Would you be able to tell if you're sleep deprived? I

>>36317944
>and I feel fine

you're on /r9k/. I don't believe you.

I have a pretty severe case of insomnia, so I've been abusing sleeping pills for years.

When I don't take them, I average 3 or 4 hours tops of sleep. And I wake up every hour or so to toss and turn.

After a couple days of this my life seems "blurry", like I'm in a constant dream. If it goes on longer, auditory and even visual hallucinations start to bleed into my waking life.

>>36317944
Well you're lucky, I wish I could function normally on 3-4 hours. 6 hours is the minimum for me. Less than 4 and it's like the living death. My eyes become irritable, skin itchy, joints ache and I become intolerant to any minor annoyance.

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>>36318005
This is the problem. When I said I've done this "consistently", I've been doing this for months now. I think it's a kind of stress relief, to have a few more hours in the day to deal with things, especially in hours when no one else would be awake to bother me. But, if I was in a dream-like state all of the time, I don't know if I'd be able to tell. Would I forget what it's really like to be fully awake? I never manage to sleep a "full" night when I try.

This is actually beginning to spook me a little, now.

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Is there a way to test how sleep deprived you are? How can you tell?

>>36318886
Ask someone else about it.