How to Stay up All Night Without Your Parents Knowing

Preparing for the Night

Gather your supplies. Get what you need to keep you awake until your parents go to sleep. This could include your cell phone, tablet, iPod Touch, Game Boy, laptop, D.S., some books, a notebook or diary, pencils, MP3 player, snacks and/or drinks, or a PSP. Sneak some snacks into the room. Just a few snacks (salty, sugary snacks are best) and a bottle of any drink would be perfect. Try to get sugary beverages such as soda or juice. The drinks don't have to be cold. You might want to get some water too. If you are going to get on the computer, turn it on before going to bed, because it makes noise when it turns on. Just ensure your speaker volume is low (or turned off).

Choose a day when there isn't much going on the next day. Choose a day where you don't have much to do. If you do have school and you want to stay up fall asleep the next day. Begin at about four in the afternoon. Clean Your Room, as most of your time will be spent there.

Prepare entertainment. Charge anything that needs to be charged. Make a list of what you will want to do, because it is easier to stay awake with a list to work through.

Try to take a nap before the night. About 1-2hours is ideal if a good night's sleep was taken the previous night.

Settling in at Bedtime

Follow your usual bedtime routine. Avoid arousing suspicions around bedtime; just do everything normally, such as teeth cleaning and saying goodnight to everyone in the house.

Prepare for the bed check. If you know your parents will check on you before going to bed, listen for when they come. Hide whatever you are doing and pretend to be asleep. Normally, when pretending to be asleep, you do not move, however, it is okay to turn a little in your "sleep". Don't snore unless you are known to snore. It helps to pull your blanket over your face to save half the trouble of keeping a straight relaxed face. Consider sleeping with the radio on to give you cover. If you accidentally make a sudden noise, it'll be blamed on the radio.

Having Fun All Night

Wait about an hour before moving around. This is to make sure your parents are asleep. If you want, you can go to their room and double-check to make sure that they're sleeping. If they are not and ask what you're doing, say you heard something strange. If not, keep doing things quietly in your room, but if your parent(s) lock their doors, carefully try to hear through the door. If it's quiet they're probably asleep. If not, stay 15 to 30 minutes in your room, and check again for silence.

Turn your light on to a dim setting. Line towels against the crack of your door to block out the light.

Prepare to have fun. Once your parents are asleep, stay up. It should be late at night (10:00-12:00 am). Get out the PSP, PlayStation, Wii, Switch, Vita, computer, DS, 3DS, whatever game you plan to play. Use headphones or earphones for electronics. Putting earphones/headphones in your laptop/computer will keep things quiet.

Enjoy midnight. A new day has come (12:00-2:00 am)! If you are hungry, eat a snack, or drink something. Continue playing the same game until you are bored.

Change to another activity. At about (2 - 4 am), early morning, try something different like reading a book, drawing, watching a movie (quietly!). Go onto Facebook, or create a Facebook account. Make sure none of your parents friends are friends with you on Facebook; they might tell your parents. Make sure everything you do remains at low volume. If you are going to text, put the phone's volume on silent or vibrate. This will make it less likely that your phone wakes up your parents.

Eat something. Between (4:00-6:00 am), early morning, have another snack. Keep doing whatever keeps you awake most until 5 am. Next, move on to the morning tasks. Take a shower, get dressed, brush your teeth and hair, and tidy up the room again for the day.

Wait for your usual wake up time. If the household typically wakes up between 6:00-9:00 am, stay inside your room until then. Do some puzzles or read a book, until it's the time you'd usually be up and about the house. That will mark the end of your all-night up!