So...what do these three things (and any other drugs) do to affect lucid dreaming, dream recall, and anything else to do with dreaming? |
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So...what do these three things (and any other drugs) do to affect lucid dreaming, dream recall, and anything else to do with dreaming? |
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I'm not sure about cigarettes, but the other two supress REM sleep for the first half of the night. REM sleep is the type of sleep where most dreams occur, your body is completely paralyzed and your eyes are moving rapidly back and forth under your eyelids. Marijuana and Alcohol are likely to ruin your dream recall or even having a dream for that matter, but thats only for the first part of the night, because afterwards your body wants to make up for lost REM sleep so it goes into REM rebound where you dream more intensly during the last half of the night. Personally, I went to sleep high once and still had a lucid dream but it was in the late morning, and I didn't recall any dreams from earlier in the night.However, that does not mean that they will help you become lucid, for some they may even do the opposite. |
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Alcohol is an absolute no no. It kills a ridiculous amount of brain cells, plus how do you expect to even remember a dream with hangover. |
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Every single time I'm drunk, I recall a dream the next morning. Every single time, whereas normally I often have nights with absolutely zero recall. I don't know why that is, just throwing it out there. |
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Thanks for the answers! Good to know about marijuana. I've pretty much stopped that completely, mainly because I heard it causes you to "dream less" and from what I've seen, that's true. But I didn't know that about alcohol. Soooo disappointing. I was interested about cigarettes because, obviously, I smoke and I plan on quitting by a certain date. I was curious to know how that would affect my dreaming. I saw someone post that they heard cigarettes make recall better, but then more posts about how it is worse. (Although, the obvious answer would be just to quit, with no excuses involved.) |
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That might be due to what Lawilahd said about REM rebound, but i like to think long term, alcohol will mess up you up, and if you can only remember dreams after consuming it then something is wrong and its not a solution to carry it on. |
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From what I've heard nicotine can increase dream vividness, but alcohol and weed mostly suppress it. |
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It's not like I don't have any recall when I'm sober, though, just saying that getting blasted is a surefire way for me to recall a dream. And yeah, I actually meant getting shitfaced to kingdom come, after like 3 beers I don't notice any change in both dreaming and sleeping. |
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Anybody else find cannabis to actually somewhat aid in the hypnogogic/visualization aspects of WILDs? |
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I've experienced both sides of the spectrum. On one hand, I've had very vivid lucid dreams while on cannabis. But I've also had "black out" nights where I can't recall a single dream. I do recall the hypnogogic hallucinations being a lot more intense. Normally for me these visualizations would be in grayscale colors, but the cannabis affected visualizations ended up being very vibrant and colorful. |
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Last edited by Jdcie; 10-14-2011 at 10:46 PM. Reason: Wanted to add more to it
I know what you're talking about. Definitely wondered the same thing myself. I do think that it has helped me understand the concepts and feelings of WILDing a bit more because it is a more intensified and focused image. But while I'm having episodes of extreme hypnogogic imagery induced by cannabis, it doesn't usually lead to a WILD. Just a very interesting day dream. |
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We may guess that in dreams life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant; and that time and space do not exist as our waking selves comprehend them. Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon." H.P. Lovecraft
put away the alcohol if you want to lucid dream... and live longer |
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I have noticed after either a harsh night of drinking or even a slow night of low percent alchohal, if I go to sleep at a specific time in my bodies recovery, my dreams become insanely vivid. Extremely vivid. Usually pretty memorable, and strange. |
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We may guess that in dreams life, matter, and vitality, as the earth knows such things, are not necessarily constant; and that time and space do not exist as our waking selves comprehend them. Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon." H.P. Lovecraft
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