I've Never

I've never fallen asleep behind the wheel before. Until that is last night. It was the scariest thing in the world. What happened was I had been on a trip over the weekend where I was required to instantly change my schedule from going to sleep at 7 am to going to sleep at 10 pm, I was able to do it pretty easily, but as it's been the case time and time before changing it to that is easy, getting back on the 7 am schedule is incredibly hard. Well Monday morning I woke up after getting about ten hours of sleep and had to move into my new apartment. I got all the things together and ran it down to my new apartment. I didn't get it all however, so I had to make another trip. The biggest downside to all of this was I wore myself out and still had work that night from midnight to 7 am. I finished bringing all my stuff (I thought) and then went to work. By about 3 am I was dying, I was so tired and I couldn't handle being awake. By four am I gave up and emailed my boss saying I couldn't stay in because I was still trying to get back onto the schedule. I thought, hey luckily this time I live only five minutes away from work, I'll be good to go. I got back to my apartment and found two things I had forgotten about.

Now as I've said before I have a very low tolerance for heat and a high tolerance for the cold. Well when I entered the apartment that night by room was sweltering, I tried just about everything but my room would not cool down, I was finding it so hard to get comfortable and I could not fall asleep even with how tired I was. Well the other problem I had was that I forgot to bring down bed sheets. Now this wouldn't be too much of a problem if I didn't have this weird allergic reaction to certain types of fabrics. For instance, you know in hotels how they have the bed sheets, then they have that brown blanket and then the big blanket. Well that brown blanket causes me to have a slight allergic reaction where if I touch it I have trouble breathing. Well my mattress was made out of some sort of fabric like that and I found I couldn't breathe as I touched it, which meant I really needed bed sheets. So at 5 in the morning I finally decided to drive back to my house about half an hour away and sleep there.

I turned on some loud music that I could sing along to, and I had the ac on full. I tried opening the window but as I have unkempt hair it blew into my face. Well as I was about a minute away from my house I was really losing it, I was trying to do anything to keep myself awake and it was really tough, I was bouncing up and down, hitting myself but my mind kept insisting that it was shut down time. Well as I had just one more corner to go my mind drifted to a thought I had had and for a few seconds I blipped out. I don't remember anything that happened in that couple seconds, the next thing I knew I was in the left lane going about 30 mph heading for a garbage can. Well finally that woke me up. I swerved over and was able to get home safely. By the time my head hit the pillow at home I was asleep. But believe me, after those couple seconds was one of the most startling moments of my life.

So as a procaution, today I brought down my bed sheets and I bought 3 fans for my room, my roommates did want at least one for their room, which I'm okay with, but I insisted on at least two being in my room. Especially since I don't want to go through that again.