[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

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

*blink*

Drawing?

[majes.livejournal.com]

Yes; I've been having... hrmmm... ok, visions lately - I guess for about a month. At first, they were about me drawing symbols onto my own body. Since I first started thinking about this and seeing it in my mind, it has grown more detailed, in that I have a notion of what all the symbols look like. Additionally, the feelings that I associate with these thoughts are empowering and calming. Anyway, I've more recently started "seeing" these symbols on other people - and when this occurs generally it gives me a sense of "if I drew that on this person then this person would be (healed/calmed/freed/enlightened/whatever)." I know. Crazy stuff. However, it won't go away, so it must be important to my mind for some reason. That's why I'm looking for stuff that can be used to draw on the skin, but can also be gotten off easily.

[entrochan.livejournal.com]

Gotta say. That's pretty cool. I believe there's a lot of power in symbols/ritual/belief. I've always been jealous of people who can tap into that.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah...

Neat! *impressed*

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Very Interesting...