This has been asked before I know, but has anyone tried and had success with the Valerian/melatonin/B6 technique on Erowid? I tried it last night and had a horrible time falling and staying asleep.
Whiterabbit, seems like no one here recently has tried that. Have you sought the forum for any older reports? I tried B6 and melatonin seperately only, no valerian though, but these experiences are beside the point here 
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What is this Erowid technique? Do you have a link?
erowid.org/experiences/subs/ … rian.shtml
look under “Combinations”.
hmm… isn’t valerian like ubbber smelly?
I’ve tried this combination and I found that for me it significantly increased the vividness of HI. I didn’t persevere with it, but would imagine that it could be good for WILD for that reason. I used it with SWBB which may have increased it’s effectiveness I suppose. And yes, valerian does smell terrible - like rotting cabbage.
I just took 9mg melatonin, 32mg B-6 and 1605mg of Valarian. I also made a mix CD with a lot of ambient music, but also some lucid inducing mp3s I got from various threads here. We shall see. 
Gonna do some more reading on the forums before I pass out first.
Just remember, taking too much melatonin just kicks your melatonin metabolism into high gear. It’s good to find out what’s your optimum dose. Less can be more, and more is often less
Hmm, well it didn’t see to help that night. I normally am able to at least recall my dreams but no such luck. And I have tried the smaller more normal doses of 1 and 3mg but had no noticable effect with them. 9mg, however may have been too much as you pointed out.