700mg of phenibut were taken at about 9pm to test for it's potential relaxant/euphoric properties, but more practically to see how it effected SWIM and if it aided his sleep, as he has read that it can produce very restful sleep. It should be noted that the prior night he took 3mg of melatonin (for his first time) to somewhat disappointing results.
SWIM did some writing and then some drumming 'til about 10:30. He thought maybe he felt a bit relaxed, but it was subtle if not entirely a placebo sensation. Anyways, SWIM was already tired before ingestion, but knew he had to do these things before bed. He didn't have any trouble doing them. Then at 10:30pm SWIM tried to sleep. SWIM was surprised that it did not come easily. There was quite a bit of unusually deep thinking. SWIM lay awake for at least an hour just thinking of issues in his life and occasionally repositioning himself, but physically SWIM thinks he felt more comfortable than normal in his bed and really quite happy to just lay there. Not super happy, no euphoria. Content would be a better word. So he lay there thinking and evaluating things for about an hour, then he drifted off. He's quite sure he was asleep by midnight, probably soon after 11:30pm.
SWIM had strange dreams. This is very difficult for SWIM to describe without going over a good number of SWIM's dreams to try and establish what normal dreaming consists of for SWIM. Anyways, SWIM dreams quite regularly (probably at least 70% of the time) and remarkable dreams are usually at least 2 months apart. Remarkable usually means disturbing, though sometimes just far from reality. Well what was remarkable about SWIM's dreams on the night of the phenibut is they seemed to go on forever! Not literally of course, but it seemed like there may have been at least four hours of dreaming. SWIM may sometimes feel like he was dreaming for an hour, but not four. These dreams dealt with some of the things SWIM was thinking of before bed. That is not in itself rare, but SWIM will usually only dream of one particular worry/issue if any, not upwards of 4. There was another unique quality about SWIM's dreams that SWIM doesn't even recall, but he remembers thinking the following morning that they were different somehow.
About the following morning: Even though SWIM had probably gotten over eight hours of sleep (but less than nine), when his alarm went of he still felt VERY tired, more so than usual and more so than on a night of less sleep. He hit the snooze. In his 10 minute snooze he fell into another dream state. Again, when the alarm went of, he was unsurprisingly, still feeling very tired. It should be noted that the last time SWIM slept, he slept less than usual, probably 5 hours of sleep, this may have been a factor.
The next time SWIM will up the dose to try for waking recreational enjoyment and he will make sure he can sleep in the next day.
SWIM has not used any drugs recreationally for almost a month. He does not take prescreption meds. He weighs about 150 lbs.
01-10-2007, 20:21
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