I’ve had insomnia troubles for years. It can take me hours to fall asleep and I can wake several times during the evening. I’ve tried all kinds of shit, earplugs, caffeine abstinence, exercise, etc. Lately, it’s been the worst ever, enough for doctor to prescribe me Ambien. I’ve been taking it for about two months and the stuff is great shit. I pop a pill and in about twenty minutes I drop like a sack of meat and stay that way till morning; waking with no residual grogginess. I love Ambien, but I’m reluctant to take it often. Reliance on prescription drugs to sleep is probably not the best course to pursue.

Anyway, what I usually do is take Ambien during nights where I have to work the next day, that way I don’t show up at the office completely cracked out from only two or three hours of fitful sleep. Over the weekend, I try not to take Ambien, trying just to relax or at the very least, test how bad the insomnia is currently.

One thing I’ve been looking into is hypnosis and the use of binaural sound to induce relaxation and/or sleep. I purchased my first binaural recording about fifteen years ago and I’ve been collecting them here and there since then. I find that some headphones and some binaural sound on loop can really put me down into a light trance state at times making it much easier to sleep or at the very least, relax.
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