So, the other night I took 2 3mg Melatonin pills at bedtime and had 3 nightmares in a row. To put this in perspective, I can remember having perhaps 12 nightmares in my entire life and 3 of them were that night.

6 mg is much more than I usually take, I usually buy the 1 mg size and only take 1 or 2. I'm not even sure why I took 2 of these except that I have been having a tough time sleeping through the night lately, waking up a 3 or 4 am quite often.

I've been taking some time off from smoking pot lately too, for a little over a week now. This always gives me vivid dreams, but not nightmares.

I don't really remember them too well. In the second one there was some sort of fight going on with people who were roommates of mine. I have no idea who they were actually, I live alone, but in the dream we were sharing a house. After the fight I somehow had to wrestle one of them down to the ground and hold him there. He was very bloody and I got blood all over my hands, then woke up at the sight of it all over my hands and shirt.

I fell back asleep easily, and the next one I don't remember much except that it ended with me looking into a mirror and seeing someone else's face. When I moved the other face did not, it just stared back at me. I did not recognize who it was. For some reason this scared the crap out of me and I woke up, but as soon as I awoke I thought the whole thing was really corny, like something from a cheap horror movie. I actually was laughing at myself for being scared, but it was already morning so I did not try to go back to sleep.

I think I have to cut back to 1-2 mg, but I am just wondering if anyone else has experienced nightmares from Melatonin?

It is a very strange thing to have had like a quarter of my whole life's woth of nightmares in a single night.

i take loads of melatonin and don't have the problem myself but its a semi-common thing if you check out google. It tends to intensify dreams and dream awareness in general; and that includes the bad ones. Although as you said you've been having trouble sleeping, and have taken it before without problems, so it might just be a coincidence

It probably has more to do with individual differences or coincidence than it does with dosing too high, since many folks have taken well over 10x that amount- sometimes for months or even years- without issue. It can take a while to get used to though so maybe the sudden change itself triggered it


but cheer up mate. besides the roommate dream it doesn't really sound that bad. it could be worse...i once found myself with 4 testicles in a dream ^.^

interestingly i've had the same mirror dream you mentioned, many times.. but in countless insane variations; almost always hilariously impossible and mind blowing, but i can definitely see how it could freak someone out. IME that sort of thing is like the "unconscious" being more wily and direct than usual and pulling your leg into confrontation with "it"

If I get up to a mg of melatonin I dream heavily to the point where if I wake up in the middle of the night it will be like my dreams are seeping out into the room around me..and I dont sleep very deep so I wake up groggy.

For me 500 micrograms is about where I can sleep really deep and feel rested and still have really saturated dreams.

When I go above a mg I also feel really stoned from the stuff before I fall asleap. I have even lay there shaking before when I had a couple mg's..and it was def similar to mushrooms and DMT how it effected my body..it was a distinct tryptamine buzz.

Melatonin is weird stuff and can be used basically as a psychedeic by me at the right dose. It only works like 50-75% of the time though as a visionary thing. I only ever tried late at night in bed though..not like middle of the day dropping melatonin trying to trip.

the grogginess feeling is just from not being used to it. i sometimes get that if i stop for a while and then start taking it again. that passes though

Could well be, I have had some definite stress and weirdness happening in my life lately, starting to deal with some stuff that has been shoved aside for a long time. I think things are turning around though.

I checked on Google and you are right, there is a lot of mention of it, plus sudden waking all at once, which is what happened. I literally sat straight up all at once, like awake and upright in a half a second.

I think I'm going to stick with Kava Kava for a while. It treats me pretty well.


I know someone who actually has three of them. Or so he says, I've never actually had a need to check. Apparently mentioning it in a bar has been a very reliable way for him to get laid over the years. Sadly though, he has AIDS, so such easy access seems not to have been such a good thing for him in the long run.

Interesting jamie, I don't think I've ever felt a buzz from it, usually I just drift off.