I'm curious if anyone else has tried experimenting with crystals and dreaming? I've had some bizzare effects with certain kind of crystals and I would like to share with you all and hopefully get common input.

A while back I stuck a clear crystal quartz shard under my pillow because I've heard they can enchance your ablility to remember your dreams. Well it turns out that I was able to remember at least 5-6 dreams a night! It was amazing! Unfortunetly weeks after using the crystal I realized it had a strange effect on my psyche side of sensing death... Which I won't go deep into it since it's not dream-related.

(edit: Ok. Maybe I should explain it to give more clarity. XD What I meant of sensing death was I was able to feel when someone was going to die. Not as in a gut feeling but as actully feeling their emotions and how they are going to die. My aunt for example who I haven't seen since I was eight years old died of old age. While I was at work around 2pm I had this extremely dreadful sense of death-like presences beind me. As if I should of died at that moment. It made me scared and confused but at the same time I felt calm and that it was my time to die. Later when I got home I told my sister about it and she shocked me by telling me that our aunt died at the same time I was experiancing this. The second experience was when I was driving to work and I felt a sharp pain behind my head. I suddenly felt sad for the people I knew. The kind of sadness of not wanting others to cry over me. This was not the way I would wanted to die. Later on that day I learned that a friend's husband has died at home from a blood clot in the brain. He was the only one at home at the time

It reeeallllly freaked me out. )

After having weird experiences I stopped using the crystal for months out of fear of opening a pandora's box in my head. I now have a more undertanding of what happened and I wanted to try the whole crystal experiance again. Only problem was I lost my original crystal! X_X So I bought me a new crystal but it has veins/cracks coarsing through it. It gives me the same effect of allowing me to remember nearly all my dreams but strangely it increases the amount of nightmares. Has anyone had any experience with using crystals as dream aids?

Tonight I'm trying something new. I learned that clear quartz like the one I've been using acts like an energy amplifier to it's surroundings and other crystals, amethyst increases mental strength.(For LD), and magnet beads which I'm not sure exactly what it will do but I've heard they help dreams. I added them all in one bag under my pillow and I will see what it will do.

Experimenting is fun.