Never have.
I know that sounds heretical, but for me, I see nothing positive about trying to keep my eyes open at 3AM while listening to a shiur and dozing off during davening at 5AM.
The first time I stayed up all night on Erev Shavuot was when I was in college – the popularity of Tikkun Leil Shavuot was just beginning to surface, and it seemed like a pretty cool idea at the time. But at some point in the middle of the night, I fell asleep in the corner of the room –and missed most of the learning and the davening.
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