Misc Does melatonin give anyone else nightmares?

[Archery157]

I too have had nightmares when taking this substance, probably the worst I can remember, what makes it bad is you body can't like jolt awake as easy.

 

[d1ahp]

Definitely gives me nightmares. They're so bad that I don't take Melatonin. Which is a shame because it works so well at putting me to sleep.

 

[PriestTheyCalledHim]

I've never had nightmares from it in low or high doses; but if you take it with Vitamin B3 you will get very vivid dreams.

 

[adder]

If you're prone to having nightmares without it, then I guess your nightmares may become even worse after melatonin. I used to have very vivid nightmares after quitting benzodiazepines, I still often have very vivid dreams, especially after taking melatonin, sometimes they also become lucid towards the very end when I realize everything is too weird to be happening for real, then I'm trying to do something that would kill me in the real world which always ends the nightmare.

 

[blue comet]

I've been taking this stuff since January without any noticeable nightmares.

My doses used to be really high (like 15-25mg) due to my body's natural ability to sleep being affected when I got off Valium and ambien.

I had been taking 5-10mg at this point but they leave me very groggy and tired in the morning and the tiredness can last all day. This week I got 3mg pills and one did the job of having me fall asleep, although I woke up several times throughout the night and didn't sleep as long, I still had the tiredness throughout the day.

Would 1mg pills be better or, due to my body continuing to heal, would it be too weak for me?

 

[adder]

The dose of melatonin that is capable of helping you fall asleep is actually much much less than the amount put in pills. I've got 5mg pills and I cut them in quarters. I guess 1mg is enough and it doesn't cause the restlessness associated with higher doses. I got off benzodiazepines over a year ago too and higher doses never provided better effects than lower ones.

 

[Mycophile]

Yeah I get a lot of nightmares if I take too much which for me is often 4ml or more.

However, I think once your tolerance raises you have them less because now I can take 4ml and not get them.

But whether or not I have nightmares I ALWAYS have Crazy dreams of one kind or another if I take more than like 2mls.

 

[BlowingClouds]

I never ever had any nightmares when I was using melatonin, only very vivid dreams though that would only happens sometimes not everyday.

 

[dream17]

I find that if I take a 5mg pill the night before overseas flights (over 10 hours), then half way through the flight and then each night for the first week in a new time zone it really helps me with jet lag. I either don't get it at all or it passes way faster but I have noticed my dreams are much more vivid. Not nightmares but a notable difference in vividness and my ability to recall the dreams and the detail. I have heard that less is better with 5mg at the limit and any more than that and it stops being effective. I didn't realize 1mg is better than 3mg, very cool to know! Thanks

 

[starz007]

I was taking 3-4 3 mg. mellies/night. I hadn't taken them in over a year. My days and nights were getting messed up, so I figured why not? They work, fast! Asleep in 30 seconds at 8 p.m. but the nightmares were ridiculous! I am prone to crazy dreams and nightmares...i had probably 4-5 long nightmares. First one was about the end of the world, (getting bombed, shot in the head, dodging airplanes crashing next to me)..the next dream I had blacked out in my dream (at a bar from one drink), and spent the next two dreams trying to figure that one out. Very tiring and disturbing...but I love sleeping...night night

 

[Oakstone]

I've been taking 3 mg pills almost every night for ~ the past year. I don't think I've ever gotten any nightmares from it. The only bad thing I've gotten is sometimes a much slower start to the next day, but that's it. (I've begun cutting the pills in half to decrease that, and it seems to have worked).

From what I've heard, I think the nightmares are more common when it's combined with 5-HTP.

 

[aihfl]

I'm a chronic insomniac and I take between 10-20mg a night as needed and it's never given me nightmares. I also take before bed 900mg gabapentin, 20mg baclofen, 15mg Remeron (mirtazapine) and 75mg doxepin.

 

[MocCozmiK]

Melatonin has never given me night mares. I mix it with a few things. The one thing that did causes stranger than weird dreams was propranolol... melatonin seems to help me have a better quality sleep. I do not however take propranolol anymore, at all!

 

[DonPig]

It just makes me dream more, but not nightmares. And even nightmares i guess are good, they let you know yourself better
It just akes me dizzier before i wake up

 

[aihfl]

I wish I had read the first part of this thread more closely. I've been taking way too much. No wonder I haven't been getting good results.

 

[Chriszie_13]

I know I'm 3 years late but I still see people responding to this so I figured I'd throw in my 2 cents. I started taking melatonin 1mg a few months ago. I stopped at a vitamin store and was looking for something to help with my calorie intake when I came across melatonin. I've always had a rough time sleeping ever since I was a child. From the age of 5-15 I'd wake my mother up a few times a month at 2 a.m. in tears because I could not fall asleep. I was prescribed a variety of medications at one time or another, but I have found melatonin to be the best of the bunch (a very low dose of a benzodiazepine does the trick however they are very addictive so probably not your best bet if you have trouble sleeping every night, oh and another thing, steer clear of AMBIEN!!) I was taking melatonin 3-5 times a week, I just loved it. Within a half an hour of taking one 1mg I'd feel drowsy and would drift right off into sleep. That is until a couple of weeks ago, I ran out. I resorted to Tylenol pm as I kept putting off going to the store to get more. (So, like you, I had a 2-3 week gap in between when I first began taking it, stopped and started with it again.) I went to pick up a bottle and I noticed they didn't have any 1 mg bottles. I assume they were out of stock and the only ones available were 3mg, I believe 5mg and TEN mg! I couldn't imagine taking 10mg when all it takes is 1 sometimes 2 1 mgs for me to fade into dreamland. I went with the 3mg bottle and called it a day. Tonight will be my 4th night taking it after having that break and I have to say, I've woken up between 2-4 a.m. every morning from an intense, vivid nightmare. The first morning I woke up and remember saying aloud to myself "holy sh*t I'm SO glad that wasn't real." This morning I awoke to a similar feeling. I think I'm going to cut it in half and see how that works, because I'm not liking this nightmare crap at all. I do have to say though, I almost always have nightmares, rarely do I ever have a nice / regular dream but it's never that intense to where I feel odd the first hour or so after awakening. I also noticed that I've been sweating on & off throughout the day, not sure if that has any relation but I will definitely be cutting the tablet in half tonight and see how that goes.
Best of luck to you, hope this helps!?

 

[alexvolume2]

I took a 3 mg tablet tonight before bed, I used to take it pretty regularly but not any longer. Twice this week I took melatonin and had surreal and vivid nightmares where I realize it during the dream in a moment of lucidity and force myself to wake up.

Trazodone gave me extremely vivid dreams and they were oftentimes so cool,
but melatonin gives me nightmares anymore.

 

[d1ahp]

Melatonin does give me super vivid dreams, and if it happens to be a nightmare then it'll be a vivid one.