Deep fatigue can bring tiny gaps where wakefulness briefly disappears without your permission. Your head drops, the screen jumps ahead or a moment vanishes, then you snap back before you have fully registered falling asleep.
- jerking awake after your eyes close for a second at the desk
- losing a few moments of a television programme without choosing to sleep
- feeling your head drop during a late train ride
- rereading the same line after briefly blinking out over a book
Looks vs reality
The same Experience can look very different from the outside than it feels on the inside.
They look so bored, they're about to fall asleep.
My brain just hit a blue screen of death. This is not a choice.
They're not even trying to pay attention.
I am fighting with every ounce of my being to stay online right now.
Looks like someone needs another coffee.
My battery is at 0%. Coffee won't fix a dead system.
Just spacing out again.
I just lost a few seconds of reality. My brain literally skipped a frame.
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