Thread: Do supplements REALLY work for Lucid Dreaming?

Originally Posted by andreasdevig

So you just stay up for a bit (how long, btw?) and then just go back to bed? And that's it? No mantra or anything? And it makes you have a WILD?

Yes, with 8 mg of galantamine. WBTB 1-2 hours. The falling asleep process is conscious. It doesn't produce a WILD every time, but it often does.

With 4 mg I usually get a string of DILDs.

Tolerance seems to build up quick. It would only work about once a week max for me.

Good luck. I prefer natural methods over galantamine these days, because I find that natural lucid dreams are much more stable and long (and for health reasons - who knows if it's safe and healthy to use like this). When you use galantamine, your lucid dreams will often be short and unstable. So you will usually have a sequence of going in and out of short lucid dreams. I wonder if this is because the brain is unnaturally almost awake, so you're straddling that boundary of waking and sleeping constantly. Whereas in a natural lucid dream, your brain may be more asleep. This problem with galantamine is especially true if you're practice is not up to snuff, or so I find.

However, it can also produce amazing lucid dreams (if your practice is also good), and it is a lot of fun once in a while.

Originally Posted by MoonageDaydream

Yes, with 8 mg of galantamine. WBTB 1-2 hours. The falling asleep process is conscious. It doesn't produce a WILD every time, but it often does.

With 4 mg I usually get a string of DILDs.

Tolerance seems to build up quick. It would only work about once a week max for me.

Good luck. I prefer natural methods over galantamine these days, because I find that natural lucid dreams are much more stable and long (and for health reasons - who knows if it's safe and healthy to use like this). When you use galantamine, your lucid dreams will often be short and unstable. So you will usually have a sequence of going in and out of short lucid dreams. I wonder if this is because the brain is unnaturally almost awake, so you're straddling that boundary of waking and sleeping constantly. Whereas in a natural lucid dream, your brain may be more asleep. This problem with galantamine is especially true if you're practice is not up to snuff, or so I find.

However, it can also produce amazing lucid dreams (if your practice is also good), and it is a lot of fun once in a while.

Thanks for the info.

"The falling asleep process is conscious."

But you don't do anything to make it conscious? It just becomes conscious without you trying to achieve that?

"and for health reasons - who knows if it's safe and healthy to use like this"

Yeah I'm scared of using drugs. I've always been a bit paranoid about drugs.

I figure that trying these drugs might help. It might help to have some experiences under my belt. And that that could help give me the motivation juice to keep going and keep on keeping on to make it (through the natural route). So hopefully I won't need it eventually.

Originally Posted by andreasdevig

Thanks for the info.

"The falling asleep process is conscious."

But you don't do anything to make it conscious? It just becomes conscious without you trying to achieve that?

You're welcome.

Nope. Just lay there and let it happen. I mean, you want basic experience with WILDs. Like, embrace any discomfort, vibrations, etc. that come up. Be gentle when entering the dream. Stabilize your dream right away. Etc.

Originally Posted by andreasdevig

"and for health reasons - who knows if it's safe and healthy to use like this"

Yeah I'm scared of using drugs. I've always been a bit paranoid about drugs.

I figure that trying these drugs might help. It might help to have some experiences under my belt. And that that could help give me the motivation juice to keep going and keep on keeping on to make it (through the natural route). So hopefully I won't need it eventually.

It's definitely great for motivation. It's also great if you have a fear blockage preventing you from achieving WILDs. It kind of forces you to face those.

Originally Posted by Hilary

You're welcome.

Nope. Just lay there and let it happen. I mean, you want basic experience with WILDs. Like, embrace any discomfort, vibrations, etc. that come up. Be gentle when entering the dream. Stabilize your dream right away. Etc.




It's definitely great for motivation. It's also great if you have a fear blockage preventing you from achieving WILDs. It kind of forces you to face those.

Galantamine is the only way I've ever achieved WILDs. It's super fun cause most of the time there isn't even a noticeable transition, the dream just sorta forms around me out of the darkness of my closed eyelids, often I find myself falling through a night sky like I dropped through my bed or something but with no rollercoaster stomach drop sensation