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Excellent reply. As it happens, I've been going through an extremely stressful time since last September. I've learned to sleep by listening to Star Trek whil

Excellent reply. As it happens, I've been going through an extremely stressful time since last September. I've learned to sleep by listening to Star Trek while I sleep. I think the sound of familiar voices, and the distraction to prevent me from dreaming naturally (which currently turns into stress nightmares) has really saved me. Two of my colleagues have turned to medication, and I can see they're having a harder time of all this.

djedr 6y ago
Wish you the best. I have been struggling with bad sleep for most of my life -- seems to run in the family (now I suspect it might be a common chronotype). What finally improved my life and has now been working better and longer than anything before (and I implemented this after reading the book) is properly establishing my circadian rhythm/chronotype and adjusting to it. Now I sleep on a regular schedule and my total sleep time has actually decreased. Unfortunately this is rather difficult and requires radical lifestyle changes if you are a night type trying to exist on a typical work schedule. I was desperate and in a position to introduce the changes, and fortunately it's worked for me. Hard to recommend to everybody though at this point -- that's why a societal change is needed and that's where this book does good. From indirect experience, echoing the book, I would strongly advise against medication, in particular zolpidem. It is very highly addictive, may have terrible side-effects, especially mixed with other substances, and ultimately doesn't really work. Honestly it is so much worse than so many illegal substances that from my point of view the only explanation for its continued proliferation is profit. Definitely respect the author for standing against that in the book.