Maybe this is far off from your dreams, but this is similar to what happens every night after I take my 50 milligrams tablet of Trazodone for insomnia.
Before I started taking this wonderful medicine my junior year of high school at Mercer Island I would get roughly 1-3 hours over the course of one night. It was common for me to go downstairs at 3 o clock in the morning and stack our food cans in pyramids or alphabetize our magazines.
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| Pre-Traz |
Now I get 8+ hours AND enjoy bizarre amazing dreams. AND I almost always remember them in the morning.
This is a picture of me now, happy, with my friend and medication Traz:
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| Traz, I love you |
I also had trouble sleeping when I was a teen. I saw a doctor and was prescribed sleeping medicine, but eventually had to stop taking it because of side-effects. I can attest to having strange dreams while under the influence of sleeping medication, so I look forward to reading accounts of your strange dreams. I love the pictures you have added, especially the one of you snoozing on your couch. Maybe next time you can't sleep you can clean up the apartment a little bit? :)
ReplyDeleteI also look forward to reading stories of your strange dreams. I dont take any sleeping medication but when I was in high school I tried really hard to learn how to lucid dream. I only ever succeeded once but part of it was learning how to remember your dreams. I think because of this I tend to remember my dreams more commonly then other people and always enjoy thinking about them.
ReplyDeleteAllison--Eric and I had trouble posting to your blog...do you approve comments before they're posted?
ReplyDeleteI have to say, it was disheartening to write my first comment to you and have it disappear into oblivion when I pressed "publish". =(
I had said, in more detailed and flowery terms, that I'm excited to hear about your dreams again! Did one of your pieces in Kelly's class last quarter (the robot one) come from a dream? That would make sense.
I used to keep a dream journal, and I'm fairly adept at lucid dreaming, and fairly adept at staying in bed as well. I also wanted to tell you that you're lucky the nickname you have for your medicine is "Traz". If I were to nickname mine, it would be "Meth". >.<
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ReplyDeleteYo, dawg. I feel like maybe your pictures could use a little more aesthetic value. There's definitely a novelty to the "made in Paint" thing but I'm not really into these ones. You might consider doing actual sketches and scanning them up, if you'd like. I think that form of illustration works really well hand-in-hand with the subject of dreams. Dreams are so personal and so are hand-written drawings or letters.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, that's my feedback on the illustrations.
That's really cool that you got a medication that works for you. Honestly, I'd appreciate a sleep med as well. I never remember my dreams and I'm so OCD that even the slightest noises drive me crazy when I'm trying to sleep. I've struggled with it throughout my entire experience at the university. Sometimes having emotional breakdowns in freezing stairwells at 2 o'clock in the morning, knowing that I'm going to be too tired to do my best on my homework the next day.
I don't know if there is a med that would help with that but sleep has been my worst enemy for the past four years.
You are so lucky that you enjoy your dreams (and are willing to share them with us)! When I took sleeping medication, it made me dream about fire. Lots, and lots, and lots of fire.
ReplyDeleteOut of curiosity, is your insomnia caused by anything, or you just one of those people who are insomniacs for no clear medical reason? If you don't mind my asking...
I also struggle with insomnia. It started with night terrors as a child and morphed into total sleeplessness in middle/high school/college. I tried sleeping pills, but since my insomnia started with night terrors, the dreams were WAY too much for me. Now I use a combo of valerian root tea and other natural remedies. It works for the most part, but not all the time.
ReplyDeleteI'll be so interested to hear where this goes Alison. Insomnia is becoming so prevalent; I have a friend who says it's all astrological (but she says that about everything!) The territory of sleep is so mysterious. I heard a story on the radio the other day about a woman's experience with Ambien and the bizarre things she does in the night....
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