Thanks for your advice, Working Class Hero. I’m taking it. and I’m doing this for 60%mood reasons, and 40% dream reasons. But I’m avoiding taking this stuff too close to bedtime…
So this is what happened to me so far: It’s a big story as I love to share the details:
The first night, Thursday night, I took 100mg before bed. I went lunatic! I was laughing and had a million crazy fun ideas. I sat in my bathroom laughing for about 20 minutes! I started feeling emotional and had ideas that I wanted to hug people more often. But this was kind of crazy to me! Like a looooooong time ago when I was a young teenager and all bad I did end up going to a rave and mod edit..
Now I really thought, “OMG! some ecstacy is probably made with just a huge dose of HTP!”
because that was how I was feeling for sure.
I went to bed and seriously laid there awake all night, having too many wild good thoughts. I was excited and sleep didn’t exist. It was now 7am and I had to be up by 9 to go somewhere! I must of finally fallen asleep but then had to get up.
I didn’t remember any dreams, as the sleep was way too short.
I was surprised I got through the day, I was actually not too tired.
So that next night, Friday night, I got home and was soooo tired. I thought, “well I am super duper tired, so no way will it keep me up this time!” and with that, I took another 100mg dose, but again, I felt wired! I did not get to sleep until about 6 am again! Good thing I didn’t have to go somewhere in the morning, but sheesh, you know!
But I did have one dream that was short but interesting and then it came true later on that evening It was simple, like I was in a certain place with certain people and a girl asked for a shoulder massage… and then it happened that night that spontaneously, this guy asked this girl if she wanted a shoulder massage.
So when I got up late in the afternoon on Saturday, I made the decision," I will Not take this stuff before bed." and with that, I took my third dose on the 3rd day around 6PM.
I must of gotten a bit used to the 5HTP because I didn’t feel too wild good crazy, but i did feel the effects of just overall feel-good higher energy( like that ‘regular’ fatigue of slight depression was just gone! and I was able to talk with many people yesterday with out feeling my usual anti-social anxiety. (I actually made a friend yesterday and got invited to a party, this is a huge change! as my mood has been keeping me from socializing for a year, and finally I felt friendly in a very balanced and socially acceptable manner.
So even though last night I took the 5HTP at 6pm, I was still kind of afraid that I would have insomnia again, so before bed I took 3mg of melatonin which also had 3mg of vitamin b6 in it. And I laid down for an hour and was still scared I wouldn’t fall asleep because of the 5-HTP so I took a another 3mg of melatonin.
Well I fell asleep and I did have this Super vivid dream that was so vibrant and rich feeling! I should have gotten lucid from it, but I still really enjoyed this bright dream.
So here are a few thoughts I have on 5-htp based on my experience:
I am SHOCKED to death that someone could take more than 100mg, because I’m kinda wishing I got the 50mg bottle because 100mg seems way to strong for me.
I am SHOCKED that 5-HTP is supposed to help with insomnia, because it wired me crazy! and I could NOT sleep.
I LOVE how it made my social anxiety do a disappearing act!
I am IMPRESSED with the brightness of my last dream, but am wondering how the melatonin affected/contributed to the does of 100mg of 5-HTP.
Well tonight, I am going to bed with 3 mg of melatonin/with 3 mg of b6 and I took 100mg of 5htp 15 hours ago. So I am hoping for awesome dreams…but don’t I always everynight