[quote]I've taken 24mg of melatonin [at once] and felt pretty warm and nice. I don't know if it was placebo either.

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i was doing a little salvia research, and i came across this post...

i've noticed that nice warm feeling too. i've been using melatonin on and off for several months.

for a while, i didn't think it had much of an effect at all.

but a couple of times over these past couple of weeks, i have been putting a pill in my mouth, then i start to eat a banana. so i'm chewing the pill, and the banana together. and i notice after about 20-30min while i'm sitting here at my computer checking mail, and posting on here (i get home from work about 3.30-4am, so i kinda have a jacked up sleep pattern). i feel a ring of warmth emenate from my tummy, and kinda wash over me. so i get up and go straight to bed. it's nice and dark... so i lie down, and kinda start to meditate. my body feels super relaxed w/in a couple of minutes, and i'm feeling waves of warmth wash over the upper half of my body. i feel groggy, and disconnected, i dont' want to get up, or move... but not sleepy (maybe 'cause i'm excited about what i'm feeling). i have a hard time keeping focus on meditating i'm too busy zoning out... after a while i lose it, and knock out.

i tried this w/out the banana, (empty stomach) and nothing ever happened. i have tried w/other fruit, nothing really happened either. i have more banana's now...

i guess the banana helps me absorb more melatonin... kinda like the banana helps act as a carrier. could it have something to do w/the banana being more solid that grapes, and oranges?

one thing that was pretty cool about the hg is that it was different. not like something going on behind my eyes... more like i was sitting in the back of a movie theater... the spacial aspect/preception/point of view was very different. also, the way it materialized was different also. the shapes and figures where a lot more distinct, but they are arising out of a blackness... very different from what i'm used to seeing where everything just kinda melts together, or becomes something else. very trippy. i like it. but i noticed my recall is not as good anymore, now that i'm taking melatonin again. i know i'm dreaming, 'cause i remember things happening, but it seems so distant when i wake up the next afternoon.