Sleep driving. Heard a lot of friends talking about this in the past few days because of this news article, and oddly enough it lines right up with a personal experience I had.
Earlier in the year I heard from a director who was incredibly stressed out, and we were talking about the amount of sleep deprivation directing causes. He told me he was sleeping four hours a night on a double dose of Ambien. Sounded pretty bad. And then he told me he was waking up and finding the remains of meals he'd eaten in his sleep and piecing together what he'd had, like a forensic archaeologist of midnight snacks. He had no conscious recollection whatsoever of having eaten in his sleep. I thought it was him just pulling my leg until his assistant swore to me that he had to go to his apartment and put locks on his fridge and cabinets.
So now they're going to have to put a warning label on sleep aids such as Ambien that among other things it can cause you to unconsciously DRIVE IN YOUR SLEEP, as the link shows.
Funnily enough this last weekend I took Ambien for the first time because I've had enormous trouble sleeping and I slept for only three insanely lucid dreaming hours after hallucinating for two and upon waking up discovered that I had apparently sent a bunch of txt messages I shouldn't have and I really have no memory of doing this or even thinking through doing it. Needless to say I'm never taking that stuff again. I have never even taken any psychedlic drugs and thanks to Ambien I feel like I've had my first acid trip.
I think now that spring is here in New York I'm just going to start bicycling again and hope for the best. Modern pharmacology is crazy. I'm pretty sure that fifty years from now we'll look back on modern advertisements for drugs as something akin to leeches, phrenology, and trepanning. Except for the ED stuff. Any ad that says with a straight voice "if you have an erection that lasts longer than four hours..."
Earlier in the year I heard from a director who was incredibly stressed out, and we were talking about the amount of sleep deprivation directing causes. He told me he was sleeping four hours a night on a double dose of Ambien. Sounded pretty bad. And then he told me he was waking up and finding the remains of meals he'd eaten in his sleep and piecing together what he'd had, like a forensic archaeologist of midnight snacks. He had no conscious recollection whatsoever of having eaten in his sleep. I thought it was him just pulling my leg until his assistant swore to me that he had to go to his apartment and put locks on his fridge and cabinets.
So now they're going to have to put a warning label on sleep aids such as Ambien that among other things it can cause you to unconsciously DRIVE IN YOUR SLEEP, as the link shows.
Funnily enough this last weekend I took Ambien for the first time because I've had enormous trouble sleeping and I slept for only three insanely lucid dreaming hours after hallucinating for two and upon waking up discovered that I had apparently sent a bunch of txt messages I shouldn't have and I really have no memory of doing this or even thinking through doing it. Needless to say I'm never taking that stuff again. I have never even taken any psychedlic drugs and thanks to Ambien I feel like I've had my first acid trip.
I think now that spring is here in New York I'm just going to start bicycling again and hope for the best. Modern pharmacology is crazy. I'm pretty sure that fifty years from now we'll look back on modern advertisements for drugs as something akin to leeches, phrenology, and trepanning. Except for the ED stuff. Any ad that says with a straight voice "if you have an erection that lasts longer than four hours..."
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