this is what i've done a couple of times... i once tried to force myself to stay awake as i was driving from San Francisco to the South Bay on Hwy. 101--it's only an hour away... i was hallucinating... started seeing all kinds of weird stuff on the sides of the road... my friend noticed and took over the driving... one other time i was coming home from Santa Cruz on Hwy. 17... again, i tried forcing myself to keep my eyes open... and again i began hallucinating about where i was... pulled over at a coffee shop... now i just automatically pull over... has not happened much in the last twenty years... i try to make sure i get enough sleep if have to drive...
That’s why I took the all night bus from TN to DC and back for Michelle Blackmun’s demonstration a couple of weeks ago. The charter company did a good job; they had a night driver and a day driver.
Latina, as far as halucinating is concerned, I’ve got an even better sleep deprivation story. In 1981, while I was living in Milwaukee, WI, I participated in a 158 mile sailing race that was a round trip from Muskegon, MI to Racine, WI and back across Lake Michigan. I made a navigation error on the way back that caused me to be out a total of 41 hours on NODoz for two nights. On the second night out the wind died, there was a fog, and, although I knew it wasn’t true, I absolutely believed I was sailing down an alley some place in Chicago, where I was born. Single handed sailors often have experiences like that.