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- inactive, on 12/27/2008, -3/+54I have that same problem........
- architerp, on 12/27/2008, -0/+51In other news... 80% need booze, drugs to get through the day.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 12/27/2008, -1/+49I just jerk off.
- doublefelix, on 12/27/2008, -1/+44I wouldn't call those 10 comatose hours after I go on a bender "sleep".
- ordig, on 12/27/2008, -1/+41Curious, I need booze and drugs to stay awake.
- sockpuppets, on 12/27/2008, -0/+38I need them to make people seem interesting.
- s0m31john, on 12/27/2008, -3/+31100% of otaku cry themselves to sleep.
- jgubbe, on 12/27/2008, -2/+26Sleep on Weed, man!.........It's far out, man!
- TaintBrush, on 12/27/2008, -0/+22That's weird, I almost never get a good night's sleep when I'm drunk.
- santaliqueur, on 12/27/2008, -0/+21They are turning into American's what? Don't leave me hangin!
- inactive, on 12/27/2008, -3/+22Is that wrong?
- freakjim, on 12/27/2008, -2/+20Legalize it...... weed is all one needs for a great night of sleep.
- spike85, on 12/27/2008, -2/+17They need the sticky... much better then drugs & alcohol
- a1cd, on 12/27/2008, -1/+14I need some OGC to fall asleep.
- bixby1, on 12/27/2008, -1/+14I need 100% booze to sleep.
- dullnation, on 12/27/2008, -1/+13The insides of your eyelids?
- slippeh, on 12/27/2008, -3/+11So ***** true man. Weed is all I need to sleep. I don't take drink or take drugs (see wut i did thar)
- TheTaoOfBill, on 12/27/2008, -1/+9"see wut i did thar"
no... - Narcism, on 12/27/2008, -1/+9Amen, once I crank it, out like a light.
- RobotBuddha, on 12/27/2008, -0/+8Drinking more right now, as well, in hopes of getting to sleep. Though mine's more because of slow delivery times of a new bed than anything else. Booze, the only thing that lets me get more than a few hours of rest when sleeping on the floor.
- inactive, on 12/27/2008, -0/+7 A certain amount of people will always be high strung. The same forces that give a person a manic creative energy also can fuel anxiety, depression and sleeping trouble. Unfortunately I know this first hand.
- DrunkenPirate34, on 12/27/2008, -1/+8Ok cyndezu.... After 7 and a half hours of hitting F5, I'm done.
- 13373h4X0r, on 12/27/2008, -0/+7OMG! It's been 7 hours... The suspense is killing me!!! :-(
- Halsfield, on 12/27/2008, -1/+8I have a sleeping problem (up at 3:00am on digg and not even slightly tired) that has been going on for my entire life. Even as a kid i would be unable to sleep and stay up very late until i was so tired that i just passed out wherever i was at the time or stayed up through the next day. Let me tell you that its horrible for your heart, mind, and body to go without sleep for even one day/night. I do not have a prescription to any sleeping aids and the OTC medicines do not work in safe doses. At very high doses the sleeping medicine they sell OTC , which is usually the same chemical in Benadryl that can seriously hurt or kill you if taken in a high enough dose to put you to sleep. I have taken ambien before and its extremely nice , puts me right to sleep without any problem and i wake up perfectly refreshed in 8 hours.
I cannot get a prescription because im a young male (23) and other people abuse the medicine or sell it to people who do. Doctors are afraid to prescribe it because they can face fines or lose their license if they are found to be selling it to someone that is selling it or abusing it and they can make an argument that the doctor wasnt doing a good enough job to screen patients.
Some of the illegal drugs work but obviously have many side effects, addiction, dangers of obtaining, high cost, and don't always work and definitely dont leave you refreshed the next day.
My point is that sleeping problems are very serious, draining, and most people that don't have serious sleep problems really do not understand how serious it is and how hard it is to fall asleep for true insomniacs . Some of the above comments like "drink some mild red wine in the evening .............you'll be sleeping in no time time" and "Stay awake long enough and you'll fall asleep" show this perfectly.
Not only is it dangerous for me, but if i or someone else that isnt getting enough sleep gets behind the wheel and kills someone (which btw is a huge reason for accidents and vehicular deaths) its now possibly affecting a lot of other people, possibly killing them (and me). It would be nice to get some real help for this but because of a few irresponsible people i probably will never get the help i need. I'm not looking for sympathy, it would just be nice to be taken seriously for once. - foofightrs777, on 12/27/2008, -3/+10Have you ever slept before? Have you ever slept before...on weed?
- tocsy, on 12/27/2008, -1/+8"without providing the total number polled."
Is anyone else immediately suspicious about this? - kingofinternet, on 12/27/2008, -0/+6rock on japan
- andy9590, on 12/27/2008, -0/+6No man. No Billy Bong Thornton without Kenny. That wouldn't be right. Get Wesley Pipes. Yeah!
- Alfyx, on 12/27/2008, -0/+6snack, fap, nap.
- 13373h4X0r, on 12/27/2008, -0/+6With Godzilla, Ultraman, angels, rogue Boomers, little sluggers, Big Fire, Tetsuo Shima, space pirates, etc, it's a miracle that the Japanese in Neo Tokyo 3 (or whatever post-post-apocalyptic number they're up to now) can sleep at all!!! Somehow I don't think a Unisom and a pair of earplugs is going to cut it, especially when all technology starts merging with the machine mother, and the whole country is repeatedly and utterly annihilated with forms of energy and paranormal waves that have yet to be discovered... The noise of constant obliteration and psychic screaming must wake even the dead, only to have their souls harvested by new machines, and their ghosts put in shells. Most of the Japanese population are cyborgs now, and they probably have special algorithms to help them sleep, suspend, or hibernate. But the human population needs something a little extra to get a few hours of precious rest before another day of alarms, screaming, terror, and fleeing...
- TheScogg, on 12/27/2008, -0/+5Well, um...do you have a funnel?
- FLarsen, on 12/27/2008, -0/+5Slippeh, marijuana is a drug. It doesn't matter how much you want it to be just a natural plant. Opium poppies are just natural plants as well. Same goes for coca plants.
Marijuana is a good and safe drug, that is what matters. - flyingclutchman, on 12/27/2008, -0/+5For me if I'm just buzzing, I can't get to sleep. I have to get pretty drunk to get to sleep easy.
- inactive, on 12/27/2008, -14/+18Sounds like they're turning into American's, McDonalds is making them fat too ;/
- Halsfield, on 12/27/2008, -0/+4people that think its wrong to use an aid to fall asleep need to do some learning about life. getting sleep via a substance when its impossible to do so without the aid of a substance is not wrong. using drugs, especially drugs of the same type (sleeping aids for example), or alcohol together or separately in an irresponsible way is and can obviously be deadly (heath ledger RIP). Doing it safely with the aid of a doctor helps thousands of people get to sleep when they might not otherwise. not getting a good night's sleep is important for heart health, mental health, and staying alive. you fall asleep at the wheel because you didnt sleep the night before and you t-bone a family car killing all inside and someone would rather the driver not use a drug to get a good night's sleep ?
id love to hear the argument from the people that buried you. - xero69, on 12/27/2008, -0/+4Try Melatonin or valerian root about 20-30 min before bedtime. Also Calms Forte sleep aid works well. Last but not least daily exercise will do wonders to regulate metabolism and sleep.
- andy9590, on 12/27/2008, -0/+4Ahhh... Jerk off, the ultimate sleep simulator
- stuma9000, on 12/27/2008, -0/+4Doesn't work for me. Weed keeps me up thinking, much later than if i didn't smoke.
- DjOverEZ, on 12/27/2008, -0/+4I do agree with you however, the article didn't say they needed to be drunk to sleep.
- opensourcepirat, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3I'm basically the same way. I've had trouble sleeping my entire life. I remember having trouble sleeping since pre-school, but my parents tell me it's been my entire life. I'm 22 now. I need to find a new doctor, but right now I'm still with my pediatrician, and he's been perfectly willing to give me Ambien, Lunesta, and other sleeping pills, since he knows that my sleep has been ***** up my entire life.
My sleep is a lot better now that it used to be. I have several problems with sleep, including sleep apnea it turns out, which really sucks. (Not from being fat, I'm a skinny white boy). Basically I'm bad at falling asleep, and I'm bad at maintaining a circadian cycle. Keeping a good circadian rythm is really to key to fixing my insomnia. I take melatonin every night, and I use one of those bright lights that people with SAD use every morning. If I can't sleep at night I usually use a sleeping pill (I'm on temazepam now) so I can sleep, in order to maintain my circadian rythm. If I can't sleep a few nights in a row though, I say ***** it to the sleeping pills.
I've been addicted to ambien, which sucked a lot and wasn't a very hard depedence to develop. Ambien and Lunesta are new non-benzodiazepine sleeping pills, but they work on your GABA receptors just like old benzos do. I recommend getting valerian root extract pills if you want something OTC, as it contains a GABA agonist, but that also means that it's addictive like everything else that will really get you to sleep. Good luck man. - statismisdead, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3So
- ThugThrasher, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3I wish I could give you 100 thumbs up for that.
If it gives any comfort/hope, I started putting on weight when I was 25 (I assume it meant my metabolism was slowing, since I didn't change my eating or exercise habits) and that helped me out a little bit. I still have problems falling asleep, I'm still not sleeping every night, and I'm still not usually sleeping the whole night through when I DO get to sleep, but a couple of months after I started putting on weight I began to sleep more. I get about twice as much as I used to, I think, and that's not nearly as much as most people get, but I'm still thankful for it and it's STILL (I'm 27 now) slowly getting better.
Hang in there and keep pushing for some sort of prescription. I got a scrip for ambien once because I went in after I had spent 3 days straight awake and begged them just to give me ANYTHING stronger than the OTC stuff to help me sleep and I didn't care what it was...it was the best 30 days of my life. - Feep, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3Look, people, I was in Japan a few months ago, and saw an average of 1.3 fat people/day. Out of tens of thousands. I think they're fine.
- Pnevma, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3That has to seriously suck.
Have you tried any meditation techniques? You mentioned breathing exercises, but if you haven't tried it, you should try clearing your mind of any random thoughts; it's tougher than it sounds. Try practicing that for ten minutes (or more) every night while relaxing. Stare at the back of your eyelids and don't think about anything.
If you get bored, you're doing it wrong. - Halsfield, on 12/27/2008, -1/+4mcdonalds isnt shoving burgers down anyone's throat. they are choosing to be fatter rather than eating the traditional fish, rice, seaweed, etc diet that is world reknown for keeping you healthy well into old age. personal responsibility is a bitch.
- Ymeg, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3It's not wrong or right. The question is to whether or not it's healthy.
- Halsfield, on 12/27/2008, -1/+4alcohol IV, or better yet, stick a beer funnel in your ass and pour it directly into your intestines to absorb 100% of the alcohol extremely fast without needing that silly "liver" to filter it out.
(Don't do this, either are very bad for your body, drinking it normally is bad enough) - ElHubcapo, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3I sleep when I'm tired.
If that means I sleep at different hours everyday, who cares, I'm a student, s'aaaalll good. - futuretense, on 12/27/2008, -1/+4i don't know what fantasy land you live in but life is stress. drugs work, people use them.
- Halsfield, on 12/27/2008, -0/+3thanks for the reply, i have an incredible metabolism also and maybe that is the problem(can't put on weight, eat plenty). it just seems like the system is against young people because they cant develop a drug that is abuse-proof even though they have the technology to do so. until then im stuck trying to sleep with my ritual of exercising 3-4 hours before im ready to go to sleep , laying down and doing breathing exercises to slow my heart rate and then either staring into blackness until the sun comes up or on a rare occasion, falling asleep.
I'm definitely still trying to get the prescription, im running out of doctors though. if i ask for ambien by name they think im an addict trying to score the drug of choice, and if i don't mention what exactly i want they prescribe things that don't work. really frustrating system.
the irony is that im studying to be a pharmacist. -
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