A digression about sleep
There’s something strange about sleep, particularly during an illness. Having a fever produces some of the most curious, often disturbing thoughts you are ever likely to have. I got home from work at about 9 pm and just kind of collapsed, putting off plans for a freelance project about a property development that I know nothing about – “Just make it up,” they said.
I fell asleep in the knowledge that I should really get this project finished, but my aching body needed rest. For several hours I slept, descending into an altered world of confusing visions. In my fever I concocted great plans for taking over the world and devised a way to complete my freelance project using my mind alone, eliminating the need to actually do any work.
Such great ideas seem so vividly possible when you’re feverish, but once you rise up out of that sleep the realities of life return.
When I was younger, having a fever was a horrible experience. As I would lie in my bed trying to sleep, I was plagued by incessant visions of random images and sounds, and even songs. There was one time when Madonna’s “Erotica” repeated itself in my mind over and over and over to the point where I couldn’t stand it.
Another time while on holiday in the South of France I awoke delirious, convinced that I had caused a large number of people to die in a plane crash. So utterly distraught at having caused such a disaster, I walked around in a state of utter confusion until eventually my fever wore off. The fear that crossed over from sleep into the waking world was so powerful that I could never forget it.
What strange thoughts have crossed your mind during sleep?
I sleep like the dead when I have a fever and can't recall having any weird thoughts. Or perhaps it is simply that I am always plagued with weird thoughts, regardless of my temperature. :)
That project? Your health always comes first. Always :)
Peace,
~Chani
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Most of my feverish delerium fades from memory pretty quick so cant really recall the details after the first 5 minutes of consciousness..also related is the twisted nightmares caused from a full or bloated stomach.. I can now recall some craziness paddling in an ancient savaged canoe amidst bangkok canals of blood and fecies following some hooded skeletor dude. ..
You are He-Man!
Stop joking about He-Man you fool.
My delirium doesn't happen when I sleep but rather when I wake up.
I woke up after a very strong fever and thought I slept the whole night.
It was 18:00 and I thought it was 06:00.
I couldn't understand why the maid was here so early, why my parents were not at home and their bed untouched.
The sun light outside was of little help and checking the clock on the fridge showed 06:00.
I stayed in this state of total confusion until my parents eventually came back from a shop and explained that it was 18:00.
That's my weirdest experience ever. The 2nd one is when I hit an octopus in the face while torpedoing underwater but that's another story.