Has this happened to anyone of you?
What was it like?
How long did it take?

So share your sleep deprived hallucination stories

I don't think I have any sleep deprived hallucinations, but I've got a few stories to tell about my prescription with Ambien. One night in particular I had difficulty sleeping, and even with the Ambien I wasn't getting anywhere. So I'm dozing off into sleep and then I swear I see something. I'm staring off into space by my hamper, and I start thinking all my clothes have people in them. My pants and shirts were coming alive as if someone was wearing them, it's kind of hard to describe. But I took my phone and I snapped a picture with the camera of a part I thought looked exactly like a person's head. http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e223/Les_Punk/Serious%20stuff/?action=view¤t=2010-11-04_04-26-53_548.jpg

I'm kind of glad my prescription is out now. It helped me sleep pretty good, but it was way too crazy for what I wanted it for.

how long have you spent awake man! I have been awake from 9AM to 3pm the next day and I was just really really tired. I didn't have hallucinations.

At the moment I've been awake for fourteen hours, how long do you think until I start hallucinating?

Are you trying to hallucinate then? I've stayed up for over 24 hours, and have gone to weekend long festivals where I only slept for a few hours, and never hallucinated.

Well I was up for 30 hours and nothing happened to me. I was at a LAN party gaming playing counterstrike and gears of war. I wouldn't sit up longer deliberately trying to hallucinate. Its not healthy. If you don't get enough REM sleep you can go insane.

Yep, I'm trying to hallucinate (WTF)

But I just read an extremely creepy article on sleep deprivation, now I'm too scared to go to sleep and stay awake

Even though I stopped halfway through, there was still a few paragraphs to go (I was too scared to read on, really creepy)

Don't worry, you haven't stayed up too long, you'll be fine. I wouldn't try to hallucinate if I were you though; I used to take drugs to do it and I would not recommend it - you can't control what you see and sometimes it can be pretty terrible.

This is not healthy, a good way to develop sleep disorders and nothing this unhealthy and unwise should be discussed on this forum. It's one thing to talk about being deprived of sleep out of duties or necessity but quite another to use it as a hallucinogen.