Black Dog?

I've seen gators in the road that weren't really there and what you swear is an animal running across the road. It's fatigue, I doubt you really ever see a "black dog" its more of a term to describe the tricks your mind plays on you when you are too tired to be driving.

 

I used to run from Salinas CA to Orlando FL in 2 and a half days (2600 miles). I have been so tired that I have seen things in the road that I know weren't there. I was coming out of Van Horn TX and saw a man laying on the side of the road. He looked like he was having some kind of seizure. There were at least 8-10 trucks ahead of me talking on the CB to each other. All of them past the spot where I saw the man and none of them saw him !!! Many times I have seen things coming straight at me right at the fartherest edge of my headlights and it would disappear as it got closer. I do not take any kind of drugs. This is just from being awake too long. I don't run like that anymore. So yes, it is true. But I think the term "black dog" is just a generic phrase that means anything you see that really isn't there ! Been there, seen that

 

you just need to try harder

 

Its more screwed up when you jsut think your seeing things but they ARE there. I ran over a family of racoons. I had just woken up late and figured my eyes just werent focusing great as the sun was coming up and then I hit those lil ######## good god thatll wake you up.

 

No black dog, but I do like to pretend sometimes a splattered bug on my windshield is actually the cross hairs for my truck mounted missile launcher. Just line up the bug with an annoying commuter and start making machine gun noises with my lips.

Geeze louise sometimes I get pretty freakin board and need a break from that truck LOL!!!

 

I've hallucinted before but never behind the wheel of a rig. However I plowed snow in a bobcat for 26 hours straight last winter, and driving home I was seeing all sorts of stuff, I thought I saw a bear, an elf! and a street sign that never got any closer even though I knew I passed it

 

I was so tired once that I thought I saw a man in the distance holding out his arm. It was actually one of those sound barriers they put up next to the freeway. I have seen plenty of animals that turned out to be signs, grass, or bushes.

 

Never seen the Black dog but back in the day when i first started driving i used to run very very hard with out sleep. So one night while rolling across NM i was very tired and i saw a large pink clown with purple dots,with a big evil grin on his face running right beside my drivers side door.

Needless to say i never ran that tired agian!


Oh and my wife and i did see 6 UFO's being chased by two fighter planes over the Salt flats in Utah one night and we had just started driving after 10 hrs off so we were not tired or on drugs. That story is no lie people,THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!

 

I know about you boys from Taylorsville LOL

But I think you hit on something. All my episodes were early on and I seemed to outgrow it when I built up my endurance.
I had a freakout in NM myself. First trip to CA and I had never seen a tumbleweed.
I was coming out of Las Cruces pretty wired up one night when the whole place lit up with that freaky desert lightning. All at once I saw this massive tumblweed in my lane and I thought it was going to total out my truck LOL
When it just shattered, I was so relieved, but I was jumpy and paranoid all night.

 

Years ago I ran for an outfit that gave you lots of miles and never asked how you accomplished them. I had a buddy that I used to run with a lot and we'd take some "cross tops" and haul ###! So one night after we'd been running for about 5 days straight without sleep we were runnin' down this back road and all of the sudden my buddy just stopped! I stopped behind him and waited for a little while and then I got on the CB and asked him what he was stopped for...

He said..."I'm waitin' for the train to pass!" I looked ahead and not only was there not a train passin' by, There weren't even any tracks!
Not long after that we decided that coffee was the strongest stimulant that either of us would ever take again...I never took pills again and he's no longer in the business!