Distorted reality when tired

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This might be a bit weird?

I do not think in pictures, I think in thoughts. I do not know if this matters?

Normally I can control my thoughts to a certain degree (well it is a very long explanation, I do not going into details here) but when I am tired it is different.

When I am tired it is as if my thoughts get mixed up and some of the more subconscious thoughts pop up and pretend to be the reality (confused - just read on ).

When I am tired I get these flashes of another reality (very very short flashes) as if I am another place or time or it is dark (if it daylight in reality). Stuff like that, it feels very real but lasts a very short time.

I guess it sounds sort of creepy and scizo? I only put words to this feeling today and do not know if it is common around here?

It is pretty hard to explain but it feels very real.

Can anybody relate?

I experience something similar. When I need sleep the result is similar to being drunk. Also, when I am getting sick, the first sign of impending illness is my thinking is all off and feels very unpleasant.

I relate to this. I have a cold and was feeling fine, but I sat down for a coffee today, with a friend and my parents, and I started to feel a bit weird. My cold is obviously getting to me and causing the tiredness. For a few very short periods, I thought I wasn't really there and think I said a few things I wouldn't normally talk about (like I'd had a few drinks).

If you're very tired, I guess it is normal. Yes, it happened to me also.

I don't understand the part with "I do not think in pictures"... do you have dreams at night?

Well yes, I don´t think it has anything to do with it.

I do not think in pictures. This is probably not important in this context? It is apparently also not normal around Autistic people (or other people). I have nothing but blackness in my head

Quote from a former post
from this thread http://www.wrongplanet.net/postp4618435.html&highlight=
Someone here on WP described it as a 4-kernet processor (might fit?)

I have dreams at night. They can be extreeeeemely scary (nasty nightmares where I have to get up and turn the lights on and stay awake for a while). I think that the reason that my dreams are so livid is that I dream in pictures but during normal daily thought activity I have no pictures in my head!

I do not think that it is entirely normal to be so much out of your head that you think the reality is different!

I do not think that this is NT behaviour

I think primarily in pictures, and when I get tired my thinking does get distorted. I know that when these thoughts happen that I have gone far too long without any sleep - but the only way I was able to sleep was to stay awake until I was that tired.

I definitely get what you are saying. About the getting tired and having to sleep.

I also get theese "flashes" when I am mentally tired. I do not have to be physically tired. Not always, just sometimes. It can be pretty weird.

Might be Derealization

Ach, bloody hell, you do not need to give me more diagnosis

I think you're not aware that you think in pictures. But it might be possible if I think about blind people. Anyway, it sounds strange to me as my imagination is very rich and I can't make associations and think logically without 'pictures' or memories of what I have seen. Even a word or a touch carries a picture or a shape with it. I asked you about dreams because I've heard of people who have no dreams (or maybe they don't recall anything?) and I was thinking maybe their brains are different.

Maybe what you experience could be a weak form of hypnagogic hallucination?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660156/ (skip to Sleep disturbances)

Last edited by AnotherKind on 01 Nov 2012, 5:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.

From Wikipedia



Derealization is a subjective experience of unreality of the outside world, while depersonalization is unreality in one's sense of self.

I do not think that it it is Derealization as such because it is very short bursts of un-reality! But it might be related.

Some (few) of us do not think in pictures. I know that some people think more in subtexts. BUt I only think in black. I know that it is very different from most of you!

hypnagogic hallucination sound scary!! I have just been accoustumed to AS some months ago