I've been taking melatonin for almost three years now. At first, I was taking 6 mg 1 hour before bedtime every night. For the last 18 months, I've cut the dosage back to 3 mg every evening. I also use it very effectively it to address jet lag when I cross lots of time zones.
There's no question in my mind that melatonin works well to reset your clock and induce sleep with no after-effects of next-day grogginess. For this effect alone, I find it extremely valuable, since I otherwise occasionally suffer from work-induced stress-sleeplessness: Just being able to get a good night's sleep during high-pressure projects is a high value.
I believe I have experienced some mild amplification of dream intensity with melatonin, both in comparison to the time before I took it and those periods of up to a week when I haven't taken it in the last couple of years.
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