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Re: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Post by Someguywhatever »

JimboOmega wrote: post #29
bloomthrowaway wrote: post #23

Just throwing this out there. I've had hundreds of lucid dreams and it's the most amazing experiences I've have in my life. It takes practice to 1) figure out you're dreaming with some level of reliability 2) learn to take control 3) train yourself not to get too excited so you don't wake yourself almost immediately. I believe the first step is to train yourself to recognize a dream. It becomes easier once you've don…

> even pain Lucid or not, I realized a while ago that I don't experience physical pain in my dreams. I have started to wonder if this was a general experience. Experiences I'd expect to be painful (like getting shot or carried away by a wall of fire) simply startle me awake. It's interesting to hear you do feel that. I've experienced all kinds of things emotionally - embarrassment, fear, anxiety. But never physical p…

>I've experienced all kinds of things emotionally - embarrassment, fear, anxiety. But never physical pain

I am the same, I've never felt any pain in a dream, extreme fear is the strongest negative emotion or feeling I've ever experienced, but that usually wakes me up and ends the dream.

Re: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Post by jorvi »

bloomthrowaway wrote: post #23

Just throwing this out there. I've had hundreds of lucid dreams and it's the most amazing experiences I've have in my life. It takes practice to 1) figure out you're dreaming with some level of reliability 2) learn to take control 3) train yourself not to get too excited so you don't wake yourself almost immediately. I believe the first step is to train yourself to recognize a dream. It becomes easier once you've don…

You forgot the most important step: keep a dream log so you actually start to remember your dreams! Otherwise you might have a lucid one but either forget it during the remainder of your sleep, or forget it within a few minutes of waking up.

Re: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Post by bloomthrowaway »

jorvi wrote: post #42
bloomthrowaway wrote: post #23

Just throwing this out there. I've had hundreds of lucid dreams and it's the most amazing experiences I've have in my life. It takes practice to 1) figure out you're dreaming with some level of reliability 2) learn to take control 3) train yourself not to get too excited so you don't wake yourself almost immediately. I believe the first step is to train yourself to recognize a dream. It becomes easier once you've don…

You forgot the most important step: keep a dream log so you actually start to remember your dreams! Otherwise you might have a lucid one but either forget it during the remainder of your sleep, or forget it within a few minutes of waking up.

yes, or get in the habit of ruminating on the dream for a while still in bed. Whenever I have a nice lucid dream I lay in bed and run it through my memory over and over for a couple minutes. Otherwise some mysterious process will clear any figment of the dream from your memory within an hour or so

Re: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Post by mattigames »

tekromancr wrote: post #32

I've lucid dreamed a few times, and every time I am able to summon a "debug menu". Sort of a drop-down menu with all of the dream parameters. I can never think of anything more interesting to try than Physics>Gravity>moon. I turned off collisions once, and spent like twenty minutes just putting my hands through walls and giggling.

Import celebrity > Gal Gadot

Clothes > Off

Libido > Increase by 200%

Re: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Post by scrollaway »

bloomthrowaway wrote: post #23

Just throwing this out there. I've had hundreds of lucid dreams and it's the most amazing experiences I've have in my life. It takes practice to 1) figure out you're dreaming with some level of reliability 2) learn to take control 3) train yourself not to get too excited so you don't wake yourself almost immediately. I believe the first step is to train yourself to recognize a dream. It becomes easier once you've don…

I used to lucid dream pretty naturally, then stopped because I started getting very regular sleep paralysis.

Nowadays when I do end up lucid dreaming (most often by accident) I notice a fairly significant drop in sleep quality.

Even worse, I sometimes lucid dream, then "awaken" into another dream where I'm not lucid and those experiences really fuck with me.

On a different note I'd love to get a high quality sleep-tracking night mask. Most of the "smart" ones I know of have awful battery life. I don't want another device to charge every few days.

Re: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Post by gonehome »

bloomthrowaway wrote: post #37
JimboOmega wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> even pain Lucid or not, I realized a while ago that I don't experience physical pain in my dreams. I have started to wonder if this was a general experience. Experiences I'd expect to be painful (like getting shot or carried away by a wall of fire) simply startle me awake. It's interesting to hear you do feel that. I've experienced all kinds of things emotionally - embarrassment, fear, anxiety. But never physical p…

It's not pleasant. Sometimes intense enough that I'm in a state of shock through much of the next day. Most of the pain I remember has been in the form of lucid nightmares. Usually snake bites, gun shots, knives, etc. Almost never from environmental realities like hot surfaces, crashes, or falls. Self-aware nightmares are way more terrifying than the regular variety, a lucid dream where I sometimes can't take control…

I’ve had the false awakenings bit - that realization in dream can be frightening, mostly because it makes me panic that I’m dying - when I can’t seem to shake myself out of it.

Re: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Post by scrollaway »

bloomthrowaway wrote: post #37
JimboOmega wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> even pain Lucid or not, I realized a while ago that I don't experience physical pain in my dreams. I have started to wonder if this was a general experience. Experiences I'd expect to be painful (like getting shot or carried away by a wall of fire) simply startle me awake. It's interesting to hear you do feel that. I've experienced all kinds of things emotionally - embarrassment, fear, anxiety. But never physical p…

It's not pleasant. Sometimes intense enough that I'm in a state of shock through much of the next day. Most of the pain I remember has been in the form of lucid nightmares. Usually snake bites, gun shots, knives, etc. Almost never from environmental realities like hot surfaces, crashes, or falls. Self-aware nightmares are way more terrifying than the regular variety, a lucid dream where I sometimes can't take control…

Yeesh, yeah, now you mention it I've had those exact same symptoms when trying to awaken from a negative lucid dream: A bunch of false awakenings in a row. I wonder how linked those things are... I rarely have false awakenings without having been lucid before.

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Post by somebodythere »

AnthonBerg wrote: post #16
wil421 wrote: post #12

Has anyone taken Chantix to quit smoking? I did about 10 years ago and it gave me the craziest most vivid dreams and nightmares.

Yes. I dreamt I was sending psychic messages out of a dream, and woke up, and sent an SMS to apologise for the psychic message, and woke up again. So attempting to communicate out of dream layers two dreams deep. Woke up to what I believe is reality. Am there still.

I often wake up into a dream when I'm not currently on any drugs. Usually early in the morning when I'm dreading going to work or school. I dream I wake up, brush my teeth, change clothes, make breakfast etc... then I wake up for real and freak out about being late.

Re: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Post by eip »

tcoff91 wrote: post #28
eip wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.iamshaman.com/eshop/catalog/480.htm Just pepper your angus bruh. The effects of this stuff lasts 4 to 6 months after only smoking it a few times.

So you don’t need to drink it as a tea? I tried and it was the nastiest shit I’ve ever tried to consume. I could not force it down. Perhaps with Miracle fruit I could drink it but no way on its own.

Definitely don't need to drink it. Not sure how anyone could. It's pretty awful.

Just smoke it two or three times. Then prepare for journeys to other worlds.

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