I very often see things when exhausted from serious lack of sleep ( doesn't happen that often, travel mostly.) I'm acutely aware they aren't there-they look real, but somehow I know they aren't. I don't react anymore, just go huh. Figure it's just my brain misfiring.

Should surprise no one, mostly cats, the hallucinations.

IT IS THE MATRIX. How do you people not know this?

Apparently that means the internet is my brain because cats.

I see things that aren't there on a fairly regular basis. I eventually decided that as long I I know they aren't actually there, they are just visual anomalies, then I'm still technically sane.

So my day started out productive, but then my car broke down and the productive pretty much fizzled out from there. Argh. Ended with getting my car towed home. Now I need to find a reliable transmission shop tomorrow.

I hate when that happens. Hope you find a good place(I have recs, but wrong coast.)

Definitely wrong coast. I've had some wine, so I'm dealing with the fallout a bit better. At least I got a lot done yesterday, right?

Migraines: I got (what I was later told was) an ocular migraine for the first (and so far only) time, on the ferry from Wales to Ireland. I kept seeing what looked like lightning, in the side of my left eye, every time I moved my eyes. I was shaky and dizzy, but the headache itself was mild. The effect lasted about 45 minutes. Actual hallucinations, I have not had.

Non-migraine-related, I see things that aren't there out of the corner of my eyes a fair amount.

I sometimes see movement out of the corner of my eye when nothing is moving. I've learned to ignore it. There was one time I saw what looked like a short slender black shape duck into the shrubs by the porch, and that was unsettling, but yeah, nothing was there. I don't know what it is. I think maybe it's because I'm so very nearsighted, the curvature of my eyeball is so extreme, that it might sometimes cast shadows or bend light onto my retina in an abnormal way.

once -- and hopefully never again -- an abdominal migraine

A what? What fresh hell is that?

I've been using Swheat scoop

I used that once. It was the only time I've ever found bugs in the litter. Threw it all out and never used it again.

And clearly no one is hitting the gym for their shirtless scenes,

Back then, my expectations for what a guy on tv was supposed to look like shirtless were less intense. Expectations for half-naked women were more realistic, too. Everyone just looked like a regular person. An attractive regular person, but still. Hard abs were not required. I recall thinking that both Starsky and Hutch were really good-looking. Actually, I still think they were.

I definitely get those fleeting hallucinations more with sleep deprivation, but they could happen any time. I don't get auras or anything with my (really quite infrequent) migraines.

Whenever I get fleeting hallucinations (weekly now) I have that flash of an unsettled moment when I remember the gremliny things from Dead Like Me and I begin to wonder if I am dying.

But I have issues.