Hallucinations from sleep deprivation?

[RealGanjaMan]

Shit man...

Has swiy ever experienced considerably intense hallucinations from sleep deprivation?

SWIM has (unfortunatly) experienced sleep deprivation plenty of times, but the hallucinations usually are just flickers out of the corner of his eyesight, brief flashes of light that arn't there, etc. Well, this time, SWIM is experiencing some pretty intense hallucinations considering the only substance he has ingested in the last 24 hrs was 10mg Add(which is a nothing dose, only enough to keep him awake).

Swim was gazing at a counter, and there was a bottle of shampoo on it. Gradually everything in the room (the counter, the walls, cieling, floor etc) started "breathing" (sort of like a less intense mushroom hallucination), except this shampoo bottle he was staring at. Then, as he kept gazing at the bottle, the rest of the room (everything except the damn bottle) began slowly 'zooming in'. Some other effects... he would see/hear a fly/bug fly buy him, but as soon as he would look at it, it would dissapear. Light seems to be always slowly changing and shifting around him.

So anyways... It seems very odd to swim. He would honestly compare it to a low-dose mushroom trip.

Oh yeah, I had I point to this thread.
Does anyone know what exactly causes these hallucinations from sleep deprivation?

I have a hard time believing that its only/mostly placebo. The only logical thing I can think of is maybe the brain needs sleep so bad that it just stops trying to make sense of its surroundings?

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