Melatonin..good or bad????

[DarThDreAmeR]

I've heared a couple different things on this site about melatonin. From one of the tutorials I heard that it was a bad idea to take melatonin to get to sleep if you are going to attempt a lucid dream as it can make your dream recall worse. Also from another thread I heard that it was very good to take if you want to have a lucid dream... I have a bottle of melatonin and I was wondering if I should take a few tonight..

[KuRoSaKi]

Take and see not like it's going to hurt the best way to prove something right or wrong is to try it for yourself.

[Mes Tarrant]

I agree with Brandon, just don't take more than once dose at a time.

[Torcher]

Melatonin works most of the time. Then there are those times when it doesn't do anything but make me tired, which is just as good. The usual guarantee is that any dreaming is more vivid. Add some valerian and the dream clarity jumps into high gear. I've had some of the craziest LDs off a melatonin/valerian combo (not overdosing, btw), but it doesn't work for LDs 100% of the time. Completely harmless, but will/might make you feel a bit groggy for a few hours once you wake up. Little coffee solves that straight away.

[DarThDreAmeR]

What's valerian?? Never heared of it before. And is it also useful that the melatonin I have has vitamin B 6 in it?

[tehpwner]

Dont take melatonin if ur in puberty it slows it down

[Out of the Blue]

In my experience I haven't seen any real improvement with melatonin. It does help you go to sleep faster, but for me, taking it constantly seemed to develope a dependency where I had trouble sleeping without it. My advice, experiment with it, and see if it works for you, but don't take it every single day.

[Torcher]

What's valerian?? Never heared of it before. And is it also useful that the melatonin I have has vitamin B 6 in it? Valerian is a natural sedative and helps you stay asleep. Wikipedia info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_%28herb%29

[Spamtek]

Melatonin will put you to sleep, which is good, period. Brain melatonin levels decrease over the night, which at least partially regulates REM period length and frequency and the overall 'deepness' of your sleep. If you get just the right amount you can put yourself in an especially deep sleep for the first 1/2 - 2/3s that results in an extra bountiful REM rebound during the last section of the night - if you overdose, though, you'll suffer deep sleep all throughout the night and wake up zombified (although your body will certainly have had more than enough time to regenerate and reenergize). Try to gauge the scale that melatonin works on you on a normal night (some are sensitive to changes as little as .1mg and some are responsive to dosages in multiples of 3mg, etc) and then ramp it up or down to compensate for the amount of artificial light you expose yourself to after sundown.

[sweetshoes18]

I have experimented with Melatonin quite a bit, a whole bottle to be exact. I found that with melatonin in my system, its much harder to fall asleep normally, recall dreams, and become lucid. However, it may be that I am sensitive to changes in chemical balances in my body; I think it all boils down to this. Many people say it helps them sleep and or helps with dream recall and or lucidity, but many people say the opposite. I think it all depends on the person.