Valerian....:S

[nismo]

Hello



I’ve read up that Valerian can give you nice deep visual sleep with very vivid dreams...so I went out and got some valerian yesterday. I purchased 30 capsules that contained 2000mg of valerian root extract, these capsules contained liquidly stuff inside them that smelt like shit, their were also some 2250mg capsules which had dry root extract in them, I was considering them but they were a lot more expensive so I went with the 2000mg ones.



Ok so at about 9:45pm last night I started to consume the capsules, this is how I done it….



2 capsules every 15minutes, totalling 8 capsules I decided to stop their…not knowing what to expect. All up i consumed 16,000mg of valerian root extract.

So apparently these pills will help you sleep and the container read 1 capsule before sleep, the thing is these things kept me up! I finished my last two at about 10:45pm and I was up until about 2:00am trying to get to sleep!



I woke at 5:00am thinking my sister had tried to wake me up…. so I rolled over to see if she was their…but…. she wasn’t there: S so I closed my eyes and fell asleep again…at about 8:00am I wake up on what I think is my own account, but I roll over to see that my sister has been talking to me to try and wake me up: S once again very weird.



I cannot remember any kind of dreaming at all…anyone else had any valerian experiences?

[AfricaUnite]

I ate 1/2 a bottle one night (my pills were only 200mg a piece) so I had about 20 of those, didnt do anything for me. I take over the counter sleeping pills now, I dream a lot more than when I dont take them, I atribute this to haveing a deeper less disturbed sleep, not as a psycoactive effect from the pill itself.

In short valarian root dosent work for me.

[jean_genie]

i used to take valerian ALOT because of insomnia, or such, i always had a great nights sleep but i tend to have quite lucid dreams anyway

and yeah, valerian tastes like ass

[nismo]

I found they only smealtbad, i might try a valerian/wood wort? tea next time i try lsd see if it can induce a more relaxed tripp.

[WanderingSoul]

I've taken Valerian as a sleep aid in capsule form. I always found it smelled strong, but never bad. I found it made me drowsy, but it also made it impossible for me to sleep. It's never worked as a sleep aid, nor as a psychedelic, and I've taken up to 8 caps at once.

[CaptainBeefheartFan]

I always have good dreams with valerian. I once had a breif lucid dream with it.