Melatonin-induced sleep psychosis?

I'm pretty sure the term "sleep psychosis" doesn't exist, but whatever; if it doesn't consider it coined.

I've been doing some experiments with melatonin and the way it controls sleep. During the course of these experiments I've had two experiences worth noting. They both occoured while I was fully rested, awake and alert (already had 10 hours+ sleep). I dosed 18mg of melatonin, and within an hour I went from well-rested alertness to feeling like I've been up for 40 hours straight. What comes next is quite interesting.

I experienced dreams in a way I've never dreamt before. I would switch back and forth between "reality" and the dream world, which resembled reality in an eerily similar way, but changed just enough where I could tell it was a dream. I could actually controll the dream/awake state, where I'd switch from being awake and seemingly instantly transport to the dream world. This experience is extremely trippy and somewhat fun.

Unfortunately, after a while it got to the point where I though my dreams WERE reality, I can't really describe it any better than that. Weird shit would start happening in this "dream-reality", like me in my bed chilling, watching T.V. or whatever, and over the intercomm (note: I don't actually have an intercom in my house) an announcement would come like "lock all elevators" and for some reason I interpreted this as a saftey lock-down due to an intruder. This was extremely difficult for me to deal with, and since I kept switching between consciousness and sleep, I was seriously having a hard time making a distinction between them.

I can't really describe it well enough for anyone reading to truely understand, it's something that needs to be experienced. It's really strange, like nothing I've ever experienced. I'm pretty sure it's due to the fact that I'm inducing the sleep cardiac rythm while fully rested, so the sleep cycles aren't really doing what they normally do when you're fatigued and need rest to repair your body from a day of operation. It's like a fucking trip, REM sleep while remaining semi-conscious I suppose. I can't explain it lol :o

If you're interested, try taking 18-21mgs of melatonin right when you wake up from a full night's rest. You'll be surprised at the outcome (you'll also end up "sleeping" for another good 15-20 hours, feeling like a million bucks when you finally return to full consciousness). The experience is quite elating at first because you actually have control of entering dream states, it's weird; eventually, though, reality and dream state blur together, creating a fucked up, unnerving experience that's not exactly enjoyable but more like you're going insane. It's level of forgiveness at that point is almost like salvia's, a desire for it to just end. So I don't think I'll be doing this again for a while, though I'd rather do this than smoke salvia :o

Sounds like my life... Maybe I did fuck myself up with all the coke, rolls and shrooms last year after all...

It's called Lucid Dreaming, after having 5-6 hours of sleep you enter REM and at this point it is possible to lucid dream.
http://brain.web-us.com/lucid/luciddreamingFAQ.htm

Ah thanks for the link, the weird thing is I've never had a lucid dream in my life before I started supplementing melatonin. I never even knew that such a phenomenon existed, the level of control you have is insane.