[UA] [OT] Sleep Deprivation

[Nick Wedig]

>It kind of varied from person to person, and we usually joked about the 
>different effects we would get. One of my friends started to constantly percieve 
>movement or motion just at the edge of his field of vision - of course, there 
>was nothing there, but it freaked him out regularly when he was staying late at 
>University and had about the whole floor of his institute all for himself... In 
>the finals stages, he started to see (I kid you not) kittens, 

Which reminds me of a different time I experienced a few days without sleep while staying with a friend who had several cats.  After a while, I would see cats playing at the edges of vision, though all the cats in the house were asleep on my lap.

> I even had some kind of strange experience 
>where I could see my fingers typing on the keyboard, but my mind was too tired 
>to read what they wrote on the screen, 

After several days of working at a job where I typed for eight hours non-stop each day, I began to experience all my thoughts in the form of typing.  As I was thinking about something, I would see in my mind my fingers picking out each key on the keyboard.

Perhaps that's better related to Infomancy, or something, as it doesn't involve sleep dep at all, but is just weird.

Mr. Teapot
never fully awake, never fully asleep

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