Dose anyone here suffer from Insomnia?

I suffer from insomnia from time to time. I’m going through a phase at the moment. It’s been going on for a couple of weeks and is beginning to be real intense. I get prescribed sleeping pills. I don’t like to take them very often. I have however needed to lately. I also see a herbalist so i have a naturopathic remedy as well which i prefer but it has not been affective at the moment.

Here is where it relates to lucidity. My insomnia started a few weeks ago and at that stage the sleeping pills were helping. I was still having regular lucid dreams. The good thing was it made them more stable and it prolonged the length. A lot of the time i wake myself up from getting too excited. While taking sleeping pills i was sedated so it was a lot harder for me to wake up. So this was a positive thing. I was able to try a lot of different techniques I had been waiting to do. The negative thing is waking up and being too foggy to remember the details of the lucid dream. Usually i have great recall. Also feeling sedated is not cool, but we all need sleep so i do what i have to to get by. At the moment though the sleeping pills have stopped working i im getting no sleep so no lucid dreams.

Anyway just thought I’d share my experiences with sleeping pills and lucidity. By no way am i promoting their use though. I wouldn’t use them if I didn’t have to. It just comes down to…. if i don’t sleep i can’t function.

Peace Sensi.