Thread: Peppermint tea

I tried again brewed peppermint tea before bed time.
Again I had funny vivid dreams, and I had one short lucid dream.
So in 3 out of 3 attempts of taking mint before bed I had vivid dreams. I don't know if the mint affects the dreams, because I sometimes have vivid dreams anyway, but I think that the dreams I had with peppermint were all funnier than average, so I would recommend taking peppermint before bed to anyone.
The day after tomorrow I will probably do a different experiment with peppermint. This time I will take it when doing WBTB and I will make an extremely concentrated tea. I will put the contents of 3 tea bags in an amount of 2 glasses of water in a pot, and boil it until there is less then 1 glass of water amount.

Originally Posted by Lamneth-25

Peppermint tea before bed makes me have very vivid memorable LDs. It works one or two nights in a row but after that it doesn't have as much effect.

That is interesting that it would work one or two nights in a row, but after that stop working.

I wonder if that is being caused by your system building up some kind of a tolerance to whatever the peppermint tea is affecting in your brain that is causing the LD's, sort of the like the galantamine and clorline supplements do, which is why they suggest only taking them every other day.

You might experiment by trying the peppermint tea only every other night so that your system does not build up a tolerance to it, to see if you have better success.

I tried again about a week ago, this time a very concentrated glass of brewed peppermint tea taken at WBTB, and again I had good funny dreams. This time there were a lot of very bizarre dreams.

I don't know if the peppermint has an effect, but I do know that it doesn't do harm, as in all the times that I took it I had nice dream recall and very funny dreams.

Last night I tried tea from another herb, sage (Salvia officinalis) that I picked from the wild. I took it before bed-time. I remember 2 strange dreams, one of them a real nightmare, and the second was also quite stressful.

I drink lots of different teas, but with the ingredient peppermint in general I've noticed (at the very least for me) that I have more vivid dreams.

I drink peppermint tea the odd time, love it, but dont see an effect on my dreams. in general, i found if you have something in your stomach when you go to sleep helps dreaming, for me anyway.

I'm bumping this because drinking mint tea before bedtime seems to consistently affect my dreams. The effect is in the mood of the dream: the dream becomes happier in mood and very amusing, and the recall is quite good.

Has anyone else noticed such an effect?

Here are 4 more threads about the effect of mint on dreams:

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=26746
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=8251
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=8375
http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=8930

Originally Posted by Lamneth-25

Well since I need it for its analgesic effects I won't be trying that. I found it to work even with mj but then mj (50/50) has varying effects on my sleep. Sometimes I go into that deep sleep waking up in the same position not remembering a thing other times I have very long LDs. I can't think of any other variable when that happens either...weird. But then, mj seems to effect me more esp visually than most people I know. Maybe that has something to do with it.

That's probly because beacuse MJ has a kind of random affect on your brain. I can never tell what kind of high I'm going to have. So I'd figure it'd affect your sleep just the same. I can't sleep when I smoke... or maybe I am sleeping, and it's just a dream....

I have had similar experiences with peppermint tea. It helps put me to sleep faster and i have longer more vivid dreams. I also go about 3 or 4 days of strange yet good dreams then it starts to fade so i try no tea and i still have ok dreams but they are a lot more broken and not near as pleasent. then when i start back on the peppermint tea after about 2 or 3 days off i have really good vivid dreams again. I havent really tried any other teas but i am gonna try a ginger root tea i got earlier this week and see if it has a similar effect.

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