Green Tea and L-Glutamine

This has worked for me once, produced a chain of 1 DILD, and 2 WILD's, though they were all very short. I used a 750 mg Green Tea supplement which has 50 mg of caffeine and 1000 mg L-Glutamine. It took about 2 hours to work, and over an hour and a half before I fell asleep again after waking after 5 hours sleep, taking the supplements and going back to bed. Tried again though and nothing though I couldn't go back to sleep for almost 3 hours, the second time. The green tea supplement by itself has also triggered a WILD, OBE, though I feel it is probably a dream, all my WILD's have been as OBE's.

In my experience caffeine is probably one of the best lucid dream triggers. I have had problably 10+ WILD's, 4 or 5 DILD's, though I haven't been able to produce them at will, all but 3 were short, and am still very much a novice. But when I have had the most lucid dreams is when I have consumed a large amount of caffeine drinks the day before, like 300+ mg within 8 hours before going to bed. These were in the form of drinks, such as Sundrop which has a lot of caffeine. Caffeine doesn't usually keep me up at night if I am already tired, but I have tried Green Tea pills which have 50mg of caffeine a pill, this has also triggered a lucid dream with a WBTB, but it does make falling back to sleep difficult.

There is also an amino acid in tea called l-theanine that has been shown to affect brain wavelengths and such. Don't know of any research showing it to specifically affect dreams, but it is known for it's relaxing effects. It is also supposed to dull the jitters from caffeine. It's also present at highest concentrations in green tea compared to white, black or oolong.

I think it is a combination of the L-Theanine and caffeine combined with the L-Glutamine. On www.advancedld.com there is a study of suppliments where they did tests on various substances, one an amino acid blend of L-Theanine, L-Glutamine, and something else, can't remember, it produced lucid dreams and I have read of others here experementing with this, I tried L-Glutamine and L-Theanine after I had tried L-Glutamine and Green Tea pills but it didn't work for me, although I was using much less than in the study, he used 4000 mg of L-Glutamine, and I believe 300 or 400 of L-Theanine plus a couple of thousand or so of the other amino acid, I am not sure if that amount is safe or not, my L-Glutamine pills are 500 mg a piece, I took 2 and the L-Theanine is 200 mg. The green tea pills are 750 mg and contain 50 mg of caffeine which I believe plays an important role as it helps you sleep lighter while the L-Theanine, unsure the amount in the green tea pills, I suspect probably only around 50mg or so, relaxes you. But the second time I tried this it didn't work but I couldn't go back to sleep. The first time I was very tired before bed and also took 3mg of Melatonin before bed, then woke up later took the L-Glutamine and Green tea, it worked great, though the dreams, OBE like were very short.