No more NyQuil induced sleep for me...

[djones520]

I had to get to bed real early yesterday because I was planning on being being up at 4am for my road trip today.  Sun doesn't set here till around 9 and I have a real hard time going to sleep when it's sunny, so I took some NyQuil to help knock me out.  Bad idea...

I had this really vivid dream.  In a nut shell, this was about 10 years in the future, and I had found out that an ex-girlfriend had a child of mine.  17 years I didn't know about this, and everyone (friends and family) where involved in keeping me from knowing about it.  It was a really "traumatizing" thing to learn that I had missed out on 17 years of my childs life, and it was even worse cause my family was responsible for it.

Now, the whole thing really makes no sense, nothing like this would ever happen, but the emotions that I felt in the dream have kinda been "sticking" with me all day long.  It's been driving me nuts because I feel like I've had this hole in me all day and it won't go away, even though I know it's over a figment of my imagination.

I always seem to have this really vivid emotional dreams whenever I assist myself to sleep with the big ****ing Q.  I think I'm just gonna stop doing that from now on.

[The Village Idiot]

next time just use a mallet

[Lord Undies]

I pray to the Lord to allow me rest.  It's a cute way to end bedtime prayers.  And it works!

[thundley4]

NyQuil keeps me awake, it causes something similar to restless leg syndrome.  Then again, I can drink a couple cups of coffee before bedtime and it doesn't keep me awake .

[MrsSmith]

When I need to sleep, I'll drink chamomile tea and take the "non-drowsy" antihistimine Chlorpheniramine Maleate -like in Clor-trimeton.  I am sometimes slightly sleepy 7 hours later, but usually not more than a cup of coffee will cure.  I've even been able to get up and go in to work in the middle of the night after taking this combo...yet it always puts me right to sleep.  It's certainly less of an overmedication than a dose of Nyquil. 

[Lord Undies]

Then you drug-addled heathens don't get my point.   

[MrsSmith]

Then you drug-addled heathens don't get my point.   

Yeah, we get your point.  Prayer can be a powerful aid, especially if you can't sleep due to worries or fears.  Handing our burdens over can help tremendously.  And God can grant you sleep.  You're right.

However, being a fallible human, I sometimes find it difficult to release my burdens when I should...and chamomile tea with antihistamines is helpful.  It will also help those that have not learned to trust Him. 

[djones520]

Prayer won't do much to help this godless heathen though.   

[Tantal]

I go for the Ambien/Jim Beam stack myself; however, make sure you've got somebody there the first time you try it. You could easily find yourself riding your motorcycle 90 mph down the freeway nekkid at 3am if you're not careful.

[Rick]

Is there a story you want to share?

[Tantal]

Is there a story you want to share?

Yeah. Mrs. Tantal prevented me from riding my motorcycle at 90mph down the freeway nekkid at 3am.

[The Village Idiot]

Prayer won't do much to help this godless heathen though.   

Did I stutter?

Mallet... back of the head.... POW WHAM

[RobJohnson]

I had to get to bed real early yesterday because I was planning on being being up at 4am for my road trip today.  Sun doesn't set here till around 9 and I have a real hard time going to sleep when it's sunny, so I took some NyQuil to help knock me out.  Bad idea...

I had this really vivid dream.  In a nut shell, this was about 10 years in the future, and I had found out that an ex-girlfriend had a child of mine.  17 years I didn't know about this, and everyone (friends and family) where involved in keeping me from knowing about it.  It was a really "traumatizing" thing to learn that I had missed out on 17 years of my childs life, and it was even worse cause my family was responsible for it.

Now, the whole thing really makes no sense, nothing like this would ever happen, but the emotions that I felt in the dream have kinda been "sticking" with me all day long.  It's been driving me nuts because I feel like I've had this hole in me all day and it won't go away, even though I know it's over a figment of my imagination.

I always seem to have this really vivid emotional dreams whenever I assist myself to sleep with the big ****ing Q.  I think I'm just gonna stop doing that from now on.

In the past couple months I had a couple flu episodes. The doctor gave me promethazine, which is also sometimes used to help people rest, but in my case it was for nausea and vomitting. The stuff worked great, but I have some really messed up dreams. The dream I remember the most, an ex girlfriend from 20 years was giving me  tattoos in her studio.  (I dont even have any tats & know this girl does not have a tattoo shop) I had to go get the money to pay her. In the meantime, they all washed off in the shower, and she was trying to hunt me down for the money!  I could even feel the pain of the needle in my dream....

My suggestion for sleep is simply try the store brand of OTC Benadryl. Of course, this is my non medical opinion. 

[NHSparky]

Ah, Nyquil.  Go to bed with a cold, wake up with a beard.