I've been taking Melatonin 3-4 times a week now for a month

Keep taking it!

I love that shit. Take a 10mg & two tylenol PM's and I'm out for the night.

I used to take prescription meds, but I got off them and will never go back. The natural remedy is the best remedy. I wouldn't worry about going longer than a month, lol.

I get some awesome dreams on Mela. :)

If you continue to take it your body will stop producing it and you'll be screwed. Just like with an opiate addiction, when the addict stops shooting up their brain has tons of receptors for the opiates but the body quit producing them naturally because there were too many already...

I could eat a whole jar of Melatonin and it would barely make me blink.

You could stop taking the Melatonin for awhile and adjust your diet to eat things high in Tryptophans.


Tryptophans are an Essential Amino acid which is Metabolized into Melatonin by our Body.


You can find foods that are high in this specific compound that your body will use to make into melatonin.



Stuff like Turkey, eggs, milk ect.

Lookup a foodlist for Tryptophans.

TYLENOL PM DESTROYS YOUR LIVER...HARDLY NATURAL!

I took one, still have a whole bottle, and it made me feel off...I woke up during the night feeling weird and in the morning I wasn't sharp and alert like normal. Guess I don't need it.

Yea Brief, because when I stop taking melatonin for a week I'm ready to rob a liquor store to get the cash to buy some more, getting the cold sweats, and puking & shitting myself.
Good analogy dude.

I don't take the Tylenol's all the time. Just a few times a week. It's still much better than the shit I was prescribed for sleep...I would feel like a trainwreck for the entire day.

I tried it for a week or so. I did fall asleep easier but I still woke up in the middle of the night. I find that eating a little something before bed (warm milk, honey, ice cream, peanut butter) helps to keep me asleep and guards against the cortisol waking me up.

Valerian root tablets. 2-3 a night. They DO smell like some rank gym socks though. stanky.

I alternate taking L-tryptophan and Melatonin. I love that stuff, most vivid dreams I've ever had.

LOL! Yes, Valerian root is very stinky, didn't do much for my sleep though, so I switched.

Forgot to mention, I've added L-lysine, that helps too.

Ruberts pills natural and safe

Valerian root is safe & effective. I take before I go see the dentist. It helps to calm you down.

Yeah me too. They've been so ..... indescribable

probably because you're eyes were to dry.
it seems to dry me out real bad. i think?

Makes me want to go get some Mela's from the store now. Thanks OP!

For God's sake Brief, stop talking out of your ass. Melatonin is the ongoing metabolic product of seratonin, and increasing it will both increase seratonin, though competitive inhibition, and trigger better sleep in those with rotating shifts or other stresses on their diurnal rhythms. Obviously, know your substance before taking, and YMMV. It's a nutrient, and with FDA limiting access to tryptophan(essential AA), it helps us become more "normal".

It's particularly valuable for older folks - someone you might eventually be if you're so lucky.......

I've never tried really high doses, but the dream thing sounds like it'd be worth it.

I know exactly what I'm talking about. Remember when cortisone was considered the miracle drug for inflammation? Then after prolonged use it was discovered that the body stopped producing it naturally, which leads to dependance and all kinds of additional health problems...

Once you hit your 60's and above, the level of endogenous melatonin drops to near zero. You probably won't need it for another 10 years, and then only a mg or so. After that, you need more.

The people taking it here, I'll wager, are not 60 and above...

Some are, and some are just playing around. We make our choices and take our chances. That's what living freely is all about.

The real question is why does it happens?

I wonder if it has to do with vitamin D deficiency that is so common with elderly people???

No kidding. Wild and vivid dreams!

yeah lifes a bitch then you die.
Melatonin it is !

Makes sense...its like organs atrophying once a hormone replacement is given. But considering coffee negates and deactivates the pineal gland which is what make melatonin(spiritual awareness) I dont see much difference here. Recreational drugs cause the brain to release the neurotransmitter dopamine unnaturally...kinda like squeezing the juice out of a lemon. Dopamine is part of the reward system and is meant to be released naturally a pleasurable response to completing task you were driven to achieve. However this system has a feedback mechanism in place so that if you try to short circuit the process and get ends without the means the brain starts cutting you back releasing less and less thus and addict is born needing more and more to get "high".

Watch the documentary

RESONANCE - Beings of Frequency

it explains why we all lack melatonin.