I have an idea!
Let's set off our car alarm at 3:45 am! Let's not shut it off for about 45 seconds! Let's repeat this 7 times in a row! Let's argue loudly in the street each time we do it!
Somebody's gonna die, and I'm gonna go to jail for a very long time. Can chronic insomnia be used as an insanity defense? Or, at least someone reactivating that insomnia by awakening me from one of the few times I'm actually soundly asleep? Only thing that could have made it worse would be if they had loudly yelled, "APRIL FOOL!" after the last time they shut it off. I would have made national headlines with the violent scene that would have erupted had that been the case. CSI would be documenting the aftermath for weeks, guaranteed. George W. Bush would go on the air and be all like, "sorry, but the man just went nukular." It would have been a crazy scene. Good thing they didn't say that.
Friday is not off to a good start. Red Bull here I come!
posted by Maki @ 7:28 AM
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Sorry about your morning, hope things improved ...
You're considered legally incompetent to make decisions after 72 hours without sleep (meaning you can't sign legal documents, can't operate machinery or drive and what not). And from personal experience I can tell you that you start to hallucinate after about 90 hours. My no sleep record is 115 hours - very bad reaction to medication and the doctor just kept giving me sleeping pills on top of the other meds (which may have contributed to the hallucinations).
The highest I've cracked was 67 straight hours. I'm such a rookie. I guess I'll never crack the hallucination stage. I can fall asleep after a while, but my main problem is maintaining that sleep. I tend to wake up every hour or so, which feels worse. If I couldn't get to sleep I'd stay up and do something else (or at least try to.) As it is, I stay in bed because I can get back to sleep eventually. That is, unless somebody's having fun with THEIR FUCKING CAR ALARM.
Yes, I do feel better now.
If you can't get REM sleep, isn't that factored in, as well?
I have a hellacious time relaxing long enough to fall asleep, then wake up time after time in the middle of the night.
I've hallucinated thanks to bad medication reactions-oh, that was so much fun. Have to have the painkiller, blindly take the sleeping pill-I haven't made that mistake since.
I have Fibromyalgia which means that my brain doesn’t produce the chemical needed to obtain stage four sleep (the stage where a person’s body heals itself) without medical help. I take hardcore muscle relaxers about three hours before I go to bed just so I can sleep like a “normal” person though I still need at least 8 hours of sleep to feel well (9 or 10 is even better).
I’ve experimented with a lot of remedies for sleep disorders and have found that the herb Valerian is helpful as is chamomile and peppermint tea or catnip tea for calming one’s mind. And strange as it sounds, the smell of natural lavender also promotes restful sleep. You might want to try one of these (and it's all herbalism, not magick!) )O(
The problem with Valerian is that it smells like the funk you'd find between your toes if you stopped bathing for at least a month. I found it didn't do anything for me, anyway.
I guess I've only taken Valerian in capsule form so I didn't notice the smell ... Personally I think catnip smells like piss but my cats love it therefore I couldn't make tea out of it and survive the drinking process ... Have you tried music? I have a Delta sleep CD which is okay. The Theta one is better but Theta sleep is more for meditation and that lovely drifting trance feeling ...
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