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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/NoCommunication7 on 2026-01-08 16:56:03+00:00.
This happened last night, i was having trouble sleeping for some reason but i finally fell asleep, i woke up about an hour or two later but something was wrong, i opened my eyes and i couldn't see anything, i shot up in bed and started panicking, what's wrong with my eyes? i've been trying to lucid dream lately so i thought it might have been a sleep paralysis thing even though i don't suffer from that and i hadn't tried any methods, i could just about see an outline of my window, i thought maybe my eyelids were stuck or something, i do suffer from conjunctivitis and sometimes find it hard to open my eyes after waking up if i've been really deep in a dream, so i try to gently pry my eye lids open and nothings happening, but it's the only hope i have so i keep doing it (luckily gently so i didn't damage my eyes) finally my eyes came back on, i looked around, it was 5 AM and decided to go back to sleep even though i was panicked over what just happened, i figured i'd google and ask around in the morning.
I woke up in the morning to my brother talking to my mom
'Yea there was five or six power cuts in the night, around 5 to 8'
That's when it dawned on me, it was a power outage, you see, i sleep with the light on, where i live there's no lights close to the house that aren't also powered by the mains, and if it's a cloudy moonless night, like it was last night, you literally cannot tell the difference between having your eyes open and closed if it happens at night, and it's the winter so nights are nice and long, i keep an electric lantern in my room for this very reason, and it didn't dawn on me whatsoever to switch it on, i literally mistook a power outage for going blind in my sleep.
TL;DR: If you wake in the middle of the night and you can't see, turn on a battery powered light, don't have a panic attack trying to force your eyelids open because you think you actually went blind in your sleep