Fitbit sez:

LAST NIGHT 4h 23min asleep
You were awake for 2 mins (1x) and restless for 88 mins (8x)

Yeah, I was so awake for so much longer than that, just trying to fall asleep, or that weird mid-sleep space of infinite plausibility--I got a fascinating half-lucid PBS drama about alt universe royals.

From way back:

Anyone use Espionage Cosmetics? It's a for nerd by nerd line.

I haver their Nailed It! polish strips in Burtonesque (go on, look surprised, I dare you), but I haven't tried any other products from them.

Another person who had hallucination from sleep deprivation

Poor-quality sleep over a stretch of time does very interesting things to my world. Like, floors looking like they're moving slightly, black sparkles at the edge of my vision, all sorts of fun stuff.

Yeah, Fitbit often has me asleep when I am awake and still. And, sadly, I still get very little sleep.

swear I felt someone get into bed with me, feel the weight as they settled in, etc, and I would be frozen, unable to move but knowing something awful was going to happen

This happened to me for the first time a couple of months ago. SO CREEPY.

My sister is asking me if hallucinations are in focus if you have shit eyesight and your glasses off. Like, do they drop resolution with reality?

My sister is asking me if hallucinations are in focus if you have shit eyesight and your glasses off. Like, do they drop resolution with reality?

In my case, yes.

I have a psych appointment for next week, hooray!

I'm really kind of excited to talk to a professional about my whole deal. Probably way overdue for this.

Go you, with the mental heath self-care!

swear I felt someone get into bed with me, feel the weight as they settled in, etc, and I would be frozen, unable to move but knowing something awful was going to happen

This happened to me for the first time a couple of months ago. SO CREEPY.

Sometimes it feels like a cat got in bed with me (when Tim is not also in bed). Since we keep them out of the bedroom, this is concerning. I usually check for a cat, and will go so far as to go out to the living room to see where the cats are. When I verify that it wasn't them, Tim concludes it was the ghost of his former cat Spike.

Sleep paralysis! It's awful. I used to have it all the time, but now it's only happens to me once in a while.

I'm one of the olds that has Netflix DVD service still.

I still have the DVD service, too! There are so many things I want to watch that aren't available for streaming that I've maxed out my queue. I've been letting DVDs sit for months at a time, though, so my current strategy to get more use out of my service is to do a Friends rewatch.

Also, the migraine is trying to manifest, and I'm pelting it with drugs. That made for an interesting mid-afternoon walk. (I'm walking hills in my neighborhood. I imagine I sound like a gasping pipe organ that can't produce notes but just rattles and wheezes. Poor neighbors. So far no one has rushed outside with a defibrillator for me.)

Slight photophobia, shoulders are tense (huge symptom), ear is starting to hurt (horrible, no-good, very bad symptom), my upper teeth are starting to hurt on the same side as the ear (also very goddamn bad -- combined with the ear pain, it means my trigeminal nerve is irritated, motherfucker), and I have mild spacey vertigo (but yes, I still took a hill walk, because I am insane and committed to cardiovascular health).

And yet? No actual "headache" pain. WTF, body?

My sister is asking me if hallucinations are in focus if you have shit eyesight and your glasses off. Like, do they drop resolution with reality?

They were for me, but my eyesight was better as a child.

I don't understand quite how the sleep thing works if you sleep with a cat. How does it know that it is me and not the cat moving around. The one I used was with my telephone, and I had to lay it on the mattress. It seems like it would be bad with a human bed partner as well, but my cat often sleeps and walks around on top of me when I am asleep.