Sleep is essential to all human beings. Without it, we literally go crazy – there’s a reason it’s used as a form of torture – and one of the ways that insanity manifests is in auditory and visual hallucinations.

So, if you were wondering whether or not being sleep-deprived is really so bad, well…read these 14 stories and decide for yourself.

14. It’s like doing drugs but not.

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13. Pretty sure this is how the world ends.

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12. That must have been a bit embarrassing.

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11. Do YOU think I’m good?

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10. It wouldn’t have been a funny story if you’d “woken up” in a hospital.

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9. There might be almost nothing scarier, tbh.

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8. Trippy, and not in a good way at all.

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7. Shadow people are always scary.

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6. Those first postpartum days are ROUGH.

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5. Are you really SURE, though?

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4. You brain just…forgets you know someone?

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3. I’m going to need to Google this.

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2. That’s got to be…stressful.

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1. That requires quite a bit of faith.

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I don’t know about you, but I’m off to take a nap.

Do you have any stories like this? If so, please drop them in the comments!