[query.dreams]

[wispfox]

Anyone have any suggestions for making me dream less? It seems to go along with having a restless night, and it's really becoming a problem from the perspective of getting restful sleep (and not waking up in a really annoyed/melancholy/frustrated mood - the melancholy seems to be purely dreams-driven, but the other two are almost certainly from sleeping poorly). I _think_ it's an aspect of wintertime and my melatonin subsystem being fucked, but I'm not sure.

Valarian tends to not work for me, at all, if I'm having trouble getting to or staying asleep. At most it makes me sleepy.

Melatonin at least gets me to sleep, but if I'm restless will not keep me there for very long, or very deeply.

Benadryl and similar make me sleepy, but not sleep and not stay asleep.

I really don't want a perscription med to help me sleep, both because they are geneally addictive, and because I've found that any meds which have a side effect of having me unconscious most of the time make for really poor (although generally dreamless) sleep. Worse than if I slept on my own (only real example of this I have is strong painkillers, like Percocet).

Suggestions?

Comments

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

My MD gave me Trazadone. It is supposed to be an antidepressant but it doesn't work well as an antidepressant; what it *does* do is help you stay asleep once you get there. It doesn't put you to sleep, and there's no hangover or addiction. I took it for a while when I was working and really needed sleep at night; the stress would wake me up about 2am.

Melatonin made me dream like crazy.

If you haven't slept well for a while and then "catch up" you will do a lot of dreaming, too. Start writing down your dreams for yourself, see what's going on in your head while you're sleeping.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

melatonin: noted.

Trazadon: shall investigate.

Writing down my dreams: don't really need to. If I'm dreaming this much, I remember them well enough to know what's going on in them. Nothing particularly new, and nothing over which I have any control.

Thank you!