Alysendra

10:00 PM - 2 grams, smoked, Calea zacatechichi
10:40 PM - 8 mg, oral, Galantamine
10:40 PM - 100 mg, oral, Vitamin B5
10:40 PM - 200 mg, oral, Choline
11:00 PM - 4 seeds, oral, Datura inoxia
11:20 PM - 100 mg, oral, Vitamin B6

This night, I decided to start off my new phase of supplement experimentation with a bang. It may have been a little over eager using three different natural supplements at once, but I really just wanted to see what they would all do together. When I first woke up, I honestly thought that they didn't seem to have done much for me at all, which was weird because I knew they've worked separately for me before. However, when I just lied in bed trying to remember a little more, I started to realize that the situation was actually quite different.

At first I felt like I had barely dreamed, but then I realized that I had actually felt like I was dreaming seemingly non-stop all night, and there were just so many random things going on with so much detail that it was difficult for me to recall it all now without having trained my memory much for this lately. The more I thought about it, the more it was clear that they did have an effect in me. The amount of time I can remember being in a dream is much greater even if much of that is hard to bring back now; the scenery I was seeing was significantly more detailed and involved a lot of natural areas like forests and jungles as opposed to my usual modernized settings; and there were often enormous crowds of people, which for me is a surefire sign of very high amounts of dream detail compared to how I normally get mostly just the key players of people who I don't even really see moving around in the background.

If I had been working on my recall lately I bet I would've been able to bring back something truly ridiculous from all of this, but there will still be plenty of time for nights like that in the future. For now, I'll just give what I can about how this night went. It's going to be described like a series of fragments, as that's the only way I can really remember it, but there was definitely a grand scheme going on that connected all of these events, even if it might've been nonsense.

I find myself walking through a jungle area, down a path which leads somewhere that I cannot see, not unlike an out-of-body experience I have had in the past. Similarly to that time as well, I can tell that something is different about my awareness; I knew that I should be feeling "something", which I can tell now was understanding that their should be some kind of dream enhancement going on from all the supplements, but I wasn't awake enough to put words to it at the time. Perhaps this is when I was first falling asleep? It felt as though the boundary between dream and waking sensations and understandings was a bit less defined during the course of the night whenever I was sleeping a little more lightly.

I was with a dream character who was apparent to me at the time, but I have no idea who it might have been now. What I do know is that we came across a house or building of some kind in the middle of all the jungle or forest area, and for some reason we knew we had to go inside of it. The inside of the building actually appeared to be much larger than the outside had made it look, showing halls that seemed like they could lead down to some kind of school or mall area. I have what feels like a brief flash of seeing where it leads, but I don't recall if I actually traversed any of that area or not. It's quite possible that I did because I know this part lasted a little while, but I just couldn't say. What I do know is that when this mysterious dream character and I finally left, we had armed ourselves with machine guns as soon as we got back outside just in case we needed to defend ourselves, as we had accidentally spooked someone inside the building.

Somehow out of the jungle we had emerged into what appeared to me an enormous stadium similar to a gladiators' colosseum. There were crowds of people sitting all throughout the structure who were cheering on whatever was going on in the middle of all of this chaos. I'm not sure if I ever actually took a good look at what that might be exactly.... I know I was a little more concerned with scanning over all of the people in the crowd, but I'm not sure why exactly. I still had a sense of needing to get something done or avoid someone, possibly carrying on from the machine gun thing before? I started moving through the seats and somehow found the exit to the stadium, though I don't recall quite what it looked like. I know that it took me out to a more foresty area again though with a hill that I walked up, which led me to what seemed sort of like a trailer yard. I was still with some mysterious dream character at this time.

I wandered around this area some more until it opened up more to reveal what appeared to be something like a small town. There were a lot of people walking around, and as I glanced at them something became very obvious to me. I had seen all of these people before, in my own town (a possibly fictitious one). I continued to observe them and noticed that despite this they all seemed to be living lives unlike the ones I had seem them living before, and then I started to connect this to (again, very probably false) memories I had of traveling through other random small towns around here, and then a big picture started coming together that just seemed to make everything fall into place. I turned to my companion, who I then realized was also someone I had met before but who didn't seem to recognize me. I began explaining to him very matter-of-factly that the reason for this must be because all of these towns exist in some kind of magical homeostasis which keeps them running by being inhabited by exact copies of all of the same people over and over, but each of those copies live completely different and independent lives from one another, possibly never even becoming aware of one another's existence. This was also the reason, I continued, that I could recognize my companion but he couldn't recognize me.

If there was any more of the dream after that point, I have failed to remember it. I woke up at that point with some dry mouth and really needing to run to the bathroom, both of which I blame particularly on the datura seeds. It was during this time that I first started to recall the things that I had dreamed after thinking at first that I had basically slept like a log all night. After this short WBTB, I went back to lie down and noticed something peculiar. My imagination was drastically enhanced, to the point that letting visualizations play out actually felt almost like a complete dream, even though I was still aware of myself in the bed. This relates to what I mentioned before about the barrier between awake and asleep being loosened, but somewhere during all of this I fully passed out again.

I am what appears to be just about the same location as where my dream left off before, the trailer park outside of the town. This area actually contained many large trucks as well, and I know that there was some plot that led up to this that I can no longer bring back, but one of the trucks actually started driving off down a nearby road. The first thing I can recall is knowing that I need to destroy that truck before it can follow this large tunnel all the way down to the nature preserve which contained much of the forest that I was walking around in before. I pulled out my still handy machine gun and started unloading into it as much as possible, which actually was slowing it down to a degree, but it was still pulling pretty far ahead of me. There was a sense of urgency, combined with the feeling that someone was trying to distract me from completing this goal. I ran down the tunnel to keep up with the truck and managed to do a considerable (for what I was using) amount of damage to it before it could cross the threshold into the preserve, but unfortunately I could not destroy it in time, and simply stopped driving after it drove through the checkpoint.

The dream suddenly shifted, and I was now at home. The only reason I even particularly remember this part is because after I woke up and saw my cats just staring at me in the hallway it came rushing back. We are unable to take our cats outside at the moment, but in the dream I opened the front door for some reason and the male cat managed to run outside for the first time. I started panicking to catch him and bring him back in since he wasn't even used to being in the outside world, but he understandably kept running away from me so that he could explore. I don't remember how this turned out, but I don't think it was ever resolved, simply transitioning into this next part.

I was back in a place of high awareness of both the waking and dream worlds, but I wasn't fully in either anymore. I could feel myself lying in bed and knew somewhere in the back of my mind that what was happening wasn't real, but it never really occurred to me to think of it as a dream as I also wasn't even participating in that. I had taken on a third-person perspective of the scenario playing out, which was still at my house. It was a short animated clip, and I'm fairly certain that Stan from American Dad! was the main character in what I was seeing. He was talking about something for most of the time (though I felt the emotion of it as if I was experiencing it myself), but what I really just remember is that there was a baby swaddled up in a yellow blanket just lying on the living room couch. It was crying constantly, until he finally picked it up and it stopped immediately, just lying there peacefully. He felt relieved that it had gotten quite, and just held it for a moment to think.

I'm pretty sure that I woke up after that point, which that dream perception just fading and allowing my body awareness to push through to the surface. This was definitely an interesting combination of supplements.... Probably not something I'd try again until I've gotten my vividness and recall back up to where they have been in the past, but it did certainly provide some unique results. I'd say it was a good start to this next run of my lucid dreaming experiments.