Foods that help increase awareness?

**Puffin** · 10-18-2010 04:49 PM

This post is mainly to ask if you know of foods that increase your awareness. Since lucid dreams are caused by awareness 99.9% of the time, it's safe to say that foods like apple juice or vitamin B6 don't necessarily help with lucidity, just vividness (which may or may not help cause awareness).

**matthew123** · 10-18-2010 09:23 PM

Maybe caffeine because it makes you feel more awake like coffee or soda?

**Puffin** · 10-19-2010 01:09 AM

You'd have trouble falling asleep though, I'm guessing because it has more of a biological effect (restlessness, insomnia, etc.).

But maybe.

**inthemirror92** · 10-22-2010 05:59 AM

Originally Posted by Puffin

You'd have trouble falling asleep though, I'm guessing because it has more of a biological effect (restlessness, insomnia, etc.).

But maybe.

Caffeine would work.. might work. But it'd have to be during a WBTB that you would intake it. When I wake up for a WBTB i usually fail to do my plan of taking something like vitamin b or applejuice because i'm so tired and i just lay there and go back to sleep. But if you have it next to your bed in arms reach, I'd say try a "bit" of caffeine 4 1/2 /hours in the middle of sleep. you will be VERY tired.

**Munstaan** · 10-23-2010 06:28 PM

I personally think that caffeine & lucid dreaming is a lil'..... sketchy. I've tried it i think it actually messed my awareness up. But this is just my opinion.

**NrElAx** · 10-19-2010 01:19 AM

Well if you can consume the caffeine during a wbtb and then fall right back to sleep before it kicks in, then maybe it could work. But I don't know how long caffeine takes to kick in. But I bet you can get one of those shot energy drinks and drink some of that and go straight to bed.