Meds

[nwb]

i am currently on sleeping meds (seroquel, zyprexa) ... i live in a boarding home and i have to take them....anyway they ran out of zyprexa one day and i couldn't take it so i was awake all night.  OK let me backtrack here...i used to have obes every night, some long, some short......anyway i was put on those sleep meds in 2003 and my obes vanished....now the very night that i stopped taking zyprexa i didn't get to sleep until around 8 am ....but then when i fell asleep i had a 46 minute obe, when i woke up i was amazed and figured that i would still be having obes if i was off zyprexa, but was on it again the next night....i talked to my doctor about getting off zyprexa but she wouldn't even let me, which really ticked me off, i know i would have obes every night again if i was off zyprexa but i really feel i cant tell my doctor this because she wouldn't find it important, she is making me take zyprexa and i cant get off it.....i guess i just have to live an obeless life, heh.  Just blowing off steam here and thanks for your time !!

[Astraldude]

Cant you just not take the pills and pretend that you have.Do you enjoy every obe that you have and what types of things have you done.

[jalef]

first: is it just a normal sleeping disorder or some 'real' disease that makes you take this meds? if it is just a sleeping disorder then if the situation allows you not to sleep one night (when you have nothing to do the next day and can get into bed in time) i think its ok not to take zyprexa (this one night). dont just stop to take it because the doc definately has a reson to make you take it. maybe when you have holidays you can try not to take the sleeping pills some days in a row and see if you can get into a natural sleeping cycle, if you cant then take the pills again. make sure you never endanger your health!

[-E-]

Well the thing is if you suffer from an illness thats not gonna let you get to bed till 8am everyday then its probably a good idea to stay on the pills, but if you have a good talk with ure doctor u mite be able to be put on a lower dosage.

[The Present Moment]

When did your OBEs start, and were they spontaneous or practiced?

[blade5x]

Did you ever try staying up for two days to try and restart your sleep cycle? My sleep cycle got really messed up during college (could not fall asleep until 3-5AM every day). When I came home, knowing I had to fix it, I thought about staying up that extra day so I could crash at around 8pm, and with the help of some Amp energy drinks to keep me up that entire day, it worked. Now I'm having trouble staying up past 11pm.

Also try to avoid long mid-day naps, those will keep you up a few extra hours  later on.

[nwb]

OK to answer some questions, my obes started naturally in about 2002, i had my first obe before i knew what an obe was , and it blew my mind, i woke up and said "wow, that dream was more real the reality" i obed to a library and i dont think it was the akashic records...i read a few books on the shelves and remember small details about the obe, i kept reading the word "vud" , i still dont know what it means....anyway a few months later i was having obes EVERY night, small ones, long ones, sometimes just i would be floating above my room , looking down from the ceiling, sometimes i would seem like i would travel to a town in the 1900's ...i would also have tons of false awakenings, i was blessed with many obes yes.....but in 2003 i for some reason lost sleep, i ended up in the hospital from lack of sleep, which was when they put me on my sleep meds.  in the hospital when i was laying in bed but not sleeping, i would fall asleep for maybe 10 minutes, have a small obe, then wake up.  once i started my sleep meds i was happy because i was sleeping, but i was not obe'ing at all....i have tried to not take them for a couple days, i dont sleep and i get real weak and have trouble eating, so i end up taking them again...i may get my doctor to lower the dosage slowly, thanks for that suggestion....i want to do it really slowly so i can still sleep but maybe someday get off my sleep meds altogether

[nwb]

i have a site with some of my obes, i understand if you guys dont want to read it, i myself find that reading other peoples obes is boring, but i made the site anyway just incase someone is interested.... http://www.obe.cc  .....enjoy