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Quitting the game (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It really sucks for nightmares. I heard about someone else with the same thing, they were prescribed sleeping tablets and told to use a sleeping bag if sleeping above ground floor (for fear that the dream might make him jump out of a window

I don't think accidentally hurting oneself is a likely outcome though as these dreams only happen when you're very close to full consciousness on the way to sleep or wakefulness, and they dispel quickly after you start being active

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Speaking of hurting one's self, the comedian Mike Birbiglia (?) has a condition where his brain doesn't make the hormone, chemical, whatever, that paralyzes us in our sleep. He literally ran through a plate glass sliding door on a 2nd story motel room, and fell to the pavement. He survived, relatively unharmed, but has to sleep in a body bag like you describe to keep from hurting himself, or others, in his sleep.

Thanks for the reply. Have a good one.

https://gazette.com/news/a-case-of-near-deadly-sleepwalking-for-comedian-mike-birbiglia/article_e4af044f-4037-5890-a222-932fdec60e09.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm glad I'm not as bad of as him or the one on the podcast

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Me, too. I'm glad I don't have that, or the version where you wake up but you're still in the dream, I have the mild "I can't move for 10 seconds" version. And it happens rarely.

Speaking of, I don't know if you know, but the sleep drug Ambien accumulates over time, saturates, and when it reaches saturation, can have effects like Birgiblia's condition. People driving, eating, doing things in their sleep with no recollection. Awful drug.

My elderly mother with dementia, who I'm the caretaker of, was prescribed it a couple of years ago, old people have insomnia. I found her at 3 AM vacuuming. I asked her "Why are you doing this now....," She looked at me, with a blank face, and wide zombie eyes, the went back to vacuuming. The next morning, she didn't remember shit. And not because of dementia. We stopped the Ambien.