Melatonin: What went wrong?
So after reading up on all the good experiences with melatonin on erowid, I get a ride to CVS last night and buy a 6 dollar bottle.
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Each pill is 5 milligrams each.
I read so much about how good melatonin is for having very intense vivid dreams.
I dumped one 5mg pill at about 8 o clock...and watched t.v., an hour later I did notice a subtle tiredness, but it wasn't an intense tiredness, but a sort of relaxation you could say. I proceeded to lay down and close my eyes, it was easier to keep my eyes shut and not move from that one pill. But I still couldn't sleep...I think I was too anxious to wake up and have intense dreams that I could not sleep. I kept tossing and turning trying to get to sleep for a minute.
My girl calls, I talk to her for a little while, and hang up. I get frustrated with not being able to fall asleep as fast as I wanted, so I proceeded to take another 5mg melatonin pill around maybe 9:30 or 10:00 I'm not too sure what the exact time was but not that much later I was "knocked out".
I then wake up around 5:30a.m. to not remember a single shred of dream and feeling a little sluggish. I'm so disappointed, I've read nothing but good of melatonin. I think the sleep that I had was deep. Maybe I took too much?
Did I take too much?
How much should I take tonight?
from wikipedia:
Quote:
Large doses of melatonin can even be counterproductive: Lewy et al.[78] provide support to the "idea that too much melatonin may spill over onto the wrong zone of the melatonin phase-response curve" (PRC). In one of their subjects, 0.5 mg of melatonin was effective while 20 mg was not.
I did not know this. Should I just take 5mg tonight? Or cut a 5mg pill in half and only take half?
Melatonin experts I need your help.
Melatonin Actually Clouds My Dream Recall
I find that Melatonin actually clouds my dream recall. I've had better luck with the other stages of the same chemical- either L-Tryptophan or 5-HTP. Actually combining one of these two said supplements with one tablet of Vitamin B-6 is usually enough for me to have very vivid and sometimes lucid dreams.