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Up until last night, I've never had more than 1 lucid dream per night...but up until last night, I never took a zanax(spelling?).
My mom gave me one last night because I had worked a hard 8 hours (as an electrician) with only 4 hours of sleep the previous night. I knew zanax's would help me relax (as if I weren't tired already!) and possibly achieve a WILD.
Well, I know it's really hard to do a WILD when you're going to sleep for the first time that night, but I gave it a shot anyway. Man did I come close....I would lose awareness, become part of my thoughts...begin to see whatever it was that I was thinking about, then I would snap back. I came so close several times before I said "screw it I'm just going to sleep".
I didn't know what effects the pill would have on my dreaming. I assumed I would sleep so heavily that I might not even remember a single dream. I woke up at 4:00 am (roughly 6 hours after I fell asleep) and not surprisingly, I didn't have a single clue as to what I dreamt about those 6 hours. I was like "Oh well, guess zanax's just knock you out too much".
After I fell back asleep though, I found myself on a school bus (I graduated already). I was like "I'M DREAMING!". So I stood up and started floating around the bus. People were giving me strange looks and I was just smiling at them. Then, I found myself in a school gym (timeskip) still lucid. All my school friends were there, and once again, I started floating. Then I started flying. They kept asking me how I was doing it, but I just smiled and kept flying. Then, I fell to the ground. All the sudden the dream began to fade. i looked at my hands to stabilize the dream, but my hands became wavery and distorted, and I woke up. It was a false awakening, but when I realized it was a FA, i woke up for real.
When I woke up, I stayed perfectly still and close my eyes. Almost immediately I was sucked into my own thoughts. They became clearer and clearer. I snapped back to the fact that I was actually lying in my bed, and I opened my eyes. But to my amazement, the room I was seeing was not my room. I was like "OMG I just WILD'ed". I tried to move, but my body was really heavy. I could see my hands in front of my face, but I could also feel my hands lying flat on the bed. I rolled trying to escape my real body, but I ended up rolling my real body and opening my real eyes.
After that, I couldn't reach that stage again because of my excitement....but...after I fell asleep, I found myself in another dream. Instantly I became lucid. I was on a dirt road with my family inside of this strange vehicle which we were using to chase these evil guys off our property. Unfortunately, I lost lucidity right after I achieved it and fell back into my dream.
All in all, it was the craziest night for lucid dreaming I've ever had. It seems that zanax had some kind of effect on me which made becoming lucid easy, but keeping it hard. And even though I was lucid, it was a low level of lucidity...I guess because of deep, relaxed state I was in made staying alert very difficult. Also note that I drank 2 cups of coffee one hour before I went to sleep and I smoked weed (like nearly every other day lol).
After I told my mom about these lucid dreams, she said she would give me a half of another zanax pill (last night I took a whole one). Hopefully, half a pill will still allow me to become lucid, but without the low level of lucidity I experienced last night.
I'll let yall know how it goes.
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Nice !! I don't know if I'd try any pill to try and LD though...
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Oh I have no plans to keep taking zanax after this test run. I don't even like the way it makes me feel....all fuzzy and groggy....but after last night, I wanna give it one more try. Ugh, even now 14 or so hours after taking the pill, I can still feel it. Some people think zanax is fun...I find it annoying...except for the whole lucid dreaming part. lol.
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Any type of sedative can help me LD for a few nights, but if I take them everyday pretty soon it has the opposite effect because it builds up in your system and my sleep becomes too deep, or I sleep for too long and by the time I am waking up it feels like my brain is out of dream power.
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Xanax is a demon drug. I can't believe doctors actually prescribe people something that is more addictive than heroin and has possibly fatal withdrawal. It's true sedatives (benzodiazepines like xanax, valium) can trigger lucidity, but I think it's due to the type of sleep that you are getting on the drug. Xanax is short acting...so yeah it knocks you out for a few hours...while something like valium which is less intense and longer acting will help you get a full night rest.
Also...since you didn't get much rest the night before...your brain goes into REM overdrive when you do actually finally get sleep you dream ALOT. Sleep deprivation is actually a method to induce lucids because of the REM rebound. That's what happened to me this morning...cause I hadn't slept in 2 nights...so I was lucid for like 4 hours today.
Just be careful with xanax, it's horribly addictive and even more horrible to get off of. Trust me.
Cheers.
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Thanks for the info Aquanina. I know that a lot of drugs perscribed these days can have horrible side effects that makes the symptom it was created to treat seem not so bad after all. Personally, I'm losing my trust in the medical field every time I see another insanely risky drug which only masks the problem, not treating it.
But anyway, I don't think I'll have any problem stopping. I've only taken 1 1/2 pills, and my mom doesn't have a perscribed bottle...a friend of hers gave 3 pills to her. Besides, as stated earlier, I don't even like how it makes me feel. But enough about things that could be...here's my results from my afternoon nap earlier today.
Ok, so I took another half of a xanax pill around 1 o'clock or so, then about an hour later, I went to bed. As I counted on, I was completely relaxed and my WILD attempt was showing favorable results. But...being so relaxed does have its drawbacks....I fell asleep. lol.
Anyway I slept from 2:30 or so until 6:30....it was quite refreshing. When I woke up, I instantly remembered a lucid dream. But, bleh, it was so insanely short it might as well have not happened at all!
I have no idea what the surroundings were like, who was there, what we were doing...it's all just a big fat fuzzball. I became lucid, then instantly fell back into the dream w/o having anytime whatsoever to do anything...
It's actually what I expected after taking these pills, because I felt so groggy and unaware while awake. It's only natural that I'd feel the same way while asleep. How I became lucid in the first place...I have no idea....could be high REM cycles that Aquanina pointed out, or some strange lucid inducing affect from the Xanax...whatever it is, I'll just have to leave it at that and become lucid the natural (and legal) way.
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thats crazy. iv took Xanax a couple times...pretty fun but didnt notice anything with my dreams
