I've had some bizarre experiences from staying awake too long on amphetamines in

the past. I distinctly remember seeing things that I couldn't explain, they were scary
so I wanted to believe they were just hallucinations but I had to face the reality of
the matter. My brain has suppressed most of the memories of it now but I remember
it had to do with time, I was hearing voices that were talking about things that
hadn't yet happened (i.e. they would happen a bit later). Also I remember that I
started remembering new dreams but I am 100% sure that I hadn't fallen asleep
because I was doing tasks that required my full attention and there was no
interruption in the task. I knew they were new dreams because they contained
things from that day and I hadn't fallen asleep since they happened. The dreams
were fairly uneventful but there were extremely negative emotions attached to
them.

There was serious synchronicity occuring, i.e. I heard a song playing that said "Its a
crazy world, stick with the crowd and you'll be just fine" at the exact moment that I
was thinking that I was straying from the mental cattle pen which is constructed to
herd humanity. Through sleep deprivation, I was leaving the cattle pen and there
were fear inducing mechanisms set in place to scare me back into the pen (and they
worked I should add, I was terrified and just wanted things to go back to normal). I
got the idea that when we sleep, the mental programming is updated to keep us
locked into this physical reality thing and that by avoiding sleep, the program
update could not occur and as a result, I was straying from the cattle pen but I was
running into something like the etheric equivalent of an electric fence. I had the idea
that the electric fence would only be the first obstacle I encountered, eventually I'd
have to face intelligent entities vastly more knowledgeable and intelligent than
myself whos job it is to keep stray cattle from escaping the pen

At one point I walked into my bedroom and I saw what looked like dragonfly wings
flapping at the edge of my table, I could even hear the buzzing sound coming from
it. I went in for a closer inspection and it stopped moving. It was a piece of
cellophane wrapper. Its like my brain couldn't determine its exact location so it was
rapidly alternating between multiple locations. When I started learning quantum
physics years later, I realised that this could be explained as the quantum
wavefunction failing to collapse which would be a profoundly interesting
observation. Like a glitch in the matrix.

The experiences I had during these psychotic episodes (had 3 of them in total)
profoundly altered my perception of reality. Very interesting stuff. When I remember
the scene from The Mothman Prophecies where the policewoman says "This isn't the
village speed freak reporting these strange things happening, its good honest
churchgoing people" I get goosebumps because I remember the things I've
experienced while in that sleep deprived state.

EDIT: I should mention though that my theory now is that I was starting to dream
while I was still awake. Memories are fluid so maybe nothing paranormal happened
at all, maybe it was just my skewed perception of it. Can we say that anything is real
for sure though? I have lucid dreams every night so I've learned a thing or two about
this reality thing. My experiences would lead me to believe that this reality thing is
actually similar to a dream.