Scary Sleep Deprivation Stories: What Are Some of the Most Horrifying Ones?

The hallucinations are often the most horrifying part. Imagine seeing a ghost - like figure or a menacing creature right in your room while you're unable to react. In some stories, people see their worst fears come to life during sleep paralysis, like being surrounded by spiders if they have arachnophobia.

A trucker was delivering goods in a remote area. He parked his truck near an old, abandoned building to take a short break. As he was resting, he heard strange noises coming from the building. It sounded like someone was dragging heavy chains. He was so terrified that he quickly started his truck and drove away as fast as he could. He later learned that the building was an old prison site where many people had died.

One story is about a patient in an asylum who would constantly hear whispers in the middle of the night. The asylum was an old, dilapidated building with long, cold corridors. Every night, this patient would be woken up by voices that seemed to be coming from the walls. It was later found out that there had been some cruel experiments in that very room decades ago and many patients had died there in agony.

There was this case where a famous actress was stalked by a deranged fan. The stalker managed to find out her home address and would send her creepy gifts like dead flowers and dolls with their eyes scratched out. He also sent her threatening letters, saying that she belonged to him. It was really terrifying for her and she had to hire a lot of security. In yet another story, a man was stalked by someone who thought he had wronged them in some business deal. The stalker would follow him everywhere, even on family vacations, and try to sabotage his life by spreading false rumors about him.

There's a Japanese horror story about a girl named Sadako from 'The Ring'. She was brutally murdered and thrown into a well. Her curse spreads through a videotape. Anyone who watches the tape will receive a phone call saying they will die in seven days, and then they are haunted by her terrifying image until their death.

There was this time when I heard about a driver who saw a strange figure standing in the middle of the highway in the middle of the night. They couldn't tell if it was a real person or something else. As they got closer, it just disappeared. It made them so spooked that they drove faster to get away from that area. It's one of those unexplained and truly scary highway incidents.

A friend of mine was walking late at night near an old asylum. He said he saw a figure in a white gown floating near a window. He ran away as fast as he could. Just the thought of it gives me chills.

Confusion is a very common element. Like mistaking one thing for another, just like the story where someone thought their cat was a dragon. Another common element is doing everyday tasks in a really strange way. For example, making coffee wrong like my coworker did.

Once, my neighbor was sleep - deprived from a noisy night. In the morning, he went outside to get the newspaper. Instead of picking it up, he started having a conversation with the mailbox as if it was a person. He was asking it how its day was going and if it had any interesting news. His wife saw him and couldn't stop laughing. He was so out of it that he didn't even understand why she was laughing at first.

Sure. There was a man who worked long shifts at a factory and didn't get enough sleep. After a while, he started having heart palpitations. One day, when he was extremely sleep - deprived, he felt like his chest was being squeezed and he couldn't breathe. He thought he was having a heart attack, which was a very scary experience related to sleep deprivation.