Since I wrote this post, the following comments have come in. If I missed any, please PM or reply with links. The following entries are compiled from LessWrong, #lesswrong, gwern.net, Reddit, or Google+, generally in relation to this melatonin essay; I classify as using/positive anyone who is using melatonin or will likely use melatonin in the future for any reason (eg. daily use counts, but so does using it for jetlag), and as negative/null anyone who is no longer using it for any reason (eg. found a better way to induce vivid dreams, or found it made them sleep better but this interfered with their diabetes-related medical devices).
I am microdosing, 300mcg plain + 300mcg time-release, both from LEF. Currently trying doubling the time-release dosage to see if that works better. More than 400mcg up-front did not work well. In general, people trying melatonin are advised to try microdoses.
In general, people trying melatonin are advised to try microdoses.
That’s definitely something I noticed in the anecdotes: people with positive experiences seem to mention switching to 1mg doses and not experimenting.
I’m going to strengthen the language in my melatonin essay dealing with dosage, and add some reminders to myself to do more blind experiments with differing doses when I run out of my current melatonin pill mixes.
I’m going to strengthen the language in my melatonin essay dealing with dosage, and add some reminders to myself to do more blind experiments with differing doses when I run out of my current melatonin pill mixes.
Not yet. My five-fold sleep experiment was originally supposed to be long done by now, but I put the lithium part on hold to run another long experiment, and so it hasn’t finished yet. Hopefully I’ll be able to start by 2014.
Since I wrote this post, the following comments have come in. If I missed any, please PM or reply with links. The following entries are compiled from LessWrong,
#lesswrong
,gwern.net
, Reddit, or Google+, generally in relation to this melatonin essay; I classify as using/positive anyone who is using melatonin or will likely use melatonin in the future for any reason (eg. daily use counts, but so does using it for jetlag), and as negative/null anyone who is no longer using it for any reason (eg. found a better way to induce vivid dreams, or found it made them sleep better but this interfered with their diabetes-related medical devices).Using/positive:
AndrewHickey
AngryParsley
Bongo
D_Malik
HughRistik
James_Miller
JenniferRM
Jonathan_Graehl
Matt_Simpson
Nick_Tarleton
Vaniver
betterthanwell
daenerys (2)
fiddlemath
hegemonicon
jimmy
knb
orthonormal
simplicio
timtyler
wallowinmaya
wedrifid
wilkox
Eliezer Yudkowsky
jacob_cannell
SilasBarta
gwern
Kingoftheinternet
Gustaff88
Marius van Voorden
TB
willabtsm
herman_gill
bore902
bronzehydra
bkgood
keflexxx
urdude
00000000000000000000
whatarepuppy
Erik de Castro Lopo
Johan Tibell
Boyd Smith
Antoine Latter
Carter Schonwald
Michael O’Kelly
Boxo (
#lesswrong
; IRC entries may be inflated by multiple nicks whose unity I didn’t recognize)Grognor *
Jonii^ *
Kiba *
LunkAlarm *
Tene *
ToyKeeper *
buymcdonalds *
clone_of_saturn *
cwillu *
drethelin *
efm *
flowp *
jandrog *
klfwip *
nialo *
nshepperd
papermachine *
puritan *
quintopia *
realitygrill *
roxton *
rsaarelm *
WashIrving *
jbeshir *
Siod *
docl *
Eratyx *
Not using/mixed/negative:
AdeleneDawner
Alicorn
DanArmak
Liron
NancyLebovitz
Nic_Smith
PhilGoetz
RichardKennaway
RobinReborn
Tyrrell_McAllister (2)
alasarod
blueberry
eirenicon
pdf23ds
prismattic
jimrandomh
Jacopo Santelli
TwoChe
Ashley Yakeley
Matthew Graves
Lemmih (
#lesswrong
)Logos01 *
Philippa *
Tetsuo55 *
folktheory *
ivan *
kanzure *
Dodek *
Unknown:
AdeleneDawner
CasioTheSane
Curiouskid
Cyan
Ralith
SoullessAutomaton
handoflixue
kevin
nazgulnarsil
shokwave
philh
I am microdosing, 300mcg plain + 300mcg time-release, both from LEF. Currently trying doubling the time-release dosage to see if that works better. More than 400mcg up-front did not work well. In general, people trying melatonin are advised to try microdoses.
That’s definitely something I noticed in the anecdotes: people with positive experiences seem to mention switching to 1mg doses and not experimenting.
I’m going to strengthen the language in my melatonin essay dealing with dosage, and add some reminders to myself to do more blind experiments with differing doses when I run out of my current melatonin pill mixes.
Any updates on this?
Not yet. My five-fold sleep experiment was originally supposed to be long done by now, but I put the lithium part on hold to run another long experiment, and so it hasn’t finished yet. Hopefully I’ll be able to start by 2014.