I'm not even that old but I have had a doctor suggest taking a benadryl half an hour before bed to help with sleep. I try to avoid taking anything for sleep when I don't have to.
This rabbit-hole goes oddly deep in my opinion, due to the consistency of the hallucinations provided by recreational does of diphenhydramine (Benadryl).
'Recreational' users of Benadryl report oddly consistent hallucinations, and it isn't just the 'dead relatives' I mentions in my previous comment.
All of this is leaving the realm of medical discussion, but I do believe it is germane to the topic at hand.
If you ever want to see a group of fucked up individuals, go to the r/DPH subreddit.
People who take a lot of DMT/Psilocybin describe seeing 'Machine Elves' with remarkable consistency.
People who take recreational does of DPH almost always describe seeing 'The Hatman'.
A shadowy figure who watches, and occasionally interacts with them.
They also, oddly enough, often describe smoking hallucinatory cigarettes with 'The Hatman', even if they are not, or have never been, smokers. The weird part is that nicotine and diphenhydramie seem to have results, like they are oddly meant to be together.
Something about this doesn't add up to me, at least not from the physicalist mentality so many of us are brought up with.
I could be wrong, tho.
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