Thread: (cild) Cheese Induced Lucid Dream

I had a ham and cheese sandwich at lunch and a quesadilla for dinner. Guess I'll see if that has any affect.

What about cottage cheese? I had a mouthful last night just before going to bed and could remember my dreams this morning. Or it could have been the few swigs of iced coffee I had as well.


Or just a complete, random coincidence.

I ate a chunk of cheddar cheese last night just before I went to bed, and it didn't do anything. In fact, my dream recall is much worse this morning and I think the dreams were just dull.

I did the same cheese/iced coffee combo last night, and had two really strong dreams that I could remember afterwards. The second one I even realised was a dream (even though it was one of those "movie" style dream) but woke up straight away when I did.

Getting close to lucid, do you reckon?

I'm gonna try that combo again tonight. Don't know if it's one or the other, or both, but something seems to be working...

I got nothing... maybe it's all that renin in the artificial cheddar.

Haha this thread is funny...

What's interesting to me is that I ate hashbrowns with lots of cheddar cheese and bacon for brunch yesterday, and then I went home and took a nap, and had my first lucid dream EVER (I had VERY LOW lucidity, but was still lucid, nonetheless).

I didn't even know about the cheese thing, but maybe that helped me have the LD! haha

I think this threat should have been named CHILD. I keep misreading the name.

CHeese Induced Lucid Dream

Is it just me or do anyone else find the use of a military-style acronym including the word "cheese" absolutely hilarious.

"Initiating protocol seven-three-niner-bravo. Standby for cheese induced lucid dream on my mark."

This is the sentence that popped into my head when I read your post, and I nearly ruined my keyboard.

For those of you who are interested, LD4All has been doing a large experiment with cheese for several months now.

I just had succesful ChILD! It seems that I had a WILD within a false awakening because of it!

I woke up at 6:30am for a WBTB, had 2 cups of coffee and a few pieces of cheddar and laid back down to go to bed at 7:00am. I fell into a dream in which I saw my dog poking her head throuh a doggy door in the bathroom (we have no doggy door in the whole house). I tried to catch her, but she ran outside through an alley in my back yard which led to a large, bustling city (in reality, I live in the rural suburbs). She was running so fast that I was quicky losing sight of her. At this point I knew that I was dreaming but for some reason catching my dog was more important to me than experiencing an LD... then I realized that I could use my lucidity in order to catch my dog! I jump in the air and caught up to her with one 100-yard long jump. Before I go to her, though, a large, fat man with a monocle grabbed her by the neck and picked her up. I blinked, and she (my dog) had morphed into a large man in a suit. I yelled at him/her to go home so I could exerience a Lucid Dream. My mattress appeared in the city next to me, and I laid down on it and closed my eyes.

I immediately began experiencing vibrations, which began extremely heavy and fast, and eventually transformed a rocking left-and-right motion. I just knew that I was having a lucid dream at this point, but my eyes were closed, and I was afraid that if I opened them I would wake up (you see, I've never been good at differentiating between my real eyes and my dream eyes). Anyway, I said to myself something like "Just go for it! The worst that could happen is you wake up in your bedroom and try again." Well, I convinced myself, so I slowly opened my eyes. They were only open a crack when I saw that my rockin-and-rollin bed was flying above a foggy terrain with a sole skyscraper sticking up through the clouds. As I said, I live in the rural suburbs, so I immediately knew that I had succeeded in opening my dream eyes only, and snapped them open. I was on flying on my mattress!!, but not very sturdy and not very fast.

So I leaned forward to cut air-resistance and made a throttle appear inbetween my legs, which I floored. The mattress took off whizzing over the most beautiful terrain I have ever seen! I saw great cities below, magnificient maroon mountain ranges jutting up into the purple clouds, beautiful jade and turqoise rivers flowing beneath me. As I zoomed through the plains, I looked to my left and saw a giant Lego Abraham Lincoln (there's that cheddar-celebrity connection!) who must have been about a mile tall, because his head was even with my mattress-jet. He was riding a tricycle with a giant front wheel and two tiny wheels in back, riding that tricycle across the dwarfed cities and fields below. I looked to my right side (Abe was on the left) and saw a few, slightly-smaller (about half-a-mile high) Lego miners coming out of the mountains with their hardhats and shovels.

At this point, I think I must have gotten too excited by navigating my bed-rocket through this unearthly beautiful place, in the company of shape-shifting dogs and giant Lego presidents, because the dream quickly faded, and when I tried to open my eyes again, I opened my real eyes and saw that I was back in my bedroom at 8:30am.

This dream was about 90 minutes into my sleep cycle, just as predicted for someone just getting to sleep. I didn't expect this with a WBTB/WILD, but I woke up for the first time from deep sleep, so I suppose it makes sense.

It was a brief, but brilliant, LD experience, and I look forward to trying to repeat it during my siesta!