Once I almost flew around half the planet, but stopped half way and hitchhiked back.
… Don’t ask.
Superman, is that you?
Pour applejuice in my coffee instead of milk.
I have to pick only one?
- Hallucinate
- Put a laptop in the fridge
- Slur my words
- Feeling myself being dumb just because i was tired.
Last week my partner and I had multiple two hour sleep days in a row.
The derealization was neat.
The bugs not as much so.
The ghost cats moving around my room out of the corner of my eye? Awesome.
The brain fog? Business as usual I guess.
I’m about to sleep properly for the 1st time in 4 days with a few hours sleep. I know the sleep deprivation dreams are coming. They are usually great but sometimes you get a bad one.
It’s a toss up.
My favorite time was when I tried to pour myself a bowl of cereal. Got the bowl, milk, and cereal out. Poured the cereal into the milk jug. Put away the milk, cereal, and bowl. Walked away for some reason. Came back and couldn’t find the bowl of cereal I just made. Looked all over for it. Finally gave up and got the milk, bowl, and cereal out to try again. Poured the cereal into the bowl this time. Poured the milk. Cereal is coming out of the milk jug. Suddenly flash back to a few minutes ago when I was picking up spilled cereal off the counter and shoving it into the milk jug because it missed when I tried to pour.
The worst time I was so sleep-deprived that I managed to throw some trash in the toilet and then I peed in the trash can.
5 years after I left the Army, I still had some stuff put away where it used to be. Woke up after a night of drinking and 3 hours sleep, put on my PT uniform, and wondered why it was so tight.
Thought a random person at my college was an old friend of mine
Think to myself “I’ll go to bed in ten minutes, after I read this one Reddit/Lemmy post.”
Attempt to drive home after being awake for ~2 days. Flipped my vehicle several times and luckily came away with no serious physical injuries.
Just done a 11hr 550mile drive on 3hrs sleep. Nearly 24hrs awake now. Was touch and go but 2days without sleep is worse. It’s not something I’d do again as It’s dangerous.
Although, the amount of people using phones while doing 80 and causing incidents is worse.
When my son was just a couple months old I was still suffering pretty heavily from sleep deprivation. I don’t think that really passed until he was a year or so old. Here’s some fun ones:
- accidentally put his diaper on backwards a handful of times… Which always led to pee everywhere, or worse.
- dumped a couple scoops of baby formula into my coffee instead of sugar, a few times
- caught a diaper blowout of baby poo with my bare hands because I couldn’t react fast enough to grab a baby wipe instead (in my defense, I had just laundered the bed but he was sitting on it with me and my immediate thought was just “OH god not again”)
I’ve put a plastic bowl full with liquid chocolate on the stove instead of the coffee maker.
Also, once I microwaved butter in aluminum foil for like 5-6 seconds and wondered why is there firework inside.
My brain switched yawning with moaning. Lets just say that wasn’t the proudest day of my adult work life
Really trying to imagine what this looked like lol
Probably didn’t look much different than a person yawning.
Had a bad spout of insomnia mainly due to extremely high stress levels. I was sleeping 1-3 hours max every night for months. I somehow still got the minimum amount of work done but I was a zombie and have basically no recollection of what I did during that time. I ended up having sleep depravation psychosis essentially and when I would sleep and have any thought or dream, I thought it was absolutely real.
Strangest thing I did during that time was probably dropping my kids off at school and leaving them (this was during summer break). That was eye opening for me.
I’m thankfully in a much better place now. Still high stress job and a lot of anxiety that I carry with me home but I’m working on it!
TIL: I’m just dumb. I do/have done many of the things, people are listing here, not sleep deprived.
After pulling an all-nighter and working for around 22 hours, I went to the school I was then teaching at. I thought I was doing my usual thing, i.e. sitting at my workstation that was hooked up to a projector und demonstrating something while explaining what I was doing when one of my students interrupted me to tell me that I wasn’t doing anything that made any sense and on top of that I was slurring my words. I asked the other students whether that was true and they reluctantly agreed. I excused myself and went to the toilet where I had a cry, which is extremely unusual for me. After that, I aborted the lesson and went home where I slept for more than 12 hours. Not a good memory.
I can have trouble sleeping and have to battle fatigue at times. Not long ago I crunched the bumper of my car into the side of the garage because I was too mentally fatigued to drive. Didn’t do a lot of damage, scratched the bumper and did minor damage to the the wall, but something I would have never done if I was properly rested and alert. Mental fatigue is a strange thing, it can make you fail in performing simple tasks you do routinely.
