Posted by cyndelicious on January 8, 2006, at 17:47:55
I’ve taken ambient on and off for years. It’s the only thing that works for me. I've tried every single other thing from yoga to bashing myself over the head with a mallet and ambien allows me to have a normal life, more or less.
But here's a GREAT question: I'm very word-oriented (am a writer) and I've been told that I go into a wonderful waking-dream state that lasts about 3 minutes before I 'disappear' into sleep, in which I'm very much dream-talking--I actually have very clear but 'removed' (can't think of a better word than that) memories of a few of the conversations, so I know they happen. That’s not so surprising, maybe, but I do this unbelieveably strange thing sometimes when I wake up and I’m talking in my sleep—and even though I’m awake enough to register that I’ve just awakened myself by talking out loud, I can’t stop talking. What I’m saying is actually fairly to completely logical, at least in English syntax instead of dream-babble, but I’m absolutely unable to STOP talking until I reach the end of the sentence—which can be pretty complicated, lots of clauses and so on. And while I’m laying there talking away, I really don’t know what is going to come out of my mouth next. It’s like I’m channeling my dream-self!!! Has anyone else had this experience? I enjoy it greatly, and have experimented, just to see if I can force myself to stop talking since I’m awake, already. The answer is nope, not until I finish saying whatever my Id or alter-ego or whoever-she-is is finished!
I guess that really IS psychobabble!
poster:cyndelicious
thread:596721
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/20060108/msgs/596721.html