RaRaRasputin said:

Because anything under 100 I do not feel the slightest bit sleepy.  Around 100 a will feel kinda tired and around 200 I'll feel sleepy. So I figured 300 mg would work fine.

Also before you go around saying no one has a threshold that big,  there's lots of evidence showing melatonin "deficiancies" are being misdiagnosed and really the person has a higher inherent tolerance to melatonin. I know 1 other person face to face like me that normal doses don't work.  He's like me and needs 100+ for anything to happen.

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Melatonin doesn't really make one sleepy/sedated....and I've heard that taking large doses can actually keep people awake and screw up their sleep cycles/patterns. (And you took an absolutely massive dose lol, like others mentioned, 3mg to 5mg is a typical dose). Taking more does not = more when it comes to melatonin.



The way I understand it....Melatonin is best used to re-set a sleep pattern/schedule and get one's circadian rhythm back in order, it is not so much a "sleeping pill" or a "sleep aid"....Melatonin doesn't really have any sedation to it, it won't "knock someone out" into sleep, it doesn't work like that. Melatonin is just a hormone that regulates the sleep/wake cycles & systems of the body, it's very mild and as far as I know it doesn't have any direct mechanism that causes sedation. It doesn't matter how much melatonin you take, the stuff isn't going to make you all that sleepy or sedated.



If one has a sleep schedule/pattern that's out of wack or if someone wants to change their sleep pattern (like if switching to working night shifts, or visa versa...or traveling across the world where the time is different), taking melatonin at bed time can get the system's circadian rhythm back in order or help to set a new "bed time"....

....but if one is having trouble getting to sleep, taking melatonin isn't necessarily going to do much of anything (it can help drifting off into sleep, but it's doesn't really provide any direct sedation). It certainly won't do much for the lingering stimulation of LSD lol. It's mostly used for a short period of time just to tell the bodies system, "this is the time of day/night to go to sleep" . It's like a signal the body's systems use for sleepy time, but it doesn't really make one all that sleepy.


If you want to work with an actual sleep aid, something that should make one feel sedated and sleepy as fuck...Try out some diphenhydramine .






But yea...perhaps there was some sort of interaction between the massive dose of melatonin and residual effects of the L that gave you that last "wave" of sorts ....

I notice when I lay down for sleep after a trip, as I'm drifting deeper into relaxation and into the very first/shallow stages of sleep, things can get pretty weird & trippy sometimes. Very vivid hypnagogic hallucinations, I've even experienced things like exploding head syndrome .






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