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Many years ago I was reading "The Schwartzbein Principle". Schwartzbein discussed sleep issues and said that "GABA" helps "reduce the noise in your head" so you can sleep. I often find myself writing software algorithms instead of normal "dreaming". It's very productive the next day, but often results in being damn tired instead of being rested. On a whim, I picked up a bottle of GABA to evaluate the effects. It turned my normal mental machinations into a full blown circus. A bit like the kind of rave you might see in a heavy metal night club in an over the top Hollywood movie. I certainly didn't sleep well at all. About 6 weeks later, I tested it again. Same effect. GABA does not turn down the "noise" in my head. It might as well be a brass band playing. It turns up the noise for me.

I wonder how much genetic/epigenetic testing might explain it, what the bill would be and if you could get a definitive answer. It's possible that they could just rule out what they know to test for on a routine basis.

I always thought of GABA as an inhibitory neurotransmitter, but medicine always has something new to teach me.

Coexistence of excitatory and inhibitory GABA synapses in the cerebellar interneuron network.

Myrddin just has a weird brain.

Computer programming in his dreams. I can’t even get something in a dream to stay constant from one “look” to the next. Occasionally when very intensely involved with a project I get prolonged dreams about generalities and that’s about it.