Do you use any sleep aids to get to sleep?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

9 Million People use something, do you?

If so, what?

[Paul Kemp]

Seagrams 7.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I took Unisom for a while but it made me too dehydrated, to the point of having to go to the doctor.  I switched to Sominex.  Good sleep and no hangover.

Oh, and martinis or bourbon sometimes.

[Maxwell]

Melatonin

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

If necessary I slam down some Nyquil, or Tylenol Severe Allergy if available... that stuff knocks you right out. 

[opebo]

Very rarely - usually only if I'm in a hotel or god forbid sharing a hotel room with someone - I'll take a 5mg Valium tablet.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I occasionally took some plant-based tranquilizer throughout. I also came very close to taking an actual sleep medicine (got the prescription for it and bought the pills), but even though things were bad I was never quite that desperate for sleep.

[Lief 🗽]

Do "brief relaxations" count?

[© tweed]

over-the-counter melatonin.  used to take trazodone but got off of it.

[Lambsbread]

Do "brief relaxations" count?

god dammit

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Do "brief relaxations" count?

god dammit

If they counted, then R2 would be asleep 24/7......you know how these younggins are, Lief. 

[angus]

Lou Dobbs.  If I can't fall asleep I put his show on and it puts me to sleep immediately.

[Lambsbread]

Do "brief relaxations" count?

god dammit

If they counted, then R2 would be asleep 24/7......you know how these younggins are, Lief. 

the only sleep aid i need is my right hand

[Supersonic]

Definitely not.

[DC Al Fine]

No, sleeps not an issue. If anything I need help staying awake.

[Hatman 🍁]

Sometimes Benadryl.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Do "brief relaxations" count?

Sure.  We're talking about sleep aids.  An aid can be defined as anything.  

A note on the subject.  Sure, a "brief relaxation" can certainly make one, especially a male, very drowsy.  I've found though, if you're all alone, going to bed fully locked and loaded can drastically increase the chance of a sexytime dream.  I discovered this back in my teen years, when a "brief relaxation" was basically mandatory before hitting the hay.  Then one night I got lazy, and wound up having a glorious dream where I was going to town on Elisha Cuthbert!  No lie!  And this was right around when The Girl Next Door came out!  



Hubba Hubba!  This pattern continued over the years.  I suppose if one is going to dream that night, and one is all by their lonesome, might as well make it a good one.  Sexytime dreams happen exclusively if I did not briefly relax before bed.  Last night I did... and I wound up having two dreams where I was mauled by zombie dogs and shot in the abdomen with an assault rifle.   I'm on a sabbatical from life out in PA at my dad's place, and I'm the only one here.  Perhaps tonight I won't briefly relax before bed and the next thing I know I'm performing the ol' in-out-in-out on Alison Brie or something...

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

That was an uncle angus worthy post, Honkey.

[rejectamenta]

Diphenhydramine sometimes. I never noticed much effect with melatonin.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I can't sleep without them. I am my own worst enemy.

[MasterJedi]

I use a pillow as a sleep aid to make where I lay my head softer.

Being serious though I don't use sleep aids, I only take Nyquil when I'm pretty sick but it doesn't help me fall asleep, just sleep longer. Took sleep aids once from a friend when I had some crap going on in my life last summer, they knocked me out and gave me some wicked bad dreams though.

[tik 🪀✨]

I'm more or less dependent on sleep aids. Typically some kind of antihistamine. Sometimes a benzodiazepine. And, of course, the brief relaxation technique.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Oy a bed.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Nope. If I do, I'll never stop.

[Fritz]

Zzzquil sometimes.