Thread: Effect of Alcohol on LDs

When you go to sleep drunk the alcohol suppresses REM sleep and when the effect wears off the next time you go to sleep you have more REM sleep. That's called REM rebound.
And It's much easier to get lucid during this time, I've had many LDs and better dream recall after nights of excessive drinking.

Of course you shouldn't use alcohol only to get LDs

I take a little wine to help me fall asleep at night, because I know 4 hours later when I do WBTB I may have a better chance of getting an LD.

smoked salmon once had an effect on my dream quality although I don't think I recorded the dream and it's quality, I just remember having interesting dreams and knowing that the only thing I had done differently was to eat smoked salmon.

A little bit of coca cola seems to have an effect as well right before you sleep... like a gulp or two.

If you smoke and try to stop smoking for a day or two that has an effect as well.

I drank last night and this night as well so I'ma stop smoking tomorrow and be sober... see what happens. Even take a small amount of caffiene, and what ever vitamin anyone suggests.

We could compile a list for best dream diets.

Last night I ate some smoked salmon but it didn't affect my dreams that I know of. I didn't have very good dream recall.

Originally posted by jiu
smoked salmon once had an effect on my dream quality although I don't think I recorded the dream and it's quality, I just remember having interesting dreams and knowing that the only thing I had done differently was to eat smoked salmon.

A little bit of coca cola seems to have an effect as well right before you sleep... like a gulp or two.

If you smoke and try to stop smoking for a day or two that has an effect as well.

I drank last night and this night as well so I'ma stop smoking tomorrow and be sober... see what happens. Even take a small amount of caffiene, and what ever vitamin anyone suggests.

We could compile a list for best dream diets.

I'll agree with the caffine part, i had a couple of sips of coca cola after i woke up this morning, and in the following dream, i became lucid, but the extent to which these are connected could be coincidental, as it was the first LD in ages

Alcohol, if taken in a mass quantity, really quashed any capacity I have to LD or remember dreams. Caffine does help a bit though.

Originally posted by nightshade
When you go to sleep drunk the alcohol suppresses REM sleep and when the effect wears off the next time you go to sleep you have more REM sleep. That's called REM rebound.
And It's much easier to get lucid during this time, I've had many LDs and better dream recall after nights of excessive drinking.

Of course you shouldn't use alcohol only to get LDs

My friend likes to do this. Quite often.


- Axis

Alcohol quashes a lot of things when drank in excess. (the main bad effect of alcohol, from a merely scientific point of view, dealing with lucid dreams, is its inhibition of DMT in the central nervous system. Enough of this can damage the petuitary gland that produces DMT....say goodbye to LD's forever, and maybe dreams altogether.)

Just my biological 35 cents.

I guess not everything works for everyone. I heard a girl somewhere on here say that she was having problems dreaming or LDing so she had popcorn before she went to bed... and it worked for her.

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I had no idea that alcohol inhibits DMT. I guess I shouldn't drink so excessively anymore. Well then... what would help out the glands that produce DMT? Do you think that a MAO-inhibitor / beta-carboline would also help?

do drugs like paracetamol affect LD, i wonderd this the other night?

Originally posted by jiu
I guess not everything works for everyone. I heard a girl somewhere on here say that she was having problems dreaming or LDing so she had popcorn before she went to bed... and it worked for her.

I wonder if her having popcorn broke down some sort of subconcious barrier she had to LDing? Like maybe it was much more of a mental thing than a food thing. Anyways,

Nights that I drink alcohol, like 3 or more drinks, I will wake up around 8 or 9 without fail, then, after returning to sleep, my recall is amazing. I have never become lucid when alcohol is involved though.