Very oddly I have had the same experiences as you described. Sleep deprived driving hallucinations and a road covered in a sea of blood from what must have been a deer obliterated by a tractor trailer.
Although the deer blood was at night, it was not the same trip as the sleep hallucinations.
Yes...it certainly made me blink!
Fortunately, I don’t drive crazy like that anymore.
I drove down to Florida to visit my best friend last month, and in two weeks, put over 5,000 miles on my car, but my wife would not speak to me if I tried to drive straight through, and...it is much nicer to break it up!
Oh, man. I remember a night at about 2:30 am going home with a chauffeur from N.Y. City. I was an IT contractor working for Merrill Lynch in Manhattan around 1990. Building a new database. They were very generous at the time and offered me a chauffeur ride home. The ride was to Rural Kingwood N.J. about 5 miles to the Pennsy border, and 50 miles from N.Y. City. I warned him about the deer, but he was a student from Japan, and didn’t understand. When we got of of exit 15 on I78 in Clinton, it was foggy, and a herd of about a dozen deer were in the middle of the road. He was astonished, asked who do these animals belong to? I guess he never saw a wild animal before.