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Mar. 18th, 2013 03:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proximoceptionFucked up a sleep correction. No idea how to salvage it, but I'll have to. No idea what time my body thinks is bedtime, either. I think I could sleep now, which is not a good sign - 3 a.m. is where I started back on Wednesday, is the time where I knew there was no choice but to take action. If it is I won't be able to push it forward meaningfully till Friday morning, and will have lost tons more sleep in the meantime. After losing tons during this five-day correction attempt. Which I made because I'd lost too much sleep to be able to afford to lose more.
Two presentations over the next seven days also. Maybe I should go to the doctor and beg sleeping pills. Last time I asked one he said he'd never give it to someone with this problem. I partly see his point - there would be a great temptation to take them to simulate normalcy. Nightly, since just once would do nothing. And then tolerance would build etc. But early on in a correction it seems like they'd be a godsend. I've tried Ambien a couple times - I slept like fifteen hours because I'm not an actual insomniac. Didn't help my bedtime, it's true, was in fact counterproductive because I was so rested I just stayed up later. But that's exactly why it would be great during a correction! Fifteen hours of sleep and I get toward the goal faster? As compared to falling asleep at random because you've been getting five or six hours sleep because you keep overshooting each new temperature bedtime? I drool just thinking of it.
Two presentations over the next seven days also. Maybe I should go to the doctor and beg sleeping pills. Last time I asked one he said he'd never give it to someone with this problem. I partly see his point - there would be a great temptation to take them to simulate normalcy. Nightly, since just once would do nothing. And then tolerance would build etc. But early on in a correction it seems like they'd be a godsend. I've tried Ambien a couple times - I slept like fifteen hours because I'm not an actual insomniac. Didn't help my bedtime, it's true, was in fact counterproductive because I was so rested I just stayed up later. But that's exactly why it would be great during a correction! Fifteen hours of sleep and I get toward the goal faster? As compared to falling asleep at random because you've been getting five or six hours sleep because you keep overshooting each new temperature bedtime? I drool just thinking of it.
