Waking up and not knowing where your at

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  1. Val_Caldera

    Val_Caldera Road Train Member

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    Personal Experience?
     
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    Wow that would be a rough morning
     
  3. buddyd157

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    happened to me once, up in IL. i woke up at the Playboy Mansion.

    but there weren't no bunnies around.......it was winter.

    worse nightmare of my life.
     
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    Only a minute?
    Man, you are fast.
     
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    google maps is good for that too..
     
  6. Val_Caldera

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    Couldn't Be 100% Sure In Later Driving Years But Sometimes I Would Awaken In The Sleeper To A Weird Thing On The Floor (and It May well Have Been Sleep Depravation):

    A Smaller Fleender Noogin' Knottiner With Harminger And a Sqeeziny Natchy Poker.
    (smaller doesn't indicate I saw a larger version, or any version atall.)

    Sometimes We See What We Don't and Vice Versa. :confused:o_O;)
    !!SREEHC
     
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    Tell you one thing, after 35 years of getting up at midnight, even in retirement, come 1 am, I'm tossing and turning, like I should be doing something. THAT'S where TTR comes in handy,,I guess that's 2 things, but be ready for that.
     
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    All too often. Specially the first 3 days out. "I swear I made it out of new england"
     
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    Haha! This is a funny subject and I find the better I sleep the more often it happens. A couple weeks ago I woke up and was 100% certain I was waking up at the place I was the day before. When I open the curtain I literally mumbled to myself “where the heck am I”. I had stopped in a small gravel parking area behind the McDonald’s I thought I was at a loves truckstop. It’s kinda of a weird feeling when it happens. It usually happens after several consecutive days of driving hard, when the days just kind of blend together.