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    Anyone beat Insomnia?

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    First, establish a regular sleep schedule. Do not deviate from this on the weekends.

     

    Avoid caffeinated drinks like the plague, coffee, tea, most sodas, and those gawd awful 'energy' drinks, chocolate in any form. Once you've allowed your body to purge the caffeine from your system, approx one week, re-introduce it slowly. No caffeine/chocolate after 5:00 pm. Most brown sodas have caffeine, except most root beers, including diet. Read the label. If it is caffeine free, then you're good. Most clear sodas are de-caff as well. Mountain Dew is one of the highest sources of caffeine, second only to Jolt... is that still on the market?

     

    Do not eat any closer than 3 hours before bed time. Avoid fried foods after lunch. Sometimes a small glass of warm milk just before retiring can actually help induce sleep, but nothing else.

     

    Do not play video games within one hour of retiring.

     

    NO COMPUTERS OR TELEVISIONS in the bedroom.

     

    Reading after I am in bed helps make me sleepy.

     

     

    If you are yawning, your body is in need of sleep, so go to bed. I've found that if I begin to yawn, but ignore my body and stay up. After about an hour I quit yawning. At this point, I find it harder to go to sleep.

     

    This is all excellent practical advice. I will say that a lot of this stuff has really helped me, not with more severe bouts of insomnia, but just with general, non-pathological restlessness. I've basically cut caffeine out of my diet completely over the past few months, and it's helped me tremendously. Also, try turning on a box fan or something else that generates ambient noise while you're in bed--that always helps me, just to have something running and making white noise in the background.

    Anyone beat Insomnia?

    in The Gibson Lounge

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    I'm amazed (and confused) at the amount of "yeah, I beat insomnia by going to sleep" posts here. Clearly a lot of you haven't dealt with insomnia or even know what it means.

     

    Insomnia is an actual physical inability to sleep or difficulty with falling asleep and/or staying asleep. It can be caused by many things, and can't be dealt with simply by "going to sleep," because you can't cure a disorder by doing that which the disorder leaves you incapable of doing. That suggestion is, if I may be so blunt, idiotic. I have encountered insomnia as a result of PTSD (after getting hit by a car when I was fourteen,) as a secondary condition associated with my clinical depression (also something that's widely misunderstood and is often met with the advice that one should just "get over it,") as a secondary condition associated with my anxiety disorder (also widely misunderstood and met with similar advice to "get over it,") and as a free-standing primary condition seemingly unrelated to other physiological or psychological conditions. It's not easy, it's typically a manifestation of a neurochemical disorder (as are most disorders of the type that are typically misunderstood as "nonsense" conditions,) and what makes it worse is sanctimonious "advice" from uninformed groundlings who aren't as smart as they think they are. OP, if you're struggling with insomnia, get help. A guitar forum, especially one like this, isn't going to give you the treatment you need.

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    Famous SG Players

    in Gibson USA

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    Jerry Garcia (believe it or not) was known to use an SG from time to time.

     

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    The late, great John Cipollina (Quicksilver Messenger Service) loved the SG and played them exclusively for a time:

     

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    I swear I saw a picture of Bob Dylan with an SG somewhere...

     

    There are plenty of others.

    Coca Cola or Pepsi?

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    Coca-Cola by far.

     

    There are certain things that require Pepsi' date=' though. There's a local pizza place that requires Pepsi to eat - not because of the restaurant, but because that's what I did every weekend as a kid with my grandparents. [/quote']

     

    I understand completely.

     

    By the way, I just realized that the pictures in your sig were links. Sweet looking guitars, man!

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