How many here sleep in pyjamas or nightgown?

[renaeden]

Thanks.
I still haven't had any problems now that my dose has changed. Very glad!

[Lestat]

ambien is just fucking WEIRD stuff.

Makes people sleepwalk, sleep-all kinds of other things best not done whilst non compos mentis, makes users trip in a weird dissociated kind of way, temporarily rouses coma patients in vegetative states previously.

I've been prescribed it for sleep a couple of times, as well as the other two 'z-drugs', zolpidem (imovane) and that other fucker, I forget the name of it now, but it was totally useless..err..zaleplon, thats the one.

Both ambien/zolpidem, and zopiclone made me have some weird experiences, full on trip out with the ambien with almost no memory of it afterwards, and with zolpidem, weird ass noises, pinging, ringing sounds, noises like one would see in a cartoon if a giant spring suddenly uncoiled, all out of the blue. Zaleplon was just totally useless

["couldbecousin"]

  Lestat, do you ever have sleep paralysis?  I do occasionally, with interesting ... sounds. 

[Lestat]

Yes I have had it quite a few times. Never fails to scare the everloving goddamn shite out of me. Usually it likes to go hand in hand and team up with PTSD for an even more (figuratively speaking only) pant-beshitting experience.

Why.

["couldbecousin"]

Yes I have had it quite a few times. Never fails to scare the everloving goddamn shite out of me. Usually it likes to go hand in hand and team up with PTSD for an even more (figuratively speaking only) pant-beshitting experience.

Why.

  Just curious.  The mention of ringing in the ears sent me off on a tangent. 

[Lestat]

Such as?

And lol. We aspies/auties are good at going off on tangents like nobody else.

["couldbecousin"]

Such as?

And lol. We aspies/auties are good at going off on tangents like nobody else.

  I hear ringing in my own ears during my episodes of sleep paralysis, so I got curious.
   I love to compare symptoms of various conditions. It's one of my speshul interests. 

[Lestat]

Do you experience the sleep paralysis a lot? I fucking hate it when it happens, its always scary as shit.

One interesting thing I've noticed, is since I got one of those e-cigs, and as a bonus, dramatically cut down on smoking, is if I use the thing heavily just before going to sleep, I'll wake repeatedly, and experience the most vivid and lucid dreaming ever, alternating periods where I'll sleep, dream like crazy, then wake up for a brief period before falling asleep again and repeating the cycle.


I figure its probably mostly to due with the cholinergic effects of nicotine. When I tried the acetylcholinesterase inhibitors galantamine and huperzine A as nootropics, they also fucked with my dreaming in a similar way.

["couldbecousin"]

  I have sleep paralysis rarely, and always as I am dropping off to sleep rather than as I awaken.
  That helps, since the paralysis is easily shaken off at that point.  But it's still creepy.  I usually hear a
   high-pitched ringing in my ears that gets louder and louder, accompanied by chills down my back and a
   growing feeling of dread, as if I have to stop the ringing before it gets even scarier.  Occasionally I semi-
   dream as well.  Last time, I saw my ( living ) brother in the room, then my late mother, not like ghosts,
   more as if I were dreaming while almost awake.  It was a little weird but not scary like the ringing. 

[Lestat]

With me its the opposite, happens on waking, if I'm lucky enough to wake from it.

Always feels like there is something or someone, unseen and not known coming, and the urge to run like hell from whatever is coming my way, along with a feeling of claustrophobia (I don't suffer from this problem awake) and absolute pants-beshitten terror. Try to run, but find my body won't respond.

Doesn't happen very often, but when it does, sometimes its left me really shaken up due to the content of the dream.

['andersom']

It's time to go looking for my sleeping shirt. The one with the cute giraffes on it. Wind is chilling my shoulders at night, if I put my arms away from under the covers.

[Semicolon]

It's time to go looking for my sleeping shirt. The one with the cute giraffes on it. Wind is chilling my shoulders at night, if I put my arms away from under the covers.

Was it stolen by Luna and Sirius?

[Charlotte Quin]

I sleep in old clothes, mostly leggings and a shirt.

[Hannah]

I sleep in yoga pants and a shirt so really it's the ultimate lazy outfit from bed to hey you don't look so bad to answer the door and I can get shopping done without worrying about holy heck you look like you just got out of bed...I do brush the hair and deodorant etc. but it is very very convenient 

["couldbecousin"]

  I'm beginning to think that my daytime clothes need upgrading.  The fact that they can double as pajamas
   says something about their informality and lack of quality.  I think I'm tired of looking like a slob.