Slice of Chaotic Life

Slept in the master bathroom all night, using a timer and 2-Hz delta brainwave entrainment.

Fleeing the bedroom does not stop my respiratory tract running full of a mixture of soft gel and chewy bits. I believe the goo comes from my sinuses and the back of my nose, and slowly slide down the back of my throat. When I am awake, I swallow it either as it arrives or occasionally clearing my throat. When I sleep, it gradually accumulates, but it is rare that there is so much of it that I wake up feeling short of breath. It is probably not an allergy. So staying in the bathroom does not help in that regard, but it makes sure I don’t wake up the Muslims, thus reducing my chance to get stabbed to death.

In fact, I woke this morning from a nightmare of the Muslims trying to break into the room where I was sleeping. I guess I am now a certified Islamophobe.

The mattress is truly unpleasant, although it is better than nothing. I am baffled that I slept on that mattress, on the floor, every night for 4 years until I moved to Riverview and got my current bed. Thinking back, I realize that I did nap a lot more at work then than I do now. Usually, I don’t do that now, but today I was pretty close.

When I first went to bed, I went through en entire 40 minute brainwave entrainment without falling asleep. That’s OK, brainwave entrainment is most effective when your mind is quiet but you are still awake. Dreams tend to disturb it, as they are full of the primal emotions that interfere with entrainment:  Fear, anger, lust and disgust. Stuff like that. These things interrupt the spread of the slow, regular waves of the entrainment from just above the brain stem out through the neocortex.

I fell asleep during the next round, and woke up from the timer, then quickly fell asleep again. Observation: Waking up is not enough, I need to be awake long enough to clear out some of the gel and chewy bits, otherwise I might just as well double the length of the timer. It is not waking up that helps, it is the clearing. Later in the night, this became obvious, and I got up for a while, coughed and hacked, chewed a peppermint gum and sprayed a mild saltwater solution in my nostrils which were by now also congested. The effect was remarkable, and I returned to bed for a final 2-hour session, which came to an end when I had the Islamophobic nightmare.

In conclusion, I could use a better mattress or a way to wake up without waking up the neighbors.

Alternatively I could try to sleep more during the evening, before the neighbors upstairs go to bed in the first place.  Won’t happen today though, because acid reflux keeps me from sleeping until many hours after a meal, and I already ate. I’ll see if I can do a couple sessions of brainwave entrainment though.