There is an event that made me reconsider driving by night when sleep deprived.
I was driving back home after spending night at friend's place. It was around 4am, the whole family sleeping in the car. I didn't have any alcohol in my system because I always kept a 0 alcohol policy if I have to drive. I knew the trip well because I was driving it several times a months. A few km before reaching home I realized I had no recollection of having driven past a number of the usual landmarks. Yet I couldn't have possibly been completely asleep as the highway had a number of curves and I would have smashed the guardrails had I been totally unconscious.
So my theory was that I was so tired that my brain wasn't recording anything but I had been conscious enough to actually follow the road.
That was still frightening enough that the next time I just asked to bring inflatable mats and sleep at our friends living room before going home in the morning.
> That was still frightening enough that the next time I just asked to bring inflatable mats and sleep at our friends living room before going home in the morning.
Excellent move for your family and yourself, congratulation.
There are flow states that seem like this. It can be pleasant and it can also be unnerving. Something about memory and the sense of self fall away and it leaves you with a discontinuity despite some part of you obviously carrying on the show while the self was away.
I was driving back home after spending night at friend's place. It was around 4am, the whole family sleeping in the car. I didn't have any alcohol in my system because I always kept a 0 alcohol policy if I have to drive. I knew the trip well because I was driving it several times a months. A few km before reaching home I realized I had no recollection of having driven past a number of the usual landmarks. Yet I couldn't have possibly been completely asleep as the highway had a number of curves and I would have smashed the guardrails had I been totally unconscious.
So my theory was that I was so tired that my brain wasn't recording anything but I had been conscious enough to actually follow the road.
That was still frightening enough that the next time I just asked to bring inflatable mats and sleep at our friends living room before going home in the morning.