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[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago

Happened to me once, one of the most humbling and terrifying moments of my life

[-] RedditRefugee69@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

Hey the brain isn’t fucking with you from this perspective

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago

I’ve had it happen the other way around. Where I’m driving and realize I’m actually asleep and get startled awake because I shouldn’t be driving while sleeping.

[-] JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

I think that's what's going on in the comic

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I read as they were actually driving and fell asleep. I dunno. Maybe you’re right. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[-] JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

My bad. I read your comment as you were driving and fell asleep lol

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Haha whoa am I driving or asleep right now? Either way I shouldn’t be on my phone!

[-] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Me too, but I'm still partially asleep. I should probably pull over.

[-] EFZL5NM0@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nah they're not, you are

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago

Driving and sleeping vs. sleeping and driving.

[-] Thrickles@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

My favorite Reno 911 intro immediately comes to mind.

https://youtu.be/MYge4RghcNQ

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 17 points 1 year ago

stupid brain always interrupting my well earned rest during my daily booze cruise

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I once drove from Atlanta to Indiana after only getting about 4 hours of sleep over 3 days. Down roads so slushy I had to use the wiper fluid regularly and stop to add more twice. I was hallucinating. At one point, I pulled over to a rest stop to sleep for a little bit and a cop made me leave. I have no idea how I made it home.

[-] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Cop made you leave a rest stop for resting too much?

Driving tired is just as bad (sometimes worse) than driving over the BAC limit!

What a world

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yep. Shockingly, the cop was a bastard.

[-] ricdeh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I wasn't expecting this, but it's genuinely amazing! Thank you, you brightened my evening

you brightened my evening

Watch out, that's oncoming traffic!

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago

I once drove to a concert alone (got flaked on) and by the time I left to go home, I had been up for about 30 hours. I had to stop at a random truck stop to take a nap in my car so I wouldn't die.

Never again.

[-] wreel 13 points 1 year ago
[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 8 points 1 year ago

Same. Wasn't my finest hour to put myself in the position in the first place.

[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Apparently this is super common for people with adhd.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 8 points 1 year ago

Sleeping while driving?

Ah, you mean dozing off on monotonous tasks. But it just happens faster than average Joe.

[-] kungen@feddit.nu 6 points 1 year ago

These people shouldn't be driving then.

[-] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I hope they don't live in America where driving is essential to do anything (especially work) and where there is shitty public transportation so there really aren't alternatives.

[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yep, leading expert says he often requires his patients to only drive medicated.

Kim Wexler moment

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago

I had just the other night falling asleep and imagining myself riding a bicycle which woke me up lol

[-] 3TH4Li4@feddit.ch 6 points 1 year ago

For me it's always falling down from my bed into an eternal void of nothingness

[-] eclipse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Took some benadryl at home for allergies and had no reaction at all. Hour later on the drive back from the clinic and I could not keep my eyes open and had to smack myself to keep me awake. Worse feeling ever, especially that drug induced sleepiness.

[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I was young and broke and recovering from a surgery. Went back to work before I was recovered fully. They had me on some good pain meds, but it still hurt sometimes. I went to get gas on my lunch break and some lady at the gas station saw I was in pain and said "here, try one of these" and handed me a pill, which I immediately took.

The ensuing drive was one of the scariest things I've ever done. This was a rural road lots of hairpin turns, which people drive at 50mph riding your ass. No cell service, so I couldn't call someone to come help me. Nowhere to pull over. Literally no shoulder or turnouts, just treeline on one side and short cliff on the other. It was awful. I realized halfway through exactly how out of it I was.

That road was a death trap. Some politician's son eventually died there so they finally widened it and added shoulders and stuff.

[-] floppade@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Broke half my ribs and punctured my lung like that, no place to pull over in time. Scary shit. Lucky to be alive.

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