[devnulll]

If I were a large military that routinely sent pilots on missions around the world, research into drugs like this would be well funded.

As someone with serious sleep issues, I dream of the opposite - take a pill (or shot, or whatever) and fall into 8 hours of blissful REM sleep.

[caslon]

It's not a silver bullet, but have you tried (extremely) low-dose melatonin? Mind that most OTC melatonin capsules are at such a high dosage that they're likelier to harm your sleep than help it.

https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

[brippalcharrid]

I recall that Modafinil was used in a study with US Air Force pilots and it was found that they could continue to operate for 120 hours without sleep and without significant loss of function.

[kiririn]

Mirtazapine is one of very few drugs that will knock you out without giving you poor quality sleep, being risky long term or becoming a physical dependency

[tyre]

the pill that solves restful sleep will be worth hundreds of billions of dollars

[astrange]

Trazodone works quite well for some people, is generic and isn’t particularly valuable.

[beagle3]

Comes with extreme dependence from what I’ve heard.

[astrange]

Not for sleep, you take about 1/4 the dose for that. It’s generally safer than Ambien.