What is the dumbest thing sleep deprivation made you do?

Spoon wet dog food into my coffee cup instead of my dog's bowl.
- I’ve scooped newly opened can of cat food right into the bin haha, but in my coffee def would have been worse!
  
  Thankfully I didn't drink any!
- In a similar vein, I was making coffee and my dogs food at the same time. Scooped coffee grounds on top of my dogs biscuits. Brain took a while to get in gear at what was wrong
  
  I think we all just need more sleep and the 8 hour work day is unnatural.

I pulled out of my parking lot at work, blinked, and suddenly found myself half way home with no memory of how I got there. I was so freaked out I pulled over to check my car for damage (there wasn't any). My route home involved a highway and several stop signs and lights at very busy junctions, goodness knows if I stopped for any of them. Drove very carefully the rest of the way home and swore never to drive tired again. I'd just pulled a 14 hour shift, and had a newborn at home so wasn't getting much sleep to begin with.
- That us definetely top tier sleep deprivation.

My brain switched yawning with moaning. Lets just say that wasn't the proudest day of my adult work life
- Really trying to imagine what this looked like lol
  
  Probably didn’t look much different than a person yawning.

Took some nyquil because I wasn't feeling well, I had stayed up until like 4 and I was too tired to realize that the drowsiness wouldn't wear off before I woke up. Got up feeling almost drunk and drove to work. I feel asleep on the road and woke up with just enough time to slow down before rear ending someone at 50 mph.
- Reason #21 that my mid-life crisis hasn't led to me buying a motorbike yet
  
  Personally, I’m inching closer and closer to that bad decision. I recently found out Suzuki brought back the small displacement GSXR and it’s cheap! Not a good combo for keeping me on 4 wheels. Worlds ending anyhow, right?
- Try phenegran 50mg. It doesn't make me drowsy in the morning. Or just 25mg.
  
  I just use dayquil now but thanks for the rec, I'll have to check that one out

These comments are starting to make me think that driving tired is as bad or worse than drunk driving.
- It is. Do not drive unless you’re focused.
- It absolutely, demonstrably is. I've gone home after working nights as a nurse and it's scary that people drive in that state, and are also responsible for others' lives.
- The sleep episode on Joe Rogan was great. Confirmed sleeping while tired is just as bad

Attempt to drive home after being awake for ~2 days. Flipped my vehicle several times and luckily came away with no serious physical injuries.
- Just done a 11hr 550mile drive on 3hrs sleep. Nearly 24hrs awake now. Was touch and go but 2days without sleep is worse. It's not something I'd do again as It's dangerous.
  Although, the amount of people using phones while doing 80 and causing incidents is worse.

My story is less destruction and more funny.
So, while very tired, I managed to find myself at a local coffee shop. I ordered my coffee, went over to the stand where the milk/sugar and stuff is.
What I intended to do next was to get a couple of sugar packets and put them into my coffee, and throw away the paper package, as usual.
What I actually did was, grab two sugar packets, tear them open and dump their contents directly into.... the trash. Yep. My brain skipped over the part where this step requires putting the package contents into my coffee.
I stood there for a minute while my brain tried to process what I had just done.
Once my brain caught up, I mentally facepalmed, dropped the now empty packets into the garbage, grabbed my coffee and went to sit down and drink it. I punished myself with drinking black coffee because I was too tired and stupid to deserve my coffee any other way.
- I've done things along this line too many times since having kids lol
  Worst lately was trying to get a juice box for the kid and intending to throw away the straw wrapper but instead throwing away the straw and being left with a kid pissed at having no straw to drink her juice box

I have to pick only one?
Hallucinate
Put a laptop in the fridge
Slur my words
Feeling myself being dumb just because i was tired.
- Last week my partner and I had multiple two hour sleep days in a row.
  The derealization was neat.
  The bugs not as much so.
  The ghost cats moving around my room out of the corner of my eye? Awesome.
  The brain fog? Business as usual I guess.
  
  I'm about to sleep properly for the 1st time in 4 days with a few hours sleep. I know the sleep deprivation dreams are coming. They are usually great but sometimes you get a bad one.

- There’s actually a disease where people can’t ever recognize their own limbs. Or feel it’s not theirs. Often in these cases, they try to amputate to “become whole”.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_integrity_dysphoria
- Are you sure you weren’t on shrooms or acid at the time?

Not going to sleep even harder

After pulling an all-nighter and working for around 22 hours, I went to the school I was then teaching at. I thought I was doing my usual thing, i.e. sitting at my workstation that was hooked up to a projector und demonstrating something while explaining what I was doing when one of my students interrupted me to tell me that I wasn't doing anything that made any sense and on top of that I was slurring my words. I asked the other students whether that was true and they reluctantly agreed. I excused myself and went to the toilet where I had a cry, which is extremely unusual for me. After that, I aborted the lesson and went home where I slept for more than 12 hours. Not a good memory.

I hallucinated a werewolf and slammed on the brakes of an 8 ton military vehicle in rural Afghanistan, causing a patrol to go on alert for an attack.
- Could be worse - a sleep-deprived navy crew crashed the USS McCain into a tanker
  
  Yep. That's definitely worse.

It's a toss up.
My favorite time was when I tried to pour myself a bowl of cereal. Got the bowl, milk, and cereal out. Poured the cereal into the milk jug. Put away the milk, cereal, and bowl. Walked away for some reason. Came back and couldn't find the bowl of cereal I just made. Looked all over for it. Finally gave up and got the milk, bowl, and cereal out to try again. Poured the cereal into the bowl this time. Poured the milk. Cereal is coming out of the milk jug. Suddenly flash back to a few minutes ago when I was picking up spilled cereal off the counter and shoving it into the milk jug because it missed when I tried to pour.
The worst time I was so sleep-deprived that I managed to throw some trash in the toilet and then I peed in the trash can.

Sometimes I like to sprinkle a little cinnamon or nutmeg into the morning coffee grinds before adding water. One day I accidentally added dried garlic flakes instead.
- Was it still edible?

Pour applejuice in my coffee instead of milk.

Put my phone in the washing machine with my clothes.
It didn't survive, RIP Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, you were a pretty good phone back in the day.

5 years after I left the Army, I still had some stuff put away where it used to be. Woke up after a night of drinking and 3 hours sleep, put on my PT uniform, and wondered why it was so tight.

While suffering insomnia, I changed my phone's passcode. Ended up having to nuke the OS the next day.

- One of the funniest things I ever saw on Twitter (long time ago): "Accidentally washed the toddler with dog shampoo. In my defense both bottles have pictures of puppies on them."

Put sneakers in the fridge.

Had a bad spout of insomnia mainly due to extremely high stress levels. I was sleeping 1-3 hours max every night for months. I somehow still got the minimum amount of work done but I was a zombie and have basically no recollection of what I did during that time. I ended up having sleep depravation psychosis essentially and when I would sleep and have any thought or dream, I thought it was absolutely real.
Strangest thing I did during that time was probably dropping my kids off at school and leaving them (this was during summer break). That was eye opening for me.
I’m thankfully in a much better place now. Still high stress job and a lot of anxiety that I carry with me home but I’m working on it!

Was up for ~24 hours when I decided to drive two hours to go to my parents house. This was a mistake. I had spray water at my face to keep my eyes open to drive. Made it to my dest. without incident. Never again.
- LPT: Park your car in a safe spot, start the timer on your phone and close your eyes. Just keep them closed for a length of time that feels like 5 minutes and then open them up again. Check the timer, realize you just took a 30 min nap, and continue driving safely. I’ve done this many times, and I’ve always felt very refreshed afterwards. Also driving suddenly became 64000% easier, which was a nice bonus.
  
  That's a good idea.
  My story took place 20 years ago. I have never driven that sleep deprived again.

When I was 18, I flew over to Australia from London via LA, stayed up all day and arranged to meet with some people that is meet on the plane for a beer, all good, having a drink in a pub out at Coogee Bay.
I was sat on a bar stool, closed my eyes, woke up standing next to the pool table having flicked all of the "next game" reservation coins onto the table. A very large Australian guy was saying "I hope you know where all those came from"
My new friend hustled me out of there, thankfully.

I can have trouble sleeping and have to battle fatigue at times. Not long ago I crunched the bumper of my car into the side of the garage because I was too mentally fatigued to drive. Didn't do a lot of damage, scratched the bumper and did minor damage to the the wall, but something I would have never done if I was properly rested and alert. Mental fatigue is a strange thing, it can make you fail in performing simple tasks you do routinely.

I poured cereal onto a paper plate. Luckily, I caught myself before pouring milk. After that, I almost put the milk in the cupboard and the cereal in the fridge.

I've put a plastic bowl full with liquid chocolate on the stove instead of the coffee maker.
Also, once I microwaved butter in aluminum foil for like 5-6 seconds and wondered why is there firework inside.

When my son was just a couple months old I was still suffering pretty heavily from sleep deprivation. I don't think that really passed until he was a year or so old. Here's some fun ones:
accidentally put his diaper on backwards a handful of times.. Which always led to pee everywhere, or worse.
dumped a couple scoops of baby formula into my coffee instead of sugar, a few times
caught a diaper blowout of baby poo with my bare hands because I couldn't react fast enough to grab a baby wipe instead (in my defense, I had just laundered the bed but he was sitting on it with me and my immediate thought was just "OH god not again")

Not really sleep deprived but in a groggy morning state.
I wear contact lenses. The morning time process of putting them on is very similar to the night time process of taking them off. On several occasions I confused these two processes and it always happened in the morning. I basically attempt to remove my contacts even though they're not in. I take my thumb and index finger and grip my bare eyeball in a gentle pinching motion. i do this multiple times before realizing my mistake. Lol turns out you can touch your bare eye with zero pain or discomfort

I love how there are so many replies that have to do with coffee, whether putting dog kibble into the coffee or forgetting to put the sugar in before tossing the sugar packets. I guess coffee and sleep deprivation go together.
I don't love how there are so many replies that have to do with commuting to and from work while sleepy. I guess work and sleep deprivation go together too. :/

TIL: I’m just dumb. I do/have done many of the things, people are listing here, not sleep deprived.

Once I almost flew around half the planet, but stopped half way and hitchhiked back.
... Don't ask.
- Superman, is that you?

Crash my car into a rock wall at 30 km/h. I'm glad I had dropped off my passenger because the passenger side no longer had leg space.

Trying to go into work to perform a server upgrade was probably the dumbest thing I ever tried to do despite sleep deprivation. Thank god I never clicked OK when I was asked to because that would've been a bad news, career terminated mistake.
- IT and sleep deprivation. It's all fun and games.

Was in a hotel. Hadn't slept in a week. Woke up, leaned over to get out of bed. Still asleep, slipped crashed hard into sharp bed table corner. Even asleep, quick reflexes meant I didn't cave my skull in. Instead, I found myself in a ball on the floor, my arm split open , entire forearm blue black and purple, gushing blood. Still have a scar from it 2 years later.
- Ouch, why did you not get sleep in a week?
  
  A week's nothing. Think my top score was 3 months with absolutely no sleep. Lifelong insomnia ftw.
  Edit. Meant to say 1 month with no sleep. Don't think 3 months no sleep is physically possible. I can last maybe 3 to 4 months of just 1 to 2 hours sleep a night, before complete collapse.

This was back when I was in the military, I finished my shift, went to our dormitories, pissed with the door open while someone was taking a shower and went to my room, found out I sad in the girl's dormitories.

Think to myself "I'll go to bed in ten minutes, after I read this one Reddit/Lemmy post."

Not go to bed and get some sleep.
It's a vicious cycle, at some point the sleep deprivation kills any executive function I may have had left. Which prevents me from actually going to bed instead of seeking quick dopamine hits.