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thank you all for the birthday wishes. sadly i forgot today was it and had to be reminded. worried i may be going senile prematurely.
(Part 1)
Over 4:30 AM. After a short TV night went to bed about 9 PM. Two sleeping pills, nothing. An hour and half later a third of a bottle of Talisker, nothing. Gave up about 11:45 PM, once again lying in the bed, keyboard on my stomach and mouse next to me on the mattress.
Informed my co-workers earlier today (or yesterday?) I'm going to stay home this week. Need to sleep, want to sleep, but what can you do when you after barbiturates and whisky still can't sleep, even in a nice and cosy bed, absolutely dark and quiet room.
I've tried. Name a method to learn to sleep, I've done it. Therapy, pills, hypnosis (what a BS experience that was!), diet, exercise.
Good night, America. Good morning, Europe. Good afternoon, Australia.
Kari
Been to the library to do Job Search and found 1 to go for, which is better than nothing.
have you tried Melotonin? Melatonin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Quote from Wiki:
Dreaming
Some supplemental melatonin users report an increase in vivid dreaming. Extremely high doses of melatonin (50 mg) dramatically increased REM sleep time and dream activity in both people with and without narcolepsy.[47] Many psychoactive drugs, such as cannabis and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), increase melatonin synthesis.[47] It has been suggested that nonpolar (lipid-soluble) indolic hallucinogenic drugs emulate melatonin activity in the awakened state and that both act on the same areas of the brain.[47]
Treatment of circadian rhythm disorders
Exogenous melatonin taken in the evening is, together with light therapy upon awakening, the standard treatment for delayed sleep phase syndrome and non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome. It appears to have some use against other circadian rhythm sleep disorders as well, such as jet lag and the problems of people who work rotating or night shifts.
Taken 30 to 90 minutes before bedtime, melatonin supplementation acts as a mild hypnotic. It causes melatonin levels in the blood to rise earlier than the brain's own production accomplishes. This usage is now commonly used in sleep and relaxation drinks, such as Dream Water[51].
A very small dose taken several hours before bedtime in accordance with the phase response curve for melatonin in humans (PRC) doesn't cause sleepiness but, acting as a chronobiotic (affecting aspects of biological time structure),[52] advances the phase slightly and is additive to the effect of using light therapy upon awakening. Light therapy may advance the phase about one to two-and-a-half hours and a small oral dose melatonin, timed correctly some hours before bedtime, can add about 30 minutes to the advance achieved with light therapy
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