Random Insomniac Ramblings...

I have a friend who has suffers (and still does) from chronic insomnia, and I can't think of any other solution other than going to the doctor. Whatever he can recommend is surely worth a try considering how little sleep you are getting. I know some people have hang-ups about medication but I think sleeping pills are the only option really (from a non-medical standpoint, because to be fair I know fuck all about that stuff). It's at least worth a try. I have had insomnia, not to the extent you describe, but bad enough to make me take sleeping pills and the change was incredible.

Apart from the pill aspect, I'm not sure how to help you. I could suggest a large number of things for you to do, none of which, I'm sure, would be of any use at all. Talk to your doctor. It's the only thing I could suggest.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by S?ecter

I have, to say the least, REACTIONS to sleeping pills. All that I've tried have caused me to have insane hallucinations(and I'm not on anything else that would cause this). Last time I popped a SleepEeze I forgot where I was when I woke up in my own house and scared the shit out of myself, and that was the night before I was flying to Cuba, needless to say I haven't tried them since...

The biggest thing for me that's keeping me up seems to be knowing when I have to get up the next day, I fall asleep easier when I have no deadline to be up, when it's an early deadline I can't sleep at all.

Were they perscription pills? I took non-perscription pills and inadvertently had a rather large drink before I went to bed, and when I woke up had the most horrible hallucinogenic experience I have ever had, despite feeling like I was paralysed. Now okay that was stupid of me, but maybe a doctor's perscription can be more specific to your own needs?

Also, about the deadlines, perhaps knowing you will be far too tired from lack of sleep to make them might excuse you from even having to go, if you get my meaning? In that sense, it doesn't matter if you are up in time or not, and it should ease your insomnia. Any way you can call in sick until you have sorted this out?

There's nowhere I can't reach.