Given the awful nature of current events, I thought a little quiz might be in order to take our minds off of so many less-than-upbeat things.

Therefore, which of the following do you find to be the best cure for insomnia? Or, in other words, which would cause you to opt for a visit to the dentist rather than watch such stuff on TV?

All results are final and are the exclusive property of somebody.

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Where's HGTV?

I like watching people playing cards, providing those people are people I'd watch in other circumstances--ie, Celebrity Poker Showdown on Bravo. But most of the time, yes, it's dull.

I cure insomnia with Ambien, but all the other options are in a tie for crappy.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I use diphenhydramine.

Unfortunately, it turns out it can give you more sleep problems than it does relieve them.

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- JRR

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge." - [Daniel Boorstein]

The best way to cure insomnia is to read Thucydides

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There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark - Pink Floyd, The Dark Side Of The Moon

As for me , I don't have any idea how to cure my insomnia...

I have done a lot of "natural" things to get me to sleep, actually I don't like taking any meds at this time , cus I believe there are ways that my sleep patterns will be back to normal.

But , I will reconsider , as soon as this gets worse.

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Jean
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einsteiin

Maker's Mark whiskey

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"An armed man is a citizen
An unarmed man is a subject"

Robert A. Heinlein

On the flip side however, Soccer (NOT the MLS; that will give me about 2 days' worth of sleep) will quickly revitalize me.

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Alex

Dark Comedy Theory. Where c is coffee, s is spew, v is velocity, and w is how much windex used to clean LCD monitor. When I put the sentence through the equation, it unified all 4 forces above. I'm hoping someone here can help me express the precise mathematics into an elegant, simple equation. My next step is to post it in ATM, and then hopefully submit if for refereeing.
-Serenitude

Personally, I have great problems sleeping

It's horrible, I'm so tired, I want to sleep so bad, so tired, just can't click off...

Havn't found anything that has worked yet.

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If this writing is blue you're going too fast!

Insomnia cures?

1) Go to www.imf.org
2) Print out any of their working papers
3) Sit in a chair with a glass of milk and start reading (you have to concentrate so that you try to understand the paper, no skimming).
4) sleep should come after about 10-15 minutes, unless you find the paper interesting in which case at least you'll learn something.

Here's an example paper:

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Now while I might be amused by Cthulhians, I don't necessarily distrust them to carry out the functions of government. -- JayUtah

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I think my insomnia will get better when I'm not alone in the bed anymore (the cat doesn't count), but we'll see. (He should get leave next month!)

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Aaaawwwwww!!!

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Jean
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einsteiin

Looking over the choices I was reminded of an old cartoon (National Lampoon or New Yorker, I don't recall) where one character asks the other "Would you rather be from a terrible place or be currently suffering from a small wound?"

But I had to go with soccer. While it looks silly, it's also amazingly boring.

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The Devil offered me power. I told him I preferred aperture.

I also went with soccer. The thing is, I like soccer and it can be great ... but it's also a lot of back and forth with commentators who usually have soothing voices. The number of times I've sat up to watch a game of soccer and woken up just after the final whistle ...

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Well, soccer is out as a cure. I don't consider it a sport due my rule that every minute of play must provide one full second of highlights. This is one of the two reasons the use of "GOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL!!!" came in to play. It drags out the highlights enough to put it on par with bowling. The other reason is to wake up those who may have dozed off. Soccer is out because that call will wake you if it ever happens.

Tennis is out as well. It's not that it's interesting to watch, but I find myself spending a lot of time trying to figure out how it's scored. I know I could look it up, but that would be like taking the Rubic's Cube apart to solve it

Soap Operas won't cut it either. Even on the off chance that I could endure the program long enough to set the remote down, the rapid changes in music would be a distraction. Likewise is the thought that every time I woke up, it would be the same scene. How can people be stuck in an elevator for 3 months? It would just feel like I hadn't really slept.

People playing cards needs a qualifier. The high stakes poker matches that are all the rage now are interesting enough to have on in the back ground because they are edited most of the time to just show the more interesting bits.

I had to go with infomercials because no matter who the shill happens to be, the voice is either annoying enough that you have to turn down the volume, making it basically a white noise machine, or they have the very soft, pleasant "trust me" voice similar to a bad hypnotist.

My personal best solution is pre-recorded music. Something I know well enough to know what the next song will be. It can't be the radio because there is always that hope that the next song might be a good one. I have a hard time going to sleep in a quiet room because my head will fill in the background with whatever it feels like nattering on about. Sometimes for hours.

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I'm not evil.
An evil person would do the things I think up.

Yeah, it's root canals all the way down.Agreed.

Soccer had to be the origin of the term "kissing your sister".

Soccer is like hockey without the ice, without the sticks, and without the guts.

When someone gets a decent check in hockey, they shrug it off or plan an even better check later on. When someone gets a decent check in soccer, they start whining to the referee. Hockey players accept the rough aspects of the game and give as well as take, whereas soccer players, well..., enough said.

And in hockey the skaters can use their hands.

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Soccer training video

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I'm not evil.
An evil person would do the things I think up.

I tried watching soap operas late night , but it didn't work for me.
I tried watching musicals, same no effect.

I tried drinking a warm glass of milk at night before going to sleep...it didn't work , makes me go to the bathroom afterwards for stomachache.

I tried , soaking myself in some aromatheraphy bath for hours...its soothing and relaxing .. but as soon as I step out of the tub..my eyes are wide awake again.

I'm still looking for some solutions...

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Jean
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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einsteiin

Imagine soccer with no gravity.

How would one take a float?

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