If I’m REALLY tired, one of my eyelids (usually my left) will start to uncontrollably twitch.
My eyes change from blue to green. Seriously. I think this is probably an optical illusion, but my eyes are sort of a light blue and when I get tired look more light green. My guess is the rest of the eye is red somehow changing the apparent color of the iris. No idea why they don’t change to lilac.
ETA: I also get cranky.
My eyes get very dry and my face feels really warm and extra sensitive.
I also have a hard time speaking. Not coming up with words, just getting them out. I tend to run words together or trip over my tongue. This is partially because when I’m tired my mouth tends to get dry, I think.
Punchy when I’ve been up for a lot of hours straight. Mostly cold, and less patient with situations. I know I need to get away from people and get some rest.
Does anyone else also get really edgy? If I’ve gone almost over the edge of exhaustion, I get really buzzy and edgy, like my body’s vibrating or I’ve just taken one of those glucose tests they give you for gestational diabetes.
A headache that won’t go away with caffeine or Tylenol. Like the one I have right now. Ugh.
If I’m physically tired I get cold.
I’m also not a night person, so if I’m forced to stay up later than usual I get cranky, although sometimes I get a second wind for a while after a couple of hours.
When my body is tired and my brain is still going, I get restless leg syndrome. My legs will tell me it’s time for the body to go to bed. Not always though. Occasionally it’s time for an all-night video game session and my brain can ignore the RLS.
How do you know when you’re tired?
When you bend over to tie your shoe and say to yourself “I wonder what else I can do now that I’m down here.”
It feels like a giant hand is pushing me down, and gravity is working a little harder. I gues it’s kind of like winterhawk11’s cat sitting on my head.
I used to stutter as a kid and although I’ve mostly outgrown it, when I get really tired it comes back. Big time.
I get something similar, at least. It feels like my nerves are stretched tight somehow, like harp strings tuned too high.
The other warning sign is harder to describe. It feels sort of like my bones are hollowed out, and wind is blowing through them. That’s the one that means I’m at the edge of my resources, and that if I stop moving/doing stuff, I’ll fall asleep.
I had a roommate who was mildly dyslectic. He said he started reading numbers and things backwards when he was really tired.
Like seodoa, I start acting like I’m drunk, mostly by slurring my speech. This was quite interesting when I was in college and fraternity boys tried to take advantage of the situation, only to find out that I was not drunk and was able to snap to and let them have it.
It feels like my energy has been completely sapped, as if I’ve been up for 30 hours and done a million different things. I don’t get very tired like that too often.
I get nauseated when I’m up past what my body considers my bedtime. I’ve (finally) started to listen to this and get myself into bed at the first warning twinges, if not before.
Ditto here. This is exactly what happens when Stage One of “warning, fatigue, warning, warning” arrives for me.
Stage Two is when spindles and letter openers begin to mysteriously appear in the foreheads of my associates.
Will you take pictures next time you’re tired? I want to see if this cat-sitting-on-your-head thing is just a feeling or reality. For my own entertainment, I’m hoping the latter.
I stare off into space, not really thinking about anything. My eyes also get really heavy and gradually close. The “Oh, I’ll just rest them for five seconds” turns into “Oh god it must have been ten minutes by now and for the life of me I can’t get these things opened again! Am I drooling?! The teacher must have noticed by now!”
Happened a lot, especially in my 8:30 Political Science classes. But when those eyes do close for the few sweet seconds, it’s orgasmic.