Case study: Melatonin

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I discuss melatonin's effects on sleep & its safety; I segue into the general benefits of sleep and the severely disrupted sleep of the modern Western world, the cost of melatonin use and the benefit (eg. enforcing regular bedtimes), followed by a basic cost-benefit analysis of melatonin concluding that the net profit is large enough to be worth giving it a try barring unusual conditions or very pessimistic safety estimates.

Full essay: http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

I discuss melatonin's effects on sleep & its safety; I segue into the general benefits of sleep and the severely disrupted sleep of the modern Western world, the cost of melatonin use and the benefit (eg. enforcing regular bedtimes), followed by a basic cost-benefit analysis of melatonin concluding that the net profit is large enough to be worth giving it a try barring unusual conditions or very pessimistic safety estimates.

Full essay: http://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

I have a friend that took abusive levels of melatonin in a futile effort to conquer insomnia. He said laying in bed on 9mg of melatonin without falling asleep was like dreaming while you're awake.

Instead of the 3rd eye analogy, I would describe melatonin as altering your thought patterns to be more conducive to sleep. The types of nonsense thoughts you have right before you fall asleep come sooner on melatonin.

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