Thread: Peanut butter gives you more realistic dreams

...And love handles.

Nice info though!

Damn ran out of peanut butter geez I need to get back into the game I was beast at ld'ing now I suck where did I loose it...

Peanut butter huh?

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Could be something to this. I've bin living off of cheap foods (including PB&J) for the last month since I lost my job. Had my first lucid dream the other day and think that maybe I ate a PB&J sandwich before bed... not sure if I did or not but I'm gonna try do eat a few today.

I tried eating a large tablespoon of peanut butter last night before going to bed. I had some weird, vivid dreams, but none were lucid. In one an insane old lady was spraying me with a super soaker giving me a lecture on potatoes . I also had near perfect recall, will try this again tonight.

Well, I had a PB&J sandwich before bed last night and my WILD attempt felt so real that I never realized I was dreaming and never became lucid. Not sure whether that's good or not. XD

That's funny... Does anybody know how long the dream-affecting effects (lol) are supposed to last?
Because, this could just be a coincidence, but I used to have peanutbutter waffles for breakfast every morning and loved my dreams! Then, in the past few months or so, the grocery store i usually shop at stopped selling the waffles I like so I stopped having them. And nothing very great or significant every happened in my dreams. But just a week ago I found another good waffle brand and have peanutbutter waffles more often... And I have consciously noticed that my dreams have been much more intense and vivid and exciting!
I'm having a peanutbutter and banana sandwich tonight and I'll pay extra close attention! I'll peanutbutter for a week and then none at all for the next and see what happens! =D
I'm excited. Lol

Originally Posted by backslashed

I'm sure the choline in PB has something to do with the vivid dreams... Below is a list of choline concentrations in foods:
* Beef liver - pan-fried - 100 grams (about 3.5 oz) - 418 mg
* Whole large egg - 112 mg choline
* Beef (ground) 80% lean/20% fat - 3.5 oz patty - 81 mg
* Cauliflower - 3/4 C cooked (1" pieces) - 62 mg
* Navy beans - 1/2 C cooked - 48 mg
* Tofu - 100 grams (about 3.5 oz) - 28 mg
* Almonds - sliced - 1/2 cup - 26 mg
* Peanut butter - 2 T - 20 mg

I'll give this a try since I rarely eat a PB sandwich (not normal, I know..) and will be back to post results...

Thanks for the list! I feel like a dumbass, but I think peanut butter is disgusting. ;[

Last night I ate 2 hard-boiled eggs and wow, dream vividness showingly increased. Thanks for the choline advice!

Sorry to come to the pb party so late, but thanks to this thread, I had some very vivid (not lucid) but pretty cool dreams last night. I took two spoonfuls of peanut butter and had such a good sleep, remembering my dreams too. What was the consensus about why pb can produce vivid/lucid dreams? Was it that it contains tryptophan? I think this might work better than galantamine + choline for me. Funny how much each persons brain chemistry can differ. Going to try again tonight and see if it works again or just a placebo effect.

I'm glad I found this thread. Lat night I tried a PB and banana sandwich before bed, but it didn't seem to do anything. However, I went to bed way too late (at least for me), so tonight I'll try it again at a more reasonable hour. Hopefully it works!

I tried this the other night, no effect. Ugh, I accidentally bought no sodium added PB, it was gross so I didn't eat much.
Bought some good stuff today Will try tonight

Peanut butter is apparently a good source of choline and tryptophan. According to the herb repository stickied in this forum, tryptophan helps to produce serotonin, which leads to vivid dreams and good recall. According to that thread, vitaming b-6 aids in this process, so theoretically we should all have a great experience if we take vitamin b-6 along with the peanut butter.

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i was eating peanut butter one spoon full a day, because its good for a work out regimen, and i was having vivid dreams the whole time!!! but i ran out of peanut butter a couple days ago, and i can definitely tell a difference in the dreams...

I've been eating some peanut butter before I sleep for the past week or so, and my dream recall has definitely improved, and my dreams have been getting a bit more vivid each night. Neat-o. On an odd note, I noticed that creamy PB works more than chunky PB

Going to try this tonight

Tried twice, no luck yet. Maybe because my mom woke me up both days

It's been about 4 nights now eating two tablespoons of peanut butter before bed. I wasn't expecting much, and got to the point where I was mostly eating it because I got hooked on a peanut buttery snack. Last night I ate just plain peanut butter, with no other supplements. I had two lucid dreams. Maybe three, but two of them were in the midst of a series of false awakenings and I'm a bit confused about when they happened.

There may be something to this peanut butter thing!

I tried eating it an hour before bed instead of right before bed. Worked
My dreams were much clearer. I woke up and could actually remember them. Normally I wake up, as if I just closed my eyes and suddenly found myself hours ahead in time

Blah!!! I've been addicted to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for years, having one for both lunch and dinner, and a lot of times also having a banana twice a day! The last time I had vivia dreams was in the first week of October!! That was about when I stopped overdosing on orange juice because of the hot summer weather ending.

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