Simply Sleep

Sleep aids Diphenhydramine, 25-50 mg at bedtime Nytol, Simply Sleep, Sominex, various generic Diphenhydramine and doxylamine are antihistamines with well-documented CNS depressant effects. Because insomnia may be indicative of a serious underlying condition requiring medical attention, patients should consult a physician if insomnia persists continuously for longer than 2 weeks. 

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Many animals hibernate during parts of the year, entering a state that is similar to a very deep sleep. But hibernation is more than simply a deep sleep. The animal s body temperature drops well below its normal range, the animal does not wake up for a long period of time, and its metabolism slows to the point that the animal does not need to eat or relieve itself during that period. 

Emotions are sometimes said to be physiologically arousing, but sleep is an exception. It is a true motivated behavior because drowsy animals will seek a suitable place to sleep rather than simply collapsing on the spot. Drowsiness can be distinguished from fatigue by its overt behavior. Drowsiness prompts sleep fatigue prompts rest. But the function of sleep seems to be rest also. 

This is not attributable simply to boredom, since at very low doses and with other types of agents, daytime sleeping is either absent or limited to short naps... ... 

The other two men reeeived only moderate doses - predietably, they were less affeeted. Volunteer H, an athletie type, tried to stave off the effeets of the dmg by repeatedly doing push-ups. C, more lethargie, simply lay on a eot and went to sleep. Both were essentially useless for 24 hours, although they did not beeome fully delirious. 

The sleep disorders fall into four main categories (1) insomnia, (2) hypersomnia, (3) parasomnias, and (4) sleep schedule disorders. Insomnia is the most common sleep problem. It is simply defined as poor sleep and can be manifested by difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, waking up too early, or waking up in the morning without feeling refreshed. 

Insomnia is not so much a diagnosable illness as a symptom. Simply put, insomnia is poor sleep, and there are a number of ways that the quality of sleep can be diminished. Although it may be tempting to identify insomnia by counting the number of hours spent sleeping, insomnia is much more than that. Insomnia is the experience of a poor quality sleep characterized by any of the following having difficulty... 

Everyone has experienced a sleepless night at one time or another. Typical triggers include the night before an important presentation, a test at school, or after some stress like a dispute with a loved one. Insomnia usually has an abrupt onset during a period of stress or illness. Most insomniacs were sleeping well just before the stress and usually return to normal sleep when the stress subsides. During this brief period, most do not seek professional help. They simply tough it out or use home remedies (e.g., warm milk, hot bath, and unfortunately sometimes alcohol) or over-the-counter medications (e.g., Sleep-Eze, Benadryl, Tylenol PM) to hasten the onset of sleep. 

Finally, Rex simply has to know what happened to Saskia, so he travels with the professor to the service station. The professor puts him to sleep with ether, promising that he will have exactly the same experience as Saskia. When Rex wakes up, he finds that he has been buried alive— perhaps the most uncanny event possible, as Freud says. Of course, this burial refers the audience back to Saskia s prophetic dream of the twin eggs. The film ends as Rex s butane lighter gives our he has learned the truth, but at the price of his life. 

Another way that hypnosis is helpful in anxiety disorders is that it is able to produce intense concentration on a particular subject distinct from the source of anxiety or fear. For example, a person with a fear of flying may be told to imagine that he is simply going into a room to get a restful sleep when he is boarding a plane. This concentration on the nonthreatening scenario allows the person to get on a plane without experiencing feelings of anxiety. 

My dinner party hostess, who happened to be a descendent of Mary Arnold-Eoster, sent me home with her copy of Studies in Dreams, where the technique of lucid dreaming and its psychedelic delights are described in detail. I was as attracted by the idea of flying in my dreams as I was by the power of self-hypnosis, so I followed Arnold-Eoster s prescription. I simply put a notebook by my bedside, so as to be able to record my dream recall, and told myself, before going to sleep. I ll pay attention to my consciousness, which I would know to be dreaming because of the bizarre discontinuities and incongruities of time, place, and person. 

Hypnopompic hallucinations clearly illustrate the continuation of REM sleep dreaming into subsequent waking. That is, instead of arising out of the blue (out of thin air, as we say), they simply continue an ongoing—and perfectly normal—sleep-related hallucinatory process across the line into waking. Practically everyone has had some experience with uncoordinated state transitions on arousal from sleep. Sleep walking, being unable to move, and persistent anxiety after arousal from a chase dream are some common examples. 

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