Hey everyone, just wanted to give my experience w/Benadryl since it seems it works quite well for many of you! Well I remember once many years ago (10 to be exact) I had my first experience w/Benadryl. I was at my house w/my best friend and we wanted to lay out in the pool and get really tan for a party that night. Since it was California in the middle of summer, IT WAS SO HOT. So instead of getting in the pool and getting bored and too hot after a short time we decided to take about 2 doses each of Benydral so we could end up falling asleep hours on end, with our bodies cooking in the crisco we had slathered on. (please, no lectures needed, really)

Instead of drifting off into a peacefull, middle of the summer nap, we had a bad reaction that made us doze off and within probably about 30- 60 seconds we would twitch awake so hard our bodies would actually almost flip the little blow up raft we were laying out on.

We both asked eachother how the other one felt and the answer was unanimous. HORRIBLE. It was like a strangely delusional drug altered state (which at that age was something we were usually looking for most of the time HA HA) butdefinately not in the manner in whcih this occurred.

We only stayed out there an hour and a half before we could take no more. Strangely enough it felt as though we had been out there 10 hours.

After going inside we tried to take a nap but that strange phenomenon kept happening. We would close our eyes, our eye lids were really heavy and we would quickly drift off, then boom - -we were jarred awake and we would literally twitch.

It seemed like we kept having those dreams that sometime occurr when you are really tired and start to doze off when it suddenly feels like you are falling off a large building and right before you hit the ground you force your body to wake up. Except when you do wake up it is not a gentle awakening. Oh no, in that dream when you just about slam to the ground your body somehow protects you from the imaginary free fall and forces you to WAKE UP! You can twitch so bad that your arms and legs can be flailing all over the place and if someone is next to you there is a chance they will get kicked or slapped just by the sheer force of your subconscious telling your body that if you don't wake up you will hit the ground quite hard. OUCH.

Well that was our mutual experience with Benydral. The saddest part was we did not even end up going to the party that night because it took forever to get that stuff out of our system. We were really tired the whole day but we said we still wanted to go because we had planned it for so long. Well long story a little shorter....we started to get ready to go and had our cute clothes on, make-up done, a good tan going and we decided to have a couple beers before we went. We drank the first one really fast. We felt a little sick afterward but we brushed that off our shoulder saying it was the anticipation of the party that was making us nervous, hence a little sick to our stomach. Well after chugging the 2nd beer we started to get kind of dizzy and things were moving in slow motion. We thought it would pass if we laid down for a few moments so that was what we did.

As you can imagine, beer and Benydral don't mix to well. If only we could have figured that one out!! We ended up waking up 4 1/2 hours later with the lights on, music blarring, and drool on the side off both of our mouths. We were both in such deep deep sleep we drooled on our pillows which also washed our make up off on one side of our mouth. It was hilarious. Even funnier i woke up and found my best friend spooning me. Um, HELLO! We just cracked up..

When we went back to school on Monday everyone asked us where we went. Of course we couldn't tell the truth so we just decided to lie. We said we ended up going to Santa cruz for the weekend. We then had to sit through detail after detail of the party we slept through. It was terrible. Turned out to be the best party our friends had ever been to. Well of course we missed it, after all it was the "best party ever" and that is just the way my life works. Sadly, my luck has not changed and this kind of stuff still happens. Only I now live in Wisconsin, don't have a pool and am very very pale. It just never ends!

i thought the only reason we had such a bad experience w/the stuff was because we took about 2 doses each of the benydral and we sat out in the HOT sun for a long time while it was in our system. Plus we were a bit dehydrated from drinking a lot the night before. Then that night we passed out because we still had most of it in our system but we still decided to drink. Lastly, we were both quite sunburned and I am sure that could not have helped! I really did not think I would ever have a problem with Benydral again if I just followed the proper directions and did not drink. Well wrong again. I have taken it quite a few times since that one weird summer day and each time I experienced the same thing. It's horrible. I never can get any real rest if I have to take that medication for a bug bite or something. It turns into an awful experience and I would rather deal with the bug bite side effects rather than ever take Benydral ever again.

However it's cool it works for many of you!! Take care everyone and I wish you all a good nights sleep!