Thread: Instant Lucid dreaming?

Thanks for the tips and the flattery () - my wife sometimes spikes my rooibos tea+lemon+honey+whisky with some crushed ginger powder. But I've been avoiding it due to the taste

Is powdered ginger gonna give me the same kick, do you think?

Originally Posted by Placebo

Thanks for the tips and the flattery () - my wife sometimes spikes my rooibos tea+lemon+honey+whisky with some crushed ginger powder. But I've been avoiding it due to the taste

Is powdered ginger gonna give me the same kick, do you think?

Yes, it may be a little less powerful than fresh ginger, but should still work. Just make sure you add some kind of sweetener so you can get it down.

Ginger has a sort of a burning flavor and is very strong, which is probably why it is so effective at building up the immune system, as it probably just destroys any kind of germs that get in its way.

The only side effect I've ever experienced from ginger was a while back when I was putting some really large pieces in my juices, I developed sort of rash on the top of some of my fingers. It took me forever to figure out what was causing it, but I finally traced it to the ginger. I guess it was producing so much heat in my body that it was causing a heat rash on my fingers. Powerful stuff, that ginger.

Hmm, I might get some glazed ginger as well then. It's a good excuse for a sugar treat

Originally Posted by Placebo

Hmm, I might get some glazed ginger as well then. It's a good excuse for a sugar treat

What got me started on the ginger root was that I bought some crystallized ginger root at the health food store which is probably the same thing as glazed ginger, because it is loaded with sugar. You need to have something in it to be able to get it down.

I liked it so well that I bought more, and then I noticed that as long as I was snacking on the crystalized ginger I never got sick. And if I would start to get sick I could start eating the ginger root candy and knock it out in no time.

But then my health store closed, so I began experimenting with making my own ginger candy using ginger root and corn syrup.

After having my wife chip a tooth off from a batch I made that was too hard, and myself knocking off a couple of caps on my teeth that I had to have glued back on from batches that were too chewey, I have finally almost got it perfected.

So yes, you may be better off just buying some of the crystalized ginger root at the store, although putting a chunk of ginger root in a fruit drink or even a protein drink also works really well, and can be done using much less sugar than you will find in the crystallized ginger root since the fruit will provide a lot of the sugar needed to drown out the strong ginger root flavor.

Here's to Placebo's health.

Hey Placebo, how do you ever manage to schedule polyphasic at 23 minutes at a time? You got a sugardaddy paying your bills, or what?

My Dad always called Elvis "The Pelvis", that just makes me laugh.
Great nickname.

I am currently experimenting with polyphasic sleep. I'm thinking of adapting to an Everyman sleep schedule, that is, one 3 hour or so "core" sleep, and then 2 or 3 20-30 minute naps scattered throughout the day. Placebo, which did you do first, adapt to polyphasic, or learn to WILD with some consistency? Also, how long does it take for you to WILD into a polyphasic dream, and how long did it take when you were first starting WILDing on polyphasic sleep?

Thanks in advance,
Numegil

Yup, I think glazed ginger is about the same thing as your crystalized one. Although it's not hard enough to break a tooth on! lol
I'll get my hands on some this weekend.

Originally Posted by folded

Hey Placebo, how do you ever manage to schedule polyphasic at 23 minutes at a time? You got a sugardaddy paying your bills, or what?

I wish. I just time it right, and be as quiet about it as possible.

I would nap at 6am at home. At work at 10am, in the car. Nobody seems to notice me gone for just 20-ish minutes, normally. Then at lunchtime (between 1-2pm). Then I get home after work and take my 6pm nap.
The rest is just napping at home.

Hey this thread seems like just the perfect place for my topic,

ok, so school is like really boring so I nap at school in just about every class, and withing like two minutes I enter into a LD buts its wierd, its kind of a half in half out sort of dream though, I have dreams that are so vivid and last for such a long time that when I wake up I don't know where I am because it seems absurd that I had that long of a dream in the span of an hour and a half class period

also the dream state isnt complete so even though I am lucid in the dream, I dont have complete control of the environment like I do when Im sleeping in my bed

anyway, does anything like this happen to anyone else?

Originally Posted by Placebo

Yup, I think glazed ginger is about the same thing as your crystalized one. Although it's not hard enough to break a tooth on! lol
I'll get my hands on some this weekend.

Here's a recipe I just found on the internet for making your own crystallized or glazed ginger root that really comes out good. You will want to scroll down to the candied ginger section, but this should be a lot cheaper than the crystallized or glazed ginger root you would buy in a health food store, plus much fresher, and with less sugar.

http://www.foodsubs.com/Candied.html

The only thing I would change in the recipe is to let it simmer for more like 2 hours than just 20 minutes so that the ginger root is more tender, and to possibly use more than one cup of sliced ginger root. I think I used more like 1 1/2 cups because I just filled it up until it was full. I just made a batch and it tastes good without even sprinkling the extra sugar on it. It's really good right out of the pot, but make sure you don't burn your tongue like I just did.

I wish I would have found a recipe like this earlier before I started experimenting with making it with corn syrup, but the last time I searched for recipes all I came up with was recipes that took 2 or 3 days to make.

This is how things usually work for me. If I try to be helpful to someone else, I end up helping myself. Thanks Placebo.