So tired...

[NightAngel]

Have you ever been so tired you see things- like movement out of the corner of your eye or just weird stuff?

That's how my whole day has been. I have absolutely no love of 6am and I REALLY don't love it after zero sleep because I'm an insomniac. Except today- I don't think I'm an insomniac today. I get a one day repreive. Go me- whoo. :rolleyes:

:snore:

[Greenday]

Ah, another one who gets no sleep. Being tired is so horrible for me. I'm a huge skeptic and slightly paranoid so being tired magnifies those a thousand times.

[MadMike]

I've had that happen a few times. It's like you're dreaming while you're awake.

There was this one time I was driving early in the morning, and I had been awake all night. I was driving across some train tracks, when all of a sudden, I could swear there was a train bearing down on me. There wasn't actually anything there, but it damn near gave me a heart attack.

[Misanthropical]

I was driving all night one night and when I finally stopped somewhere to sleep, I looked at the wall and it was covered with eyes! :eek:

I knew it wasn't real, so I just went to sleep.

Still while driving, I had the radio off and suddenly I could hear a man preaching. I knew it was from lack of sleep, since it would impossible to hear someone preaching while going 60 MPH down the road.

Sleep deprevation does weird things to a person.

[Spiffy McMoron]

I haven't seen strange things while tired, but I have said some weird shit. Last year, it was essay time, and I was only getting about 4 hours sleep for a week and a half. I'd get home from the library at 2 am, crawl into my (then) girlfriends bed, and the conversation would go something like this:

Her: How did it go?
Me: No, the ham and cheese street was cleaned yesterday.
Her: :confused: What did you just say? *shakes me*
Me: *Waking up some* I said it went pretty good. Why?

[Ringtail Z28]

I've learned the hard way that if you go long enough without any sleep you start having something like a bad acid trip. About two years ago while I was stressing out big time after my computer died and I lost a number of important school projects, I went for several days without any sleep desperately trying to make up for what I lost. Things started getting really freaky towards the last couple of days. It was like all my senses were just going nuts, there were strange sights, and sounds. I could swear that I was soaking wet at times even though I wasn't.

[NightAngel]

Apparently, I was REALLY tired when I wrote this because I looked at the thread title, saw my name underneath and then wondered, "What? When did I write this?"
Of course after I re-read it I remembered but geez... at least I knew at the time I was bad off, huh?

I think the very worst time I can remember being too tired I drove from the border of Wyoming through Colorado, Kansas to my home in Missouri in one fail swoop.
By the time I hit the exit to my town I was seeing things like a motorcyclist lying on the road but the road was clear. My favorite was the clump of bushes on the side of the road that I mistook for a bunch of gorillas.

When I finally did make it home and get into my bed I stared at the movie poster on my ceiling- it was Alec Baldwin holding a smoking gun (Heaven's Prisoners- I think) and as fell I asleep I watched the smoke whisping around on the poster.

[Ree]

I've learned the hard way that if you go long enough without any sleep you start having something like a bad acid trip. About two years ago...I went for several days without any sleep... Things started getting really freaky towards the last couple of days. It was like all my senses were just going nuts, there were strange sights...Admit it, you were just reading the pages of CS, weren't you? :p

[blas]

There was another thread where I posted that one time driving home from the gas station, I was probably really wore out and angry, and I swore someone was waiting to cross the street. Knowing how pedestrians in this part of WI are, I slammed on my brakes because I knew that person would make a break for it anyway despite oncoming traffic from the highway....

I sat there for a second and was like "Wtf, why isn't he going?".....then I looked harder...it was a fricken fire hydrant with a flag on it! What was I on??????

For a while after I started 3rd shift, I swore I saw shadow people at my parent's house, and even nowadays I've seen shadows out of the corner of my eye. But I know that's just silly....it's just me being awake for way too long and having difficulty sleeping. Shadow people...hahahaha...

Just this morning I woke up extremely hungover and still really tired, but was meeting a friend for lunch. It was rather sunny today (which is odd) and a shadow was cast against my shades, it looked like a woman strapped to a tree. I nearly had a heart attack......it was just the shadows of the trees.....I hate shadows.