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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 122 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My little sister once told us that she sleeps.with her eyes open. My family was like uh no you dont we've seen you sleeping before. 100% convinced she said "yes I do, when I wake up my eyes are open"

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 125 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 37 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Feidry@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Totally off topic... Did you take that user name so the loser who runs Reddit couldn't have it? If so, bravo my good lemming.

[–] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

plot twist — it's actually spez

[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Reddit is so shit now even spez doesn’t use it anymore

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

i dated someone who legitimately slept with her eyes partly open. idk, she was almost as weird as me.

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[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 112 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

I had that happen with morphine once. Watched the needle for the drip go in, looked away for a second, looked back and it was already being removed because my procedure was done.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 69 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Anesthetics are super trippy like that. Wish falling asleep was like that...

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 37 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Your description makes me think it was propofol

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It kinda does, doesn't it? It was a military dentist though, and I wasn't going to be able to refuse whatever they were going to give me, so I believe they told me the truth.

I did threaten to bite them if I was awake enough to remember to do so though, so maybe the IV bag got an extra squeeze!

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[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of when I got my gallbladder removed. The nurse got me talking about cooking because I was freaking out and tensing up over the needle. One second I was just laying there happily talking about the lentil taco salad I made recently, and the next, I was hazily looking around the room in a state of utter confusion while a nurse stood over me and asked if I want a graham cracker.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have one. I got this pair of slippers as a present once, best alippers ever, I always wore them. Slip them off to go to bed one night, put them in their usual spot, next morning they are gone. Nothing else out of place or moved. My roommate was out of town and I was alone for the week. I tore the place apart trying to find them, checked everywhere, looked through all the trash. They were just gone, never to be seen again. Pretty sure it was a wizard.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Id look into sleep walking.

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I got none of that, and have a hard time believing I did it just the once and never before or again and that I somehow got the slippers so far away and left them there that I never saw them again. It was a wizard.

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[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 73 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Dude probably had to help his grandparents on the farm all day and was hyped and tired AF. Instant off switch.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

Plus, 9:30 at night isn’t that early for most 10 year olds

[–] hushable@lemmy.world 52 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I had the opposite happen to me once back in my early 20s

One time I was dead tired and could barely keep myself awake after working in an university assignment due the next day. I finished past midnight and went to bed at 1am, I recall watching the clock before going to sleep since I had to set up an alarm for 8am or something.

Thing is, I fell asleep immediately, then I woke up fully refreshed before my alarm went off, I woke up feeling amazing, fully awake and ready to go. Then I checked the time... 1:50am. Since I couldn't fall asleep again I watched some movies until my alarm went off and then went to class like nothing happened.

Yes, I was tired very early the next day, but I still think of that night from time to time

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 32 points 5 days ago

Good ol' Circadian Arrhythmia

Sleep 10 minutes? Rested up and refreshed to start the day.

Sleep 10 hours? Dead tired and need an IV of caffeine to function.

Worn out after a long day? Lay down & BOOM! you have the energy of a 5 year old full of Halloween candy and Red Bull.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 20 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I used to routinely stay up 3 days in a row, at least once a year during my uni days to get a final assignment in on time^[First day is the worst, second gets better once you switch from caffeine to fruit, and third day you're making stupid decisions like walking into traffic instead of waiting for the light]. I remember vividly after it was complete and I'd printed/binded/handed it in, I was on the train back home and saw weird shadows flickering across the carriage. Those flickering shadows followed me on my walk to the house, starting to creep in like oscillating blades at the edge of my vision, and when I finally got into bed and laid my head against the pillow that's when the daggers closed in, and everything went black.

Woke up 15 hours later feeling great.

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Had that when I had a surgery under general anesthesia. They injected something, for about 20 seconds nothing happened, and next moment I was in the ward and everything was already done. Just instant time skip.

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 days ago (11 children)

One of the first drugs they give you before surgery interferes with the formation of long term memories. There’s a good chance you were awake and aware for quite awhile after the first injection… you just couldn’t make long term memories about it.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 17 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Plot twist: you were awake and screaming all through the surgery but you don't remember it.

[–] robolemmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Even worse, there have been people who woke up during surgery but the paralytics were still working just fine, so they were awake, aware, and fully experiencing the pain of surgery but couldn't move or tell anyone.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Maybe he's had a good sleep. Children could sleep so easily and soundly. But it does sound like time really is perception.

I've had a similar experience except my eyes seem to be open? The first time it happened, I woke up and just stared at the ceiling. My mind was completely blank and it was very peaceful. I think I've done it for maybe one hour after realising what happened but it felt very quick. The second time it happened was on another occasion when i also stared at the ceiling. It seems to only happen when i stare at a completely white surface.

I have anendophasia which means I have little to no internal voice. Maybe I have done meditation by accident because of just how my mind works. When i do try to meditate, I don't get a completely blank mind, but when i don't even try I achieved it somehow.

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[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Grandparents lived in the country. Had the best night's sleep there as a kid. Put it down to the country air.

[–] JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone 10 points 3 days ago

Fresh air, zero light pollution, zero traffic or background noise.

The thing that took me longest to get used to after moving to the ciry was the noise, even in your backyard in the suburbs you can hear constant hum and drone, the occasional loud motorbike or distant ambulance.

That and never seeing the milky way again, sometimes on a new moon i can see like some stars in the scluster, but not the absolute cloud of endless stars you see when your 3hrs from the nearest city.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's not how sleep works. Also, i think i had this too at least once. Probably a memory glitch or something in the category of lucid dreaming (except not lucid).

[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ive definitely woken up from dreams where i was getting ready for bed, and had to walk myself through my day back to bed. Like, i had a dream of an entire day

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Meanwhile, narcoleptics be like: "First time?"

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 days ago
[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

I once had the exact opposite.

I voted Fidesz in 2010 with the hopes they will raise the age of consent. They lowered it to 12 if the older party is under 18.

I got so angry I was shaking, and veins on my forehead were visible, just like that meme. When I tried to sleep, it didn't work. I still tried to at least try, so I lay in the bed, seeing the sun rising. Eventually I had to go to college, after that finished, I slept for like 20 hours, and accepted my fell for it again award (they also didn't make it easier for college students to get apprenticeship, so ultimately I ended up without a college degree, as I couldn't get anything due to a multitude of factors).

[–] reader@lemmy.zip 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

fake: op left his house

gay: sleeps in same bed with his brother

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I've done something similar. Only once though. Sleep was like a straight up on/off switch with an instant jump in continuity awareness.

[–] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

God how amazing it would be to have a sleep switch.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

How would you turn it back on? It seems like you're just talking abstractly about suicide.

[–] Bipauler@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

God how amazing it would be to have a sleep switch.

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Do you remember deciding to wake up this morning? Just do that

[–] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Since I'd be in a world where a sleep switch exists I'd expect a built in alarm system would exist with it as well.

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[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

It happened to me semi-regularly in childhood, and it's even happened a couple times as an adult. I swear to god this is how we're all supposed to be sleeping but we're all kept awake by subsonic electronic whines or something

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[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

fun tricks for anyone who wants to get to sleep quickly: consciously thinking of and trying to relax each of your muscles, from your face, to your shoulders, down your arms and into your fingertips and so on. Sometimes, you might be tensed up in some subtle way without realizing it, and part of falling asleep is getting fully relaxed. Do this in your head a few times if you need to, but this actually does help me fall asleep somewhat more quickly than just laying there and waiting. I remember reading somewhere this was how new sailors in the Navy learned to fall asleep at sea when they weren't used to a moving bed, but that could've been bullshit, feel free to research that yourself.

Another one is, start with your hands flat on your thighs or your stomach (this assumes you sleep on your back, so this one actually isn't very effective for me) and start tapping your hands down, alternating which hand, lightly on your body at a constant rhythm for a little bit, and then just gradually slow the rhythm down. This didn't really work well for me because I'm a side sleeper, but YMMV. This was one I got from some TED(x?) talk I'm too lazy to go find.

These might not help if you have like, chronic insomnia or something, but if you just want tomorrow to come faster instead of dwelling on every mistake you've ever made for ~20 minutes, they might work for you.

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have had the opposite happen. I looked at the clock and it was like 800. I fall asleep, or at least feel like I did for a full night's rest. Then when I open my eyes the clock reads 759. Still don't have an explanation, maybe a stroke and I just misread the alarm clock originally.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

time preseption is easily broken, it's not a very good internal process, I took too much one time and in a single sentance sometime said to me I experienced years between the words just eons of space time melting through reality. but really I was just tripping balls.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

You want to hear about a glitch? I once went to hospital, and it was a rough first night. The second night, I couldn't sleep so I'd figure I'd grab a book and try some reading. I opened the book, and the text was flipping symbols like the Matrix ... like each word was flipping. I couldn't read it so I returned the book.

[–] homik@slrpnk.net 23 points 5 days ago

That's what books often do in dreams. Brain can't really keep lots of text straight, so it's a common sign that you're dreaming.

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[–] CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

In my experience those are really restful sleeps (probably because it means you're dead tired) but I feel robbed of the drowsy stage regardless.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I have taken some fighting class where they taught us some techniques. After a few weeks of training the instructor put us through a scenario where he put on a RedMan suit and we had to fight him one by one.

When it was my turn, I remember walking towards him. Next thing I remember the fight was over. I was standing in front of the instructor who had been apparently repelled and said in an impressed tone "that was a great elbow".

None of the techniques he had taught us involved the elbow. I have no idea what I did but apparently it worked.

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[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 days ago

Was it an off switch or do you just forget the time it took you to fall asleep?

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