I tugged as hard as I could on handfuls of hair and it didnt work.
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Updated 1 year ago,January 16, 2024
These stories fromAsk Redditprove why sleep is so important.
1.I just see spiders scuttling up the walls and floor in the corner of my eyes.
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2.I was in Costa Rica patrolling the beaches every night to find sea turtles laying their eggs.
It was a eco vacation thing so during the day we would be up and exploring the area.
I dont know how they expected people to function on like 3 hours of sleep for a week.
But we did it.
I mostly remember super irrational thoughts.
Thinking animal noises were people talking.
Thinking monkeys were dogs up in the trees.
But the hallucinations were crazy.
But my mind was making crazy glowing patterns in the sand.
I thought the glowing stuff was also biting me.
Really it was sand fleas.
We would stop and take a break mid patrol.
Id lay down to rest and think I was still walking.
Then wake up and keep walking.
I got really confused as to when I was awake.
When I went to sleep, I was out instantly.
When I woke up it felt like the best 10-12 hours of sleep I ever had…
I had only been asleep for about 2 hours.
I stayed up for about another 20 hours because I felt so well rested.
Turns out I had left every single door of my car open.
He thought it was a break in.
It was not… just me sleep deprived!!
5.Used to overwork myself to the point of hallucinations fairly regularly.
A distant ringing telephone was also common.
Less commonly Id hear something loudly falling somewhere.
Visually, Id mostly see flashes of color or blackness in the periphery of my vision.
Like when someone walks by and you just barely see them out of the corner of your eye.
Those were probably the most startling to me.
6.It was the weirdest thing.
Then I snapped back to reality with nothing on my paper.
8.I once spent three days without sleep.
I do not recommend it.
9.I used to have episodes of insomnia as a teenager.
Once, while walking home from school, I saw a car driving in my direction.
I have lots of stories especially sleep paralysis that happened twice.
I legit thought I was dying when the hooded man without a facehoverednext to my bed.
I shrugged it off and rolled over.
It wasnt until I woke up later that I realized what happened.
I did a major cleanse that night and never saw her in my apartment again.
This was years ago.
12.Shadows creeping up the walls, but its complete blackness and tendrils consuming everything.
Or skittering shadows in my peripheral that look like people, animals, or bugs moving.
Whispering, talking, or worse: singing.
You should pull over and walk around a bit to wake yourself up.
Id feel her jump in my lap and Id go to pet her no cat.
When I looked back down at my page, it was covered in scribbles I didnt remember making.
Literally saw people as trolls and goblins under night vision.
It was freaky and weird as all hell.
17.Literally happened last week.
For me I was saying something to my friends but they didnt respond because I never said it.
Happened 3 times before I actually was able to say something out loud.
I tugged as hard as I could on handfuls of hair and it didnt work.
The house was dark and I was alone at the time.
In bootcamp for our final phase we were forced to stay up for 3 days straight.
22.When it comes to hallucinations, Im pretty sure I saw my walls moving kind of like waves.
When looking around everything seemed to be moving in a weird way.
23.Colicky baby woke up every 45 minutes for 6 months straight.
Not enough for a REM cycle.
How long was I standing there?
Did I pay for my stuff?
No idea what happened.
Another time I was waiting in a downpour at a crosswalk for the walk symbol.
A homeless man also waiting was yelling about how he lost his umbrella.
Suddenly my umbrella disappeared from my hand.
I look back at the homeless man thinking he swiped it but there is no homeless man.
Also the sun is out and the sidewalk is bone dry.
I guess I was walking down the street with my arm up like I was holding an umbrella.
Too many stories like that.
We had tons of sugar and caffeine to help us play through the pain.
25.Three days without sleep.
I started to answer questions out loud that I was hearing in my head.
My husband took our newborn downstairs so I could sleep.
Well I felt like I couldnt even force my eyes open another minute.
But then I see it is kind of dark out.
So I look at my calendar on my phone.
It is 7pm on the same day I sat on the couch.
Literally only 60 seconds had past since I sat down and contemplated trying to keep myself awake.
Still cant figure out how it happened.
27.For context, this happened during some military training.
Laying down in the woods desperately trying to stay awake, usually the plants turn into people.
Happened surprisingly more during the day than the night.
When I snapped upright into a sitting position, nobody was there.
I live alone btw.
Im sure I hallucinated it but that shit is scary regardless.
29.Scary enough it always happens while driving.
I wouldnt say Im hallucinating so much as dreaming with my eyes open.
The darkness begins to creep in from the side until youre somewhere else.
Then you feel your eyes open and BAM!!
30.Very calm as far as hallucinations go.
I had driven for 20+ hours and was in the Arizona/California desert.
Then it was things in the road ahead.
That got my attention.
After a bit I started seeing fantastic meteor/light showers in the sky.
Wasnt scary or anything, didnt stop driving.
To be young, dumb, and invincible again.
Like Deja Vu, but for like an hour.
Id snap out of it and be completely confused for like 30 seconds, wondering which experience was real.
32.Mostly auditory for me, like whispers or someone saying my name.
33.I had a meth problem several years ago.
I think my longest stretch was 4 days.
Past a certain point you just dont know which way is up.
When I made sure I slept and ate regularly, it was almost like an energy drink.
But when I binged and had my junkie weeks, oof.
Once I thought I was hearing music playing loudly somewhere outside.
(The whole musics festival?
Multiple bands had a soundtrack?
I couldnt hear it when I listened for it, but while distracted I could plainly hear it.
Dead of the night and no music was playing.
Another time I was sketching in my room at like 3am.
Slowly they responded less and less until I looked at them and they were just looking at me.
Asked what was wrong, looked down, looked up waiting for the answer, and they were gone.
They hadnt talked to me in months after they found out I was using.
So many shadow people.
And those took a long time to go away after sobering up.
Whispers, hearing someone talking to me, my name being called, hearing someone talking about me.
Even though I was by myself.
By no means am I saying any weird mental shit had nothing to do with the meth.
But in my experience not sleeping for days had a much more horrifying effect.
