If I am not handling this topic in a scientific enough manner for this thread, feel free to move it somewhere else where it might fit better.

This is going to be a thread where I post what kind of experiences I have with 5-HTP, which I just started taking.

1/14/2013 -- Two bottles of 5-HTC arrived in the mail today. 120 capsules each, 100mg. MY plans for the moment are to take 1 each night before sleeping, a small enough dose that there should be no worries about any sort of overdoses or side-effects.

I take one capsule at around 11:30, and start trying to go to bed around midnight.

Have problems falling asleep, as I frequently do, currently, but probably fall asleep within two hours. Still wake several times in the night.

1/15/2013 -- Wake at around 9 in the morning, and can remember two dreams that were kind of short, but also kind of vivid. (They can be read here: Ziva and the Wrestlers, Tom Drick and Betty White, and Cops Chasing Dad (Fragments) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views )

While I don't seem to have any longer or more interesting dreams, I do seem to be in quite a good mood, hinting at possible good feelings from increased whatever in the brain. Very pleasant.


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Nighttime, 1/15/2013 -- I take one capsule about an hour before trying to go to sleep, at about 11 PM, and try to go to sleep at midnight. I have really bad problems falling asleep and seem to be mostly awake and tossing and turning until almost two in the morning. Finally manage to fall asleep.

Morning 1/16/2013 -- Woke at about 5:00, remembering a dream that included a dream within a dream, false awakening, and strange time stuff where the time seemed to keep changing, even to before I actually went to sleep, while I was trying to remember the dream I just had and write it down (within the dream, after the false awakening). Really wrote down the dream, then tried to go back to sleep. Eventually managed it, and woke about 8 to write down another dream, that seemed to partly start as a continuation of the other dream.

Neither in a good mood or a bad mood.


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Nighttime, 1/16/2013 -- Took 1 capsule at about 10 pm, before trying to go to bed at around 11pm. Fell asleep fairly quickly and easily.

Morning, 1/17/2013 -- Woke about 2 am from a long, involved, detailed chase-style dream that involved locations I could remember from many other dreams. Far more lengthy and detailed than I would have expected so early in the morning, after having taken 5-HTP which is supposed to suppress the dream state. Took about 45 minutes to write down the dream, then tried to go back to sleep, and might have taken around a half hour or so to do so.

May or may not have woke again after another dream. May have barely woke, tried to remember dream, and fallen back asleep and back into same dream without ever fully having woke up, or may have just dreamed I did so. No way to be sure. Woke fully and wrote down 2nd/3rd? dream at about 8 am.

Feeling slightly depressed (my usual state)

At this point, 5-HTP doesn't seem like it is having any -regular- effects, but different every day. Will continue to take for at least a couple more days, and try to continue posting daily experiences, and what kind of effects seem to be occurring.