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Whoa I just had an odd experience. I needed to get to sleep so I popped in a melatonin pill and a sudafed, and maybe 30 minutes later strange things began happening.

I'd been very stressed about applying to grad school, my love life, identity theft problems, where my life is headed, you know all that good stuff. And then suddenly none of that seemed to matter and I was filled with this assuredness that things would work out well.

I was reading a magazine while all this was happening, and the letters on the page suddenly appeared to be wiggling around (form factors). Very nifty experience. And then I saw what I can only describe as a prophetic vision of me frolicking happily through the grass in the sunshine.


I don't know WHAT was in those pills or how they mixed. One was off the shelf and the other was percription. I was just trying to get to sleep. Anyone out there with drug experience who might have an expalation for this?

to get to sleep so I popped in a melatonin pill and a sudafed

umm... sudafed would keep you awake... melatonin would try to get you asleep... bad combination.
(of course, I have not tried any of these things myself, just know because I have read it somewhere)

letters dancing? grass and sunshine visions?

I heard LSD can have similar effects...

sudafed contains pseudoephedrin which pretty much reacts badly with just about anything that would make you go to sleep. when I was in the drug scene we would pop them with qualudes NOT GOOD!!!! I have a hole in my heart now because of it.

otc meds are not safe with scripts. always ask you pharmacist before mixing them. you could end up really sick and not even know it until you have heart problems 10 years down the road. if you are still feeling effects drink a lot of water and call poison control. and don't do it again... ;)

Well, melatonin is derived from tryptophan which can be used as an anti-depressant. Melatonin would be responsible for the feeling that everything is right in the world. Sudafed contains pseudoephedrine which is very similar to amphetamines, like methamphetamine. This could have contributed to your sense of euphoria. Sudafed can act as a stimulant while melatonin puts you to sleep, so the combination probably caused your mild hallucinations.

take one benidril if you want to sleep or just take sleeping pills