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jrmy wrote:I have a good friend who's done some hilarious stuff on Ambien. Like once he bought a clear lucite Flying V on eBay and didn't remember until he received notification that he'd won the auction.

Another time he was sketching ideas for guitars, which he showed me the next day - sketch by sketch, they got more and more abstract/expressionist, until the last picture which was just a mass of dots and lines on the page, in a vaguely guitar-ish shape.

[u]Mourning After Pills[/u]

Johnny awoke abruptly.  His body felt heavy and he could hardly move his head.  The room was dim. The only light was filtering through the window shades from the outside.  An alarm clock, an empty highball glass, and a half-empty bottle of sleeping pills sat on the night stand.  The clock was blinking "12:00."

It took all of his strength to get out of bed, but as soon as both feet were on the ground, the room was spinning.  He threw open the door, took a hurried ten paces, and vomited into the toilet.  When he had finished, Johnny wiped his face with the sheet of paper he suddenly realized he had been clutching in his left hand.  On his way to the bathroom, he had inadvertently pulled it off the outside of his bedroom door where it had been taped the night before.   Now covered in half-digested whisky and kung-pow chicken, he could hardly make out what he had written on it.  All that Johnny, in a semi-paralysis on the floor, could recognize were a few names: Marco, Caroline, his parents, the rest was illegible.  He didn't quite remember all the words, but he knew the purpose of that note when he made those violent, addled strokes across the page the night before.  And now it was moot as he'd be the only one to see that paper as he flushed it down the toilet.

After an hour in the bathtub, he made his way onto the couch.  From there, Johnny could reach his phone in order to check his voicemail.  Both messages were from earlier in the day:

The First Message: "Hey Johnny!  It's Marco. I'm sorry, after the power went out, I couldn't make it out last night to help with, uh, what did you say you needed help with?  Something about moving boxes of Caroline's stuff, but that I should check your room first.  You were kinda slurring when we talked last night.  Are you ok, man?  I'm sure this whole thing sucks for you.  Call me back when you get this."

The Second Message: "Johnny. It's Caroline, calling to remind you that I'll be coming with Rick to get the rest of my stuff today.  We'll be there right at three.  I still have the key and Rick's with me, so you don't even need to be there."

Johnny looked around the room.  Three large boxes and one smaller box occupied an entire corner of the small apartment room.  "Those are hers and the rest is mine," he thought, "I don't even need to be here."  His watch said two o'clock as he walked down onto the street.  He decided to give Marco a call.  His whole body hated him, but his mind was screaming for a beer.

smallsnd/bigsnd wrote:any chance you can grab a quick nap here and there? some people work well with getting a few short naps throughout the week in addition to their normal weird sleep schedule.

Doctor X wrote:behndy, what is your 'sleeping environment' - how light is the room? and how much noise?
the most important thing is for it to be as dark as possible, pitch black ideally

Doctor X wrote: also what are you doing before going to sleep?

AMBIEN STORIES wrote: hee. all that sounds kinda awesome. i think i'd want someone in the house to document it thought.

smallsnd/bigsnd wrote:any chance you can grab a quick nap here and there? some people work well with getting a few short naps throughout the week in addition to their normal weird sleep schedule.

Tom Dalton wrote:)
...... Alternate with melatonin one night, passionflower + valerian another, the devil's lettuce another...

Eric! wrote:As a rule of thumb (no bass-pun intended), i try to avoid all pills if possible.

Tom Dalton wrote:... the devil's lettuce ...

behndy wrote:

Doctor X wrote: also what are you doing before going to sleep?

most nights watching movies or playing vidja games, reading, working on musics. i usually end up in bed reading interwubz stuff on my fone or 'pad or reading stuff thru a Kindle app. always decompression, mind relaxing shtuff.

behndy wrote:

Doctor X wrote:behndy, what is your 'sleeping environment' - how light is the room? and how much noise?
the most important thing is for it to be as dark as possible, pitch black ideally

i actually hate sleeping in the pitch dark. i leave the ceiling fan on every night because i run ridiculusly hawt, so there's a touch of white noise. but i keep the hall light on. i live alone and i'm more comfy with some illumination when i wake.

Doctor X wrote: also what are you doing before going to sleep?

most nights watching movies or playing vidja games, reading, working on musics. i usually end up in bed reading interwubz stuff on my fone or 'pad or reading stuff thru a Kindle app. always decompression, mind relaxing shtuff.

like, i'm not unhappy how i am. i just wonder if it's something that my body's adapted to for now and will cause problems later, or if i'm just built like this. reading about the negative effects of insomnia is SKEERY. but i don't get low energy or drag ass or spaced out i think. murrrrrrr.

behndy wrote:lol. urrrrrm. i have silly reasons i don't like sleeping in total darkness. no traumatic ones though i think. i might try that for a bit, but i don't enjoy it.

yah the fan's halfway above the bed. but i DO run crazy hot, so if i use any bedding at all i kinda need a fan going. otherwise i wake up drenched in sweat. and that's nasssssty.