[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 08:10 pm (UTC)Probably - she periodically would post things you'd posted that I liked enough to point to.
Only reason I haven't added you myself was because I just don't have time for more people who post long, but fascinating posts. (note that I wouldn't add my_self_ if I were in that position, because I tend to post too often, rather than necessarily long posts)
I figure even if I am only right once, that is one less stroke victim in the world, so I share.
Indeed! And that's an excellent way to think about it.
sympathy & hugs: thank you. :) *returns the hugs*
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Date: 2004-12-16 10:00 pm (UTC)I _only_ carried you for 9 months, and nursed you and er...
*grin*
Anyway. You're welcome.
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Date: 2004-12-16 10:07 pm (UTC)Right! That! :)