Good thing you're okay. People that drive half asleep are still safer than senior citizens behind the wheel.

 

For real man...
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/stor...?hub=TopStories
This happened recently where I live.

 

I've done this before on I-675 from Dayton to Cincinnati Ohio. When you first realize you were sleeping it scares the heck out of you. I know this is terrible but I was to the point that I was hallucinating. I was thinking I saw monkeys crossing the interstate. It helped me realize that if it is late enough that I will just stay wherever I was at.

 

Late night driving one the flat featureless roads of the midwest if the worst.

Once, driving through the cornfields of southern Illinois, I thought I saw wolves running along side the car. Impossible since I was going about 90 mph, I had to bite my lip to stay awake.

Then way in the distance I saw a lone stationary wolf. In a matter of seconds I discovered it wasn't an hallucination at all. It was a real large dog on the pitch black rode. I swerved and narrowly missed it by mere inches.

 

I had a terible drive from FL to MD once. I kept pulling into rest stops and trying to sleep, but couldn't do more than 10-20 minutes, then I'd get back on the road for a couple hours. Spent the whole night doing this, and was miserable when I got home. Shoulda just gotten a room in SC.

 

Wow, that is a terrible incident.

To the OP, happy to hear your o.k. Be safe out there.

 

Glad you and your son are alright.

I used to have this happen after long weekends at the cottage a couple hours north of Toronto. Driving home on Sunday night after lots of weekend drinking and days in the sun resulted in the hallucinations as well. Swerving for cars that were real, and jamming the brakes a couple times for non-existent deer.

Back when I was in college I was a part of some pretty crappy teams on some assignments and spent many nights up all night doing 5-6 peoples' work. Closest call I ever had was falling asleep on the way to class and waking up with my car drifting over about 5 lanes. Fortunately Toronto has some huge-ass highways and I was actually exiting the highway when I woke up. Wasn't my exit though. Guess could've been my exit in a worse way!

Now, hotels and sleeping in my car are common if I'm at all drowsy. Was sleeping in the S once late at night in a Costco parking lot , and I woke up quickly and thought I fell asleep driving. I hit the brakes SO fast and squeezed the crap out of the wheel. That was a pretty good wake up call for me, I made the rest of the trip easily being so on edge.

 

glad to hear you are ok

 

nothing like hearing bump, bump, bump, bump as you drive off the shoulder

 

are you sure you werent drinkign and driving ^^