> Sleep deprivation is bad.
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> I KNOW that.
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> 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?
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> -eric "getting creeped out" "also I turn 15 today, but please don't respond about that in this thread" sleator
> Mon 27 Mar A.D. 2000

My personal experience with sleep deprivation:
Once, back in college, I stayed awake for 60 hours, 30 minutes. On the last day, I experienced visual hallucinations fairly frequently. They would typically occur in peripheral, and would dissappear when I would turn to look at them. I walked into the vacant scene shop and thought I saw my friend crouched up on a table; he, however, was not. A couple times there would be a strange visual anomaly directly in front of me. I watched a curtain as a wrinkle in it seemingly bounced up and down quite furiously. It was an odd day to say the least.
Since there are so many things medically that vary from person to person, I would say that what you've experienced may very well be considered to be a "normal" manifestation as a result of your deprivation. In fact, I have heard that hallucinations are common in cases of extreme deprivation, but usually after a couple, or several, days.
Consider this an experiment and continue to deprive yourself of sleep, then report back here what you experience. It will be entertaining for the rest of us....well, until you end up in the hospital or something.

Tra "I'm no doctor, but I play one on t.v...." nio