| I had sort of an 'opposite' experience following 86 hours of no sleep and lots of physical labour. Military training, 3 1/2 days of digging ad building trenches by hand. Middle of high summer and digging through stony clay. Interspersed between the digging were numerous patrols and mental tests. I experienced the hallucinations whilst fully awake from about hour 76 particularly throughout the night and early morning. I vividly remember stopping so talk to a Colour Sergeant I knew and shook his hand, only to find it extremely prickly. Trying again the pain brought me to my senses and I realised I was shaking hands with a Holy bush. During a dawn attack the following morning I frequently fell into micro-sleeps whilst 'standing to', resulting in bashed knees and a couple of trips to the bottom of the trench flat on my face. Come an enforced rest period at hour 86 I lay down and experienced the kind of unconsciousness I've only experienced under an anaesthetic. I was utterly gone. 3 hours later I felt amazingly refreshed, just as well as there were 48 more hours to go without sleep until the exercise finished. |
Was this in a possible combat situation? Or a test of your mettle? I hope? :P