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Ok, so that is wild.
I always wonder what would happen if someone like me with already intense dreams would take something like that. Cause people be dying in my dreams all the time. But I do really like the cinematic dreams though. Extra points if you fall to your death and you wake up just as you smack into your own mattress and have to question if it really was just all a dream....
I have taken melatonin before but I swear that and nyquil doesnt doesnt give me sleep but gives me a coma.
Well, it doesn't work like that universally, so you might just end up not sleeping again for months. Happened to a biologist and a nurse I knew (years apart, it's a rare side effect). It absolutely wrecked them both for about a year, though. I ended up with panic attacks after about 10 months, so I had to switch off of it. Other people had hallucinations, got paranoid, etc. Apparently 4 guys at Ft. Bragg were on it and got themselves spun up into thinking their wives were going to kill them that they killed them first. Rare but very bad side effects are possible.
It's worth looking at foods that affect dreams and seeing if anything hits you in a fun way. Mugwort tea (mugwort, chamomile, lavender, hops) can do some stuff. And you might give lucid dreaming a try to see if you can get that going consistently. I've had 2 lucid dreams and they were tons of fun, but I can't trigger it consistently.