WB, 3/13/96
Tryptamine Dreams?
Blood Pressure Improvement?
Reduced Pot Smoking
Dream Analysis
Erotic Dreams
Return of Nocturnal Emissions
No Hangover
Better memory?
"My wife and I both take
melatonin nightly. We both have experienced not only more vivid dreams, but more
dreams numerically. Our sleep patterns are not hampered by this "side effect."
We both wake in the morning feeling refreshed and alert.
One thing we have both noticed is the fact that we both have better
short-term memories. We are both full time college students and the retention of
the materials we read and hear in lecture [are] better retained and recalled
since we started taking melatonin.
We both feel there is a direct connection between melatonin and these
"positive" effects."
"Apparently, the
dream occurrences happen because melatonin is metabolised into
5-Methoxy-Dimethyltryptamine, which is the chemical responsible for dreams. The
human body contains both DMT and 5-methoxy-DMT... the body converts tryptophan
into DMT, 5-methoxy-DMT and serotonin... and this may be case the case with
melatonin since it's very similar chemically. I've not seen any hard proof on
this yet, but I strongly believe it to be true."
I have taken something to sleep with every night since I was 18. I am now 47.
The time release works better at keeping me asleep throught the night. My doctor
recommended melatonin since he would not prescribe long term sleep
medications.
Dreams are much
more vivid both in color and content. I'm not sure if the dreams are more
frequent... with the mel I tend to wake up more frequently so maybe I remember
more dreams. The content of the dreams seems to be more sexual in nature. I
almost never have or have had nightmares.
I am really impressed the mel. I wake up a little slower and use light to
help. My mind seems clearer and I'm less hung over than with using prescription
medicines. The last time I went to the doctor, my blood pressure second reading
went from 90 to 80. I've read blood pressure is lowered with mel; I'll keep an
eye on that. I really enjoy dreaming and I seem to wake up in the morning in a
better frame of mind.
I did have one interesting dream that scared the shit out of my wife. I must
have been on the edge of dreaming and semi-awakeness. I was running in my dream
and yelling. I woke myself up with the yelling. My wife's head was near mine and
I guess the yelling was more than just a dream cause it woke her up with a start.
I could detail all my dream to her. She doesn't keep her head near mine any more.
I use melatonin
to reduce my pot smoking. I used to have a hard time getting to sleep, which pot
alleviated. Melatonin makes it possible for me to get a good night's sleep, and
has dramatically curtailed my marijuana usage. Please don't let them take my
melatonin away!
The pleasant
dreams are extremely pleasant. The strange dreams and nightmares are intense,
but...part of me is able to "observe" what is going on in a detached manner.
This part can understand what the dream means. It is an odd feeling, but
productive. There is less room for denial with melatonin dreams. Whatever it is
that is troubling me is thrown out on the dream canvas where I am forced to see
and deal with it more quickly than I had been accustomed to in regular dream
therapy.
Yes!!! Many VERY erotic dreams. [Before] melatonin I almost never remembered
having dreams; now I dream vividly almost every night.
Sex-related dreams, followed by nocturnal emissions are sometimes noted. I turned
30 last August. This is to say the least a bit odd and kind of cool.
I have found melatonin to be an effective way of insuring that I will
fall asleep without any of the side-effects of OTC brands.
With the usual OTC stuff, I felt irritable, groggy, almost
like I had a 'hangover,' like a thick cloud had enveloped my brain.
That has never happened with melatonin, and I have never had a problem
falling asleep with it. Except that the dreams are more frequent and
vivid--which is okay. Beats waking up like feeling a drunken grizzly
bear.