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About 10 years ago I went for a sleep study after my mom witnessed me not breathing in my sleep, I was visiting her house and slept on the couch.
The day after my second study where I wore a CPAP to get the pressure adjusted properly to get me breathing again. This is the day like you that is seared into my brain. I somehow spent 32 years before that not breathing properly while sleeping.
I was at work later that day and felt weird but couldn't figure it out, I stood on a forklift unmoving for 10 minutes thinking about this troubling feeling in my head. It felt like I had drank a Jolt Cola, and I realized the first time in my life I felt awake without needing a ton of caffeine. I literally reintroduced myself to my co-workers because I felt like an entirely different person.
Now I don't drink more than once or twice a year because living life raw and unfiltered and awake is still new to me 10 years on.