Advil PM has diphenhydramine in it, the active ingredient in benadryl. The anticholinergic properties of the drug are what cause the strange, vivid, and often terrifying dreams. It also is why you can't seem to remember any of your dreams either, it makes you unable to concentrate and have zero short-term memory. Doxylamine, chlorpheniramine, promethazine (among many others) are also anticholinergic anti-histamines, like diphenhydramine, and cause similarly odd, possibly terrifying, and even violent dreams. It will also destroy your dream recall. If you take large doses of them they lead to a dysphoric delirium in which you believe you are in different places at different times, talking to various people that aren't there. You think you are doing things when you're not, you see, quite commonly, bugs and spiders pour out of the walls and generally the experience is extremely terrifying to everyone that experiences it. It does not feel good, it is highly uncomfortable, and it also causes your muscles to twitch, make you very sluggish and heavy (lots of ataxia), and often unable to comprehend what's going on. That's of course if you don't black out altogether.
If your goal is to LD you should avoid anticholinergics like benadryl (the Advil PM you're taking), NyQuil, cough syrups in general, allergy medications, or over the counter sleep aids that are not considered an extract of something or a supplement. To give you some insight, galantamine + choline has a lot of success because it causes cholinergic activity, rather than preventing it. So, try and avoid this at any costs if you value dream recall or being able to actually realize that you are indeed dreaming or slipping into a non-lucid nearly as quickly as you gain lucidity.
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