Thread: Please Help Supplement Guru's

Here's the issue:

Im 40 and work as a busy IT manager in a major company. I get up at 4:30am - home by 6:30pm - do evening stuff until about 10:30pm. Read until 11:00-11:30 then sleep. I only have to go into the city on Tuesday thru Friday. Monday I work from home which with the weekend gives me three days to sleep in to 8-9:00am and practice WILD/WBTB.

I have a 40 minute train ride twice a day - in which I sometimes read and sometimes nap.

I have trouble dreaming - especially in the first part of the week. At the weekend I have loads of dreams. I also seem to get some Wednesday night and more on Thursday night

But Monday and Tuesday nights go dreemless almost every week. I know I dream - but can only remember fragements.

I thought using supplements might help - eg using 5mg Melotonie and/or 2-300mg 5-HTP would put me into deep sleep sooner with REM rebound hopefully before 4:30am.

Last night I took 300mg 5-HTP, 300 mg N-Acetyl L-Tyrosine - just slept solidly and dreamless and woke up feeling kind of spacey. I weigh 200 pounds by the way in case you are curious about dose vs body weight.

Im trying to get to a point where I can force more REM time in the mid week nights when I can only get 5 hours of sleep.

Maybe having 3 nights of a solid 8/9 hours of sleep and then suddenly dropping Monday night to 5 hours is screwing with my cycle?

Am I taking too many supplements and over shoorting ? Maybe im not taking enough and I need a larger dose to get some decent REM rebound after 3-4 hours.

Thoughts/Help/Advice?