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.


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:

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.