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Thread started 11/27/15 9:28am

morningsong

Microsleep

I've done this and its weird.

How Your Brain Can Fall Asleep for Seconds Without You Noticing

If you're exhausted and in the need to zone out, you might actually be grabbing bits of down time called "microsleep."

The phenomenon can occur most readily when a person is sleep-deprived, when their brain is primed to switch into sleep mode at any second. While a person can appear awake and even have their eyes open, their brain may have slipped into sleep mode, maybe reaching the first or second level of sleep.


http://abcnews.go.com/Hea...d=35304495
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Reply #1 posted 11/27/15 11:33am

EmmaMcG
This happened to me in the car the other day. Or something like this anyway. I was out doing some Christmas shopping and while I was driving home I started to daydream. But I wasn't daydreaming. I was just dreaming. I had fallen asleep. All in all, it was probably less than 2 seconds but I'm lucky I didn't crash. Scary stuff though. I was shaken up by it...
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Reply #2 posted 11/28/15 4:52pm

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EmmaMcG said:

This happened to me in the car the other day. Or something like this anyway. I was out doing some Christmas shopping and while I was driving home I started to daydream. But I wasn't daydreaming. I was just dreaming. I had fallen asleep. All in all, it was probably less than 2 seconds but I'm lucky I didn't crash. Scary stuff though. I was shaken up by it...


That's quite common actually. There's been a few times when I've gotten from Point A to Point B without remembering anything in between, scary indeed. It's almost like the lines on the road put you into a trance and that's all you focus on.

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Reply #3 posted 11/29/15 3:39am

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i feel like i might nap this way at airports and on planes. never quite falling asleep, just popping in and out

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Reply #4 posted 12/02/15 12:39pm

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Pokeno4Money said:

EmmaMcG said:

This happened to me in the car the other day. Or something like this anyway. I was out doing some Christmas shopping and while I was driving home I started to daydream. But I wasn't daydreaming. I was just dreaming. I had fallen asleep. All in all, it was probably less than 2 seconds but I'm lucky I didn't crash. Scary stuff though. I was shaken up by it...


That's quite common actually. There's been a few times when I've gotten from Point A to Point B without remembering anything in between, scary indeed. It's almost like the lines on the road put you into a trance and that's all you focus on.


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That used to happen to me when I'd drive home from a night class that I was taking in college.

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