Hi Serenity, and thanks for your response.
As for research, it's very disheartening, so far. Everything I read initially in Yuschak's book, on further research, seems to have horrid side effect possibilities. Macuna Pruriens can result in life-long disabling psychosis... 5HTP (and anything that may increase serum serotonin) can result in heart failure and pulmonary hypertension... Even stuff I would have thought was OK, like L-Tyrosene can cause heart palpitations, irregular heart beat and potential stroke (I already DO get palpitations from too much caffeine! :-) ). SO far only the GPC Choline and the Galantamine *seem* to be fairly safe as long as I keep the doses to a minimum, but even the Galantamine has significant heart-related side effects in some people. What the heck??? :-(
As for reading - there are some very interesting things to be gleaned from the Tibetan Dream Yoga, if you are willing to engage the tantric traditions more fully (which I certainly am, as mostly, it is a type of tantric tradition that I follow that leads me to wish to become proficient in lucid dreaming). Currently I am reading The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche; Meditation, Transformation and Dream Yoga by Venerable Gyatrul Rinpoche, and Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu; I am also learning a meditation technique called "Inner Fire", and am reading the book "The Bliss of Inner Fire" by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. All these books provide tremebdous insight into the energetic structure (according to the Tibetan Tradition/view of the world) of the body/mind and discuss in detail how the winds move through the channels, and where they concentrate at different phases of wakefulness, sleeping, and dreaming. It is utterly fascinating and *feels* right to me. It is NOT something that can just be read & done, it requires a LOT of practice, and so, of course the lower-effort side of me says "let's try the supplement route!" LOL! :-) So I figure between learning and practicing the more LD Oriented methodologies here (MILD, WILD, DILD, Reality Testing, etc), Supplements, and the long-term practices of the tantric traditions, I will either learn to be proficient at dreaming, or I will become a lunatic! :-)
This board is fascinating, however, and I'm very glad I found it, it seems truly packed with good info.
Dave
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