BeautifulPainWhat is the dumbest thing sleep deprivation made you do?
Spoon wet dog food into my coffee cup instead of my dog’s bowl.
I’ve scooped newly opened can of cat food right into the bin haha
Thankfully I didn’t drink any!
breadsmasherIn a similar vein, I was making coffee and my dogs food at the same time. Scooped coffee grounds on top of my dogs biscuits. Brain took a while to get in gear at what was wrong
I think we all just need more sleep and the 8 hour work day is unnatural.
TonyTonyChopperIt’s insane to me that the US has not moved past 1940s workers rights. The middle and lower class is being crushed, not to the same extent but it’s bad
It is very bad. We should seriously riot everywhere.
candyman337Took some nyquil because I wasn’t feeling well, I had stayed up until like 4 and I was too tired to realize that the drowsiness wouldn’t wear off before I woke up. Got up feeling almost drunk and drove to work. I feel asleep on the road and woke up with just enough time to slow down before rear ending someone at 50 mph.
Reason #21 that my mid-life crisis hasn’t left to me buying a motorbike yet
Personally, I’m inching closer and closer to that bad decision. I recently found out Suzuki brought back the small displacement GSXR and it’s cheap! Not a good combo for keeping me on 4 wheels. Worlds ending anyhow, right?
Like 90% of motorcycle collisions are the driver running into something. Not being hit, not mechanical problems, not external forces.
If you only ride when you know you’re good, you’re as safe as a car.
If you only have a bike bikes are dangerous. If you default to a car and ride a bike recreationally, or for chores where you aren’t in a rush, you’ll be fine.
I’m honestly not worried about me. I’m worried about the rest of the morons on the road, not paying attention. I drive a Miata and an RX7, so both short cars. The amount of times I’ve nearly been run over, because someone doesn’t see me is crazy. A bike won’t be better.
Like I said, almost every motorcycle collision is the rider running into something. With a motorcycle you’re exponentially more aware of other drivers and much more maneuverable. Once you think of EVERY car on the road as the moron trying to hit you, you can avoid it even if it was intentional. Which it never is, which means its even easier.
Take like 1 in-person motorcycle class and as long as you don’t hit something or run off the road you’ll be fine. Most insurance companies will even give you a discount once you take the class(my discount applies to my car as well)
I’ve been rear-ended three times in my car, twice while I had been stationary at a light for at least 5 seconds
Things like that are pretty much out of your control and go from annoying in a car, to injury or even death on a bike
I had planned to. It also waives you from the dmv test too.
LUHGTry phenegran 50mg. It doesn’t make me drowsy in the morning. Or just 25mg.
I just use dayquil now but thanks for the rec, I’ll have to check that one out
Raisin8659Put sneakers in the fridge.
My brain switched yawning with moaning. Lets just say that wasn’t the proudest day of my adult work life
Really trying to imagine what this looked like lol
Probably didn’t look much different than a person yawning.
WodgePut my phone in the washing machine with my clothes.
It didn’t survive, RIP Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, you were a pretty good phone back in the day.
Attempt to drive home after being awake for ~2 days. Flipped my vehicle several times and luckily came away with no serious physical injuries.
Just done a 11hr 550mile drive on 3hrs sleep. Nearly 24hrs awake now. Was touch and go but 2days without sleep is worse. It’s not something I’d do again as It’s dangerous.
Although, the amount of people using phones while doing 80 and causing incidents is worse.
AndreyAsimowI’ve put a plastic bowl full with liquid chocolate on the stove instead of the coffee maker.
Also, once I microwaved butter in aluminum foil for like 5-6 seconds and wondered why is there firework inside.
emptyotherCrash my car into a rock wall at 30 km/h. I’m glad I had dropped off my passenger because the passenger side no longer had leg space.
I hallucinated a werewolf and slammed on the brakes of an 8 ton military vehicle in rural Afghanistan, causing a patrol to go on alert for an attack.
Could be worse - a sleep-deprived navy crew crashed the USS McCain into a tanker
Yep. That’s definitely worse.
5 years after I left the Army, I still had some stuff put away where it used to be. Woke up after a night of drinking and 3 hours sleep, put on my PT uniform, and wondered why it was so tight.
HousePantherTrying to go into work to perform a server upgrade was probably the dumbest thing I ever tried to do despite sleep deprivation. Thank god I never clicked OK when I was asked to because that would’ve been a bad news, career terminated mistake.
IT and sleep deprivation. It’s all fun and games.
Pour applejuice in my coffee instead of milk.
I pulled out of my parking lot at work, blinked, and suddenly found myself half way home with no memory of how I got there. I was so freaked out I pulled over to check my car for damage (there wasn’t any). Drove very carefully the rest of the way home and swore never to drive tired again.
JackOfAllTraitsThat us definetely top tier sleep deprivation.
This was back when I was in the military, I finished my shift, went to our dormitories, pissed with the door open while someone was taking a shower and went to my room, found out I sad in the girl’s dormitories.
deadcatbounceThink to myself “I’ll go to bed in ten minutes, after I read this one Reddit/Lemmy post.”
My story is less destruction and more funny.
So, while very tired, I managed to find myself at a local coffee shop. I ordered my coffee, went over to the stand where the milk/sugar and stuff is.
What I intended to do next was to get a couple of sugar packets and put them into my coffee, and throw away the paper package, as usual.
What I actually did was, grab two sugar packets, tear them open and dump their contents directly into… the trash. Yep. My brain skipped over the part where this step requires putting the package contents into my coffee.
I stood there for a minute while my brain tried to process what I had just done.
Once my brain caught up, I mentally facepalmed, dropped the now empty packets into the garbage, grabbed my coffee and went to sit down and drink it. I punished myself with drinking black coffee because I was too tired and stupid to deserve my coffee any other way.
BoondockI’ve done things along this line too many times since having kids lol
Worst lately was trying to get a juice box for the kid and intending to throw away the straw wrapper but instead throwing away the straw and being left with a kid pissed at having no straw to drink her juice box
daspriiThese comments are starting to make me think that driving tired is as bad or worse than drunk driving.
Dark_BladeIt is. Do not drive unless you’re focused.
It absolutely, demonstrably is. I’ve gone home after working nights as a nurse and it’s scary that people drive in that state, and are also responsible for others’ lives.
bob_wileyIn high school I had to drive to my dad’s place for visitation. It was very common for me to be driving very tired on the way back home. On more than one occasion I woke up on the freeway doing 70mph. It’s terrifying. I’m not sure how I never crashed, but am thankful I didn’t.
The sleep episode on Joe Rogan was great. Confirmed sleeping while tired is just as bad
grasshopper_mouseSometimes I like to sprinkle a little cinnamon or nutmeg into the morning coffee grinds before adding water. One day I accidentally added dried garlic flakes instead.
I once made a homemade apple pie with cumin powder instead of cinnamon powder. I was not sleep deprived, just derped-out not paying enough attention.
Was it still edible?
Yeah, you could eat it, and with each bite it was kind of tasty, it was after each swallow that the taste of cumin really came through, and then I was left feeling like I’d eaten a taco flavored sweet apple pie. So I finished the first slice of pie but I didn’t want to eat anymore after that, I felt and still feel, cinnamon is way better than cumin for apple pie, heh.
sounds like the type of dessert Indians would make
I poured cereal onto a paper plate. Luckily, I caught myself before pouring milk. After that, I almost put the milk in the cupboard and the cereal in the fridge.
When I was 18, I flew over to Australia from London via LA, stayed up all day and arranged to meet with some people that is meet on the plane for a beer, all good, having a drink in a pub out at Coogee Bay.
I was sat on a bar stool, closed my eyes, woke up standing next to the pool table having flicked all of the “next game” reservation coins onto the table. A very large Australian guy was saying “I hope you know where all those came from”
My new friend hustled me out of there, thankfully.
radixI love how there are so many replies that have to do with coffee, whether putting dog kibble into the coffee or forgetting to put the sugar in before tossing the sugar packets. I guess coffee and sleep deprivation go together.
I don’t love how there are so many replies that have to do with commuting to and from work while sleepy. I guess work and sleep deprivation go together too. :/
Coated the tiny pet dog with Armor All (auto care product) instead of flea spray.
Dog goes to walk away and is slipping and sliding all over the floor (I rubbed it on its feet and between its toes).
Super funny after I realized my mistake, and pup was fine, only got it’s dignity hurt and pissy because it had to get a second bath, and then sprayed again but this time with the right product.
One of the funniest things I ever saw on Twitter (long time ago): “Accidentally washed the toddler with dog shampoo. In my defense both bottles have pictures of puppies on them.”
After pulling an all-nighter and working for around 22 hours, I went to the school I was then teaching at. I thought I was doing my usual thing, i.e. sitting at my workstation that was hooked up to a projector und demonstrating something while explaining what I was doing when one of my students interrupted me to tell me that I wasn’t doing anything that made any sense and on top of that I was slurring my words. I asked the other students whether that was true and they reluctantly agreed. I excused myself and went to the toilet where I had a cry, which is extremely unusual for me. After that, I aborted the lesson and went home where I slept for more than 12 hours. Not a good memory.
RomanmirWas up for ~24 hours when I decided to drive two hours to go to my parents house. This was a mistake. I had spray water at my face to keep my eyes open to drive. Made it to my dest. without incident. Never again.
HamartiogonicLPT: Park your car in a safe spot, start the timer on your phone and close your eyes. Just keep them closed for a length of time that feels like 5 minutes and then open them up again. Check the timer, realize you just took a 30 min nap, and continue driving safely.
That’s a good idea.
My story took place 20 years ago. I have never driven that sleep deprived again.
When my son was just a couple months old I was still suffering pretty heavily from sleep deprivation. I don’t think that really passed until he was a year or so old. Here’s some fun ones:
- accidentally put his diaper on backwards a handful of times… Which always led to pee everywhere, or worse.
- dumped a couple scoops of baby formula into my coffee instead of sugar, a few times
- caught a diaper blowout of baby poo with my bare hands because I couldn’t react fast enough to grab a baby wipe instead (in my defense, I had just laundered the bed but he was sitting on it with me and my immediate thought was just “OH god not again”)
While suffering insomnia, I changed my phone’s passcode. Ended up having to nuke the OS the next day.