Thread: 5-HTP, L-Tryptophan, Melatonin question, please help.

Does anyone know the difference between 5-HTP and L-Tryptophan? Also, I was wondering if it is safe to take 5-HTP and Melatonin together? Thanks!

Tryptophan converts into 5-htp, which later converts into serotoinin, which is what you are aiming to increase.


Taking melatonin and serotonin hmmm

Ive always wondered about it, never done it. Something in my head tells me its a bad idea.

Excess serotonin converts into melatonin anyways, so you would probably be wasting your money, because nothing special would happen,

I would like more input from anyone if possible. I think I will try both, but I want to be safe. I'll start out with 5-HTP first...

It's not going to hurt you, if that's what you mean. They both suppress REM, so you might get some rebound later in the night.

Well, I decided to take both last night with very interesting results. At the beginning of the night, I had an OBE, where I sat on the edge of my bed massaging my legs cause they felt numb. I remember hearing loud high pitched sleep paralysis sounds before this. I had to tell myself that this was nothing but sleep paralysis when hearing the sounds. As I sit on the edge of my bed, in my spirit body, I decide to get up and flip on the light switch, not aware that I was having an OBE. The light switch didn't work. I thought that was really odd, so I walk over to my ceiling fan. The fan is moving, but not in reality. I was about to test the string on the fan, but then I am back in my body, and fully conscious again.

After this OBE, I had two, very long, vivid dreams. Definitely one of the most profound dreams I have experienced in quite some time. Does anyone have similar experiences with these? Yes, I do believe it suppressed REM only in the very beginning, then BAM!, all of these vivid dreams.

I am curious how much actually you took each of them. My only experience with L-Tryptophan was awful. I took 1,5 g of pure powder drunk with water from 3 pills that were too big for me to swallow. It was so diguisting like bromine or dog's ass. Whole night I felt like vomiting and had that taste in my mouth...brrrrr I forgot about LD then.