense and uncertainty than gore. There still is some gore but it's a one and situation

I love ur Conte I will definitely not be staying up anymore

"How to beat awake" Viewers watching late at night: Interesting

Can we just all agree that that son is the luckiest man alive like honestly. The guy was about to die with everyone else but then cheats death.

I would absolutely love to see you tackle the South african movie "Tokoloshe" !

As a person who requires medication to sleep, I can relate to this movie.

Learning that we actually missed an emp event by 9 days is freaky to think how different ours lives would be

little girl: *sacrifices her life for her family because she loves them* Cinema Summary: *”that was a bad idea”*

This video really helped me sleep yesterday

Man,that was such a cool concept Now we need a movie about a ΩK "End of Death" scenario :D

“You’re never gonna want to sleep late again” Me at 5am, pulling an all-nighter: 😃✌🏼

“A power outage that forbids humans from sleeping spreads over the world” Cinema Summary: “Okay, so this can be easily avoided”

What was crazy is how obvious the solution was, at least to the audience. You'd think they could figure it out too!

Have a damn good day, I like how you say that instead of saying "have a good day" lol

"You can't seamlessly transition into a sponsorship ad." Cinema Summary, "Hold my damn good day."

Cinema summary: **using critical thinking to solve movie problems** Movie characters: **literally can not do that**

the last one got me

Looking at just the church building alone gives some interesting layout hints as to what kind of church it is. Small congregation, probably 100-150 on a good day. Small pulpit, one piano, kind of resembling small rural baptist/churches of christ (minus the piano). Probably leaning more traditionalist since 1 piano and minimal tech, and the stained glass is just a classic nice touch. I love my church people, but traditionalist values mixed with blind religious fervor in a setting that's small, rural, and has a strong sense of community - it looks like a church that probably wouldn't've been far from handling snakes - also the last place you want to visit with a "miracle" girl.

I regularly have insomnia for days. Sometimes over 5. All you need to do is lie still and shut your eyes for the required time. You won't sleep, but you will be surprised how it will help you recharge.

I think adding the coma patients waking up was a great idea.

You are so smart man

When I was 16 I literally stayed up for 7 days in a row and I felt fine.. So It's about ur age.. the older you are, the more sleep you need.. now I finally understand what that 'Fountain of Youth' thing is I kept hearing about when I was young

This isn't the russian sleep experiment, this is the russian sleep experience.

When Cinema Summary doesn’t upload on a Sunday: Everyone: “impossible”

Imagine all the people mid surgery waking up they just see their stomach opened up with a knife and their intestines being messed with