Substances that facilitate lucid dreaming – A Case Study

A test matrix utilizing six different supplements:
galantamine, huperzine A, nicotine, bupropion, propranolol, and an amino acid blend was used to show that lucid dreams are strongly facilitated when two neurochemical events take place simultaneously: (1) dopaminergic and adrenergic stimulation coupled with (2) cholinergic and/or glutamateric stimulation. The substances were chosen due to their different pharmacological properties and several combinations resulted in lucid dreams 100% of the time. The two most successful combinations were galantamine/propranolol and the amino acid blend however other combinations also led to very high success rates: huperzine/bupropion, galantamine/nicotine, and huperzine/nicotine. The summary of this work indicates that vivid dream states can be induced using cholinergic, glutamateric, dopaminergic, and adrenergic stimulation either independentlyor in various combinations, which in turn leads to an increase in odds of inducing a lucid dream.

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Why does diazepam help it then?

Nice find, Ufostrahlen! I have his first book, Advanced Lucid Dreaming, The Power of Supplements. Good stuff.

Effects of pyridoxine on dreaming: a preliminary study.

The effect of pyridoxine (Vitamin B-6) on dreaming was investigated in a placebo, double-blind study to examine various claims that Vitamin B-6 increases dream vividness or the ability to recall dreams. 12 college students participated in all three treatment conditions, each of which involved ingesting either 100 mg B-6, 250 mg B-6, or a placebo prior to bedtime for a period of five consecutive days. The treatment conditions were completely counterbalanced and a two-day wash-out period occurred between the three five-day treatment blocks. Morning self-reports indicated a significant difference in dream-salience scores (this is a composite score containing measures on vividness, bizarreness, emotionality, and color) between the 250-mg condition and placebo over the first three days of each treatment. The data for dream salience suggests that Vitamin B-6 may act by increasing cortical arousal during periods of rapid eve movement (REM) sleep. An hypothesis is presented involving the role of B-6 in the conversion of tryptophan to serotonin. However, this first study needs to be replicated using the same procedures and also demonstrated in a sleep laboratory before the results can be considered certain.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11883552

(2) cholinergic and/or glutamateric stimulation.

The study uses only one subject--one guy, who tested on himself. It had me a bit excited about the amino mix, with 100 percent success but then I read this thread and saw some mixed results:


http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid...lutamine-l-theanine.html

Some time ago I started a topic requesting information on how to extract Galantamine from Daffodills and Snowdrops.
https://www.dmt-nexus.me...&m=467689#post467689

I was also puzzled to find a more recent work from TY as he somehow vanished from the scene. Moreover I was glad to find out that I'm not the only one, who doesn't get effects from HupA. Saved me some bucks that I can now invest into the AA blend.

Btw, all credits go to www.klartraum-wiki.de/wiki/Substanzen which I browsed yesterday.

They also mention:


I'm going to check that out as well.

I am going to continue the rest of this week doing the same. Then possibly upping my dose next week. Anyone know of the dose range of B6? Like how much is too much?

Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) causes neuropathy at intakes of 1000 mg per day or more, which is about 800 times the daily intake from foods. There have also been occasional reports of toxicity at intakes of 100-300 mg per day. The US authorities set the no-observed-adverse-effect-level at 200 mg per day and the safe upper limit at 100 mg per day. A report of neurotoxicity in 2 patients who had taken 24 mg and 40 mg of vitamin B6 per day respectively, may be coincidence rather than a true toxic effect of such relatively low doses. However, physicians need to remain alert to high intakes of vitamin B6 as a cause of unexplained neuropathy.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16320662

When I used to frequent the Dreamviews forums, a long time ago, I remember DVmembers discussed several supposed dream aids all the time:
-Applejuice(Fresh, not from concentrate)
-Peanutbutter
-Aged Cheese ( An old "folk-knowledge" sais that aged Cheese might induce Nightmares(Read; vivid dreams)
Alot of DV members swore by them.( Most of them swore by vitamin B-6 & Choline +Galantamine too)

What chemical substances could these supposed dream aids contain to explain their effects on dreams?
In the aged cheese: Perhaps the Tyrosine? All I know about Peanutbutter is that it's full of iron. What is known of Iron's effects on dreams?
As for what chemical in applejuice could be making dreams more vivid: No idea.

This needs more research.