What's it like to have a dream?
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Dreaming is like reality, but far from reality. Regardless, you accept it anyway. It looks so close to reality, yet many nonsensical things can happen. I recently had one which featured astral projection and trippy visuals. The stretching of hallways, the breaking of physics.
Foreign realms which often feel quite familiar.
Also--do your own research, but.. this might interest you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_vulgaris
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneirogen
Mugwort is known as an oneirogen. These are a class of substances known to produce vivid dreams.They are not psychoactive to any degree. I use them very, very infrequently, but they do work for me. As far as I understand, it's diminishing returns for repeated use. If you use them daily, they stop working. Mugwort has worked for everyone I know who's tried it, and I'd imagine it's hard for placebo to occur here. Note that this is far from a scientifically defined class of substance--most descriptions of their effects are anecdotal. That said, they are extremely unlikely to be harmful, if that's even at all possible.
If this is an active point of interest for you, it certainly can't hurt to read into it. Hope this all helps!
Wow that's. I'm down to try a herbal tea!
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Maybe you can write your dreams down as soon as you wake up and remember them. Perhaps it will help
Yeah I've seen notes about sleep journals
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Wow that's. I'm down to try a herbal tea!
I haven't tried tea, but smoking works if that doesn't. I'd assume you want to drink the tea about an hour before bed to ensure effects take hold at the right time. You won't notice any effect while awake. It should have mild sleep support properties, though. Also interesting is that it's reported to work by being placed under the pillow.
Thujone is an involved compound that's worth mentioning. In very large amounts (and I mean a catastrophic 3g+ of pure compound for myself), it becomes toxic--but typical doses are very, very far below this. Imagine how much 3g of the compound is, and how much compound is actually contained in the material.
Hope this all helps!
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I don't really dream. It's extremely rare to the point where I'll have a handful in a year and I don't remember them. Waking up with an emotional reaction to an odd dream inspired by life events or entertainment... Then the details slip away from me and I can't even talk to anyone about the experience.
What's it like for you?
Do you enjoy, dislike or analyze your dreams?
Is it really a window to the subconscious for you?It's fun until someone cuts your arm with a sword during medieval battle, you wake up but you can't move and can't feel your arm so you lay on the battlefield for a while.
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I don't really dream. It's extremely rare to the point where I'll have a handful in a year and I don't remember them. Waking up with an emotional reaction to an odd dream inspired by life events or entertainment... Then the details slip away from me and I can't even talk to anyone about the experience.
What's it like for you?
Do you enjoy, dislike or analyze your dreams?
Is it really a window to the subconscious for you?Is like a movie that is injected into your brain, but randomly generated by AI (aka: it make zero sense and random as fuck).
Then just as things get interesting, someone wake you up and flash the Men In Black memory eraser thing and you're like: "What the fuck was that? I think I had a dream, but I forgor"
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It's fun until someone cuts your arm with a sword during medieval battle, you wake up but you can't move and can't feel your arm so you lay on the battlefield for a while.
Have you tried learning to be better at sword fighting?
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I haven't tried tea, but smoking works if that doesn't. I'd assume you want to drink the tea about an hour before bed to ensure effects take hold at the right time. You won't notice any effect while awake. It should have mild sleep support properties, though. Also interesting is that it's reported to work by being placed under the pillow.
Thujone is an involved compound that's worth mentioning. In very large amounts (and I mean a catastrophic 3g+ of pure compound for myself), it becomes toxic--but typical doses are very, very far below this. Imagine how much 3g of the compound is, and how much compound is actually contained in the material.
Hope this all helps!
I didn't plan anything with this post but I feel like I'm going to be chasing the experience of getting a dream. Even a lucid dream.
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Have you tried learning to be better at sword fighting?
I rarely dream the same twice
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I didn't plan anything with this post but I feel like I'm going to be chasing the experience of getting a dream. Even a lucid dream.
Good luck, and stay safe! Please do get back--people's experiences will help me with my project (a work featuring dozens upon dozens of psychoactives/medicines/therapy options). Reports will help me provide better, more diverse information to people.
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Good luck, and stay safe! Please do get back--people's experiences will help me with my project (a work featuring dozens upon dozens of psychoactives/medicines/therapy options). Reports will help me provide better, more diverse information to people.
It won't be for some time. But I plan to make a follow up post.
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I don’t really dream much but my watch says my REM is fine.
Cutting out weed after a stint gives me more dreams than usual, but then cuts back to my baseline once in a blue moon after a while.
Take lots of magnesium, have always been like this. Also have aphantasia though so not much to my dreams to remember.
I’m similar expect I don’t take magnesium. I also have aphantasia. I get 8 hours nightly and wake up refreshed. I do drink 1 cup of coffee every morning. Acetaminophen and/or Ibuprofen as needed which isn’t often and usually only for a tension headache. No other drugs. I drink on occasion but no more than 1-3 beers/week and the rare night bourbon. My wife cans all of our veggies that are cannable so we know they’re fresh. We have pigs raised (working on a cow) and we eat pretty clean food (know how it was raised/grown) as much as possible.
I can’t remember the last time I can remember a dream, it’s been that long. I also have a terrible memory and it takes a a lot of effort to retain events, even something that happened last week, they’re mostly fading memories.
Good news is that means I’m generally very upbeat most of the time. I do not have bipolar disorder or any other mental issue that I know of. I’m very even keeled, so much so that I find Lemmy’s reactions to things happening in the world to be super amplified and irrational. Sometimes it’s warranted, many it’s simply bad for their mental health.
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I’m similar expect I don’t take magnesium. I also have aphantasia. I get 8 hours nightly and wake up refreshed. I do drink 1 cup of coffee every morning. Acetaminophen and/or Ibuprofen as needed which isn’t often and usually only for a tension headache. No other drugs. I drink on occasion but no more than 1-3 beers/week and the rare night bourbon. My wife cans all of our veggies that are cannable so we know they’re fresh. We have pigs raised (working on a cow) and we eat pretty clean food (know how it was raised/grown) as much as possible.
I can’t remember the last time I can remember a dream, it’s been that long. I also have a terrible memory and it takes a a lot of effort to retain events, even something that happened last week, they’re mostly fading memories.
Good news is that means I’m generally very upbeat most of the time. I do not have bipolar disorder or any other mental issue that I know of. I’m very even keeled, so much so that I find Lemmy’s reactions to things happening in the world to be super amplified and irrational. Sometimes it’s warranted, many it’s simply bad for their mental health.
Be careful, radical centrism is the worst kind of extremism and dulls your surroundings.
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I don't really dream. It's extremely rare to the point where I'll have a handful in a year and I don't remember them. Waking up with an emotional reaction to an odd dream inspired by life events or entertainment... Then the details slip away from me and I can't even talk to anyone about the experience.
What's it like for you?
Do you enjoy, dislike or analyze your dreams?
Is it really a window to the subconscious for you?If you want to have lucid dreams, set an alarm clock to two hours before you have to wake up and another one to when you have to wake up.
With this two-hour interval you should wake up right in the middle of the dream.
Once that works out, keep telling yourself that the next thing you'll experience will be a dream when you fall asleep after the first alarm.
With a bit of practice you should be able to get to lucid dreams.
For what it's like to dream: Imagine being in a simulation, and whenever you look somewhere or you think of something, your brain autofills whatever you focus on.
Say you are on a beach. So you think "How did I get here?" and while doing so, your brain generates a memory of you driving there with other people in the car.
"But who are these people?" And the brain fills in your wife and your son. "I didn't know I had a wife and a son." And the brain fills in memories of your first date, the wedding and the birth of your son. And so on.
For me, the biggest tell that I am in a dream is that electronics UIs don't work. My brain isn't fast enough to simulate e.g. a working smartphone interface. They are always screwed up and non-functional.
