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Date of upload: Oct 8, 2023 ^^
Rating : 4.986 (2/565 LTDR)
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7:40
I can explain..
When deployed, you get used to dealing with extreme sleep derivation. Lots of physical activity during the day, poor sleeping conditions, minimal sleep because you get up every few hours for sentry etc etc..
When you do stop still for a few minutes, all that fatigue hits you like a freight train. And on sentry, you're still for an hour or two, trying to focus on the blackness of the night while your body is desperate to switch off..
Many, many, many soldiers and veterans will tell stories of hallucinating due to sleep deprivation in situations like that.
In fact, I've had two experiences with it...
The first: basic training. Very similar to the story in the video, but I spent 45 mins watching someone via NVGs crawl along the ground, stop dead and stare me in the face.. it was a tree.. I'd be watching a tree for almost an hour.
Second, was actually only a few months ago. Somebody walked right past the sentry point, red tactical light on, I saw their silhouette, saw helmet, webbing, rifle, heard their boots crunch the leaves.. I yelled for them to stop. And my sentry buddy was like "wtf are you on about, there's literally no one there". Sure enough, the sound had stopped, light had gone out, silhouette had disappeared, the area was far too open for them to have just ducked away and hid in the time it took me to turn round.
Sleep deprivation does weird things to the brain and the senses
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@EclipsedSoul4774
7 months ago
Should do a video of stories from people who spend a lot of time out at sea
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