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Ok, well for a week or so after I roll i'll take around 100 mg of 5-HTP each day. But if I take some before I go to sleep, 90% of the time I'll have very strange, almost life like dreams. Anybody else get this effect?
 
I always get crazy dreams for like a week after I roll, regardless of 5-HTP. But I agree 5-HTP does make your dreams even crazier. If you take it without rolling it still gives you cool dreams.
 
The Smoking Man said:
Yeah. Serotonin, which you have more of due to taking the 5-HTP, gets converted into melatonin, which is what's causing gnarly things to happen at bedtime. It's normal.
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Dammit you beat me to it :)

Melatonin is known to produce really vivid dreams
 
Yeah. Serotonin, which you have more of due to taking the 5-HTP, gets converted into melatonin, which is what's causing gnarly things to happen at bedtime. It's normal
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Thanks for clearing that up for me guys!
 
I take 5-htp normally for appetite control, general life stress and when I have trouble sleeping. I always get really vivid, yet relaxing dreams. Without the 5-htp I can suffer from stress dreams that leave me completely drained in the morning (in the dreams I'll be doing some repetitive task that never ends, like math problems, even when I force myself awake.) Yet on the 5-htp I'll have really great dreams and sleep hard and comfortably and wake up completely refreshed and in a good mood. I just have to remember to stop taking the pills 24-48 hours before rolling.
 
Just bought my first tub of 5-htp in the hope i can get some MDMA or proper pills. I used to drink through the comedown from pills and decided to get some 5-htp from what I've learnt on this forum. When should I take the 5-htp tablets? The day after the pill or MDMA session or at the end of the comedown? Also, how much should I take as have never tried it?
 
whitedove said:
Just bought my first tub of 5-htp in the hope i can get some MDMA or proper pills. I used to drink through the comedown from pills and decided to get some 5-htp from what I've learnt on this forum. When should I take the 5-htp tablets? The day after the pill or MDMA session or at the end of the comedown? Also, how much should I take as have never tried it?
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I usually take 100-150mg towards the end of my comedown, aim for an hour before I plan on going to sleep. I also take a multi-vitamin and some vitamin C. Then 100 mg daily (50mg in the morning and 50 mg before bed) for about a week or so after.
 
whitedove said:
Just bought my first tub of 5-htp in the hope i can get some MDMA or proper pills. I used to drink through the comedown from pills and decided to get some 5-htp from what I've learnt on this forum. When should I take the 5-htp tablets? The day after the pill or MDMA session or at the end of the comedown? Also, how much should I take as have never tried it?
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I would watch drinking at all with 5-htp, makes you feel groggy as fuck in the morning and i have heard from a few different people who know a bit more about chems than i do that it doesnt even work with alcohol.
But yeh, take them with water before you goto sleep and keep the water handy ;)
 
So, if you take them before you sleep, what'll happen in the morning? Refreshed and ready for whatever comes at your way? Or extremely fucking tired?
 
When I take 5-HTP or Melatonin I get similar results. From what I've heard 5-HTP contributes to Melatonin production through metabolism so it does makes some sense, if I'm correct.

I don't remember much from my dreams when I take either. The most noticable effects is that my sleep schedule is regulated. I will fall asleep, sleep better and wake up early and refreshed and I do sometimes notice the 'positive outlook' it leaves you with. For all I know it's placebo, but I feel what I feel.
Strangely enough I had been pre-loading a few days before dosing and on the second day after dosing with 5-HTP I had a strong sense of Déjà vu reoccurring through out the day. Peculiar coincidence I guess...

5-HTP does work wonders for post-loading though.
I pre-load with 5-HTP for two days then stop for two or three days before I drop. I will sometimes pre-load with a multivitamin if I can stomach them (I have a weak stomach).
Post-loading consists of 3mg of Melatonin and 50mg of 5-HTP. I also keep an Emergen-C ready for the morning depending on how I feel, I find they are easier to get down than multivitamins (a much cheaper alternative, albeit less supplemental).
 
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5HTP is so damn expensive though... I dont want to use them too often, so Im sticking to postloading now. Though, Im quite curious about taking it before I sleep tonight.
 
[omg emergencies are extremely good E sometimes make sme hungry the day after but i cant taste the food and chewing hurts like hell its unfcomtarble sleeping is very hard for 2 days but 5htp worded wonders the last time and omg seriously Deja vu u have no idea how muchi love deja vus lately they used to creep me out tho but i dont get them any more:(:(

Cannabinoid;8308612]When I take 5-HTP or Melatonin I get similar results. From what I've heard 5-HTP contributes to Melatonin production through metabolism so it does makes some sense, if I'm correct.

I don't remember much from my dreams when I take either. The most noticable effects is that my sleep schedule is regulated. I will fall asleep, sleep better and wake up early and refreshed and I do sometimes notice the 'positive outlook' it leaves you with. For all I know it's placebo, but I feel what I feel.
Strangely enough I had been pre-loading a few days before dosing and on the second day after dosing with 5-HTP I had a strong sense of Déjà vu reoccurring through out the day. Peculiar coincidence I guess...

5-HTP does work wonders for post-loading though.
I pre-load with 5-HTP for two days then stop for two or three days before I drop. I will sometimes pre-load with a multivitamin if I can stomach them (I have a weak stomach).
Post-loading consists of 3mg of Melatonin and 50mg of 5-HTP. I also keep an Emergen-C ready for the morning depending on how I feel, I find they are easier to get down than multivitamins (a much cheaper alternative, albeit less supplemental).[/QUOTE]
 
im getting really odd dreams to almostlike it seems as my ordinary life. andi remember everything usually my dreams arent like it an di feel etremely tiredso i think i sticking with it only tillthe end of te weekend cuz i also seem not to be able to hear the alarm clock andlast night i fellasleep late ish..
 
Last night i dreamt I was at the gym, sooo realistic. Good old 5-HTP strikes again!
 
Yup. I have dreams that are almost always replays of unpleasant work situations when I was a young man. In the dreams I always change something which reflects how far I've taken control of my life :)

They're sort of "sorting out" dreams.

Fabulous. And as has been said above - invariably the sleep is deep and refreshing.

I have read some reports about fears of cardiac damage with frequent use - not sure how valid they are.
 
I used to only take 5-htp after my comedown+ 3-5 days after. But the dreams I've been getting on them are amazing, very lucid/strange/vivid/"real". I find that the higher the dose you take before you go to bed, the more it will affect your dreams.... I have never taken more than 150mg of 5-htp just to induce badass dreams though.

If you're going to take 5-htp for the dream factor (or simply just to help you go to sleep), take them 30-45minutes before you go to sleep. You will be in awe assuming you remember your dream hahah
 
The dreams on 5-htp are freaking intense.

I just woke up from one tonight that felt like I was comboing every drug I've ever tried, in particular 2c-e, ketamine, mdma, salvia, and mushrooms. Where I had living vines like crawling up me and my brother was like some puppet popping out of the side of my head trying to talk to me and I kept falling into this vortex or something. I'd see an abstract shape on the wall that looks like an animal or something and then it would suddenly come to life and be "real".

I swear the dreams like take my memory of tripping and combo all of the experiences I've had into one dream experience that feels just as real as tripping does. It does scare me slightly just how real the dream feels and how I have no clue that I'm actually dreaming but genuinely believe myself to be tripping balls. It wasn't a nightmare but I did experience some paranoia, like an "omg someone's coming over and I'm tripping balls but unable to do anything about it" and a "omg I might have overdosed" but otherwise more visual and weird than scary.

it's some serious alice in wonderland type stuff. And this dream is very similar to the one I had a couple days ago when I did some 5-htp before bed. Seemed almost like a continuation of the same dream even.

Weird stuff, but it does seem to help me a lot with my mood overall. Way better than SSRI's IMO.
 
5-htp is something I only really use for good sleep atm. I love the reality of the dreams i have, but if you get unlucky and have a bad dream the reality can make it so much worse (car crash being the one im thinking of). I have had a look at some of the "possible" side effects for this supplement and although a little disconcerting at first they are all uncertified and some possibly link to contaminents in early batches or unregulated batches. Nice to see other people are having mad real dreams aswell. I had a brilliant one the other night where i could see a deep purple nebula in the sky and for some reason there was a giant just strolling past in the distance. Crazy. Oh also when i bought them Holland and barret had 120 50mg capsules at £28, but on the penny sale so pretty much buy one get one free (worth checking out if its still on).
 
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