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Originally posted by Jean-Paul:
Incidentally, sleep has always been a huge problem of mine. I correct it with Ambien, which works very well for me when I do it. I would love to not need it though. I couldn't imagine life without an alarm clock!
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Oh, man, you caught my eye with the Ambien. My wife took that for a while and, despite what the doctor told her, it was NOT a good thing for her to be taking that for very long. She became essentially addicted in that she couldn't sleep well without it and had to just do the cold-turkey thing to get off it. JP, I don't know all the details of your situation and am not qualied to evaluate them if I did. Yep, you definitely need your sleep to keep up with all that's on your plate and I'm truly sorry that this is a problem for you but I did want to express my concern based on our experience.
I rarely have any problem sleeping and tend to wake up at the same time each day... all pretty routine and don't need to change it much. However, I do know that if there's something out of the ordinary that really catches my focus, such as knowing that I need to get up early to catch a flight or something, then I will usually wake up before the alarm anyway. When I took yoga many years ago, I remember being instructed to visualize a clock face with the hands set to the time you wanted to wake up.
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