Note, my sleep is naturally poor either because of my health condition or as an effect of it. This is the main reason I take sleep supplements, not because of dreaming, the dreaming part is improved by better sleep in my case, so it's mostly a happy coincidence that I can receive both effects.
For background, I have taken Melatonin 1mg for a long time (I used to take 2mg but I can't source it reliably enough to last me long enough) and when I haven't been able to source Melatonin, I simply had Valerian supplements instead (530mg) or a sleep time tea instead. Currently I am pretty much just taking Melatonin again, but recently made the mistake of having some sleep time tea that has Valerian in it, and other things, which I should probably list too; oat flowering tops, licorice root, chamomile flower, lavender flower, limeflower and tulsi leaf. I have never taken any of these other ingredients of the tea separately/on their own so I am not familiar with their individual effects (if any) on my sleep.
Now, what did I mean by the mistake bit? Well, the thing is, whenever I'm on a regular Melatonin dosage, if or when I have Valerian on the same night, I have super strange sleep for that night. I continuously wake up through the night feeling somewhat heavy, angry and horny (including the side effects of that); on the first awakening it's not so bad, but as it keeps happening through the night I start to feel more and more aggravated and the waking periods seem to last longer.
Another side-effect is that my sleep becomes literally... dreamless. It's not that I don't remember my dreaming, it's that it doesn't happen. And I know I'm not dreaming either because I do check when this happens. One of the very first things I tend to do with these waking periods because it's such a bizarre experience.
All of this makes me feel like when I should be in REM phases, I am just waking up feeling as previously described. It really screws up my sleep. The following morning I always feel that I have slept horribly.
From all I know, taking these two things together shouldn't really be screwing with my sleep so much, especially since I don't take as much Melatonin as I used to ages ago and I've known people to take way more than 1mg, but it does happen and I don't really know what's going on exactly... I obviously avoid the combination but sometimes still make this occasional mistake involving the tea.
Have you ever had this happen to you, or heard about it happening? Either with this combination of supplements or another.
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