Thread: B6 Testing

B6 didn't really do that much for me. However, B12 really gave me a better memory and dream recall.

Originally Posted by Gwendolyn

B6 didn't really do that much for me. However, B12 really gave me a better memory and dream recall.
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I guess the Zinc helped. And Just Vitamin B6 didn't help me either.
I think I'm gunna go buy Vitamin B-Complex supplements today. They contain all B vitamins and will probably have B6 and B12 work optimally too. There's some more interresting Vitamin&Nuetrician Supplements for sale in drugstores here so I might go and check out some more of those.

In the meanwhile, Snce you said Zinc is involved in Natural REM-sleep, do any of you know any other substances, Brain-produced hormones or Neutricians that are involved in the Natural REM-sleep process?

i just got some b12. gonna test it out tonight.

Originally Posted by ranma187

i just got some b12. gonna test it out tonight.
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I'm gunna try to find it too tomorrow. And if I see Vitamin B-complex supplements I'll take them too.
Im curious for the results, also yours.

I take 200 mg of b-6 around 3:00 AM (when I'm working on lucids) and it works wonders, although I dont take it all the time due to it can loose its affects when your body gets used to it. It usually makes my dreams very vivid and detail.

Cheers!

B6 only helped me once. I took it 4 hours before I'd wake up, and had 3 vivid dreams.

so, the report:


nothing happened, no lds, not even any recall. i did however, sleep for quite long and felt well rested, if that has anything to do with it(12 hours)

as i said, i tried 200 mg of b6 and som edairy products.

tonght, im goign to try 200 mg of b6 and 60 mg of zinc. THe chemical process of what zin cdoes is it hals convert triptophan into serotonin. Also, what i had for dinner was brisket. for all those not celebrating Rosh Hashanna, its basically beef(tryptophan) onions and mushrooms. I do not know i that had anythign to do with it. i will keep you posted. Tell me if the b6 complex works, SKA, because i heard b12 works wondors.

Originally Posted by sargentpepper882

so, the report:
nothing happened, no lds, not even any recall. i did however, sleep for quite long and felt well rested, if that has anything to do with it(12 hours)

as i said, i tried 200 mg of b6 and som edairy products.

tonght, im goign to try 200 mg of b6 and 60 mg of zinc. THe chemical process of what zin cdoes is it hals convert triptophan into serotonin. Also, what i had for dinner was brisket. for all those not celebrating Rosh Hashanna, its basically beef(tryptophan) onions and mushrooms. I do not know i that had anythign to do with it. i will keep you posted. Tell me if the b6 complex works, SKA, because i heard b12 works wondors.
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Shana Tova Actually that was 2 days ago but anywhoo.
I believe tehre's Supplements for sale in drugstores that contain all B vitamins (B-complex) AND Zinc. And more of such combinations. I'll have a look tomorrow when I'm downtown anyways.

so, lsat night, i took 250 mg of b6, and 60 mg of zinc.


i had an outrageoulsy long vivid dream, 1 1/2 + hours ( it seemed). It was not lucid, but ever since b6, i have had much better dream recall. it may jsut be placaebo as well, but who's complaining

Yea I just picked up some b12 today, b6 wasnt doing that much for me (enhanced my recall a bit but not much), but I've heard that a combonation of b6 and b12 will work wonders. We'll see what happens.

yea, so i tried both B6 and B12 last night. NOT a good idea, i was up all night and couldnt sleep for hardly any time at all. I'm going to keep experimenting with just b12 and b6 alone from now on

I have tried b6 three times now. The first time took 200mg and had a fairly vivid dream, only a little better than normal. The second time I took 50 mg of b6, and remebered 5 dreams, 4 of which were among the longest and vividest I have ever had. Last night, I took 50mg again and had very little recall. I'm thinking of getting xome zinc, have many other people had good results with it?

Are you guys sure this is safe? Because a lot of vitamins are toxic when you take high amounts often (and who knows what is often? Is often every day, every week or every month?).
I just bought regular vitamin pills and it has 6,0 mg of vitamin B6 and 3,0 mcg of B12. However, this is already 300% of your RDA. 200mg of B6 would then be 10000% of your RDA, which seems like a LOT!
right?

Originally Posted by Luci

Are you guys sure this is safe? Because a lot of vitamins are toxic when you take high amounts often (and who knows what is often? Is often every day, every week or every month?).
I just bought regular vitamin pills and it has 6,0 mg of vitamin B6 and 3,0 mcg of B12. However, this is already 300% of your RDA. 200mg of B6 would then be 10000% of your RDA, which seems like a LOT!
right?
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If I were you I wouldnt worry about it, I took a b75 complex 3 times a day including a multi for periods of a couple months at a time, Yes I drink a lot of water so a lot of it would wash through me at 1 and the same time, but i sure wasnt deficient in any of them , anyways the point is that I was taking about 250 mg of b6 (as well as other b's) a day for extended periods of time and there was no harm to me then or now.

Most people should worry about getting enough, not too much. Remember drink lots of water and you will be ok.

so far b12 hasn'e worked at all for me. still go crazy with the b6. I'm even remembering long and meaningful diologues as the result of the vividness i've been getting from b6.

Originally Posted by Luci

Are you guys sure this is safe? Because a lot of vitamins are toxic when you take high amounts often (and who knows what is often? Is often every day, every week or every month?).
I just bought regular vitamin pills and it has 6,0 mg of vitamin B6 and 3,0 mcg of B12. However, this is already 300% of your RDA. 200mg of B6 would then be 10000% of your RDA, which seems like a LOT!
right?
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500mg is the upper limit before you start damaging your nerves. The Institute of Medicine has set an upper tolerable level of Vitamin B6 to 100mg. I dont think 200mg will do much damage, but having that intake for some weeks cant be good.

Here in a couple weeks when im staying with my mom instead of my dad ill get some

if i asked my dad hes prob think i was a druggie or something like that.

Hed think you were a druggie for asking for Memory boosting vitamins? O.o

I bought 200mg of B6 today. Im going to try it tonight and see what happens.

...And after trying it last night, nothing really happened...I remember more of my dreams, but thats about it...

So if I wanted to get something, would B-Complex be the best? Also, somebody in this thread said something about effects after taking it for a while, what are those? Also, can you form a dependency on B6 in order to have a good recall and go lucid?

Tried 250mg B6, if anything i had WORSE recall
Tried B complex next night, same result

Few years ago a research team at the Institude of Medicine established an upper tolerable limit of 100 mg B6 per day for adults. Taking doses of less than 500 mg already caused nerve damage. So you guys should really be carefull here in taking such huge dosages. I recommend against doing so. First of all because it has been proved to be dangerous and second, because way lower dosages are already effective. I tried a vitamine B complex which has 8 mg (400% of daily needed dose) of B6 and it worked like a charm for me the first few times I used it. Dream recall went as high as remembering like 10+ dreams a night if i put effort in it, and also dreams became more vivid. However after a time the effects became less and less, maybe because my body build up a tolerance (I'm not sure why). I tried a vitamine B complex (it contains all the different B vitamines at approximately 400% daily dose) because it is known that using B-complex has way more effect on assimilating all the vitamines into your body. So all in all its a very good way to increase your dream recall (at least for a while) but be carefull not to take dosages above 100 mg for prolonged periods of time (and stay clear of using dosages around 500 mg because you dont want nerve damage&#33.

I take 200mg every Wednesday and Saturday. It works pretty well for me.