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I prepared for bed last night as I do any other night. I brushed my teeth, flossed, and applied some intensive night serum to my face to increase the look of skin elasticity. I did all of this despite the fact that my body was in extreme pain. My joints ached, my throat was dry, and I spent all of yesterday either sniffling or blowing yellow/bone white mucus out of my nose.
In short, I was feeling sick and I had all of the symptoms that come with harboring a common cold or flu.
You know when you’re sick and your body, specifically your butt, just sort of becomes a leaky tire? Farts are expelled when you least expect them, each one more rancid than the last, and you can point to those farts, coupled with aches in your joints and a dry throat and say, yup, I’m sick right now. Well last night was one of those nights, and I feared that it would get worse through the night if I didn’t nip it in the bud. So nip it I did.
The decision to shoot back a few milliliters of NyQuil is one that I don’t take lightly. I love sleeping and I value it over most things in this life of mine, but the residual effects following a sleep induced by NyQuil are a tough hump to get over. I have to be in dire straights health-wise to consider taking the ‘Quil, and last night was one of those nights.
Normally I get uninterrupted, peaceful sleep while on NyQuil, and through the years I’ve come to trust it as a reliable way to get some shut eye when I’m feeling like trash.
I poured out a measured amount of NyQuil and shot it back. Thirty or forty minutes later I was out like a light, but this only lasted for what I think was two hours.
The next 6 hours, from around midnight to 6:00 a.m., were spent in something I can only now describe as a very vivid limbo. I was never fully asleep or 100% conscious, just sort of floating in and out and all the while thinking that I was experiencing some kind of psychotic episode.
I could tell my brain that I was experiencing psychosis and that would register in my head, but I was never able to get out of it. Does that make sense? I found myself sweating heavily in bed but cold at the same time and talking out loud in my room. I had broken through the fourth wall and I was speaking to an audience of nonexistent people, suddenly believing myself to be a fictional character.
The dream I was having was so real, and yet looking back on it now I’m realizing that the “dream” in question was me just sitting up in bed and saying nonsensical things to nobody.
I couldn’t fully get to sleep, and yet… I was asleep? I went from my bedroom to the bathroom six or seven times, turning the lights on and off and thinking that all of it made sense. I was on the verge of tears. I was paranoid and agitated. I thought for a moment that perhaps the NyQuil was expired, or that a rogue agent had come creeping into my bathroom and laced my bottle with LSD, but these thoughts quickly dissipated into more nonsense.
I know that outside of a person’s commute to work, the last thing anyone wants to hear about is a dream that someone else has had the night prior, but I don’t think this NyQuil experience counts as that.
Last night I experienced a full blown psychotic episode. Instead of feeling well rested this morning, I woke up with a hangover. I wrote all of this down as quickly as I could so as not to forget what happened and I’m not even sure everything I’ve written actually did happen. I can tell you, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the bottle of NyQuil sitting next to my sink is getting tossed the second I get home tonight. I don’t want to tell you what to do, but I’d consider dumping any NyQuil you’ve got laying around. That stuff is not to be trifled with..
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I think that hobo that wandered into your apartment a few months back spiked your NyQuil.
You experienced prolonged sleep paralysis. It’s also a symptom of alien contact so you’re now probably being tracked by them via the capsule they surgically placed up your nose and into your brain. You’re going to have to go get an MRI to confirm and finally get to use your health insurance that you pay for every week. When they try to push the brain drugs on you after you tell them why you’re there, do not take them because they have been found to cause psychosis and then we’ll probably hear about you on the news and then they’ll use you as a puppet for a potential false flag event in order to push an ulterior agenda that screws us all over. So thanks in advance for that bullshit lol
had to do it to em
sup?
This is exactly how you get pick up lines based around anal probing
sup back at ya engineer boi….. subpar bacon – huh?
To be perfectly honest I’m not sure what I was trying to say but when I was drunk Tuesday it sounded hilarious.
Grandma never trusted it and would give me whisky instead. I’ve stuck with it.
You got to get in the melatonin game…
Idk I’ve had some pretty crazy melatonin dreams.
Melatonin gives me the sleepy hangovers. It takes forever to wake up when I take it.
Magnesium. Knocks me out in about 30 minutes if I’m actively trying to go to bed. Most people are low on it anyway and it has a load of other benefits.
Advil PM is where it’s at.
Hey Johnny can you send that bottle my way? You can’t just dump it down the sink, I have to make sure it gets properly disposed of. Trust me, I’m a professional.
Whenever I take NyQuil or a xanax, I wake up in the middle of the night, but my body is paralyzed and I cant move or speak for hours. One time I saw a dark figure coming into my room and I thought I was going to be murdered. Its terrifying. Sleep paralysis is real.
I discovered in college I experienced sleep paralysis when I nap. Haven’t been able to nap in almost 7 years now.
Same! It’s so weird that it only happens when I try to nap during the day. Sleep paralysis is the stuff of nightmares.
I do not miss the days where one would Robotrip in a dorm for a high on a Monday night
Been there, done that, no desire to repeat experience
Remember when people did this on purpose in high school?
My first and last experience with the ‘Quil was in undergrad when I was kinda sniffly. Long story short, I unknowingly took a triple dose and felt like a zombie for 4 days straight. Haven’t touched the stuff since
Not to make things heavy, but coming from someone whose best friend went through drug induced psychosis, go get checked out. This is the age where things like bipolar etc rear their ugly head.
What you’re referring to is schizophrenia which is not even similar to bipolar. Stop propagating the misinformation that all mental illnesses cause psychosis.
Yes not all mental illnesses causes psychosis but some do and tend to emerge for young men in their 20s. That’s some scary shit and probably worth getting checked out. Worst case scenario is the doctor says it was really just the medicine, but why leave it to chance?
Whoa. What an overreaction to a reasonable comment. In the future, I would suggest trying to see/understand what people are really saying and not going off on them because you don’t agree or they didn’t like the way they said it.
Really didn’t mean to cast it as a blanket, my apologies, but to be specific he was always an entertainer and risk taker (which looking back could have been early signs on the mania side), then a string of extremely high stress from work and substances that help manage that workload amplified a manic episode into full blown psychosis. I am just trying to tell people to keep an eye out for patterns or abnormalities in yourself and your friends. Because we were absolutely blind sided and wouldn’t wish that on anyone ever again.
I believe he was just giving an example, and drugs can cause a person with undiagnosed bipolar disorder to show symptoms.