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While googling “insomnia cure,” I found this IMDB page on a movie entitled, “The Cure for Insomnia”:
This film is basically an experiment designed to reprogram biological clocks for insomniacs so they can sleep again. L.D. Groban reads his own poem during the span of about four days, which is interspliced with stock footage of heavy-metal videos and x-rated footage.
You read that correctly. About four days. Lest there be no misunderstanding,
This is the longest movie ever made at a total running time of 87 hours. It premiered in its entirety at The School Of The Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois from 31 January to 3 February 1987 in one continuous showing.
One viewer’s thumbs-up vote:
check it out next time u have 85 hours to your self
I think I’ll sleep well tonight, but I can never be sure until ten or fifteen minutes after lights-out. That’s when the fatigue of the day either takes hold or mysteriously vanishes. As I mentioned in a previous post, drugs help (my usual cocktail: melatonin plus half a benadryl). Exercise helps. Sex helps. Nothing works 100% of the time.
What works for you?
D.
I’m far more likely to sleep to much than suffer from insomnia. A lot of that is physiological, and some emotional. Stress makes me want to crawl into bed and pull the covers up over my head.
But I find I sleep better if I don’t have caffeine after 7pm, and exercise on a regular basis (not that I’ve been doing that recently, bad me!) One of my medications causes really vivid and restless dreams that leave me a tired and groggy as if I didn’t get much sleep, so I have to take it in the morning so I can be rested that night. It’s a real pain if I forget to take it til bedtime.
I also sleep better if I’m not sleeping alone…
Three young children. By the time I get them to sleep, I’m worn out. It doesn’t take much more than a comfy couch cushion to knock me out.
I can get to sleep easily enough, my problem is staying alseep, but I’m getting used to it and the extra hours in the day are handy (though I do tend to lose some time in the afternoon as I’m just too tired to face anything ;o))
That should be asleep, not alseep. What can I say, I’m tired!
Elusive sleep!! Bastard sandman obviously ignoring you too? I find it easier to just get up, go downstairs, have a cup of decaff tea, put on the computer and play games on pogo, or even better – talk to people on yahoo chatrooms. All entirely snooze worthy.
I can’t stay asleep either jona, I keep wishing I had a pool so I could just go out and float beneath the stars. I figure if I’m going to be awake – I may as well be peaceful. And a sauna! A sauna and a pool for lazing about in the wee small hours. Yup – that would be divine.
Medical folks who live to classify things have, of course, classified insomnia. And I think mid-evening waking is one of the variants, IIRC. I get all three: trouble getting to sleep, trouble staying asleep, and waking up way before I need to.
Decent night last night, thank heavens, and I think I may be catching up on my REM sleep. Can’t remember any of the dreams, unfortunately. That always leaves me feeling cheated.
Air conditioning is very helpful for sleeping, too. Too bad we don’t have any. 🙁
Hiya–I’m back. Didja miss me? Will get to the oral sex soonest. **smooches**
Of course I missed you! Any gal who mentions oral sex and smooches in the same breath is tops in my book.
re: insomnia, that’s a common problem over here, for those nights that sleep just isn’t showing up (car broke down on the highway, or sleep is in the detox, or something) I take a bath with a lot of lavender oil in it, or, when utterly desperate I’ll put in a mix of jasmine and vanilla. If I don’t fall asleep easily after that, at least I can read something while in the tub, I’ll at least be relaxed even if I’m sleep deprived.
Oh and shameless blogwhoring (Livejournal whoring?) I posted the pate a choux post.
Half a Unisom, or the generic equivalent, does it for me.
Jim: Unisom is benadryl (I think), so you and I are doing pretty much the same thing.
beard: makes me want to get my hot tub back in working order! on my way for the pate choux. You’re always welcome here, you little blogwhore you.
I use imovane. Can’t use it every night, and sometimes I still wake up in the middle of the night, but the doc says I can take another half if I really feel it necessary. I wake myself up every 10 minutes or so if I don’t take one. I’ve also been known to sleepwalk and sleep-argue. And when I do sleep, I can only do it for 3-4 hours at a time.
Yeh. I know. I’m messed up. 🙂
My little purple book says of Imovane: Canada only. It’s also listed under ambien, which (as I’ve mentioned in the past) makes me raving nuts. Guess we’re all messed up!
Raving nuts can be bad. And I like the way most of us are messed up. 🙂
This was a “hmm, by what technique should I kill myself” kinda raving nuts. Fortunately, I was still sane enough to recognize (A) these weren’t normal thoughts, and (B) I’d only begun having them AFTER starting Ambien.
Benadryl and melatonin together, hmm. They’re both mild sedatives so when you take them together, their powers combined, they become a strong sedative. But, hey, it works for you.