To Dream or not to.

[drozmight]

I took a sleeping pill... and then. Well now I'm watching youtube.

This guy creeps me the fuck out.

[youtube=560,345]HFyP2yP-FWU[/youtube]

[TVC15]

Sleeping pills increase NREM stage 3 and decrease REM sleep.  This usually means you don't dream as much, although dreaming in NREM 3 is apparently possible, but you are less likely to remember the
dreams.

I'm talkin' bout prescription sleeping pills, too. Not the junky stuff.

[drozmight]

This is ambien.

The guy's touching all my old man creeper buttons

[BlueTsunami]

I've read that decreasing REM causes a REM orgasm of long threaded dreams when you come off whatever is suppressing it.

TVC: What field specializes in the technical aspects of dreaming?

[TVC15]

I've read that decreasing REM causes a REM orgasm of long threaded dreams when you come off whatever is suppressing it.

TVC: What field specializes in the technical aspects of dreaming?

I'm not sure--I'd imagine sleep specialists hold degrees in neurology or psychiatry or biological psychology.  Those are kinda the fields that have studied it so far.  Also the brain is largely where the action is.

I was curious about that question myself because there are a number of sleep disorders listed in DSM-IV-TR, and at least a few of them are things I certainly wouldn't label (primarily) a psychological disorder.  On a similar tip, there are plenty of sleep disorders that aren't listed in DSM-IV-TR.  So it's kind of inconsistent. 

And then there are sleep-related things, like apnea, that aren't really brain things at all, so I dunno who gets dibs on those.

Actually:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_medicine

They just need a snappier more sciency name for the field.

[Robo]

[youtube=560,345]In0aMVdZbw4[/youtube]

[BlueTsunami]

Imagine seeing that face singing at you while you're chained to the heater

[BlueTsunami]

[youtube=560,345]n77auNQDiPk[/youtube]

Jesus...

Its cute now, weird dude, but when you've passed and no one is there to check on you, you're really going to find out why she does that.

[clothedmacuser]

Sometimes I would take a ambien and stay all night just watching TV because I still didn't feel sleepy.  The next morning I would have no recollection of the night and wonder why I was so tired if I had slept.  At least, I think that's what happened.