Thread: DaveTheJoker's Workbook

Oh diphenhydramine wipes out my recall too. Are you sick? Or just trying to get yourself to sleep easier?

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Oh diphenhydramine wipes out my recall too. Are you sick? Or just trying to get yourself to sleep easier?

My mom told me to take some for rashes on my legs and swelling in my foot. I don't think it did anything for that. For dreaming, considering how bad my recall has been lately, I wouldn't say it killed it, in fact it may have helped. I must not have much of a tolerance for it because just two of the pills made me soooo tired and even delirious in the early morning.

I've heard that it suppresses REM for a while until it wears off so maybe if you sleep long enough you get a rebound? I don't know, but I took it, crashed at 1:30am and got up at 11:30pm.

I remember when I woke up at 6am trying desperately to stay awake long enough to LD, but I remember thinking "If I am this out of it in real life, why even bother trying to get conscious in a dream".

Originally Posted by DaveTheJoker

I've heard that it suppresses REM for a while until it wears off so maybe if you sleep long enough you get a rebound? I don't know, but I took it, crashed at 1:30am and got up at 11:30pm.

Ah that makes sense. Whenever I've taken it and it wiped out my recall, I had only slept for 5 or 6 hours because I had to get up for work. I imagine if I had slept in it would have been better.