Lack of sleep/extreme tiredness causing hullucinations?
I've just started a new job which involves me getting up at 5.30 am and cycling about 5 miles to work everymorning, which i've been dutifully doing for just over a month now. The work itself is in a warehouse, and is very physically and mentally demanding.
Now, as someone who is inherently very lazy and not a morning person, i'm really not getting that much sleep each night, and cycling back and forth at some ungodly hour is really taking it's toll on my energy levels.
My problem is that i've started, as the title suggests, to see 'things'.
Over the past two weeks, i've had a string of very disturbing full blown hullucinations, ranging from seeing faces in the walls, to extreme time dilation, and one instance of exchanging hellos with someone who never existed. I've also been seeing little things out of the corner of my eyes more regulary (you know the ones, where you think you see someone, turn, and think 'oh, i can see how i would have though that was xxx'), along with hearing various things going on.
This is actually really starting to freak me out, and i'm getting increasingly frustrated as time goes by not knowing if what i'm seeing or hearing is really there.
I'm wondering if anyone out there has had any similar experiences with seeing things due to tiredness, and if the problem will fade, as i hope, when i catch up on my sleep debts.
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