One more question (I'd understand if you're getting tired of answering these):
Ahaha, not at all! Please, don't feel like you have to moderate yourself around Dreamviews when it comes to making questions The community is extremely helpful, and if anything, you can always pm a dream guide (we're the guys with green names) if you have any doubt ^^
First of all, let's get one thing out of the way: you don't need supplements in order to reach high level lucid dreams. Picture it as a muscle that you have to develop: when you become lucid, you basically increase activity in certain brain parts, which gives you a varying degree of lucidity. Depending on your experience as lucid dreamer and your brain chemistry, you'll have more or less lucidity, which affects things like dream control, or even dream vividness.
Now, what supplements like galantamine do is giving you a shortcut. They act in your brain in a way that you can experience easier time recalling dreams, more vivid dreams, easy time performing a WILD, etc. What they can't do is give you the tools to lucid dream regularly. Take the example of galatamine once again: in order to use it safely, one must use doses that are way below the therapeutic dosage. For example, a common dose (for recreational use) is 8mg, but even then people are encourage to start with 4mg. The thing is, in order for the person not build dependence and tolerance for the drug, they must wait for it to completely clean from the organism: in the case of galantamine, this takes around 4 to 5 days. This means that the best use for it is around once a week.
As you can see, you can't really rely on drugs to achieve regular lucidity: they can only help so much. The most powerful tool you have for lucid dreaming is building an habit. Rewiring your brain takes time, and as you can see by Sageous example, mastering lucidity can take ages. But that doesn't mean you need to spend years practicing in order to get satisfying lucids that show up twice a week. It only took me a matter of days to start inducing lucid dreams that allowed me to develop experiences, have fun, try stuff, etc. At an initial point most people tend to face one obstacle of two (like dream control, stabilizing), but once you get a few dozens of lucid dreams on your pocket, you can do loads of things, especially if you understand how lucidity works. Experience helps, because as you will realize, knowing that you are dreaming is one thing...understanding what that means is a whole other thing ^^
Don't stress yourself though, a matter of consistency on basic things like reality checks, dream recall, awareness, memory is enough to give you lucids. The more consistent you are (because consistency seems to dictate the difference between regular and casual lucid dreamers ^^), the more chances you have to experience regular lucids. The rest comes with practice.
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