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18 January 2013

so freaky in my own brilliant way I managed to find myself going to an office all day while having to finish a side work project at night. so I spent Mon-Thu with a combined like 6 hours of sleep total (1-2 hrs a day) but surprisingly without physical/mental degradation. Well on Thurs night and I'm just sitting there in my home office trying to wrap up something at 4am and I'm like 80% asleep.→[More:]

And I felt that I was in the corporate office, with you know, overhead lights, a large floor etc., corridors etc. And my eye wanders and I realize with a flash that the visual, tactile, aural environment is totally different, I'm at home! OMG! It was a total complete hallucination

post by: Firas at: 03:59 | 5 comments

That, unfortunately, sounds kind of familiar...

Hope you can sleep now!

posted by halonine 18 January | 04:15

I did finally sleep 5 hrs on Th night (it's Fri afternoon here) but after I got up I suddenly was very fatigued and now I'm just exhausted. So I don't know what was biologically going on there that I could run on empty for a few days but suddenly crashed after getting a little continuous sleep

I've had hallucinations in the past when I've been up for 2-3 days (the most notable being seeing a stairway handrail waving back and forth while the stairs and everything else were normal--it wasn't freaky though I could recognize it as just a visual aberration.) This particular thing felt like out of Jacob's Ladder it was a genuine complete situational transformation... I was probably half dreaming I guess

posted by Firas 18 January | 04:23

Yes, the mind needs to dream and will do so even if you're not asleep. It is one of the major dangers of sleep deprivation.

posted by Miko 18 January | 10:37

I'm impressed.
For me getting enough sleep is essential for doing my work.
Just a little less sleep and I notice that I start being slower in understanding, slower in getting things done, less effective socially.

posted by jouke 18 January | 11:20

yeah I guess I was significantly aided by the fact that the day/office job did not involve any real work yet, just talking planning and getting initiated...

posted by Firas 18 January | 13:52

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