I have no ready explanation for that. But I will think about it.
Connie Willis might have an explanation. Her short story in a Rogues isn't about exactly that, but I bet she's thought about it.
Hallucinations: auditory hallucinations trouble me much more than visual. And olfactory, so hard to verify. Never seems to be fudge, at least since Warehouse13 made me particularly aware of the possibility.
Oh, hey, 45th anniversary of the moon landing. My phone informs me.
21st century, man.
Does anyone else get family IT support questions whose answer is "click on retrieve password"? I don't see how telling me "I don't know my password, though." is supposed to engender anything positive from me.
Sometimes the repetitive learned helplessness irritates me enough that it stresses me into more pain. I am short coping mechanisms.
BTW, thanks to whoever recommended Nasacort - Hil? It's made a huge difference. I don't have to take antihistamines as much anymore and I sleep better.
My son is now officially 18. He is house sitting, so I'd planned on staying up to midnight to call/text him. Around 10pm, he showed up here just to spend a little time with me before heading back. Still texted him at midnight.
When he showed up, I was kinda afraid he would go in his room. It is currently filled with about 225 balloons (about 3 feet deep). Was hoping to save that surprise until the morning when he comes for breakfast. And for whatever reason, he never did go to his room. Mwah-ha-ha!
Another person who had hallucination from sleep deprivation. Not the 4 days without sleep. But back when I was getting poor quality sleep (as in waking up every 45 minutes or so) over a long period of time. Not just visual hallucinations, but detailed false memories - I think from intending to do something and then falling asleep for 30 minutes and dreaming I had done it, and then only realizing when the task was sitting there undone that I had only imagined doing it. TEppy is it possible that you are sleep deprived either in quantity or in quality of sleep?
I've had olfactory hallucination related to migraine, and that tinny taste in the mouth, but never aura. I used to have daily auditory hallucinations before sleep. I heard three knocks every night. Whic would wake me from my almost asleep phase and sometimes have me up checking the door. I guess those were closer to dreams, but I was usually still on the awake side of things.
OMG, the cable guy is here to install a digital receiver for my non digital TV. (Something the cable company would not let me pick up and install myself.) He is flummoxed by my TiVo. I had to leave the room because I was ready to grab everything from him and takeover.
Oh good, I just heard the TiVo restart music, this will be five minutes of confusion.
So, he left, and in configuring the TiVo I had to redo everything he did, aside from plugging the box in.