Hi Everyone!

[beachgirl]

I am new here. I have done some LD so far mostly by chance. I'd say about ten times. Wow! Is it ever fun. I have also had all sorts of amazing dreams, i can't even call them that. visions, perhaps. they can be complex and go into great detail. i think sometimes it had something to do with my being kundalini awake and going through an awakening recently. things have settled down a little so i missed the action and decided to learn how to create things on my own. I have studied some... read a few books (waggonner, laberge) but not much luck so far creating on my own. But it's only been a couple weeks trying. i bought some galantamine and choline and tried it last night but it gave me a headache. is this common? anyway I'm in it for the long haul! for good, really, and this looks like a great forum. it is my life path. i can feel it in my heart. i am home. my life is complex and crazy (as is my past) and my life is pretty magical too, like probably many others here, i am imagining, and i am thrilled about the chance to dialog and interact with other parts of me. i want to expand my consciousness and horizons and limits. Thanks for being here and i hope to meet some of you. I am sure i have a lot to learn. bg...

[CRAZY BONE]

I would head over to the Dream Control section for some information on how to create things in LDs. There's a thread for pretty much every question you have about dream control, just use the search feature to find them. Or you could have your questions personally answered by pm-ing a Dream Guide staff member or myself. As far as the galantamine and choline, I would recommend laying off the supplements and just learning how to get LDs naturally first. There's a lot of tutorials on this site about the different induction techniques. to the forum beachgirl!

[beachgirl]

Dear Maverick, Thank you for your reply and welcome. I gave your response some thought and what you say makes a lot of sense in learning the techniquest first, so thank you. Fortunately (I suppose) the galantamine didn't even work! And... I was also lucky enough to have a wonderful muliple LD the next night/am that I created using techiques I've learned about. So I agree, leaning the techniques is best for now. There is obviously much ahead. I am extremely heartened to find others here who take this as much to heart as I do. I've waking up to observe my "consciousness while sleeping, including dreamtime" - that's what I would call it .... for some time... just doing it alone. No books, no anything. Just studying and watching. Didn't even have words for it like Lucid Dreaming. It's all very suddenly starting to have words, an art and a science. Like waking up inside some sort of reality here! Warmly, BeachGirl

[Robot_Butler]

I try to take galantamine/ choline at least once a month. It works pretty consistently, for me. Gives me incredible dreams. Are you taking it after a few hours of sleep? In the middle of the night, during a Wake Back To Bed? I wake up after 4 or 5 hours of sleep, dissolve GM in a small glass of water, and chug it. I then stay up for about 30-60 minutes doing something relaxing that doesn't involve a lot of bright light. I then return to bed, and do a WILD-type meditation while I wait for a dream to hit me. When I first started taking it, I had trouble falling back to sleep. I don't seem to have that problem anymore. Maybe it was just excitement and expectation that kept me up, or maybe I'm getting used to it.

[beachgirl]

Thanks, Robot Butler, A friend told me that galantamine is a vasodilator. Aha! Not so good if one is prone to migraines. Or maybe just gives a tendency in that direction. And of course I certainly didn't take it the way you suggest. It does sound like fun. I like the idea of learning some more skills first. I'll have to try the galantamine more than once, too, and do it properly. Statistically speaking, one time is not a good sample of anything. Soon enough... ... bg