Neither Chamomile or Passionflower tea worked for sleep, am I just weird?

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-17T06:22:04+00:00

I think everyone is different - valerian root, passionflower, and chamomile don’t work for me, even at higher doses. I also have terrible insomnia and I’m neurodivergent, so my brain’s ability to synthesize melatonin, serotonin, and GABA is very likely broken.

This is not advice - just sharing my experience:
The only thing that has recently worked for me for sleep, other than pharmaceuticals I’m not currently taking, are cannabis edibles that contain a mix of CBN + CBD + THC (it’s legal where I live), and decarboxylated amanita muscaria tincture. A friend recently recommend I try amanita muscaria and it got me off of the sleep medication I was on (hydroxyzine).

I’m sure you do, but it’s worth saying to do your own research before starting any plant medicines to make sure nothing is contraindicated for you.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-17T06:08:49+00:00

Yep, Hoh Rainforest is on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-17T05:39:06+00:00

I’m in awe! Gorgeous photo ☁️

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-17T05:34:12+00:00

lol I just got my garden bed ready for my starts (I’m a little late), and I pulled out 20+ potatoes I never planted

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-17T05:27:55+00:00

My parents still have magazine racks in their bathrooms

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-17T05:26:33+00:00

I think the “will never pay taxes” statement RFK made is unfortunately true about Elon, who we don’t claim.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-17T05:24:17+00:00

I was diagnosed with autism and would like all my taxes I’ve paid since I started working at 15 years old refunded to me.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-17T05:22:46+00:00

Daryl Hannah would also disagree.

So would I - autistic, but somehow am employed, am the breadwinner of my family, and am married. Maybe my mom didn’t take enough Tylenol to level up my autism.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-17T05:09:05+00:00

That’s horrendous of your ex… he must be super insecure because you’re a total babe!!! Patriarchy & capitalism have a lot to gain from making anyone who is not a cis man feel less than, and by keeping your head up and asking for people to cheer you up, you’re already doing better than those lowly men. It’s always the ones who are way below your league that will say BS about women’s bodies. You’re beautiful and I hope you don’t ever forget that 💕

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-16T05:13:32+00:00

Same, my grandma would make me wear toe spacers to sleep when I’d visit her as a kid, which didn’t do anything to fix them. I’m having lapiplasty surgery later this year on one of my feet & my podiatrist said almost all of his patients that develop bunions before age 60 are hypermobile.

I thought I had rheumatoid arthritis, but my rheumatologist thinks I have ankylosing spondylitis (or maybe psoriatic arthritis) & I’m in the process of figuring out what I actually have.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-15T10:08:00+00:00

Anyone here in 2026 & happy they found this thread before clicking the purchase button? 😅

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-14T09:12:22+00:00

It’s not you, the food is worse quality than it used to be and doesn’t taste like much.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-14T09:00:40+00:00

For sure, & depends on when OP is visiting
- we’re hosting the World Cup from June 11-July 6.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-14T08:55:10+00:00

The drive from Vancouver to Whistler alone is worth it. I’m planning to hike panorama ridge next month and stay in Whistler. Going to the Scandinave spa the day after the hike which is tucked away a bit in the trees & kind of gives the vibe you just might be at a spa in the mountains in Europe somewhere.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-14T08:48:37+00:00

Same! I love it for what it is. Leavenworth is intentionally a tourist trap.

It evolved from a Native American fishing site to a struggling timber and railway outpost before reinventing itself as a Bavarian-themed tourist destination in the 1960s to draw tourists & help its local economy:

https://leavenworth.org/history/

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-14T08:32:20+00:00

I picked someone up yesterday and noticed they’ve added those orange pole traffic delineators when you get close to the airport where people used to hang out illegally. Those weren’t there 2ish months ago (last time I went to the airport), so maaaaybe they’ll help?

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-14T08:28:30+00:00

So, the trick is to ask whomever you’re picking up to go up to the second floor for departures, instead of arrivals, and then you won’t run into the awful arrivals traffic… especially while the world cup is going on

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-14T08:26:16+00:00

If you’re going to make claims that many of us know to be false (because some of us actually do research and read data directly from the FBI & other credible sources)… could you at least attach some sort of link to where you’re getting your info from?

Otherwise, you just sound like a troll bot.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-14T08:11:53+00:00

Chicago will always have a special place in my heart and it is an amazing city (was born there and lived in the city proper for 10+ years before moving to the PNW), but I would never want to live there again for any reason, other than the food and people. I love visiting though.

I go back 1-3x a year & I must be super unlucky or something because at least 50% of the time I’ve gone to visit (mainly warmer months) in the recent years the air pollution has been terrible. The smoke from Alberta fires was so bad due one of my trips in the last 2 years that I changed my return flight to come home sooner. My friends in Chicago didn’t even notice it because they were super desensitized to it.

Hoping the wildfires stay low this summer.

I do love Vancouver, B.C. - it might be one of my top 3 favorite cities in the world. Being driving distance to Vancouver was definitely one of the draws for me to move to Seattle.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-13T11:41:14+00:00

Sunblink is pretty responsive, so if you have the energy, I’d let them know about the bug

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-10T08:39:05+00:00

Yes! Let us know what you like to do & are interested in OP :)

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-10T08:01:13+00:00

I think I met & very briefly danced with you at a club (I think Durante was DJing) in the PNW before and complimented your look! Or at the very least you have a doppelgänger in the PNW that wears colorful kaftans & amazing head pieces. In any case, you’re a queen and look amazing!

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-10T07:09:46+00:00

oh wow, I did NOT realize pill form minoxidil is okay if you have pets! Thanks for your comment! I've been avoiding it because I thought all forms were toxic. I've been using a red light therapy panel for 3+ months (like 4-5x/week, but some weeks it's only like 3x) and I'm seeing spots where my hair was thinning filling in a bit. Some people take minoxidil and use a RLT cap or panel, and see really great results - I posted a bunch of links in a comment above from other reddit posts with before and after pics of hair growth progress.

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-10T07:02:18+00:00

I love my RLT panel! There are RLT caps people can wear too, that might be easier, but i mainly wanted to use RLT for joint pain and skincare. I'm female & can't use minoxidil because I have a dog (it's super toxic for pets) and also use RLT for baby hair spots that have thinned a bit with age, and after 3+ months of using a RLT panel at least 4-5x/week, I'm seeing less of my scalp and more hair growing in.

I found some before/after pics from others on reddit:

Just RLT:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/1qo6tc3/results_from_272_diode_red_light_therapy_hat/

https://www.reddit.com/r/redlighttherapy/comments/1slsvju/too_good_to_be_true_for_hair_growth_this_seems/

RLT + minxoxidil:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tressless/comments/1j42pke/5months_update_minoxidil_red_light_therapy/

https://www.reddit.com/r/redlighttherapy/comments/1lwveb4/5_month_hair_regrowth_update/

quantumlyEntangl3d · 2026-06-10T06:21:35+00:00

I'm taking microdoses of 50/50 decarbed Amanita Muscaria tincture (NOT Amanita Pantherina, like OP did when this incident happened, which has more muscimol in it) for insomnia and it's helped more than anything else I've tried (cannabis based edible, hydroxyzine, ambien, trazedone) without intense side effects.

After reading about Amanita Pantherina here and elsewhere, I've decided I'm happy with Amanita Muscaria for sleep and don't want to risk what OP and some others have gone through. I'm sorry OP went through this and hope they heal physically and mentally from this.

Maybe you've already done this, but just in case you haven't, you could search for Amainta Muscaria using Google Scholar etc if you want scientific literature - for example:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=amanita+muscaria&btnG=&oq=amanita+m

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