When staying awake for a long period (3 or 4 days), some weird phenomena can occur. In my experience, it was always triggered by thinking too deeply and has in other occasions too.
Do these things have names at all?
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Sign up to join this communityWhen staying awake for a long period (3 or 4 days), some weird phenomena can occur. In my experience, it was always triggered by thinking too deeply and has in other occasions too.
Do these things have names at all?
During extreme sleep deprivation you can briefly fall asleep, this is known as a microsleep. The disorientation that you experienced can be referred to as Hypogogia.
Hypogogia covers a range of effects including visual and aural hallucinations as well as having thoughts that are experienced as seeming logical during the microsleep but illogical once you're awake.