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    Odd water fountains (Winter comp night 5)

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    Lucid-Wannabe
    , 01-12-2024 at 07:40 AM (231 Views)
    Went to sleep around midnight and woke up at 4:30am for WBTB. I then drank some sage tea because I recently learned it's has some potential acetylcholine boosting effects. I attempted to go back to sleep at 5:20am but had some trouble, maybe from the sage.

    Dream 1

    I’m a guest at someone’s house, there’s a man and a woman that sort of represent Booky’s parents but also Zoë’s at the same time. Weppy may have been here too.

    There’s about five of us, we go snowboarding/skiing. At the bottom of the run we arrive at the house of the hybrid parents.

    It was a pretty nice cabin, but one part of it was not very furnished. This part felt like a hotel or something. There was one wall that was sort of unfinished.

    On the unfinished wall there were five water fountains, the kind you would see at a school or something. They went from small to large except the largest one was only a foot off the ground and the smallest was mere inches from the ground. I pointed out how weird this was to someone.
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    Then we all went on a walk, there were two identical twin sisters walking in front of me.

    Dream 2

    Tami and I go to Penny’s and move some furniture around for some event we had planned to do there. Then when we leave Tami puts the furniture back but in a slightly different/better position than before. Penny is being really strange and mean towards Tami so I decide we’re going to leave.

    When leaving outside there’s some sort of tour bus that we have to use to leave. When the door opens we see that there are only two seats left and Penny had Ryan tasked with blocking them so we couldn’t go.

    Some sort of standoff ensues.
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    1. Harlequin's Avatar
      How is sage supposed to work?

      I happened to get some tea with sage last week because my usual spearmint was sold out.
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    2. Lucid-Wannabe's Avatar
      Quote Originally Posted by Harlequin
      How is sage supposed to work?

      I happened to get some tea with sage last week because my usual spearmint was sold out.
      Well long story short, when I was a kid I had some of my mom's sage tea a few times and had my first lucid dreams around then. Recently I was checking if the sage may have been the cause of this and it turns out that it has acetylcholinesterase inhibiting properties (a similar mechanism to galantamine). So it seems like it may be useful to test with lucid dreaming.

      There's a few sources online about this, here's one of them.

      A brief summary of the link:

      In a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover study with 30 healthy participants, different doses of dried sage leaf (300 mg and 600 mg) were found to improve mood and cognitive performance. The lower dose (300 mg) reduced anxiety, while the higher dose (600 mg) increased alertness, calmness, and contentedness. The study also confirmed sage's cholinesterase inhibiting properties. However, under stress (induced by a multitasking computer task), the lower dose reduced alertness and the anxiety-reducing effect was negated. Cognitive performance improved with the higher dose but deteriorated with the lower dose under later testing. This suggests that sage can positively impact mood and cognitive function, with effects varying based on the dose and environmental stressors.
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