[UA] The real story of Oneiromancy

[Cassady Toles]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 22:17:25 +0100, ua at lists.uchicago.edu wrote:

  hmm, sleep deprivation. is it true you start to hallucinate if you don't
get
  enough sleep? that's the sort of question i can comfortably expect someone
  on this list to know. you're all like a font of knowledge, provided the
  topic is slightly weird.

http://www.geocities.com/j_con_job/kansas.html

This is a link to something I wrote on a plane trip back from kansas.  I
hadn't had more than two hours of sleep since the thursday before the monday
I wrote this.  I have killer insomnia, and it really mindfucks you.

Shortly thereafter I had an insomniatic episode lasting eight days.  I
couldn't sleep for eight days straight.  By the end of it I was seeing
people's faces in crowds who weren't there.  I would have completely
unreasonable emotional responses to everything.  Some little joke would set
me off laughing or crying randomly.  

The worst thing about the lack of sleep is that your body tenses up and your
muscles stop relaxing well.  You eventually reach a point where moving
hurts, not like bruised hurt, but like you pulled a muscle hurt.  Imagine
having pulled every single muscle.

Your vices really catch up to you as well, sleep helps regulate blood sugar,
and when your blood sugar gets all monkeyed up you start acting like you're
drunk or in diabetic shock.  Your vision blurs, and you lose track of what
is or isn't reasonable.  You start doing things you'd never do otherwise.  I
was chain smoking by the end, and hitting on any woman who'd look at me
straight.  

When I finally fell asleep I slept for fourteen hours striaght before I got
up, went to the bathroom and called in sick.  I remember when I finally woke
up my bed was moist from sweating so much and I was flushed.  I was also
starving, shaking from withdrawal, and my skin felt cold.

I've already decided, next time a fit gets that bad I'm just going to kill
myself.  It was that miserable and I want to repeat it that little.
  
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