Thank you for the detailed response! A lifelong fascination with dreaming (every dream I've ever had is lucid) has led me into a deep obsession with dream enhancement using oneirogens, and sleep enhancement using various things.That's a tough one.. zolpidem seems to improve my sleep quality, and as long as I don't overdo it (max 20 mg) I don't get a hangover and wake up feeling better than after clean sleep. But I'm very careful not to use it too often cause it's quickly habit foming for me and I fear that. I'd also expect that effect to fade rather quickly upon regular use.
I don't have much experience with Zopiclone, so it's hard to tell - I only tried it once and it messed me up mentally so much when I tried to stay awake that I didn't bother to get more.
I didn't notice that feeling of recovery as clearly with benzos, though any benzo can put me to sleep easily as long as I use them only once in a while. If I'm having a backpain from tense muscles, the muscle relaxing does help with sleep though.
Ket doesn't really let me sleep in higher doses and I wake up exhausted. Low dose it's not a problem.
Thank you also for the detailed response! Bupropion insomnia is a bitch, I started taking mine again recently and got up at 3:30, with no clue if I'm going back to sleep hahaha. Cathinones like Bupropion and NEP, as well as 5-MeO-DiPT (and once DOB w/ spice) can keep me up but not even things like methamphetamine, LSD, etc can, and I have no idea as to why.There haven't been any studies surrounding it, but anecdotal evidence suggests that kratom lowers the seizure threshold. I also witnessed my ex have a seizure 15-30 minutes after taking kratom.. Granted she WAS in benzodiazepine withdrawal but she had been fine for like 3 days. Fine as in she wasn't having seizures or worsening. The kratom was enough to cause a seizure. One that she barely came away from with her life. I used to be prescribed 450mg and sometimes if I had a little bit too much caffeine with it I could "feel" the lowered seizure threshold. I don't know how to describe it but you can just sense it. I have also read a report from someone with no history of seizures who had one after consuming only kratom, nicotine and caffeine.
So long story short, I don't trust it to be a safe combination. It's at least one that I'm not willing to try. I imagine 7-OH and Bupropion is probably fine. I imagine it's alkaloids at play. Though if you have experience with it then maybe you're just able to handle it and some other can't. Luck of the draw.
It's no longer an issue. I'm back on Suboxone. 8mg/day. The reason I'm at this high of a is because that's the dose that they want me stabilized on before doing the Sublocade. Will probably do one more month o the tablets before the shot. I'm currently on 300mg of Bupropion which has been very helpful for my depression and the Gabapentin helps as well. Bupropion has been making my insomnia worse, more so than I remember in the past, but I am also prescribed 15mg Mirtazapine for depression. I take 7.5mg-15mg at night and it knocks me out. Also started on Spironolactone a month ago or so and started on estradiol almost a week ago. Starting to get nervous about transitioning and am having second thoughts. But every time I envision myself in the future, I always feel like I'll be happier as a woman. So I think that I'm making the right move.
On the topic of the thread, I got up pretty late after sleeping ~6 hours, but recently I've been oversleeping and it's not unheard of for me to oversleep and then not need as much sleep for a day or two after, like some sort of inverse sleep debt. Without being able to get my PC to run though until I snag a new hard drive, I'm stuck trying to hand write some short horror stories to pass time. Been using a lot of 7-OH recently, and while it's fun and all, it's not crazy interesting compared to psychedelics, but I need to drive to work in 6 hours so even 2C-B would be a time crunch given my wicked slow metabolism. Maybe just a little wouldn't hurt though.
Anybody here ever used small doses of psychedelics for writing? If so, what helped the most?

Another reminder that I have to nourish myself better. Being borderline anorectic for too long now, it's terrible every time to see that in the mirror...