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Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Re: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Post by bencollier49 »

scrollaway wrote: post #45
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-tr…

Learning to lucid dream is basically giving yourself a sleep disorder on purpose. Having done this deliberately in the past and had some fairly wacky side-effects, I think it's worth people considering the negatives if they style trying to induce lucidity.

Re: Pre-sleep treatment with galantamine stimulates lucid dreaming

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Post by codingdave »

hartator wrote: post #22
LinuxBender wrote: post #2

Looks interesting, but I would use with caution if you have renal or gut issues. Research this one extensively before using.

Can you be more specific? On wikipedia, they say "no side effects".

I'm not sure which Wikipedia page you were looking at. There is an entire section on side effects. The original article also mentioned it, as have the comments.

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Post by atom-morgan »

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…

Have you ever done psychedelics? If so, how does it compare?

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Post by knicholes »

ModernMech wrote: post #73
scrollaway wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-tr…

> I started getting very regular sleep paralysis. I do not blame you. I've experienced sleep paralysis more than once, and it is not pleasant at all. I remember trying to scream at the top of my lungs in my head for... I don't know how long but my perception of it was that it was for hours on end. Then all of a sudden something broke through, and I woke my wife up with the loudest scream she's ever heard out of anyon…

Coming from a religious background, I believed that I was being possessed to explain the lack of control over my body. I even hallucinated an "evil" "form" coming towards me before my body locked up and I felt tingles. So ~weird~ terrifying being able to scream without your body doing anything.

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Post by Memosyne »

I wonder if the induction of lucid dreams could become a commercial endeavor? Viewing it as an alternative to technological virtual reality, people would start buying products which induce dreams instead. Companies would subsequently market and patent items which enhance visual experiences in dreams.

The future is daunting.

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Post by modzu »

Memosyne wrote: post #96

I wonder if the induction of lucid dreams could become a commercial endeavor? Viewing it as an alternative to technological virtual reality, people would start buying products which induce dreams instead. Companies would subsequently market and patent items which enhance visual experiences in dreams. The future is daunting.

u mean like sleepwithremee.com?

"the future is already here. it just isn't evenly distributed"

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Post by z0r »

chrisweekly wrote: post #27
oyebenny wrote: post #21

Galantamine is Rx in the US. :/

Looks like it's usually prescribed for dementia. I wonder what its effects might be on someone with normal cognitive function, while they're awake...

Got curious (tempted to maybe try it) and found this - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27222217

Looks like it may impair your working memory if you have normal cognitive function.

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Post by babbadook »

Ive been a fairly regular lucid dreamer for probably 8 years now. Having more regular LDs would certainly be welcome. Im also quite interested in this bit: "Galantamine also significantly increased dream recall, sensory vividness and complexity (p<0.05). Dream recall, cognitive clarity, control, positive emotion, vividness and self-reflection were increased during lucid compared to non-lucid dreams (p<0.0001)."
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