Strange phenomenon: I'm more social when I don't sleep

Do any of you find your social issues going away after being awake for 24+ hours? I've noticed this. When I'm up for an unusually long time i feel absolutely miserable. Sick, nauseous, tense, angry, jittery, and it feels like half my brain is turned off, but for some reason I'm sharp in conversation, and can talk to people without anxiety. I just turn into a angry, miserable version of myself.

I'm usually a mess at work, but today was great, I felt like $#%^, but I was engaging in conversation, and felt like part of the group, and people I never talk to said bye to me when they left. :)

I once brought this up with a neurologist and she didn't know what I was talking about. Oh well. I'm going to sleep soon. I'm scared to go back now because I know I'll be my same old self, and let someone down if they try to talk to me again.

does anyone else experience this? I'm sorry if this is incoherent.

No, I dont think I become better at socializing when I dont get enough sleep, but I do think it helps suppress the part of my personality that gives a crap. Most of the mishaps I make talking to people come from the intense mental attention I spend monitoring how I'm presenting myself and how other people are reacting to me. Thus, when I skip on sleep, I lack the mental energy to do this and am more able to focus on having a typical coversation.

So I do see what you mean.

Thats probably it.

Lack of sleep can go one of two ways for me.

The first way is that I feel really miserable and my reflexes to completely withdraw from the rest of the world kick in. Basically I'll just want to crawl in a corner and sleep.

The second way is that I just stop caring about how other people perceive me, and I'll actually be social, but I guess I'll say weird things. The offered theory of lack of mental capacity to spend on monitoring sounds likely in this case.

I can't really influence which way it goes, it's the luck of the draw.