[query.dreams]
Dec. 15th, 2004 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxAnyone 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?
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?
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Date: 2004-12-16 05:23 pm (UTC)Oh, indeed. I've an appointment for early January to talk to my doctor about it.
might be an atypical reaction to SAD
Atypical? Hmm. Ok. Never struck me as even remotely atypical, so now I'm wondering what the typical reactions are...
making yourself spend more of the daytime in full spectrum lighting
I already do this, because I _know_ I have SAD problems, whether or not this particular thing is one of them. Also have a light box. Not sure if I sleep better or not with than without, since until this year I was _way_ more aware of the seratonin things. This is the first year that that part is at least mostly under control.
But whatever it is, attend to the dangerous ones so you can be sure that you aren't putting yourself in long term danger. You don't deserve to die of something because no one took it seriously enough.
Indeed. And again, thank you!