What’s happening in your brain when you are “losing your mind” from lack of sleep?

Question

What’s happening in your brain when you are “losing your mind” from lack of sleep?

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Answer 1

This may not be correct but it’s how I see it, but someone else will gladly correct me if I’m wrong so no worries there:

“Reality” is a very controlled form of hallucination that your brain has. It has a bunch of crazy impulses going on all at the same time and it has a “best effort” approach to keep things tidy. As you get exhausted, there’s less effort put into controlling your perception or “reality”, which would lead to wacky things.