Thread: Green Tea

I drink green tea at least once a day and it hasn't really affected my lucid dreaming in any way that I can tell.

I tried to find other threads about green tea and really didn't see much but I did find the following about "peppermint" tea:

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=41921

Green tea contains EGCG, which is supposed to improve memory. It's cited as a useful supplement by dream researcher Thomas Yuschak and is also an ingredient in the Dreamboost product. I personally take it in tablet form, as I don't like the taste of green tea.

last night i had a double-shot of green tea and in teh morning i had 2 very vivid dreams, andthat night i tried concentrating on my penial gland and my body felt weird at times like everything was flowing in it in a tranquil way, try them either way, no better research than through experience.

Originally Posted by Astrius

Green tea contains EGCG, which is supposed to improve memory. It's cited as a useful supplement by dream researcher Thomas Yuschak and is also an ingredient in the Dreamboost product. I personally take it in tablet form, as I don't like the taste of green tea.

Wow. That has a cocktail in it: http://dreamboost.com/supplement-facts/index.php.

How does it work for you?

I think I remember something like this...

I've been taking green tea supplement during WBTB at weekends.

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=71098

Seems to help. I've managed WILDs most times i've used it.

Can you post a link to where I can purchase this ^_^?

Chamomile tea will help you sleep.

Originally Posted by shotbirds

Can you post a link to where I can purchase this ^_^?

In the UK Holland & Barret Sell it.
Any health store will. Green Tea Extract.

Ah ok, I'm going to go pick some up today. Found some with 200mg and one with 400mg....which would be better? I don't want to over do it


EDIT: Well I bought a bottle of 315mg...should I take one before bed then one when i WBTB?

Originally Posted by shotbirds

Ah ok, I'm going to go pick some up today. Found some with 200mg and one with 400mg....which would be better? I don't want to over do it


EDIT: Well I bought a bottle of 315mg...should I take one before bed then one when i WBTB?

I generally take one with WBTB.

dunno if i already said this but i had a triple shot of green tea (3 teabag brewing for an entire day in 3 cups of water then boiled down to one cup) before i went to bed teh otehr night and it increed my dream recall very well, or so it seemed, coudl just be coincedence. we got some more tea in and im doing teh same with chamomile tea but 5 bags worth brewing for about a week i just hope it doesnt go bad in teh meantime. will report back once tried

You can either drink green tea, or you can get it in supplement form if you don't particularly like the taste of the tea. It's so good for you, that it definitely can't hurt anything to be taking or drinking it daily. Green tea does have a small amount of caffeine, so you might avoid drinking just prior to going to sleep.

I took two, 315mg, last night. One a few hours before and another about 30minutes before. Only difference I noticed was the upper half of my body seemed to go numb o.O. Thats never happened before, except during WBTB when I would try to WILD.

I suppose I should take them RIGHT before going to bed?

I just had the longest/most stable/vivid DILD.

I'll try again tomorrow but taking one before bed and before WBTB.
- I slept about 5.5-6hours then stayed up for 3.

I found some of the Green Tea supplements in my medicine cabinet and have been taking 2 capsules twice daily (the recommended dosage) and I can really tell a difference in dream recall. If I could recall 80% before, its about 90% now. I'm going to keep buying this stuff.



EDIT: I don't mean to hijack this thread, but every time I go to sleep I become more and more convinced that the green tea extract I'm taking boosts me right to a dream state as soon as I fall asleep. When I go to bed at night I have a short period of dreams (maybe as much as an hour, maybe more) and when I take naps during the day I always start dreaming immediately. Used to if I took a nap after about 1pm it was like my normal sleep cycle started and if I didn't sleep for 6+/- hours I wouldn't dream at all. Today I slept from about 1pm til 4pm and dreamed the entire time. Haha I can't ever seem to become lucid, but dreaming is still fun!

Green tea also has L-Theanine, which some claim helps them (not me though).

I had some green tea last night quite the helping and had some unreal dream recall, started off lucid instantly in every dream. It was quite the fantastic night, could of just been luck though I suggest you try out some green tea however.

I definitely feel the Great Tea Pill should be taken with WBTB though.
I took one before bed last night. I was buzzing all night.

I've had some success with Green Tea suppliments, Tea Max, which has 50mg of caffeine as well. I had some WILDs with it taking at WBTB. I had a string of WILD's one time, about 4 or 5 I believe in a row, I believe I also took some L-Glutamine that time. I haven't taken it regularly though. I also used to drink a lot of green tea, but it started upseting my stomach. Green tea can do this over time because it contains tannins. I thought I had developed an ulcer so I quit drinking it regularly, the stomach pain was that bad. I can't say I noticed much effects from drinking it but the pills worked sometimes. I think I'll buy some more green tea suppliments, mine went out of date.

Green tea also has L-Theanine, which some claim helps them (not me though).

Yes, green tea does have L-theanine in it, which definitely helps with relaxing. I've seemed to have alot of my lucids using L-theanine and dmae. Not sure if these green tea extract pills are decaffeinated though So, essentially they are they same. Caffeine is the only problem. Camellia sinensis is the ingredient in L-theanine. Can someone find out if most green tea extract pills are decaffeinated or not? If so, then really we don't have to order L-theanine online anymore.

Watt, my supplements don't say anything about caffiene. I've had too much caffiene today to take any and tell, but I'll try to remember to lay off the coffee in the morning and see what I think then. Sometimes I take them before bed and it doesn't seem to have any effect on me.

Originally Posted by Wattage

Yes, green tea does have L-theanine in it, which definitely helps with relaxing. I've seemed to have alot of my lucids using L-theanine and dmae. Not sure if these green tea extract pills are decaffeinated though So, essentially they are they same. Caffeine is the only problem. Camellia sinensis is the ingredient in L-theanine. Can someone find out if most green tea extract pills are decaffeinated or not? If so, then really we don't have to order L-theanine online anymore.

Green Tea contains L-Theanine but in small quantities. You won't get the amount of a Theanine suppliment, 100-200mg usually in a theanine suppliment. Perhaps something like 20mg or so in Green Tea, I forget, but it isn't that large of an amount. However Green tea also contains other compounds that can boost norepinephrine, the EGCG's I think. I've had success with both Theanine and Green Tea suppliments, but they seem to work differently, green tea works more as a stimulant in spite of the theanine content, though the ones I tried had 50mg of caffeine. I bought some yesterday that doesn't tell the caffeine content, and had no lucid dreams with them last night. I think the ones with a fair amount of caffeine are better as the caffeine works with the EGCG's to boost norepinephrine, it also creates a thermogenesis effect that burns fat, which is why there are a lot of green tea fat loss products such as Dexitrim herbal, Mega Tea, Tea Max and others. These may work better for lucid dreams as they also contain caffeine. This would likely work better for WBTB than at the beginning of the night.

If you wish to try non caffeine ones though they are out there. NOW foods sells a decaffienated Green Tea suppliment. You can order them off of Amazon or find them in some Vitamin/suppliment shops.

Thanks for clearing that up.