Is this consciousness? Sleeping?

Question: Let's say you have a problem with hypoglycemia (sometimes reactive, sometimes not, it seems). You eat a bowl of oatmeal, then get very, very tired and your heart starts pounding. So naturally, you put your head down. You later wake up and feel like you've been drugged and you try to speak and move and find that you can only do so with great difficulty, and the speech is coming out garbled at first. You feel that you have not been asleep but have been in some altered state of consciousness, as falling asleep does not feel the same to you. Yet people who do not understand this keep saying they get sleepy after eating, or "maybe you didn't sleep enough last night, but you are not like so-and-so who passed out from eating sugar." Am I not? And what about finding that you are sitting in a chair and you have been sitting there unaware for a few minutes, but awake? What are such situations called? Stupidity? Imagination?

Answers:
If you eat and your blood sugar drops, that IS reactive hypoglycemia. In your example you ate the oatmeal and then had the reaction. It's hard to get someone to understand something they have no experience with. But you're describing does happen to people who are taking insulin and have an insulin reaction. I read about a woman who woke up and knew her blood sugar was low, was aware of what she needed to do but was unable to move or speak. She kept trying to get up but couldn't. She finally made enough noise trying to move and speak that someone heard her and helped her. It's called low blood sugar. It's real. Getting people to understand it however will be a challenge.

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Consciousness Sleeping....isn't that most people driving?

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