Well its April 4th and I have been reading this thread from the beginning for about a week now! I am only on page 21 at the moment but decided to skip to the last page to make my 1st post on this forum and have discovered that no one has been writing on here for about 2 months! NOOOOOOOO!!!! So I figured I would write anyway and see if the thread comes back to life as it has been so interesting to read over the week!!!!
In short, and not to make this post too terribly long-- I have been into lucid dreaming since i was a wee little girl and have had success rates of about 7-10% to do them naturally. Of course this isnt nearly enough of a good success rate so for years I have been reading up online what different herbs, barks, potions, supplements I could take to help me dream at least more vividly to kick me into a DILD. Mainly my successes for DILDing are all about mind set, RCs etc... but on the supplemental/herb side of things natta-zip-nought. I have ingested enough Calea Z to burn out my bitter tastebud receptors and with it only working once after smoking about 1/2 oz all at once, I gave up (although that was an amazing OBE!!) then i tried the African Root, Silenis or something (I cant remember off the top of my head) I ordered it from Holland by the pound and drank so much of the stuff I broke out into zit-polooza all over my face which took 3 weeks to clear up (both times I did this!!) and not a single vivid dream or experience any different than au naturelle. I have done the whole melantonin thing, but that just makes me sleepy with no improved dream call. B6 is a joke, and the 5-htp kept me up ALL NIGHT and I started to get depressed on it and heart palpatations. Deffo bad. I totally gave up smoking pot (which has helped with dream recall at least) i drank about an ocean's worth of mugwort tea to no avail (athough it tastes lovely!!) I even made a damn pillow out of the dried leaves, but nuthin.... need I go on??? so as you can see here, the picture is pretty clear on my track record with supplements. So I just went to drinking pepperment tea which i discovered by mistake that sometimes helps with dream recall and then just tried to improve on my natural methods of trigger events, RCs, bringing my conscience into my dreams best I can. but this is still 10% success at best so i went online to see more info on any supplements i could rape and abuse and aha!! I found this thread!!!! Well I went and bought the GalantaMind online and received that last week. i also have liquid lethicin for the choline (the Galantamind I have is 100mg of choline and 4mg of G per pill) so i need a choline top up as I just wanted to stick with the 4mgs of G to start off with. So all excited WBTB on friday night and took 1 of the GalantaMind pills and a mouth full of liquid lethicin and went straight back to laying down (I did this at bedside with no lights) i wanted to WILD as I have only ever had like 2 successes in my entire life with this method. I always seem to fall asleep 1st. WOW- this did NOT work for me due to me being so awake you would think I did a gram of crystal meth or something. i was excited, but really did lots of relaxations techniques and tried to form the HIs into a dreascape for me to enter. I started to feel the vibrations, but then as soon as an outside noise happened or my husband turned over in bed I would be snapped back into being WIIIIIDE awake. I eventual fell asleep at some ungodly hour in the morning and just had pleasant flying dreams but nothing lucid. SO- then I was really mad because I had to wait at least 48hrs before having another try!!!!!! I have since ordered the Piracentam and an ACME cartoon sized bottle of L-theanine for sleeping. Those are on their merry way as we speak, but I did try one more time last night (48 hrs after 1st attempt) and this time I did succeed in a small Lucid!!! Same problem of not being able to fall back asleep and no HIs this time but I think it kicked off with a FA regarding my husband clapping loudly in bed (which I know was just an audial hallucination like the weird buzzing noises you get) but the bit I need to check on when he gets home which I am not sure if it was a dream or not was me waking up from the noise of the clapping and jolting awakw which in turn woke him up with me being all violently waking up in bed and saying something. I remember him being like whats wrong and me apologizing to him saying sorry its just the pills, go back to sleep. I dont know if that bit was real, but straight after i said that and put my head down I went into a lucid dream. I was sleeping on my side as I had given up WILDing at this point in the night and just wanted to sleep. All of a sudden my bedside lamp was on and i was half hanging off the side of the bed, as if I would slither out onto the floor. I was staring at some clothes on the floor and a cardboard box. I then noticed how my body was vibrating all over and it was this that triggered me to know I was trying to slip out of my body. i said to myself "go for it!!" and slid out of my body onto the floor like a snake coming out of its skin. It felt really lovely. i then did something which I never did when I naturally lucid dreasm which was FLOAT. I always fly. I also having a flying style i usually like to do, but I always fly. This was so different. i just floated and could go anywhere I wanted by intention. I floated up to the upright position and floated to my bedroom wall. I knew I was in the astral body so that i could float through the wall and did so. I floated through the wall into a closet and kept saying to myself how cool this was. i was totally concious in thought. Absolute clarity. then I floated up and out of the house outside. One thing that was different was floating is not fast but more ethereal. I also noticed that no one was around. I also noticed (which I wonder if this is from hypnotic suggestion because I read about it on this thread that a few people experienced blindness when taking Galantamine) so I found that I started to loose my site as I went into this other house. My site was blind from the middle up. As if I was wearing a viser really low on my face and all I could see was my feet and the world from looking down with my eyeballs. I reckon this is because I was sleeping so lightly that I was sort of in a half dream half wake state where a part of my brain was still so very aware of my body. i could hear my husband breathing by my side and i could feel the constant vibrations on my body. I needed to be in a deeper sleep so to speak. Now that I am aware of this blind issue, i will address it the next time it happens and try to sort it out. I floated around this other house for a bit and then found my slef back in my body full of the vibrations and even an intense vibration on the very tip of my tongue!!! i went inside of my body so I could go to laying on my back to continue with dreaming but this awakened me and by that time I think the Galantamine had run its course for lucidity because I wasted so much time being awake after taking it. I took the pill literally while laying down and dry swallowed it too so that I didnt interupt my sleepyness, but as soon as that pill went in my mouth I was full of energy, especially when trying to WILD. Deffo need the L-theanine!!!! i wnet back to sleep and had flying dreams but they were normal dreams and not lucid or abnormally vivid or strange in anyway, just normal dreams. I feel fine waking up, no hangover, although a bit "speedy" I guess. I awoke at 8.30am. Sorry for such a long post but wanted to share my experience on GalantaMind and my blindness issue that some other people have had with this which I thought was curious!
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