I only intermittently used melatonin, mostly to help me normalize when on the you’re-in-your-20s-and-working-hard-and-playing-hard Bay Area lifestyle (that so w

I only intermittently used melatonin, mostly to help me normalize when on the you’re-in-your-20s-and-working-hard-and-playing-hard Bay Area lifestyle (that so was deleterious)! The last couple of times I used it (now years ago), was to help get me back on schedule after jet lag. For my body, it was a prime example of less-is-more: a soft, minuscule dosage would soothe me to sleep when sunlight diminished; more would give me terrifying dreams. The flip side is the moment the sun rises, — boom — involuntarily awake! I think it affected my light sensitivity permanently, even years after stopping. I am extremely thankful to be living in a part of the world these days (D-A-CH), where good blackout shutters are commonly built into residential windows.