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      Physical side effects of doing drugs in dreams?

      A few friends and I were talking about Lucid Dreaming, and the subject of doing drugs in dreams came up. One of them brought up MDMA/Molly/Ecstasy, and how it supposedly drains your serotonin receptors, possibly damaging them.

      I've done drugs in my dreams and the effects are very similar to those in waking life. In order to simulate these effects, does the mind/the brain induce that same chemistry? If it does, is it possible that drug use in dreams could damage the brain?

      Example: I've taken Ecstasy, and If I take a LOT in a dream, and those effects are simulated, would it be possible to have serotonin-receptor damage?
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      I don't think so. Thought the realism in dreams is very realistic feeling during the time, the effects shouldn't be. You can feel pain in dreams (if you expect something to hurt) but it won't when you wake up. I could be wrong though considering how wet dreams work. If you're concerned with possible side-effects, I suggest you just do less dream drugs, haha.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Caretaker View Post
      I don't think so. Thought the realism in dreams is very realistic feeling during the time, the effects shouldn't be. You can feel pain in dreams (if you expect something to hurt) but it won't when you wake up. I could be wrong though considering how wet dreams work. If you're concerned with possible side-effects, I suggest you just do less dream drugs, haha.
      I have actualy heard many cases of people feeling pain in dreams and then still feeling the phantom pain when they wake up.

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      Quote Originally Posted by MadMonkey View Post
      I have actualy heard many cases of people feeling pain in dreams and then still feeling the phantom pain when they wake up.
      Then I suppose you should remember that you're in a dream and know that the pain isn't real. As I said, I could be wrong and I probably am seeing as I'm still a newbie myself. If there's one thing I believe in, it's the power of perception. You're only as vulnerable to things as you believe you are.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Caretaker View Post
      Then I suppose you should remember that you're in a dream and know that the pain isn't real. As I said, I could be wrong and I probably am seeing as I'm still a newbie myself. If there's one thing I believe in, it's the power of perception. You're only as vulnerable to things as you believe you are.
      Pain is something created by your mind and completly real in dreams. Anyways the OP is about dream drugs. I don't know how the chemistry works for drugs in dreams, weather it actualy releases the chemicals in the brain or just feels like it. I am very interseted in how it works though.

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      I never thought of it this way. It may be possible that your brain does release those chemicals, but I think the DMT along with whatever else you think about dreams can just mimic the effects to your expectations. But very interesting nevertheless.

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      my father once had a dream where he had smoked weed, woke up, and reported feeling high. this could be just like the phontom pain thing, though ive never seen this happen extensively to someone, i would think itd eventually at least create an addiction to the drug, depending on what youre doing.

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      Dunno if the brain actually induce the chemical reaction as the drugs would. However I have done ecstacy in dreams and awake. My experience was that upon waking from the dream I had a tingling sensation running through my body and I was in a very lovable mood =P. However the effects declined at a much MUCH faster pace and I didn't have a comedown period.

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      "I thought it wasn't real."

      "your mind makes it real."

      I wouldn't think that doing drugs in a dream would actually effect your brain chemistry, at least certainly not in the same way the drug would. I'm not sure if there's ever been any research on this, though.

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      After some thought, I believe it would not affect your physical brain chemistry. For doing a drug in a dream, saying your brain does follow through with the same processes, it would be a natural release. Thus your brain is regulating the amount of the chemical release, also the receptor which takes the chemical back for recycling would not be affected. As drugs cause the job if such receptors to do just the opposite, resulting in an overflow of any chemical.
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      Placebo effects?

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      This is an interesting topic, and I think it has reached beyond our knowledge--anyone studying Neuron Science? I suggest sending this topic to Scientific American or any other magazines, I really want to know the answer.

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