I don't know what it is exactly but just about every pharmaceutical sleep aid exacerbates my insomnia. Can't eat apples and almonds specifically because melatonin seems to also have an adverse affect. Truth be told smoking weed doesn't actually help me go to sleep but it puts my entire mind into a blanked state so that I seem to naturally relax without chemical input which results in me being able to sleep. I think. I dunno, every doc I've been to has been utterly baffled by my condition. The closest I ever got to an explanation was by a neurologist and most of what he said went right over my head, no pun intended.
It doesn't help I have hyper-realistic nightmare sequences more than half the time when I do manage to sleep, which often disturbs my ability to sleep restfully. Does not help that they're not imaginative nightmares all the time; most of the time they're extremely vivid memories I'd rather not ever have to relive. Which in turn makes me fearful of sleeping a lot of the time because sleeping brings those memories back up.
You know the more I think about this, the more I consider checking myself into a psychiatric ward.
It doesn't help I have hyper-realistic nightmare sequences more than half the time when I do manage to sleep, which often disturbs my ability to sleep restfully. Does not help that they're not imaginative nightmares all the time; most of the time they're extremely vivid memories I'd rather not ever have to relive. Which in turn makes me fearful of sleeping a lot of the time because sleeping brings those memories back up.
You know the more I think about this, the more I consider checking myself into a psychiatric ward.
