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Am I down-hearted? Nope. With every setback I've so far discovered another avenue of exploration. I had one small memorable dream + a potentially good one about a holiday camp...and I overdid "remembering" again and fell back to sleep.

7.00 ish I'm sitting on a chaise-longue with a group of people and we all had our legs outstretched and pointing towards a fireplace. The woman next to me put one of her legs on top of mine...then the other. That's it...it's not much, but it's enough for me...

I keep a record of the stuff I eat. Food must play a part in how we dream...else how would we get our main source of melatonin in the winter? On both lucid nights I had blueberries, coleslaw and a small coffee when I WBTB. I very rarely eat coleslaw and I've been missing out the coffee, the past few nights...in case it's been contributing to the difficulty in quickly going back to sleep

People my age tend to be deficient in melatonin but I'm reluctant to take too many substitutes because there are known health-risks. My age-group is likely to be the group who should perhaps sway their diet towards certain foodstuffs because we are most likely to be deficient in certain things that perhaps aid LD. Sour cherries are a good source.

Sour cherries are a new super-food (and, of course big business know this and they're relatively expensive and fairly difficult to get in the UK) Anthocyanins are the likely "helpful" ingredient. Fruits and vegetables rich in anthocyanins include blueberry, cranberry, bilerry, red raspberry,blackberry; blackcurrant, cherry, Concord and muscadine grape, red cabbage, and violet petals (you can eat violet petals! look out neighbours, I'll be like a rampant sheep) Stuff the cherries, most of these are cheaper...especially neighbours violets...I'll eat 'em in-situ

Coleslaw is presumably beta-Carotene. (again caution needed re amounts) Includes cantaloupe, mangoes papayas, carrots and yams. spinach, kale and superfruit Vietnamese Gac (10 times higher than carrots, for example.) I'll be out looking for Vietnamese neighbours...and definitely coleslaw's on the menu boys!

Most of my blather can be read elsewhere on this site anyway,. Ever onwards...

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