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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Dori on October 24, 2014, 02:03:18 PM
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Liberalynn (6,848 posts)
Insomnia Remedies [View all]
When I am having one of those nights where I can't sleep, I have found a rather strange ritual helps.
I get up get a glass of milk, two Peppridge Farm's Nantucket chocolate chip cookies, and then put in a DVD of How The Universe Works narrated by Mike Rowe.
Usually on those nights I am obsessing about how the world is going to hell in a hand basket so I guess having a soothing voice talking about things beyond the troubles of our planet comforts me in some way that helps.
DebJ (6,806 posts)
3. Obama's voice always puts me to sleep. I start watching his speeches because I really
want to hear what he has to say. But I always doze off... it's like my subconscious feels
he's 'got this' and I just doze off like a child being read a story by their father.
I'd rather stick needles in my eyes :runaway:
Liberalynn (6,848 posts)
4. The President does have
a comforting presence. Bush on the other hand contributed to my insomnia and gave me nightmares when I managed to sleep when he was in the oval office.
:panic:
grahamhgreen (14,128 posts)
44. Put on some FDR when you want to wake up!
What? You mean having nothing to fear but fear itself wasn't good enough for you?
CaliforniaPeggy (111,877 posts)
9. I like melatonin...
It's OTC and nobody cares how much you buy!
So CalPeg is a closet melatonin addict? Who knew...
Liberalynn (6,848 posts)
18. I will have to look into that
to see if it conflicts with any of the meds I am on, if not maybe I can try it.
Initech (45,594 posts)
10. You could always watch the DVD of "Atlas Shrugged"
:lmao: Wise acre
Liberalynn (6,848 posts)
19. Don't want to have nightmares
once I manage to fall asleep.
But the zombie look fits you so well
BlueJazz (20,436 posts)
14. I take Clonazepam which causes me to feel very sleepy. (From my Doc. Legally)
On Edit:Been taking it for years. No side affects ..for me.
Now your talkin'...lets break out the heavy duty stuff
Jamaal510 (7,218 posts)
26. I take either ZZZ Quil or Unisom,
and then go to sleep while listening to my "Rain" app on my iPod.
orleans (23,333 posts)
46. milk has tryptophan BUT.....
"Question: For years, I've had a glass of warm milk to help me fall asleep. I think it works as well as a sleeping pill, but it's a lot safer and is natural - which I like. Is it the tryptophan in the milk that causes me to feel sleepy?
"Answer: Warm milk at bedtime definitely can have a calming effect, but despite popular belief, it's probably not caused by the effect of the amino acid tryptophan on the brain. In order for tryptophan or any sleep-promoting drug to work, it must cross the "blood-brain barrier" and get from the bloodstream into the brain tissue. It turns out that all the other amino acids that collectively make up milk protein block the amino acid tryptophan from getting into the brain.
"The "trick," researchers say, is to have a high-carbohydrate food just before drinking milk - like cookies or toast. Just remember to brush your teeth before going to bed! Carbs cause a spike in your insulin level, and that seems to make it somewhat easier for tryptophan to cross into the brain. Without that carb snack, the sedating effect of warm milk is probably due to the calming influence of a warm liquid and a belief in its results (i.e., a placebo effect)."
http://articles.philly.com/2011-11-28/news/30450609_1_tryptophan-brain-tissue-placebo-effect
Leave it to DUmmies to find someway to turn food into mind altering drugs
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This device, used properly, will provide any liberal with uninterrupted slumber:
(http://bluegrassbulletin.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008d2bcf488340192aab74c21970d-800wi)
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DebJ (6,806 posts)
3. Obama's voice always puts me to sleep. I start watching his speeches because I really
want to hear what he has to say. But I always doze off... it's like my subconscious feels
he's 'got this' and I just doze off like a child being read a story by their father.
Yeah,too bad the reality is King Clusterfuk has so screwed up everything he touches that he has made the public wonder why they ever had a negative opinion of President Bush.
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Attempting to read one of Wee Wiilie Pitt's screeds will usually do the trick for me.
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I'd like to see how well they sleep if they lose the senate.