Things have been pretty busy for me at work lately. I’ve gotten some substantial sized projects that eat up the days and weeks pretty wholly, and I often times find myself with little to no downtime at work, and I’m putting in overtime on a regular basis as the busy season solders on for my job. That being said, I’m not resentful or anything, but the truth of the matter is that I’m often times swamped, against a clock, and operating at a stress level that I’d rather not be in.
Whenever such is the case, I sometimes grow irritable towards the existence of peers and co-workers, and whether it’s their chatter, restless foot syndrome or their sheer inabilities to get over coughs, I feel the innate necessity to drown them out by whatever means necessary. Which is to say that I listen to a lot of Pandora when I get swamped, because I don’t want to hear anything but my music while I plug away at my monumental assignments.
Unfortunately that also means that I’m subject to the endless parade of ads that comes along for being a pleeb free Pandora listener, since I’m streaming it through my phone because Big Brother has no problem with Facebook, YouTube or even Netflix, but restricts Pandora, and therefore cannot filter out the ads with AdBlock. And there’s been one ad I’ve heard no less than 50 gozillion times now that’s caught my attention, not because I finally experienced what jetlag is really like, but the fact that it sounds like a recipe for being an FDA approved version of a date rape drug.
Called Sweet Dreams, by a company named Instavit, is an oral spray that allegedly helps people fall asleep. Both the radio spot as well as the posted link claim that “two sprays in the mouth” and you will be out. It’s marketed as a general sleep aid as well as a potential jet-lag beater for those who travel internationally or are sensitive to time changes. That’s great and all, as I am no stranger to having used blue bombers or Tylenol PM to attempt to induce sleep in my past, but I can’t help but feel that a sleep inducer in the form of a mist spray seems like there’s way too much potential for nefarious intentions.
Deviants can claim it’s a breath freshener spray or some form of liquid candy, and dupe unsuspecting partners into taking two or more sprays in the mouth. Whether or not they like the taste is irrelevant, when in 30 minutes or less they’re suddenly exhausted and wanting to go to sleep, and then terrible things can happen to them once they’re out. Or who knows how the shit behaves when diluted in other food or drink, and people are going around spraying peoples’ food with sleepy time spray.
I mean, if it’s on the market like this, it can’t be all completely evil and this probably says a lot more about how cynical I am than anything else, but I just can’t help but feel that sleep inducers in any form are really that great of an idea. Bad people can just as easily spike food and drinks with Zzz-quil, Tylenol PM or liquefied blue bombers to similar effect, but there’s something too convenient and easy about a tiny spray bottle that makes Sweet Dreams seem like a perfect tool for basically being Date Rape, Jr.
