Thread: Task of the Month for June 2014

Originally Posted by Marm

lol ophelia i only learned about you and tornados after listening to the dv podcasts on youtube a few months back (those are great btw )

uggh i feel like im learning lucid dreaming from scratch nowadays, i haven't had a single lucid dream since january... it usually takes me like 2hrs to fall asleep then i just wake up without remembering anything at all...

Take it with a grain of salt, of course - but if you seriously spend two hours in order to fall asleep - my advice would be - take 3-6 mg Melatonin a quarter of an hour before you want to be asleep. That is a very low dose - see below - and it completely does the trick against my own considerable problems with insomnia (~1 hour was what I needed). In most countries, like the USA for example, you can simply get it over the counter. It is a substance your pineal gland produces on it's own every night, so it is nothing artificial, no unwanted side effects, not addictive, too. Even in much higher doses it only makes you more tired. High doses are even used as antioxidant (like vitamin C) in cancer patients.
How it affects REM is seemingly not clear - but it's used for dreaming purposes anyway. Some people on here say, it lowers REM time in the beginning of sleep and prolongs REM later on, which is also good - Wikipedia says the following on the topic:

Some supplemental melatonin users report an increase in vivid dreaming. Extremely high doses of melatonin (50 mg) dramatically increased REM sleep time and dream activity in people both with and without narcolepsy.

Worth a try - good luck - who wants to waste hours of lifetime waiting for sleep? Not me!