PurpleHeart
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Melatonin acts to regulate circadian rhythm in animals, it is misconstrued as a sleep hormone but that really is a crummy simplification, it is more of a clock hormone, it serves many functions and cannot be described well in simplified terms. I have experimented with taking melatonin during the middle of the day and it does not make me sleepy at all. It can be used as a pre-workout supplement. If I take it at night it does help me fall asleep but has little effect on staying asleep, I think gaba and balanced serotonin and dopamine has more importance for sustained sleep. Melatonin is like the signal for daily physiological regime change. When the clock becomes disregulated then stress and aging are accelerated, as the various cycles our organs rely on to operate efficiently grow disharmonious.
I also tried 1 - 2 mg melatonin and it just made my absurd and usually abstract dreams even more vivid.
It didn't have any noticeable effect on sleep onset or sleep duration.
Although other people have had completely different experiences.
I always dream of snakes for some reason.
So many snakes lol.