I am thinking the reason I don't sleep well some nights is because we watch action filled, shoot 'em up, bang bang movies just before bedtime. My husband loves these....and I like looking at Jason Statham so all is good. However, my head fills with all this excitement and I wake up around one with a tired body and a mind going on hyper drive.
I actually did have the absolute best night's sleep about three years ago. ( I KNOW I actually remember the last time I had a good night's sleep!!!) My girlfriend and I went to Ireland and on the return trip I stated I probably wouldn't get any sleep worrying about the early flight back the next morning. "Have one of these," she said and handed me a sleeping pill.
(Note: last time she handed me drugs I was off work for three days....but that was the 60's..........CALM Down Y - I'm kidding!! No, I'm really not..........yes....I am).
ANYWAY - she handed me this sleeping pill, I took one half and the next thing I knew it was morning - I thought - I could get used to these!!! Of course that is the problem isn't it?
People take sleeping aids for a variety of reasons, but in my opinion, there are times when you really should re-think your first impulse to get grab that bottle of off to dreamland you will go......
In Spokane, Washington the police reported a suspect was accused of climbing through the ceiling panel of a restroom to reach the roof of the hotel where he threw rolls of roofing material, jugs of cleaning solution and food to the street below.
Charge: vandalizing and burglary.
Defense: adverse reaction to Ambien (sleeping medication).
His lawyer stated this is not uncommon......as in ....it wasn't uncommon for his client to break, enter and toss things off roofs OR it wasn't uncommon for people who take sleeping aides to, in fact, not sleep but roam around the city at night??
Strangely enough, to date there have been a plethora of sleepless peeps doing strange things while taking Ambien.
So, if that isn't enough to make YOU not sleep, here is an example of a time when I would seriously consider sleeping pills as out of the question.
On an online forum regarding Delusional Disorder a man stated "I just thought I would share what helped me during my wife's DD episodes: sleeping pills, benedryl and melatonin."
YUP - that's how he decided to get a little shut eye. He goes on to state that under the circumstances - "my sons psychosis and my wife's DD." - it was the only way to actually get a good nights sleep.
Would I really want to be zonked out in this household???
Then he goes on to say that his wife is MUCH BETTER NOW so he doesn't feel the need to take anything anymore. Well thank goodness for that. BUT THEN he continues:
"We do have islands of craziness in the midsts of seas of normalcy" (very poetic I think for someone sleep deprived ) "Just a few days ago my wife said our son never had a psychosis and I mentioned 'Well, dear, he thought he could do miracles and summon the birds." to which SHE REPLIED "Maybe he could do miracles.!!!"
I think a good strong lock on a private bedroom door might work better than going back on sleeping aides!
Now, I understand that not all people are going to have adverse reactions to sleeping pills or abuse them in any way. Here is another example - one that I think all woman can relate to:
Eating a little bit of chocolate was a treat that Teresa looked forward to after work. She would allow herself two small pieces of chocolate candy a day.
This lady obviously had great control!!
But after taking a drug to help her sleep at night, Teresa awoke in the morning to find an empty box on the table in place of a POUND of chocolates that had been there the night before.
"I couldn't believe it," says Teresa. "I started looking all around the house—I even looked under the bed. I thought for sure someone came into the house during the night and ate them." (Like THAT is going to happen - I won't break in to rape/pillage or steal anything, I'll just eat this POUND of chocolate.....)
This went on for some time. Teresa would awake to find a near-full box of chocolates gone again and again. "I just don't remember eating all that candy," she says.
Okay Teresa - first of all why are you buying pounds of chocolate??? Didn't you notice your clothes suddenly don't fit the same way and what is all that chocolate on your pillowcase???
Teresa, a word of advice - just eat the entire friggin' pound of chocolate before you go to bed. Worries over. Of course then she might get up to something else like go out wandering with the other Ambien afflicted!
Things I've learned this week:
Canadian beer company Molson has placed public fridges stocked with beer throughout Europe. Yes - free beer!!! Hooligans unite!!!
All the fridges are locked and there is only one way to open these shiny fire-engine-red fridges — with a Canadian passport. The fridge is equipped with a modified webcam set to recognize only passports from the 10 provinces and 3 maple leaf territories.
Advertising agency Rethink wanted to "elicit pride in Canadians" The reason to set up these fridges in random European locations? "Sometimes, you're most proud of where you're from when you're away from home," stated the Canadian ad firm.
Yes, and when they get really drunk and spew their guts out on some foreign monument dedicated to a WWII veteran the Europeans will BLAME CANADA!! Thanks for that boys!
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I am SO glad I am not a giraffe. To know when to mate, a male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.
I really don't know what to say.....
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Red headed children are being attacked at Wingfield Academy in Yorkshire, England. British police say they were called after a string of attacks on red-haired pupils at the school.
They said a small number of pupils had sustained minor injuries after being attacked by fellow students.
"The issue of bullying of red-haired children periodically arises in Britain, and some commentators have attributed the phenomenon to lingering anti-Celtic prejudice."
Anti-Celtic prejudice??? Talk about holding a grudge....the Celts invaded that area of the British Isles in about 500 AD!
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