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Re:Head asleep, body awake by AcerbicZero on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @08:57AM (#23831326)
Can confirm, I’ve been hit with it a few times when I messed up my sleep schedule bad enough. The first time I tried to just chill until it passed, and that was the longest 3 minutes of semiconscious ever.

Since then I’ve had decent luck forcing myself awake by using what little control I have to mess with my own breathing until I “wake up” but the whole process sucks, and usually makes me feel like I’m dying.

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Re:Head asleep, body awake by StavrosK on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:16AM (#23831537)
I either go back to sleep (relatively easy because I'm still sleepy) or struggle until I wake (harder because struggling makes you panic more).

Once I managed to wiggle my pinky against my wife and she realized what was happening and woke me up fully.

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