So what's the deal with Chocolate?

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Has anybody had great results by eating chocolate? If so, when did you eat it and how much?

[Wavefunction]

I ate 1/4 pound of chocolate fudge last night - I had good dream recall, but no lucidity.

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I ate a piece or two of fudge about an hour before bed last night, and I actually didn't remember even having any dreams...As opposed to remembering for the last week.

[b12]

Chocolate? What?

[Meakel]

On Christmas Day I got TONS of chocolate. Ate it all. Couldn't even sleep let alone be lucid.

[stavrakas]

Eating chocolate has no effect...I tried to eat chocolate before fall asleep thousand of times but I had only good dreams, no lucid dreams...

[Wavefunction]

Chocolate? What? Asking if it's a lucid aid.

[Abra]

Mmmm. Cho-co-late... The only candy I like. And I've diminished the craving to only "dark" chocolate (in my opinion, 45% cacao is still too sugary). I think that if any chocolate gives a good effect, it would be dark chocolate during a WBTB. Ah, maybe I should rephrase that. I think that if any chocolate doesn't give a negative effect, it is dark chocolate. Less sugar=less bodily wakefulness. More cacao=more "whatever-effects-cacao-gives-ful-ness."

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Yeah, after some testing I'm gonna have to rule that chocolate actually hinders dream recall and vividness. I'm with Meakel, I've got chocolate all over the place from Christmas and it just messes things up.

[Oros]

If you heard about eating it i guess it's to get the suger when doing WBTB to stay more awake while beeing asleep.

[vinn]

ive tryed eating chocolate twice right before bed and it has odnt nothing to my dreams at all

[Butterz]

Chocolate has never done it for me either, I had a cup of coffe and a snickers lastnight..not a good combination lol Though I heard supposedly chicken does..I havent tried that one. But I have had salomy before bed and usually end up with some funky dreams

[yelizaveta]

I ate 1/4 pound of chocolate fudge last night - I had good dream recall, but no lucidity. 1/4 pound of chocolate? Maybe that sounds like more than it really is, but what a heroic effort. Now I have a craving for fudge. Also, on topic, I eat lots of chocolate and for me eating it before or in bed has not had any effect on my dreams...

[PNG_pyro]

Ok, what's up with chocolate; first, it contains milk, sugar, and cocoa. (Mainly.) Sugar and cocoa help wake you up; (cocoa contains caffein and other related substances) and milk contains tryptophan, an amino acid that is metabolized into seratonin by B6 (and stuff. <-{technical term}) Tryptophan is also the amino acid in turkey, ham, and chicken that makes you sleepy. (why people drink milk before bed.)