Thursday, December 17, 2009

Ongoing Tactile Hallucination?

Now I can tell I am sleep deprived.

I was studying last night and hadn't gotten much sleep this past week. As I was sleeping I was listening to music. I kept trying to pull the headphones out of my ears, even though I wasn't wearing headphones. I passed it off as the result of having spent way too much time listening to music through my headphones.

Earlier today I was writing an exam. The whole time I felt like my iPod headphones were still in my ears. And then the same sort of sensation extended to my glasses when I took them off during the exam. I kept trying to reach up and adjust glasses that weren't there.

It actually gets worse though. Because these "phantom headphones" Behaved as if they were plugged into my computer. Sometimes I could hear the static from my friends mic. Other times I could hear him talking. Sometimes it was just music or this buzzing sound. But it was an incredibly weird experience to say the least.

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