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I've tried to lucid dream without supplements, but it just doesn't happen. I noticed that the Benzodiazepine medication I took for occasional insomnia had the interesting side effect of vivid and / or lucid dreams, but not reliably. And sometimes the dreams would occur the night after the medication.

I tried Yuschak's recommendations from his book, but the galantamine is so stimulating I couldn't fall asleep again after taking it. But the following has worked several times now.

This morning (1/30/2012) at 2:00 am: 500 mg Choline, 600 mg Alpha-GPC and 8 mg Galantamine. I lay in bed and meditated. The combination has the effect for me of promoting very deep states of meditative adsorption, which is interesting in itself. around 3:30 I took 1/4 mg Xanax (generic Alprazolam.)

Eventually I did fall asleep and managed to stay asleep after attaining lucidity. I was active, making decisions, talking to dream characters and making requests. It was great!

I was in a house similar but not the same as the one I grew up in. My brother had been smoking pot (not in real life did he ever, to my knowledge) and I was angry with him for not sharing with me. Then I woke up in a car similar to but not the same as my real car; I was lying down feet toward the front. I wondered why I'd been sleeping in the car; the dream was vivid had I had a sense all this was reality. Slowly, the car started rolling backwards. Oh oh... it's going to crash into something, but for some reason I couldn't do anything about it. As the car continued rolling backwards, I realized it must be a dream and woke up. I should mention that I'd been taking Xanax for insomnia after prostate surgery for about two weeks and had been tapering off. Last night was my first night without it.