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"
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She was nearly 20
Meanwhile, narcoleptics be like: "First time?"
Dude probably had to help his grandparents on the farm all day and was hyped and tired AF. Instant off switch.
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.
Your description makes me think it was propofol
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!
That doesn't match my personal experience with propofol. The "going out" was pretty quick or the memory of it cut short, but the "coming back" was not quick at all.
When I woke up in the recovery room I had awareness first, but couldn't control my body at all, not even able to open my eyes, but I could hear things in the room. Then I remember having coherent thoughts, but everything was in slow motion like my cognition was swimming in molasses. As I tried to see what I had motor control off, learned later I was verbalizing all of these thoughts and was semi audible as I tried to talk. It took probably 15 minutes before I had motor control and could speak clearly enough to be understood. It wasn't a horrible or fearful experience, but wouldn't call it pleasant either.
Anesthetics are super trippy like that. Wish falling asleep was like that...
I had that happen a few times when I was quite young. At least once, I did it on purpose. I had a sleepover with a friend and was excited for the next day and was impatient for the next day to arrive now. I fell asleep and woke up the next day seemingly instantly. No dreams. No perception of passage of more than like a second of time. Just instant morning.
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.
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.
the carbon monoxide meme, but for real
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.
I mean, these things happen to only a small subset of people so I can understand where the frame of reference gets skewed for you normies. For instance, every time my aunt babysat me, I'd immediately find myself in another place after dinner. Everything would hurt from the cold, but the police would help me get back home and even they couldn't explain it to me, a "very brave kid" in their own words. Explain that, liberals.
I've had a few, but I chock them up to being tired. Twice on the way to work early in the morning, the sky turned colors on my. Once it turned purple, the other it turned an aqua color. Then, while working night shift, I was looking up at the sky and saw what I thought was a shooting star make a 90° turn before disappearing. It had to be sleep deprivation, on every account.