E=mc Shulgin
Greenlighter
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- Feb 20, 2009
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You can definately hallucinate from not sleeping.
Several occasions I have stayed up for extended periods of time: 72 to 120 hours with the use of adderall and not that much food. After about the second night, the hallucinations slowly start to creep in. I almost felt eager to see what would happen because it is not like a chemically induced hallucination. I watched my computer slowly creep away from me as well as the door frame expanding and contracting as I tried to focus on it.
The most profound hallucination I have had from sleep deprivation was while I was driving at night and it occurred around the 4th day that I was up after I had just taken some more adderall. While driving on the interstate at night, I saw a soldier walk out into the interstate at a steady pace. I remember thinking how crazy it was because he wasn't dodging vehicles or changing his pace, but he was just steadily walking out toward my lane, which was the far left out of four lanes. Cars were zooming past him and nobody seemed to acknowledge it so I figured it was a hallucination. Right as I come up to him, he turns towards me, in my lane, right where I am driving, and puts his hand out like he was signaling for me to stop. It happened so fast, but I drove right through him/hit him and when the front of my car touched him, he exploded into a poof of shiny purple glitter or confetti. Basically, it looked like he exploded into New Years Eve in Times Square. I didn't know what to think of it, but it is a very vivid memory, especially as for being a hallucination.
Most of my sleep deprivations consist of just slowed thinking, "breathing" of walls and "walking" of objects. All controllable, but very different from any hallucination I have experienced that I induced into myself chemically...for purposes of intentionally hallucinating that is.
Several occasions I have stayed up for extended periods of time: 72 to 120 hours with the use of adderall and not that much food. After about the second night, the hallucinations slowly start to creep in. I almost felt eager to see what would happen because it is not like a chemically induced hallucination. I watched my computer slowly creep away from me as well as the door frame expanding and contracting as I tried to focus on it.
The most profound hallucination I have had from sleep deprivation was while I was driving at night and it occurred around the 4th day that I was up after I had just taken some more adderall. While driving on the interstate at night, I saw a soldier walk out into the interstate at a steady pace. I remember thinking how crazy it was because he wasn't dodging vehicles or changing his pace, but he was just steadily walking out toward my lane, which was the far left out of four lanes. Cars were zooming past him and nobody seemed to acknowledge it so I figured it was a hallucination. Right as I come up to him, he turns towards me, in my lane, right where I am driving, and puts his hand out like he was signaling for me to stop. It happened so fast, but I drove right through him/hit him and when the front of my car touched him, he exploded into a poof of shiny purple glitter or confetti. Basically, it looked like he exploded into New Years Eve in Times Square. I didn't know what to think of it, but it is a very vivid memory, especially as for being a hallucination.
Most of my sleep deprivations consist of just slowed thinking, "breathing" of walls and "walking" of objects. All controllable, but very different from any hallucination I have experienced that I induced into myself chemically...for purposes of intentionally hallucinating that is.