> > Sleep deprivation is bad.
> >
> > I KNOW that.
> >
> > Tonight/this morning I haven't had any sleep yet because I've been staying up doing homework. I haven't been getting much sleep lately, and something weird happened. Around 4AM I kept hearing faint classical music. I didn't recognize anything that was being played, and I KNOW no one in the house (or even in the neighborhood) was playing any. Neither was the computer. Is this a "normal" result of sleep deprivation?
>
> Oh boy. I've heard some QUITE interesting stuff when I'm tired...including, of course, the aforementioned music coming completely out of nowhere. Of course, I also have some interesting auditory hallucinations when I'm *awake*. (And yes, I am completely sober, why do you ask? Unless the allergy medications are really *that* strong... :-p)
>
> -- codeman"do you hear what I hear"38

Well, see, the difference is that I don't think I ever get auditory hallucinations. Sometimes I think I hear voices but it turns out just to be the washing machine (it sounds like people murmuring faintly. Bloody spooky washing machine). I've never had sleeplessness-cause hallucinations, auditory or otherwise, that I can remember. And no, I didn't have the washing machine running this time.

-eric "It was spooky, though...oh drat, now I hear feet shuffling, and I think it's my brain playing tricks again" sleator
Mon 27 Mar A.D. 2000