Calea Zacatechichi - Questions!
I've read some good things about this dream herb and I'm planning on buying some soon, but before I do, I wanted to ask a few questions.
First of all, do any of you have any experience with this herb or know anyone who does?
Did you have an LD or did you at least have a more vivid dream?
Would you recommend it?
Is there another herb/lucid aid you've tried that worked more efficiently?
Thanks everyone. :)
My experience with the dream herb
I like to brag about not needing any aid to have LDs, but I found myself buying some Calea Zacatehichi tincture (in alcohol) to try it. It was not so much for myself, but to help my mother experience vivid and maybe lucid dreams. She complained it was only helping her sleep better, but she still had no dream recall whatsoever. So, last night, I took a couple of drops before sleep and I did feel some effect.
I had only a brief lucid moment (that's routine) and a vivid dream that continued from one sleep cycle to the other. I felt the herb did help out on that, because between the sleep cycles, although I was very alert and got up and wrote on my dream journal, I felt I was still connected to the dream state and could very easily slip back in the dream I had just before, which I did.
The sensation felt very similar to the effect of Valerian. Induced a more restful sleep and an alert drowsiness in between sleep cycles. So, even if I still think that most important thing to have LDs is the person's general level of awareness in life, dream herb and probably other plants, may be helpful to people who don't simply rely on them to induce LDs, but are using other methods of awareness to. Then it can be helpful. I'm even going to keep trying it a bit more :)