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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby
So I guess all of the sleep I got yesterday fighting off the flu (successfully - yeah) has finally caught up with me. Foe now I can't sleep.
I hate taking my sleeping pills because 1) I hate sitting around waiting for them to take effect, 2) by the time I realize I need to take one, it is always way too late to get a full eight hours sleep, and 3) when I do wake up, I feel like I have a hangover, regardless of how much sleep I got.
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Dear Kevy,
I can totally relate to this problem...if a butterfly flaps its wings in the Congo, I wake up (that is assuming I got to sleep in the first place, which in most cases I didn't).
And you also have the problem of realising you should have taken a tablet earlier and now it's too late...happens to me too.
The tablet "Stilnox" is about the only one that usally (but not always) works for me, but the Australian Press did a huge beat-up on it after some fvckwit took one, didn't go to bed, and walked off a multi-storey balcony. The fall didn't kill him...the ground did. Stupid Heath Ledger also managed to make everyone go retentive about sleeping pills, so now the rest of us have to suffer.
My doctor won't prescribe them to me. He wanted me to listen to CDs of some soporiphic dude telling me I should sleep, and count down from 50. It doesn't work, as I find myself doing intensive mathematical equations on the numbers. I get so bored with the drone that I imagine Brass Marching Bands in my head.
Then there's the other CD - a background of pouring rain, with someone striking lead crystal vases of water. Sounds great for 25 minutes, and then the rain makes you get up to have a pee !!! I then spend the next hour calculating how many hours, minutes and seconds I would have to sleep if I nodded off right now...and then I recaculate every 10 minutes or so.
Of late, I have been reading an incredibly good book (I've read about 3 in my entire life, because I never get a quiet moment) by Bill Bryson called "A Short History of Nearly Everything". OMG it's good - I can't put it down, and I read a chapter per night and I do sleep. Even if it doesn't help you, I would urge you and anyone else with an active mind to read the book.
Anyway, I hope you are feeling better, and I look forward to seeing you and Gus-Gus next year.
Love and hugs,
The Stoat XXX.