Melatonin

[sttomassmoker]

I can't believe out of all of the doctor's I talked to complaining about bad sleep schedule's and the inability to fall asleep (even with plenty of exercise) never mentioned melatonin to me.

I can't believe how well it works. I've started a dose at 3mg and I think I might only need 1mg.

Very simply put it works by making your brain think it is time to go to bed.

[zsouj]

I have tried GABA and Valerian root, with average results, haven't tried melatonin yet, it's good to hear it works

[J-dubb206]

Yeah i take melatonin also its the shit.

[Polymirize]

I thought it was pretty good stuff. I had to double the dose to see any real effects from it, but it definately did it's thing till I ran out.

I was remembering my dreams too. Maybe its time to re-up on that...

[gmoney88]

melatonin isnt a prescription drug you could buy it at a gnc, but it only works for some ppl, i take seroquil that shit will make fall asleep while your walkin down the street

[Breukelen advocaat]

I can't believe out of all of the doctor's I talked to complaining about bad sleep schedule's and the inability to fall asleep (even with plenty of exercise) never mentioned melatonin to me.

I can't believe how well it works. I've started a dose at 3mg and I think I might only need 1mg.

Very simply put it works by making your brain think it is time to go to bed.

I cut the pills up and use about .25 to .5 mg. - there are studies that have shown less works better.

[Matt the Funk]

melatonin isnt a prescription drug you could buy it at a gnc, but it only works for some ppl, i take seroquil that shit will make fall asleep while your walkin down the streetLol yeah until you've been taking 400mg a day for months. But melatonin works great, but FUCKED UP MY DREAMS. Totally made me have trippy ass lucid dreams where I couldn't wake up. Total nightmares.

[mrdevious]

Melatonin is pretty good stuff indeed, and it kills cancer cells to boot. It's a hormone your body produces to trigger sleep, in case it wasn't mentioned yet.

Just a little something interesting, smoking marijuana by a first time toker (or just one with a really low tolerance) causes an average 5,000% increase in your natural melatonin levels, hence why you get the "burnout" at the end and many get sleepy during the high. The reason you don't get sleepy during, at least not as bad a the burnout, is because of the seratonin increase that comes with the stone.

[AlwaysBlazed]

i finally got these today (the 3mg pills) and i can't wait to begin taking them. ive always had trouble going to sleep, i normally have to lay in bed with my eyes shut no noise no lights anywhere from 1 hr - 4 hrs if im not stoned. ill try the 3mg for a week or so and then see if a lower dose would be better. my mom made a random person laugh today when she asked the dude at the counter if its possible to OD on melatonin, she was worried about buying them for me, why would i take a bunch of melatonin pills its not like they get u high

do the effects of melatonin change if i go to sleep stoned? i still want to take them because weed had been making me not remember any dreams and the last time i had a nice lucid dream was when i passed out sober at 4am after not being able to sleep

[sttomassmoker]

well I believe potheads mostly say they can't remember their dreams becaue they dont have a good sleep cycle, or you just cant remember the details. You have dreams.

Let me get this out of the way, you will always dream pot or no pot.

Melatonin will make you dream like crazy. I find smoking pot 20 minutes after taking melatonin is a real relaxing, peaceful way to fall asleep. Of course it is best to just take the right before you go to bed.

Also you gotta make yourself go to bed at a reasonable time everynight with the melatonin to get in a good schedule.

[slipknotpsycho]

doesn't work for me... i still have like half a bottle of it... i started at like 1 mg and was up to 3... after a few weeks i just gave up on it working.

but then again i have severe insomnia.. and even with OTC sleeping pills like benadryl (same dose, same exact active ingredient as sleeping pills, but alot cheaper.... lol go figure) i have to take upwards of 10 or more to go to sleep (my tollerance is high, and builds fast.. i've been on it since i was like 5... even after my 'breaks' to reset my tollerance, i still have to take atlesat 6.)

[angee pirate]

Melatonin is good stuff, recently i had a physical and the doc told me melatonin messes with the adrenal gland so you don't want to go over 3 mg, A book from Dr. Atkins says you can take up to six mg safely, I don't know...
my bed cocktail is 3mg of melatonin for falling asleep and I take an amino acid called 5 htp with B6 to stay sleeping all night, man there is nothing like quality sleep

[CannabisHappiness]

But melatonin works great, but FUCKED UP MY DREAMS. Totally made me have trippy ass lucid dreams where I couldn't wake up. Total nightmares.

Agreed. It works, but the nightmares were not so good.
Thankfully, I don't need to use it anymore. Now I use something else...exhaustion. ;)

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

There's a chemical called cyclobenzaprine, prescribed as a (non-opiate) muscle relaxant called Flexeril, and THAT stuff will put you to sleep! It's odd because 50% of the time I try taking it in the day I just get really tired and go to sleep.... but the other 50% I get so "high" it's like being drunk without the blurred vision, slurring speach, or general "poisoned" feeling. I remember having it before philosophy class, because my back would lock up by the end of the prior class, and the whole time I sat there in total euphoria watching the walls move like waves:D