Originally Posted by Melatonin.com
Q. Are there any side effects to mixing alcohol and melatonin? Sometimes I may have a beer or two and then later take a melatonin when bed time approaches. Does alcohol lessen the effectiveness? Strengthen it?
A. Alcohol helps induce sleep, however, there is often a rebound effect a few hours later with waking up in the middle of the night with difficulty falling back asleep. I think one drink of alcohol combined with one mg of melatonin should be safe, but two or more drinks along with more than 1 mg of melatonin may interfere with clarity of thinking or induce vivid dreams. However different people respond differently.
Last night I took about eight Melatonin (24g total) and had about three beers an hour later. It was experimental, and to be honest I'm not exactly cautious with my experiments. I immediately became very tired, felt rather drunk (my tolerance is rather high, so even feeling slightly loopy after three beers is odd) and I had very vivid dreams.
My recall of the dreams was very good within the first ten minutes of waking up, I could remember emotions, scents, textures etc. My dreams were very detailed and structured, though none were lucid. I don't keep a dream log, and I really don't work on my dream recall at all.
I'm going to try again in a few days (I don't want to develop tolerance towards the melatonin) and I will be keeping a dream journal from now on to increase recall. I'll report my findings back.
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